Page 16 | Best Engineering Software for Freelancers of 2026

BEXEL Manager

The innovative cloud-based, cross-project and cross-version data collection and analytics business intelligence solution for construction portfolio management. BEXEL Manager includes design and data review and analysis, quantity take-offs, clash detection, cost estimations, change management, value engineering, schedule management and facility management. Platform is optimized for manage colossal projects and integrate hundreds of files. With BEXEL Common Data Environment change or track changes, share or merge all your team work to one federated model, assign permissions and rights, do all advanced analysis and collaborate smoothly in an openBIM environment. BEXEL Manager is based on 3D Building Information Modeling and VDC technologies.

Starting Price: $560 per year

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InfiConnector

Infilock Inc.

A middleware that is installed on a range of gateways and connects equipment to InfiIoT and popular Internet of Things(IoT) or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) clouds. It securely connects various devices (e.g., PV panels, battery energy storage, HVACs, EV stations, compressors, and boilers) through industrial protocols (Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet) and cellular networks (LTE and 5G). InfiConnector is configurable from cloud services to collect data from devices and sensors and prepare data for data analysis and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud applications. InfiConnector provides a code-less edge computing and rule engine interface that configures any machine to machine, diagnostic, alerting, and log management services in a few minutes. The light middleware requires 512MB RAM, 1 core CPU, and 16GB disk. It is compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 and upper.

Starting Price: $10/month/license

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InfiIoT

Infilock Inc.

A highly secure and scalable Industrial IoT (IIoT) SaaS based on blockchain. InfiIoT has been hosted in the cloud and provides services over the Internet. All industrial and commercial customers can connect equipment regardless of their geographical location to the SaaS and monitor and control equipment over the internet in real-time very securely thanks to the blockchain. Data is encrypted during transmission and stored in immune chains of data that are highly resistant to cyberattacks. Furthermore, all signal commands are verified by multiple synchronized smart contracts to protect expensive equipment from cyberattacks. Moreover, InfiIoT provides a code-less Artificial intelligence (AI) engine for designing any data processing flow in a few minutes. Some applications are predictive maintenance, digital twin, energy and sustainability management, distributed energy resources management (e.g., Photovoltaic, battery energy storage, wind turbines), HVAC systems, EV charging, BMS/BAS.

Starting Price: $25/month

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Fatigue Essentials

AppliedCAx

Fatigue Essentials is a desktop application used to efficiently conduct structural fatigue analysis. Fatigue Essentials provides a user-friendly tool for conducting stress-life analysis either using classical stress calculations or linked with FEMAP™ and using the finite element generated stresses. The program is structured to guide the user through the analysis by following a tree structure. General analysis options are selected following loads, materials, and spectrum branches. Within each branch are options for analysis variations or input methods. Analysis results are available on-screen to paste into a report and/or as a damage contour plot in FEMAP. Covers most engineering requirements. Classic mode with user input stresses. Professional mode (FEMAP-linked) with the ability to read nodal stresses and push back results in a damage contour plot. Option for either interactive input or file input for stresses and cycles.

Starting Price: $695 one-time payment

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GreenScapes

Landscape Design Imaging Software

GreenScapes is a fast and easy landscape, hardscape, and lighting design program. It is our most extensive program. Create landscape designs in a matter of minutes. Designs are photo-realistic renderings with the landscape, hardscape, and lighting installed. Greenscapes comes with built-in training videos for every command in the program and a tutorial sequence that takes you through a complete design step by step. There are no boring manuals to read. We also have advanced techniques you might want to see. GreenScapes will help you close the deal quickly. Potential clients fall madly in love with being able to see their home as if you completed the project. Let us show you. Our programs are Windows-based but work on a Mac with virtual environments like Parallels/Windows making it easy to switch between macOS and Windows in a single click, giving Mac users the best of both worlds. Create beautiful photo-realistic designs using GreenScapes landscape content.

Starting Price: $500 one-time payment

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progeEARTH

progeCAD

This Civil Survey software, comprised of Survey/Cogo, DTM, and Road Design modules, is powered by progeCAD® Professional. progeEARTH provides a low-cost alternative to the otherwise high-priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so. This Survey, Cogo, DTM, and Road Design software, used with progeCAD® Professional, provides a low-cost alternative to otherwise high priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so.

Starting Price: $399 one-time payment

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progeBILLD MEP

progeCAD

progeBILLD, professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application. progeBILLD Building Services software is very user-friendly. The program contains an intuitive, clear user interface, allowing you to begin designing without intensive software training. ProgeBILLD Mechanical/Structural is a powerful application to create mechanical and structural projects. It contains numerous libraries of standardized elements, steel profiles and other elements conforming to DIN, EN, ISO and other standards. Ready-to-use objects and commands automate the creation of details, schematics, and multi-view drawings. Thousands of industry standard bolts, screws, nuts, pins and other elements.

Starting Price: $499 one-time payment

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Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS) develops advanced and intuitive CAD software for foundation analysis & design. GEMS foundation analysis suite employs finite element modeling techniques for analysis & design of shallow and deep foundations. The foundation analysis suite includes modules for analyzing beam foundations, pile foundations and a specialized module for analyzing offshore pile foundations. Try GEMS foundation analysis suite for FREE on the cloud. It is also available for trial download and purchase for PC & Mac's.

Starting Price: $500/year/user

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Ansys Cloud Direct

Ansys

Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications

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Logbookr

The aircraft logbook (also known as a technical logbook, flight folio, or journey log in some parts of the world) is outdated. You can install Logbookr on your crew's iPad, or use it right on your phone, and it allows you to enter flight times, defects, and ECTM data right from your device on the go. WiFi or data not required, you can sync the data when you are back on the ground or in the office. Entering a snag sends an email to maintenance so everyone is up to speed at all times. Logbookr works from any computer, phone, iPad, or other smart devices. Enter flights, defects, and ECTM data right from the cockpit. The aircraft screen shows which aircraft are ready for dispatch and how long until the next maintenance due. Also, any defects reported will show the aircraft as not ready for dispatch until you note they have been rectified.

Starting Price: $20 per month

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HOVER

Home improvement shouldn’t be a mystery. Know what it will look like and what it will cost before the work even begins. HOVER generates the most accurate measurements (and a whole lot more) from a few photos of your home. With just a few photos, HOVER can create an accurately measured 3D model of a home. Your pro gets a detailed report of accurate measurements of your home from those photos. You get a 3D model of your home to design; with your pro, select materials for your project. Your pro uses your design choices and measurements to quickly and accurately estimate your project. Accurate measurements, fast estimates, direct orders, and happier customers mean more time and money to build your business. We help you connect and collaborate with homeowners, to make jobs simpler and more transparent. We offer direct ordering, production management, remote measurements, and automated estimates to make jobs more cost-effective and more efficient.

Starting Price: $25 per property

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CAD Exchanger

CADEX

CAD Exchanger technologies help software developers and end-users to work, share and collaborate on 3D data, which can come in any format, from any source, on any platform. APPLICATION FOR END-USERS • CAD Exchanger Lab. View, analyze and convert 3D data on desktop. SDKs & TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS • CAD Exchanger SDK. C++, C#, Java, Python libraries for applications and SaaS solutions. • CAD Exchanger Batch. Light-weight command-line tool for batch conversions in corporate or cloud environments. We are proud to have customers from Fortune-100 companies and feel honored to contribute to today’s leaders’ projects: Tesla in the automotive industry, Apple in consumer electronics, NASA in space exploration, Amazon in the delivery business and many others. • 250K+ CAD Exchanger Lab end-users • 1M+ CAD Exchanger SDK enabled end-users • 110+ countries

Starting Price: $590/per year

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BPT-Pro

Baby Universe Inc.

BPT-Pro is an Adobe Illustrator's blueprint plug-in that can fully supports the design and drawing work of manufacturing, design, and design professionals. It makes possible to measure any segment, including free-form curves, as well as the area of objects with complex shapes. Even tedious tasks such as creating dimension lines and adding comments required for drawings can be easily and automatically generated by simply dragging the mouse. It is as easy to use as Illustrator's standard tools. You can not only speed up your work, but also improve accuracy of your professional results.

Starting Price: $99 USD per year

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EXDXF-Pro

Baby Universe Inc.

EXDXF-Pro is an ideal DXF convert plug-in for Adobe Illustrator (AI). I can solve data compatibility problems between CAD software and AI. Specific functions include an "Export function" that outputs DXF data from AI and an "Import function" that opens DXF files in AI. Recently, CAD software is offered by many manufacturers, and the software is developed to be compatible with other CAD software. In particular, the file format uses the "dxf" extension to ensure compatibility in the exchange of data between CAD software and to facilitate the exchange of data between designers. CAD software and AI also use this "DXF" for data compatibility. However, compatibility problems are not infrequent. EXDXF-Pro's "Export Function" can output data in R12 format (AC1009) as "DXF" in R12 format, which is a highly popular format.

Starting Price: $99 USD per year

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Solibri Office

Solibri

Solibri is founded on the concept of Open BIM. Solibri Office can import building models from all major BIM software products by using the standardized IFC interface. Solibri finds the problems and helps to solve them so they don't become issues later on. We don't only point out the problems that could appear at the construction phase. We also point out the other areas that can become a problem once the building is at use. Solibri’s quality checking is based on both pre-defined and customizable rules, out of which you select which ones to use. We offer the best pre-defined rules on the market for checking not only model quality, but much more – imagine the ability to consider everything regarding, for example, the comfort of use in your newly constructed building, including details like thoroughly planned accessibility or perfectly sized and angled parking spaces.

Starting Price: €280 per user per month

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Kiber 3

VRMedia

Kiber3 empowers workforce providing "Instant Expertise Everywhere" where there is a need to accomplish ambitious tasks in challenging conditions. Kiber3 is a head mounted display integrated with property software for remote collaboration, that allows the consultation and sharing of real time informations and interaction between several participants through the use of Augmented Reality technology tools. Kiber3 allows remote workers to rapidly diagnose, inspect, operate and manage assets. Kiber 3 Kit, a rugged head-mounted device with a unique binocular visor, is designed to perform efficiently on the real needs of field and remote working collaboration and gets the job done, now. Interaction between people through technology is easy, safe and efficient.

Starting Price: Free

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Flow Calc 365

John R. Hamilton Enterprises, Inc.

Flow Calc 365 is an advanced and powerful software calculator for open channel flow using the Manning Equation for regular and irregular channel geometries for steady uniform flow including circular and elliptical pipes. Civil Engineers have found Flow Calc to be a useful tool for quick calculation results and professional reports. Flow Calc can be used to solve for Manning N Value, Channel Slope, Normal Depth, and Flow Rate for irregular channels and pipe channels including elliptical pipes. Rating Tables of Flow Rate versus Normal Depth are easily created where the user can modify variables of a channel such as side slope, channel slope, Manning N Value, and other variables. Flow Calc 365 uses trusted software installation practices utilizing RSA SHA-256 encryption technology to provide the highest level of security trust with validation reputation that is compliant with Microsoft Smartscreen® technology.

Starting Price: $99/year/license

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EON-XR

EON Reality

Designed to bring Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions to as many people around the world as possible, EON-XR removes the obstacles that often come with incorporating AR and VR into an academic or industrial environment. Through EON-XR, educators, trainers, employers, and other users are able to create interactive and immersive AR and VR lessons without needing any coding or advanced technological knowledge. The lessons can then be distributed to their audience of students, trainees, employees, or the general public for consumption on common devices ranging from smartphones to laptops to publicly available headsets. EON-XR is preparing millions of students, employees, and citizens for the present and future while both replacing and aiding traditional training and teaching methods in dozens of countries around the world.

Starting Price: Free

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Shop Floor IQ

Keep your product going out the door while you build a culture of accountability and continuous improvement with the ideal shop floor management platform for small to mid-size manufacturers. Create a team of consistently high performers who take pride in their craftsmanship with configurable, centrally-controlled Takt, or Task timers that you can manage from the shop floor, the top floor, or by the calendar. Use as many timers as you need and share them between stations, or configure timers for each station. Prevent downtime through effective communication. You can produce more and waste less by dispatching quality inspectors, weld inspectors, management and critical machinery/assets to a station when needed. Set up as many dispatch queues as you need and designate resources as primary, secondary or backup on one or more queues.

Starting Price: $149 per month

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Airteam Fusion Platform

Airteam Aerial Intelligence

Airteam is an AI-powered software that converts aerial data from drones into CAD models. This allows roofers, PV planners, architects and contractors to measure and inspect buildings quickly and cost-effectively in a 3D. Founded in Berlin in 2018, Airteam focuses on drone flight automation and image data analysis using computer vision and machine learning.

Starting Price: €150 per month

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Pluto

Pluto Biosciences

Since its founding in 2021 from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Pluto has become a trusted partner of life sciences organizations around the country ranging from biotech start-ups to public biopharma companies. Our cloud-based platform gives scientists the ability to manage all of their data, run bioinformatics analyses, and create interactive and publication-quality visualizations. The platform is currently being used for a wide variety of biological applications, from preclinical / translational science research, to cell and gene therapies, drug discovery and development, to clinical research.

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Bekonix

Our goal is really to help you create smart, connected projects and products from concept to final design. So that means everything from putting together the hardware components, the firmware, the behaviors and even the end-user mobile app to control it. The Bekonix Platform lets you try out ideas in minutes that would take days or weeks the traditional way. What’s more, since no programming is required, motivated creatives can jump in and not just talk about making a smart, connected product but invent it in real time. Unlike many prototyping tools out there, Bekonix is built for the next level of manufacturing. Real code, real connections. If you need larger volumes to reduce hardware costs, Bekonix can easily migrate with your needs.

Starting Price: $79 per month

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EnSuite ReVue

CADCAM

Share design data & invite anyone to evaluate, discuss, feedback & collaborate. Organize your design discussions for each design in one place, chronologically. Collaborate securely with complete visibility and accountability of your design evaluation & discussion. Securely evaluate, discuss, offer feedback & collaborate on design data. Offer rich feedback to your team, partner, or customer on the product designs at any time, from anywhere. The only place to share your designs with other stakeholders easily, quickly, securely. Retain complete visibility and accountability of your design discussions. Your team, partners, suppliers, and customers can view, evaluate, discuss, and collaborate with the 2D & 3D designs you share with them. A host of productivity tools makes it easy to work with design data. Discussion participants can share feedback using simple notes referencing relevant parts of the design.

Starting Price: $1,995 one-time payment

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K-Display Convert

Kubotek

No matter where they come from K-Display® Convert will get CAD files ready to be read with the tools you have. The programs require no additional CAD software licenses. Beyond just straight pass-through of data, K-Compare Convert allows filtering out objects by simply hiding the parts you don't want in the output file. Powered by next-generation Kubotek Kosmos technology, K-Display employs full multi-threaded processing guaranteed to bring a new level of speed when opening larger files. K-Display Convert has versions supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux. Count on these programs to translate all the MCAD files that come your way into formats you can use. Simple display commands and options for 3D models. Check distances, surface areas, and solid volumes. Save as STEP, IGES, ACIS, STL, and PDF files. Licenses ready for purchase in our web store.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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Wings 3D

Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Originally inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, Wings 3D has been developed since 2001, when Björn Gustavsson (bjorng) and Dan Gudmundsson (dgud) first started the project. Richard Jones (optigon) maintained Wings and coded many new features between 2006 and 2012. Wings 3D is currently maintained by Dan with the help of the great community. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. Wings 3D is written in Erlang, an open-source, functional programming language distributed by Ericsson. Wings 3D gets its name from the Winged Edge Data Structure (WEDS). This is the data structure used to store the adjacency relationships between edges, faces, and vertices in a Wings 3D model. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Starting Price: Free

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JSCAD

JSCAD is an open-source set of modular, browser, and command line tools for creating parametric 2D and 3D designs with Javascript code. It provides a quick, precise and reproducible method for generating 3D models, and is especially useful for 3D printing applications. There are different 'flavors' of JSCAD that you can use based on your needs. JSCAD is a solids modeling system. It is fundamentally unitless, however, when you export files, typically 1 unit in JSCAD corresponds to 1 millimeter in your model file. Modeling in JSCAD is often a case of building the shape you want out of primitives, but there are often many different options to get the same shape. Check out the examples on the JSCAD app's info menu to learn about the different capabilities. Booleans are one of the most important tools in the solid modeling toolkit. Many of the shapes that you will need to create on your journey can be created by joining, subtracting and intersecting simple shapes.

Starting Price: Free

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IRender nXt

RenderPlus

IRender nXt will improve client presentations of your SketchUp models. High-quality architectural renderings created with IRender nXt from your SketchUp models can be an important addition to your client presentations and proposals. Stop waiting on your 3D renderings. Deliver projects ahead of schedule. Render multiple jobs simultaneously. Get your computer back while you are rendering your 3D models. Stop upgrading your computers and use our fast machines instead. Watch IRender nXt create a photo-realistic rendering of an object with just one click. Without changing the SketchUp model, use IRender nXt to create a high-quality rendered image. It’s easy to create light fixtures and add them to a model. IRender nXt includes point, spot, ceiling, floor, and table lighting. IRender nXt is a powerful plugin for producing high-resolution architectural renderings from SketchUp models. IRender nXt is fully-integrated with materials, lighting, and components with an easy-to-use interface.

Starting Price: $499 one-time payment

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Snaptrude

The collaborative building design for‍ architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.

Starting Price: $49 per month

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Helio

Fastest and most affordable cloud rendering. Render your 3DS Max or Blender project with V-Ray, Corona, or Cycles with a few clicks. Get your results up to 100x faster with access to the nearly infinite capacity of the cloud. No priorities, no more queues, just fast results. Render animations in the time of one frame. Reduce your render spend up to 3x. Thanks to our intelligent workload scheduling and automated access to the excess capacity of cloud providers, we deliver your rendering jobs more efficiently than anyone else. For an architecture project to visualize the final product. Rendered quickly and reliably on Helio's Render Engine. We keep an eye on your rendering and try to resolve issues automatically so that you can focus on your work. We are there for you via chat, email, or calls. Together we lower emissions and electricity consumption to protect our planet by better-utilizing data centers worldwide and even growing tomatoes with rendering.

Starting Price: $0.10 per render unit

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SweetLight

The SweetLight DMX controller system includes powerful lighting control software and a set of DMX interfaces to suit your requirements. Fully take advantage of your lights with an easy DMX control system, and let the software play alone a varied show for hours. Select a group of par cans and adjust channel levels & fade mode and duration for each step. Select a group of moving lights, and for the chosen channels, load/draw a curve and adjust the delay between all fixtures. Select the fixtures and apply them rainbow/text scrolling / animated pictures effects. Customize your screen with pages, buttons and sliders of your choice. Connect a midi control surface to drive all with color control of the midi buttons. Drag and drop the light & audio & video files at a specific time to build the show. Build your stage with our bank of 3D objects, position your fixtures, and watch the lightshow in our 3D rendering.

Starting Price: Free

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Best Engineering Software for Freelancers - Page 16

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Freelancers as of January 2026 - Page 16

BEXEL Manager

InfiConnector

InfiIoT

Fatigue Essentials

GreenScapes

progeEARTH

progeBILLD MEP

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Ansys Cloud Direct

Logbookr

HOVER

CAD Exchanger

BPT-Pro

EXDXF-Pro

Solibri Office

Kiber 3

Flow Calc 365

EON-XR

Shop Floor IQ

Airteam Fusion Platform

Pluto

Bekonix

EnSuite ReVue

K-Display Convert

Wings 3D

JSCAD

IRender nXt

Snaptrude

Helio

SweetLight

Best Engineering Software for Freelancers - Page 16

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Freelancers as of January 2026 - Page 16

BEXEL Manager

InfiConnector

InfiIoT

Fatigue Essentials

GreenScapes

progeEARTH

progeBILLD MEP

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Ansys Cloud Direct

Logbookr

HOVER

CAD Exchanger

BPT-Pro

EXDXF-Pro

Solibri Office

Kiber 3

Flow Calc 365

EON-XR

Shop Floor IQ

Airteam Fusion Platform

Pluto

Bekonix

EnSuite ReVue

K-Display Convert

Wings 3D

JSCAD

IRender nXt

Snaptrude

Helio

SweetLight

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