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HDR Light Studio
Lightmap
The best way to achieve realistic 3D lighting is through the influence of real-world lighting references. In the 3D industry, HDRI lighting is used to aid with replicating real-life lighting scenarios. The HDRI map used highly affects the quality of HDRI lighting. The conventional ways of making your own HDRI maps involve picking up a camera and shooting real-life environments. So, it’s no surprise that many 3D artists settle for off-the-shelf stock HDRI Maps. However, that’s like a photographer using the same lighting setup for a motorcycle and a car shoot – it will never happen. It’s why we believe that 3D artists deserve to handcraft a unique lighting design for every 3D scene. Perfect lighting is achieved by having the right lights in the right place. HDR Light Studio has been engineered to take this literally. It’s why it’s known as the ultimate 3D lighting design tool to easily and quickly create your HDRI maps.Starting Price: $176.22 per year -
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OptiWin 3D Pro
Glamox
OptiWin 3D Pro is our own lighting calculation program, which we offer free of charge to our customers and partners. The program makes it possible to carry out lighting calculations for comprehensive and complex projects. Correct lighting calculations are important for maritime and oil and gas projects to satisfy norms and requirements and lux levels. Such calculations also make it possible to implement corrective measures at an early stage of a project. OptiWin 3D Pro calculations are provided in the form of well-documented reports. Provides easy and fast lighting calculations using CAD drawings.Starting Price: Free -
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Toggle3D
nextech AR
Choose your project template, import your CAD file, and create 3D visualizations directly from your browser. No experience is required in 3D design. No app downloads, create directly in your browser. Start instantly by uploading a CAD file or 3D model. Use pre-made templates to make 3D visualization easy and fast. Start with our 3D Configurator template today. Stay tuned for more coming soon. Browse through over one thousand high-quality PBR materials and edit them in real time to make your model come to life. Toggle3D is your ultimate design studio for 3D. Whether you are here to create and texture 3D models, build product configurators for eCommerce, or to prototype design, Toggle is a tool anyone can use to turn 2D into 3D with no relevant 3D design experience required. Start by signing up to our free or pro plans and jump straight into the platform. To start creating, make sure you have a CAD or 3D model ready.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Light ARchitect
Cooper Lighting Solutions
Make lighting design as mobile as you are with Cooper Lighting Solutions augmented reality app. AR opens the door to design by enabling you to visualize lighting fixtures in any space or environment or setting. Select one or more of our most popular products to help you decide which luminaires are the perfect choice for your project. Customize your experience by adjusting orientations, colors, and shapes. Visualize real-time with a 360-degree view of the fixture from any angle or position. Receive an instant screenshot along with product information. Today’s education campuses require healthy spaces that promote learning, improve student productivity, and enhance the student experience. Lighting and controls solve those needs while also providing significant energy and cost savings.Starting Price: Free -
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ElumTools
Lighting Analysts
ElumTools® is the first (and only) fully integrated lighting calculation add-in for Autodesk® Revit®. ElumTools is designed to calculate point-by-point illuminance on any workplane or surface utilizing lighting fixture families and surface geometry already present in the Revit model. ElumTools runs completely inside of Revit with its own ribbon toolbar to provide quick access to analysis tools for Revit Rooms, Spaces, Regions and Views. An interactive Radiosity-based visualization is produced by the calculation process providing designers complete walk-through capability to assist in the understanding the interaction of light and surface. ElumTools is easy to learn and even easier to use regularly for your lighting computations. The ElumTools workflow is fast and efficient, saving you countless hours over trying to export geometry to a stand-alone tool, then fussing to integrate the results with your Revit sheets.Starting Price: $94 per user per month -
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ArKaos MediaMaster
ArKaos
The Remote Player which will be of interest to those working on long term shows, permanent installations and in other fixed environment scenarios Remote Player is a network-based player allowing the control of multiple servers from a single point on the network. The internal encoder means Cue Lists can be allocated to separate applications. Connect your Elgato Stream Deck to that maximizes workflow and direct access to sources and outputs as needed. MediaMaster Pro ships with the new Video Mapper Extension which allows easy mapping of video onto irregularly shaped surfaces and through multiple outputs. The philosophy behind all ArKaos’ control solutions focuses on making video surfaces, screens, etc., work just like moving lights. The goal is to empower lighting designers, programmers and operators and help make the integration of video and pixel light sources seamless with lighting in their visual designs via DMX control and without needing to utilize a separate video controller.Starting Price: €139 per week -
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3D Cityplanner
StrateGis Groep
Urban (re)development projects can be complex. Besides the engineering complexity, projects involve many stakeholders and experts, often with conflicting interests. This leads to long decision making processes with a suboptimal outcome. The 3D Cityplanner improves cooperation and avoids sub-optimal decision-making. A lot of data is available nowadays, but it is challenging to bring it together. We can ensure that all required data comes together in the system for any location. It is also possible to automatically gather all data of all underlying datasets. 3D Cityplanner is the best tool for quick 3D location analysis. With all the relevant location-specific data at your fingertips, the 3D Cityplanner is the best start for creating a masterplan. The drawing tools and auto-generating options help you make the best plan in no time.Starting Price: $9.90 per month -
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Programa
Programa
With Programa, everything's always up-to-date, no more version control or errors. Programa's clean, minimal interface allows your work to shine, and share your schedules with clients, builders and suppliers with total control. Stop stressing about version control and build your schedules with Programa and stop worrying about builders, clients and trades seeing old information. Quickly refine visual concepts, share ideas, and showcase your design in your collaborative online space. Your own centralized database of products means you can find the right products quickly and add them to Schedules in seconds. Keep your team and your projects running smoothly in one place. Programa's address book allows you to organize your contacts and share them with your team quickly.Starting Price: $39 per user per month -
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Archezy
Archezy IT Solutions
Archezy is a secured web based integrated portal which serves the purpose of architecture Industry by giving in depth solutions for an OTSD Management (office, task, software and data management.) on one single platform. There is micro management of specific project which provides handy traceability to users and better review tool to the employees. It also builds a personalized directory & reference library from all the feeds that is entered according to user requirements. Archezy provides platform to manage project data, user, task, Storage drive, directory, reference library, portfolio, reports.Starting Price: ₹299/user/month -
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ENVI-met
ENVI-met
ENVI-met is a 3D microclimate simulation software. The software is used for a wide range of applications, including urban planning, building design, and energy efficiency, considering not only one single climate parameter, but all of them. ENVI-met can simulate a variety of climate conditions, including day- and night-time temperatures, humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation in cities. The software can also simulate the effects of different building materials, such as glass and stone, on the climate of the surrounding environments. The program is used to predict the effects of urban design changes on the microclimate environment and human thermal comfort for people in cities worldwide. As climate change is having a major impact on our planet, it is essential, that more healthier and resilient cities are developed. To support these goals ENVI-met can be used to assess the potential of new buildings, green spaces, and urban planning and to make informed decisions.Starting Price: €290 one-time payment -
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PowerPad
MasterSeries
MasterSeries PowerPad is a complete structural analysis and design suite. It is the ideal software choice for engineers who require a wide range of design capabilities at an extremely affordable price. By bundling lite versions of the core analysis and design programs, MasterSeries PowerPad delivers a wide range of well-established programs (not pro-forma's) at less than a third of their full version price. At the heart of PowerPad is our powerful MasterFrame analysis module. This integrates directly with our steel, concrete, composite, and timber design modules to give you a seamless, fully integrated, 3D analysis and design environment. PowerPad (Student Edition) is a free version of our commercial PowerPad Plus structural analysis and design software suite. PowerPad is not a set of proformas, but lite copies of our real programs bundled together. Simple steel, concrete, and timber beam designer. Analysis of beams, trusses, plane frames, grillages and space frames.Starting Price: $102.50 per month -
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RISA-3D
RISA
Our user interface was created to be as easy to use as possible. Whether you’re creating geometry graphically in multiple views using advanced modeling tools or using spreadsheets to input data directly, RISA-3D has you covered. RISA-3D’s analysis and design features allow you to rapidly design structures of all types using a wide range of materials. Design buildings, bridges, tanks, culverts, and everything in between. Create reports with both graphical and numerical results including robust detailed output, giving you and your colleagues full confidence in your design. The latest user interface of RISA-3D was created with a structural engineers' workflow in mind. The familiar left-to-right, tab-by-tab ribbon approach, makes it effortless to progress through a model from conception to final design optimization by simply following the icon sequencing. Additionally, users have the ability to customize the interface so that their most used tools are available at all times.Starting Price: $1,970 per year -
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RISAFloor
RISA
Create a single floor or multiple floors with ease using automatically generated grids, graphical input of structural members, and parent/child relationships in an easy-to-navigate environment. Easily design and optimize floor systems of various materials for applied loads, including live load reduction and vibrations while utilizing design rules that make managing results straightforward. RISAFloor ES includes optimization of rebar, full code checks including punching shear and detailing requirements, cracked section properties, and elastic deflection analysis. RISAFloor’s interface creates an intuitive floor-by-floor modeling environment for straightforward multi-story building creation. Quickly model floor elements using a DXF overlay, construction lines, and a combination of spreadsheet input and CAD-like modeling. In addition, parent/child floor relationships let you mimic one floor’s layout within another, eliminating repetitive modeling and modifications.Starting Price: $1,510 per year -
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ADAPT-Builder
RISA
Easily create complex concrete geometry including single levels, ramps, and multi-story concrete structures using robust modeling tools as well as import from CAD and BIM software. Efficiently analyze slabs or entire structures for the combined effects of gravity, lateral, and vibration loading, utilizing true 3D finite element analysis, straightforward load takedown, and realistic slab alignment. Whether you’re investigating an existing reinforced concrete slab or designing a multi-story post-tensioned building, ADAPT-Builder allows you to control all aspects of design including cracking, long-term deflections, and punching shear, ensuring results are accurate and complete. Whatever your concrete design needs are, there is ADAPT software for you. Compare packages and get started. ADAPT-Builder is the 3D modeling, analysis, and design platform for ADAPT-Floor Pro, Edge, MAT, and SOG, while Modeler can be used together with ADAPT-PT and RC.Starting Price: $3,745 per year -
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Model Predictive Control Toolbox
MathWorks
Model Predictive Control Toolbox™ provides functions, an app, Simulink® blocks, and reference examples for developing model predictive control (MPC). For linear problems, the toolbox supports the design of implicit, explicit, adaptive, and gain-scheduled MPC. For nonlinear problems, you can implement single- and multi-stage nonlinear MPC. The toolbox provides deployable optimization solvers and also enables you to use a custom solver. You can evaluate controller performance in MATLAB® and Simulink by running closed-loop simulations. For automated driving, you can also use the provided MISRA C®- and ISO 26262-compliant blocks and examples to quickly get started with lane keep assist, path planning, path following, and adaptive cruise control applications. Design implicit, gain-scheduled, and adaptive MPC controllers that solve a quadratic programming (QP) problem. Generate an explicit MPC controller from an implicit design. Use discrete control set MPC for mixed-integer QP problems.Starting Price: $1,180 per year -
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MPCPy
MPCPy
MPCPy is a Python package that facilitates the testing and implementation of occupant-integrated model predictive control (MPC) for building systems. The package focuses on the use of data-driven, simplified physical or statistical models to predict building performance and optimize control. Four main modules contain object classes to import data, interact with real or emulated systems, estimate and validate data-driven models, and optimize control input. While MPCPy provides an integration platform, it relies on free, open-source, third-party software packages for model implementation, simulators, parameter estimation algorithms, and optimization solvers. This includes Python packages for scripting and data manipulation as well as other more comprehensive software packages for specific purposes. In particular, modeling and optimization for physical systems currently rely on the Modelica language specification.Starting Price: Free -
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XMReality
XMReality
No matter what industry your company is in - XMReality helps you turn physical visits into virtual interactions. Connect remotely, see what the other person sees, and collaborate using powerful in-call tools. XMReality includes a depth of features that provides your onsite workforce access to a remote expert to collaborate and get help and training. Switch between live video paused image or shared pictures and documents to support joint collaboration. Use the guide tools to highlight information and bridge language barriers. You can also access pre-defined, custom-made step-by-step procedures that guide you through a process and point out what needs to be done and documented. Get an automated PDF report at the end of each call - the perfect way to ensure compliant documentation. You can also record the call, take screenshots and add notes.Starting Price: $50 per user per month -
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SERVICE AR
VIEWAR
SERVICE AR is a unique all-in-one application to optimize crucial service and maintenance processes. Visualize data and information wherever you need them. Benefit from a wide range of cutting edge features like maintenance tours, remote assistance, work instructions, etc. to prevent downtimes and increase quality of service. SERVICE AR helps your workers to find any service points by calculating the most efficient route even in the most complex building. Navigation can be enhanced with additional features to visualize data and information along the way. Critical areas or danger zones are visualized accordingly, making clear where more attention is required. Workers’ safety is increased and productivity doubled.Starting Price: Free -
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INDOAR
VIEWAR
Upgrade your physical location with the worlds most advanced indoor navigation system. Display digital routes and additional content (text, videos, 3D objects, etc.) on your user’s device anytime during navigation. Help your workforce to either find the shortest way to their destination or setup predefined routes for onboarding and training. Make indoor navigation more user-friendly: Offer your employees the possibility of using a 3D avatar in addition to the standard line navigation. This makes your application more personalized and the user experience more interactive. Enjoy the virtual character’s guidance and assistance at your fingertips. A convenient solution to create points of interest (POIs) on site. With a simple touch, you can scan any text and automatically create a digital label linked to the recorded coordinates.Starting Price: Free -
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Grasshopper
Grasshopper
For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring. Grasshopper is included in Rhino 7 for Mac and Windows. There are many resources available to learn more about Grasshopper. Since Grasshopper is included with some enhancements, try your existing GH definitions and plug-ins, they should all work. Grasshopper seems to be everywhere lately. You may even recognize the Grasshopper canvas in other applications. In Rhino 7, we have added some new components, but we have also facilitated the conversion of programs to plug-ins. Convert your Grasshopper definitions to Rhino commands. Quickly find objects that occupy the same space. Placeholder component for missing plug-ins.Starting Price: $995 one-time payment -
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ISPSoft
Delta
ISPSoft is the latest program development tool for Delta's programmable logic controllers (PLC) that complies with the IEC 61131-3 standard to integrate multiple tasks for project management. Customers can use standard PLCopen® function blocks, as well as Delta's self-developed function blocks to easily achieve different control requirements. ISPSoft offers users an efficient and convenient development environment and is suitable for both small and complex control systems. Symbols can be introduced in call-by-value or call-by-reference types. It can be stored and managed separately. Multiple monitor tables can be stored in a single project. Users can design frequently used instructions for specific applications in different industries. Supports cyclic, I/O interrupt, timer interrupt, external interrupt, and more. The software will provide usable tasks for different CPUs. Provides high-speed data log ability and the interval could be 1 CPU scan.Starting Price: Free -
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RS2
Rocscience
Whether your project is civil or mining based, above ground or below, RS2 enables you to effectively analyze stress/deformation, stability, support design, and staged excavations with ease. Factor in groundwater flow with RS2’s integrated seepage analysis tool for steady-state and transient conditions of dams, embankments, slopes, tunnels, and excavations. Automate your slope stability analysis with shear strength reduction which performs a finite element analysis to identify the critical strength reduction factor. Embankments can be analyzed using slope stability, groundwater seepage, consolidation, or dynamic analysis. RS2 includes groundwater and dynamic analysis tools in addition to a vast library of advanced constitutive models to capture the sudden loss of strength due to liquefaction. Developed for both open-pit and underground excavations, analyze stability, stress/deformation, bench design, and support design of underground caverns and openings.Starting Price: $7,795 one-time payment -
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RSData
Rocscience
Fully understand your rock and soil material properties by analyzing their strength characteristics and constitutive behavior to determine strength envelopes and other material parameters. Utilize constitutive models like NorSand and Modified Cam Clay to get an in-depth look into the stress-strain relationship of your soil materials. A bonus of RSData is the addition of RocProp, a database of intact rock properties which runs as a standalone application. Check out the full list of technical features in RSData. Calibrate your rock’s strength criteria and observed stress-strain behaviors using field and lab test data and compare them against numerical simulations of the same tests. Laboratory tests and stress-strain paths of soils can be imported into RSData for visualization. Compare & calibrate material parameters by plotting predicted constitutive behavior on top of experimental data. Different constitutive models in prediction of typical laboratory tests.Starting Price: $1,195 one-time payment -
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Luma AI
Luma AI
Photorealistic, high quality 3D, now for everyone. Luma is a new way to create incredible lifelike 3D with AI using your iPhone. Easily capture products, objects, landscapes and scenes wherever you are. From your captures create cinematic product videos, impossible camera moves for TikTok, or just relive the moment. No Lidar or fancy capture equipment necessary, all you need is an iPhone 11 or newer. For the first time, now you can: - Capture 3D scenes with intricate details, reflections, and lighting and share with everyone. Bring people where you are! - Capture products in 3D and showcase them on your website exactly how they appear in real life. No more "fake 3D". - Capture 3D game assets in unmatched quality and bring them to Blender, Unity or your 3D engine of choice.Starting Price: Free -
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Settle3
Rocscience
Perform soil settlement analysis to analyze immediate settlement, primary consolidation and secondary settlement of embankments, foundations, and surface loads. Easily create soil profiles using RSLog, CPT boreholes with soil classification, or the section creator feature to generate models efficiently. Get more flexibility over ground improvement methods like soil replacement, vibro-compaction, or stone columns, which can be applied to regions with different staging at different depths. Sensitivity analysis is also available for settlement analysis with ground improvement properties such as stiffness, top depth, bottom depth, spacing etc. Perform CPT and Liquefaction analysis in conjunction with each other or as standalone modules. CPT analysis results offer 29 different parameter results. Liquefaction results can be calculated based on Standard Penetration Test (SPT), Cone Penetration Test (CPT), or Shear Wave Velocity (VST) data.Starting Price: $1,095 per year -
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Slide3
Rocscience
Locate critical failure surfaces and compute the correct factor of safety using a combination of global metaheuristic search methods and local surface-altering technology. With parallel processing added for both failure searching and FS computations, results can now be generated within minutes. Streamline your workflow and get more detailed insights by integrating 3D wireframes (representing surveyed topography, geological surfaces, modeled faults, etc.) directly into your 3D models. Constructing slope stability models is easier and faster than ever before. Import surfaces from geological modeling or mine planning software or use built-in surface construction methods using coordinates or borehole data. Choose to build surfaces from point cloud data or import block models from applications such as Leapfrog, Deswik, Datamine, and Vulcan.Starting Price: $5,895 per year -
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ReRender AI
ReRender AI
Upload a picture of your project, discover 20+ unique design styles, and enjoy photorealistic renders in just seconds! Unlimited renders, enhanced image quality(2x) Watermark-free images, enjoy private mode. Unlock all lighting styles, and unlock rendering with themes and prompts.Starting Price: $45 per month -
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Geneious
Geneious
Geneious Prime makes bioinformatics accessible by transforming raw data into visualizations that make sequence analysis intuitive and user-friendly. Simple sequence assembly and easy editing of contigs. Automatic annotation for gene prediction, motifs, translation, and variant calling. Genotype microsatellite traces with automated ladder fitting and peak calling and generates tables of alleles. Beautiful visualizations of annotated genomes and assemblies are displayed in a highly customizable sequence view. Powerful SNP variants analysis, simple RNA-Seq expression analysis, and amplicon metagenomics. Design and test PCR and sequencing primers and create your own searchable primer database. Geneious Biologics is a flexible, scalable, and secure way to streamline your antibody analysis workflows, create high-quality libraries and select the optimal therapeutic candidates.Starting Price: $1,280 per year -
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Plex-Earth
Plex-Earth
You're always looking at the bigger picture to make better design decisions, so our satellite, aerial and drone imagery from the best available providers suits you perfectly, for insight, inspiration and understanding. It's actually better than being there! Now you can design with greater confidence, because you really can see everything; every bump and dip, every channel, ridge or obstruction on the site, and the surrounding areas too. Any time you like, and anywhere in the world. Impress and engage clients and stakeholders, winning their hearts, their appreciation – and the contract. Now you can export whole drawings into Google Earth, allowing everyone to easily tour, understand and appreciate your design and proposals.Starting Price: $499 per year -
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AHED (Advanced Heat Exchanger Design)
HRS Heat Exchangers
HRS-AHED is a new software solution for the calculation of shell and tube heat exchangers featuring fluids and mixing assistant, sensible heat / condensation calculations, single pass and multi pass units, with or w/o baffles and many more features: fluid database, customizable geometries, project sharing, batch calculation, vibration analysis, reporting, and much more. To ensure the best calculation results, the we have conducted a thorough search through scientific literature to make sure the best and most recent methods for calculation in heat transfer engineering are used in our software. Many heat exchanger projects have been designed successfully with AHED, making it an industrially proven software solution.Starting Price: €50/3months/user
