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AutoCAD Architecture
Autodesk
Speed up architectural design and drafting with an industry-specific toolset that includes 8,500+ intelligent objects and styles. Design and produce renovations more quickly. Create documents and drawings using elements with real-world behavior and construction. Create with detail components and keynoting tools. AutoCAD® 2022 software includes industry-specific toolsets, an improved connected experience across platforms and Autodesk products, and new automations such as Count. Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing. Send a controlled copy of your drawing to teammates and colleagues to access wherever they are. Pull away drawing windows to display side by side or on multiple monitors, in the same instance of AutoCAD. Experience faster performance, including when plotting and for 3D graphics. Push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs to Autodesk Docs from AutoCAD.Starting Price: $220 per month -
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Cut2D
Vectric
Vectric’s Cut2D software is an intuitive, powerful tool designed for 2D CNC routing, milling, and engraving projects. It allows users to create and edit vector designs easily, producing toolpaths for profiles, pockets, drills, and inlays. The Desktop edition suits small CNC machines up to 24”x24”, ideal for hobbyists or small shops, while the Pro edition supports unlimited job sizes and advanced features like true shape nesting and job setup sheets for production environments. Cut2D offers extensive drawing, editing, and vectorization tools, including bitmap import and image tracing, enabling detailed and precise design work. The software integrates real-time 3D toolpath previews to ensure accuracy and optimize cutting before machining. Vectric’s tool database, job sheets, and post-processor management simplify CNC workflow and increase productivity.Starting Price: $449 one-time payment -
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Vectorworks Designer
Vectorworks
Built on Vectorworks Fundamentals, Designer has all the design and BIM capabilities of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, and Spotlight. It’s the most cost-effective way to get the entire suite of Vectorworks technology in one, easy-to-use software interface. Easily create and document any design you can imagine. Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow. The industry-leading design software for the entertainment business. The all-in-one solution for landscape design and planning. Your relationship with us doesn't end when you install the software. We’ll help you get up and running fast with online, classroom, or onsite training. Or, learn at your own pace with our online getting started guides and webinars, video tech tips, and community board. And, if you ever get stuck, we’re here to help with free technical support.Starting Price: $198 per month -
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Vectorworks Vision
Vectorworks
The seamless integration between Vectorworks Spotlight and Vision allows you to create design documents, automate paperwork, and visualize your design in rendered 3D views. When you’re done, easily send fixture and model information directly to Vision to previsualize, program, and cue your show. Vision puts the power to previsualize and cue your show at your fingertips. Available for both Mac and PC operating systems, this intuitive software works with your console and equips you to design creatively and efficiently. You will save time and money by previsualizing what your rig can do without needing to travel to the venue or having your crew stand by. Go beyond the ordinary with flexible Vision tools that allow you to customize colors, gobos, lenses, shutters, or any other fixture parameter. Tap into comprehensive fixture libraries that equip you to work more effectively than ever.Starting Price: $1,600 one-time payment -
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ConnectCAD
Vectorworks
ConnectCAD is built on Vectorworks Spotlight, you can take advantage of the flexible and robust design and documentation capabilities that make Spotlight the industry standard. With an extensive manufacturer library and a customizable 2D/3D hybrid environment, rest assured you have everything you need to design with confidence. Use ConnectCAD to work seamlessly not only with the rest of your team, but with event planners and other project stakeholders as well. Collaboration has never been easier.Starting Price: $153 per month -
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Build and assemble 3D scenes in this intuitive staging tool. Set up assets, materials, lights, and cameras. Export and share media, from images to web and AR experiences. Substance 3D Stager lets you make creative decisions in context. Refine and adjust your composition in real time. Visualize and edit advanced materials with complex lighting and shadows. Build your realistic 3D scenes with quick and efficient smart tools. Block out shapes, snap elements, activate physics to avoid collisions between models, and generate simple lights. Stager comes with models, materials, and lights to get started. Or explore and use the thousands of high-end assets made by our 3D experts and included with your Substance 3D Collection plan. Enhance your lighting with the environment light editor or add physical 3D lights to your scene for advanced lighting design.Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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Easily import a reference photo and transform it into a high-quality 3D material with features powered by Adobe Sensei. Closely match the original real-life surface and create seamless tileable materials from your captures. Combine multiple materials and parametric filters to create more advanced surfaces. Access thousands of materials on Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets. The possibilities are endless. Drag and drop your image, add a couple of prebuilt filters, and voila — a library of one-click generators, filters, and effects lets you quickly experiment and get results in just a few clicks. Send your assets directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager. Use your content anywhere. Send your assets directly to Painter and Stager, or use them in your favorite 3D applications.Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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PlanStudio
Locatrix
PlanStudio® allows users to draft, edit, view and add to spatially accurate floorplans. Easy Push button evacuation sign publishing and secure online cloud repository with the automatic upload. Compliant with all relevant Australian legislation and standards. Full suite of drafting tools Compatible with iOS, Mac and Windows. No loss of data thanks to a cloud-based repository of building floor-plans and emergency installation data. Push-button publishing of finished evacuation signs. A simpler way to create evacuation signs and diagrams that will satisfy your client’s requirements. Captures data for all relevant fire and safety installations, including exit signage, extinguishers, hose reels, fire blankets and more. Every commercial building needs evacuation signs. Prior to this software, draftsmen could create a maximum of 15 evacuation signs per day. With PlanStudio®, evacuation signs can be created accurately and efficiently.Starting Price: $40 per sign -
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Alteia
Alteia
Alteia is a leading AI software platform that enables digital transformation through visual data analysis. It is supporting any industry-critical business needs, such as predictive maintenance, safety analysis, productivity management, and yield estimation, thanks to prebuilt, configurable, and high-value AI applications. Alteia combines computer vision and AI technologies that allow it to securely provide various industries with a unified database for all their visual data, and build high-value applications on top of it.Starting Price: $1500 -
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VeriStand
National Instruments
VeriStand application software helps you configure I/O channels, data logging, stimulus generation, and host communication for NI real-time hardware. You can also import simulation models and control algorithms, respond to events with configurable alarms, and enable test automation with macro recording, TestStand, .NET, and other software. You can interact with and monitor application data, alarm states, and system execution metrics using a run-time editable user interface. Although you don't need programming knowledge, you can also use a variety of software environments such as LabVIEW, ANSI C/C++, Python, and ASAM XIL to add custom functionality to VeriStand. VeriStand helps test engineers reduce the time they need to test their products with a wide range of functionality including configurable data acquisition, simulation model integration, test sequencing, and logging. Learn more about how you can use VeriStand to develop, deploy, and run your real-time tests.Starting Price: $2,065 per year -
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System Composer
MathWorks
System Composer™ enables the specification and analysis of architectures for model-based systems engineering and software architecture modeling. With System Composer, you allocate requirements while refining an architecture model that can then be designed and simulated in Simulink®. Architecture models consisting of components and interfaces can be authored directly, imported from other tools, or populated from the architectural elements of Simulink designs. You can describe your system using multiple architecture models and establish direct relationships between them via model-to-model allocations. Behaviors can be captured in sequence diagrams, state charts, or Simulink models. You can define and simulate the execution order of component functions and generate code from your software architecture models (with Simulink and Embedded Coder®).Starting Price: $740 per year -
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Formit
Autodesk
FormIt Pro is available only in the architecture, engineering & construction collection. FormIt is an intuitive 3D sketching tool for the conceptual design phase. Design anywhere, anytime within a simple and powerful design environment. Make informed design decisions with site context, solar impact, and energy analysis. Connect conceptual designs to BIM workflows with native Revit integration. The pro version of FormIt includes the tools in the FormIt app, plus Dynamo computation, and collaboration and analysis features. Get improved interoperability between FormIt Pro and Revit. Directly import FormIt files into Revit projects. Create roundtrip workflows for greater design exploration with more intuitive modeling capabilities of FormIt. Toggle between early and later design phases with smoother workflows that enable 3D sketching and more detailed documentation work.Starting Price: $390 per month -
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PVSketch
PVComplete
PVSketch is an intuitive web app designed to streamline solar project development. A friendly interface allows sales professionals easy access to a precision layout tool with little or no training. PVSketch helps visualize solar energy solutions and creates accurate energy modeling. PVSketch is part of the PVComplete platform. PVComplete allows solar developers, installers and engineers to work together on a single, versatile platform combining efficiency and accuracy. Sales professionals can begin a project quickly online with PVSketch and then transfer the project to PVCAD, our AutoCAD plugin, for a detailed engineering plan. PVSketch makes solar design simple. As little as five clicks and you can create a solar project packed with valuable information. Simple and instinctive drawing tools make accurate solar design accessible to any individual. While a single click can generate an entire layout if you dig deeper you can refine your solar design to create sophisticated designs.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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SunDAT
SunDAT
Web-based PV design for utility-scale and commercial solar. Our innovative, patented system for determining layout optimizes Ground Coverage Ratio (GCR) and helps engineer enhanced yields on rough terrain. Handle complex boundaries and obstructions with ease. Automate workflows and increase the efficiency of your design process with SunDAT. This feature allows you to identify areas that are beyond a certain slope tolerance or flag areas within a solar array layout that need to be graded or avoided. You can also visualize heatmaps, export them to PVsyst, and perform pile length calculations. SunDAT enables you to export your project data in multiple formats like PDF, DXF and DAE. This allows your design to be imported to programs like AutoCAD and PVsyst for continued design and analysis. SunDAT Web software optimizes large-scale utility and commercial PV design. Whether you are designing a 150MW utility-scale ground mount or a 2 MW commercial rooftop solar system, SunDAT will do it.Starting Price: $2,000 per year -
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Lyra Solar
Lyra Solar
Quickly and easily create permit-ready residential solar designs for free. Export ready-to-submit permit packages for as low as $49 in just a few minutes. Generate a ready-to-submit solar permit package at the click of a button. Every interaction is designed to be fast and simple. Lyra is so easy to use that any experienced solar professional can jump in without any training. Design just what you need for a permit, from a simple preliminary design to a down-to-the-component level permit-ready design. Generate a permit package from the design with the click of a button. Seriously, it's that easy. The Lyra solar design tool is free to use. All we need is your email address to get you set up and ready to knock out your first design. We work with solar design software companies to augment their offerings. If you lack permit packaging in your product offering, contact us to discuss how we can work together.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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HelioScope
Folsom Labs
A web-based sales and design tool for solar professionals with the power to completely reshape your proposal generation process. From its robust 3D design engine and bankable energy yield simulator to its detailed financial calculator and drag-and-drop proposal editor; HelioScope makes responding to customer requests fast, easy, and bankable. We provide 3D design, rapid proposals, bankable simulations, unlimited designs, live support, single line diagrams, automatic cad export, one-click sharing, up to 5mw systems, 45,000 component library and global weather coverage and pan file support.Starting Price: $79 per month -
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PV*SOL
PV*SOL
PV*SOL offers the most detailed configuration and shade analysis for PV systems. Calculate solar output, panel sizing and economic forecasting for your system. Make better design decisions based on intelligent simulation models of your pv solar system. Help clients and partners understand the specifics of their solar installation with appealing professional reports. Incorporate financial incentives and complex tariff structures resulting in better financial planning. Get the best results with our flagship product using 3D technology for precise and realistic PV system design. Our industry-leading software is the ideal tool for fast and reliable PV system design. Get a sneak-peek into our solar calculation and PV power output software with the free online version of PV*SOL.Starting Price: €895 one-time payment -
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Aircada Pro
Aircada
Aircada Pro makes it easy to create augmented reality HMIs and overlay existing SCADA data above each piece of equipment. Workers can harness their phone’s camera to view their data in real-time, gaining access to each of the machines’ schematics, historical data, analytics, and more. Aircada Pro offers several features including: -Live in the field data monitoring. -Augmented reality tasks and work orders. -Alarms for fast response troubleshooting. -Facility map to search and locate all assets. -Messenger for efficient team communication. -Customizable virtual reality SCADA displays. With Aircada Pro and augmented reality, maintenance teams will now have all the information they need, live in the field, to safely, quickly, and enjoyably get the job done.Starting Price: $89/month/user -
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JADBio AutoML
JADBio
JADBio is a state-of-the-art automated Machine Learning Platform without the need for coding. With its breakthrough algorithms it can solve open problems in machine learning. Anybody can use it and perform a sophisticated and correct machine learning analysis even if they do not know any math, statistics, or coding. It is purpose-built for life science data and particularly molecular data. This means that it can deal with the idiosyncrasies of molecular data such as very low sample size and very high number of measured quantities that could reach to millions. Life scientists need it to understand what are the features and biomarkers that are predictive and important, what is their role, and get intuition about the molecular mechanisms involved. Knowledge discovery is often more important than a predictive model. So, JADBio focuses on feature selection and its interpretation.Starting Price: Free -
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visTABLE
plavis
By using visTABLE® software, you can visualize the entire process. In manufacturing, value stream mapping helps identify waste by analyzing each step of material handling. The software allows to map the current state, apply lean principles to define the future state and to reduce the effort spent on non-value-adding processes. Improvement backed by VSM has never been easier. Lean thrives on visualization and transparency. Gain key figures about the current state. Based on the method of value stream mapping, the software helps to perform a logistics-oriented value stream analysis. Capture all of your value streams according to the line-back principle. The display of the map is automatic. If you add or remove processes or change transports, your VSM automatically adapts and maintains the optimal display. Provide your management with key figures on flow, value-adding processes and inventories.Starting Price: €249 per user per month -
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anima
AXYZ design
People and crowd animation software was developed specifically for architects and designers to add 3D animated characters to their projects quickly and easily. With anima®, 3D people become human beings. The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism. anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations. Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.Starting Price: €279 one-time payment -
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Cable High Voltage
Electrotechnik
Electrotechnik introduces Cabe High Voltage software for easy and accurate cable-rating calculation. A wide range of insulation conditions gets covered In Air and Groups in Air, Direct Buried or In-Ducts, Bonding Arrangements and Buried in Thermal Backfill. Custom cables get modelled from data sheets using the graphical cable model editor. There is a vast database of pre-modelled tables. The cable bonding arrangements get changed between solid with or without regular transition. In the transient module, you can determine the emergency and cyclic rating of single-core and multi-core circuits. The CHV software has modules to calculate short-circuit rating and magnetic fields intensity. Comprehensive directive PDF reports can get easily generated. We offer technical support from our experienced engineers at every step.Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license -
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SPACE GASS
SPACE GASS
SPACE GASS is a multi-purpose 3D analysis and design program for structural engineers. Its extensive range of features make it suitable for anything from beams, trusses and frames to buildings, towers, tanks, cable structures and bridges. Capabilities include a 64-bit multi-core solver, silky smooth 3D rendered graphics, plate finite elements, frame elements, cable elements, tension/compression-only elements, moving loads and links to many CAD and building management programs. Why SPACE GASS Save time, money, and get a safe and efficient design. Silky smooth graphical interface that lets you see your changes visually as you go. A fast sparse matrix solver that fully utilizes the parallel processing power of multi-core computers. A wide range of structural modeling tools, analysis options and design modules. Comprehensive video tutorials to walk you through some of the tricky stuff. Configurable for stand-alone or floating network systems.Starting Price: $600 per month -
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Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Sterison Technology
The next digitalization era is here. Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT) involves collecting and analyzing sensor-generated data to support equipment monitoring and maintenance, production process analytics and control, and more… -Industrial smart, connected products -Equipment utilization monitoring -Real-time industrial asset tracking and management -Connected supply chain management -Predictive maintenance -Production quality control -Defects Analysis System -Inventory management -Employee monitoring We guarantee a smooth transition towards Industry 4.0, by ensuring the step-by-step transformation of every segment of the supply and production chain. Sterison can develop a cost-effective IIoT software from scratch, using Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud services or open-source IoT platforms enabling sensor data collection and analytics, IIoT device connectivity, control and management.Starting Price: $5/Month/Signal -
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ruffus
ruffus
Ruffus is a computation pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics. Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort. Suitable for the simplest of tasks. Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive. No "clever magic", no pre-processing. Unambitious, the lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well. Ruffus is available under the permissive MIT free software license. This permits free use and inclusion even within proprietary software. It is good practice to run your pipeline in a temporary, “working” directory away from your original data. Ruffus is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines. Ruffus requires Python 2.6 or higher or Python 3.0 or higher.Starting Price: Free -
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SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D is a powerful woodworking design software built by woodworkers, for woodworkers. Frustrated with traditional CAD tools, its founder launched SketchList nearly 15 years ago to simplify cabinet and furniture design. With intuitive 3D modeling, smart joinery tools, and a growing global user base of nearly 7,000, SketchList 3D empowers users to create precise, professional-grade designs with ease. Endorsed by Rockler Woodworking since 2007 and consistently top-rated, it’s the go-to solution for serious hobbyists and professionals alike.Starting Price: $79.99/month -
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AUGmentecture
AUGmentecture
A Patent Pending augmented reality communication and collaboration tool for architectural, engineering, and construction industries. AUGmentecture is an augmented reality platform for design collaboration that enables the viewing of 3D models in augmented reality (AR) format. Over 10,000 users and over 500,000 models viewed, AUGmentecture is the only augmented reality application that is effortless, rapid in converting models, and consistent in the market. One of the leading applications in the AR space, the AUGmentecture app is rated as the highest start in the Autodesk App Store as well as Android and iOS stores. Architects, engineers, and design professionals are using the AUGmentecture platform to display their 3D models in augmented reality on mobile devices and share them with colleagues. Our goal is to make augmented reality a day to day design communication and collaboration tool for architects, designers, and artists to simply Design, Upload, and View their models onStarting Price: $15/month/user -
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BEXEL Manager
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
