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SolidCraft
Tangency Labs
SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD application for designing and revising parts and assemblies. Users create dimensioned, constrained sketches, add features such as extrusions, revolutions, fillets, shells, holes, and patterns, and edit designs through a feature timeline with parameters and configurations. It includes component assemblies, joints, motion studies, sheet-metal workflows, and plastic-part tools. Desktop and browser editors, command-line tools, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support interactive, scripted, and agent-assisted modeling. SolidCraft imports and exports formats including STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ, and 3MF, with format-specific limits; assemblies can also be exported as URDF. The software serves people who design, inspect, edit, or exchange mechanical parts and assemblies.Starting Price: Free -
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XFdtd
Remcom
XFdtd is a full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software created by Remcom. This innovative and full-featured electromagnetic simulation solver provides high-performance computing options and simplifies the analysis of the most complex EM problems. XFdtd offers a wide range of applications that include microwave device design, antenna design and placement, radar and scattering, biomedical applications, automotive radar, waveguides, military and defense contracts, RFID, EMC/EMI, and more.Starting Price: $14750.00/one-time/user -
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ProCal
TMA Systems
ProCal by TMA Systems is an enterprise-grade calibration management software designed to replace paper-based processes with efficient, digital workflows. It helps organizations maintain precision, compliance, and consistency across calibration programs of any scale. ProCal automates calculations, applies tolerances, and instantly flags pass or fail results to minimize human error. The platform generates audit-ready records, certificates, and complete calibration histories to simplify inspections and regulatory reviews. Built for ISO, GMP, FDA, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, it supports secure access, electronic signatures, and approval controls. ProCal scales easily from single departments to global enterprises with multi-account and multi-language support. Trusted by leading manufacturers, it delivers a streamlined, paperless approach to calibration management. -
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FlexSim
FlexSim Software Products, Inc.
FlexSim is a problem solving tool that allows you to accurately answer any question about your business. It's powerful simulation software, built from the ground up to make simulation as easy as possible, without sacrificing an ounce of function or visual appeal. You can create beautiful, detailed models that deliver results yet make an impact in the way spreadsheets or charts never could, and you can do it all in just minutes with drag-and-drop controls and easy-to-use features. -
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C.A.L.M. Airline Suite
C.A.L.M. Systems
C.A.L.M. (Computerized Aircraft Log Manager) Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of aviation maintenance management software solution. The company's Airline Suite offers a robust set of modules, including Computerized Aircraft Reliability Tracking System (C.A.R.T.S) and Continuous Aircraft Surveillance (C.A.S), that ensure fleet readiness and enhance the aviation maintenance community's productivity, efficiency, and safety. Key features of the Airline Suite include electronic log books, flight log tracking, bulletin tracking, maintenance forecasting, budget forecasting, temples for common component lists, and more. This software monitors discrepancies and reports mechanical reliability and corrective actions or deferrals. It is integrated with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed. Features and reports.Starting Price: $1000 per month -
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Hurricane for AutoCAD
74Mph Solutions
Batch edit your AutoCAD drawings in 3 clicks (or less), Make simple, complex and/or dynamic changes to each drawing. Manage your files to process. Keep lists, save "project" directories. Share these lists and "user-scripts". Combine user scripts to accomplish complex editing tasks. (You can even store scripts specific to each project, and retrieve them easily.) AutoCAD Electrical ".WDP" project file compatibility - Double-click an AutoCAD Electrical .WDP (Project) file within Hurricanes file selector, to quickly load an entire AutoCAD Electrical project into the FileQueue. This means you can EASILY use AutoCAD to Batch Plot your files, Batch Purge, Batch Bind, batch script anything, maximizing your PC's power to perform redundant tasks fast! Add more time-saving batch script functionality to AutoCAD Electrical, Mechanical, and Architectural. Batch all drawings run in a single AutoCAD session (They don't "open-run-close, open-run-close...")Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment -
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cofaso 7
cofaso
cofaso is the leading high-end CAE solution for electrical engineering projecting tasks. Based on its special system technology with direct access to applicable logic for each schematic, the solution offers outstanding features for all industry-specific design and documentation requirements. As a parameter-controlled system, cofaso provides users with consistent structuring of their work process, while offering unrestricted flexibility for individual adaption to department -project- or workplace-specific requirements. cofaso has user interface in 13 world languages and supports all the common Windows versions. Auto connecting and online item designation/numbering enable you to create schematics quickly and correctly. Rapid viewing/generation of evaluation lists speeds up your work process. -
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Mech-Q
ASVIC
Are you looking for the best Engineering & Drafting CAD Software? Our solutions suit professionals like you that are involved in commercial, food & beverage, petrochemical, biotechnology, heavy industry, marine, mining, military, pharmaceutical, pulp & paper, energy generation or similar type of industry. If you require easy to use engineering software to get the job done right and quicly, then we have the solution you are looking for! We have software products for a wide range of engineering applications ranging from Mechanical software, Piping software, HVAC Ducting software and Structural Steel Detailing software. Each application is a set of powerful functions and utilities that makes your engineering design and drafting work easy and cost effective.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher is a leading floor plan software that makes it easy to create, edit, and share accurate and high-quality floor plans. An easy-to-learn drag-and-drop interface enables you to draw plans from scratch or order existing plans to be drawn for you through RoomSketcher's redraw services. 2D and 3D plans can be customized with accurate measurements, annotations, and company branding. RoomSketcher is available on desktops and tablets, and can be used anywhere with an internet connection, as projects are stored in the cloud and sync across devices. RoomSketcher is used by thousands of real estate professionals, interior designers, and general contractors all over the world. Save time, win clients, and elevate your marketing with RoomSketcher's impressive and professional floor plan visuals. -
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PTC Windchill
PTC
PTC Windchill is a comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) platform designed to help manufacturers improve collaboration, data sharing, and quality control across global teams. It provides secure, role-based access to real-time product data, enabling streamlined product development and manufacturing processes. Windchill’s open architecture allows seamless integration with enterprise systems like SAP ERP, supporting a connected digital thread. The platform includes advanced features such as BOM management, engineering change control, manufacturing process management, and supply chain collaboration. Windchill leverages AI-driven insights and automation to enhance decision-making, reduce manual tasks, and accelerate innovation. Its flexible delivery options include on-premises and cloud deployment to fit diverse IT strategies. -
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Docollab
Docollab
Research makes the world better, you deserve better research tools. LIMS and ELN: collaboration, project management, tasks, documents and spreadsheets with revision history and 100% compliant and backed up across all devices. Today's researchers hack their research process using standalone programs, note-taking on OneNote pasted into MS Word and Excel, sharing files via Dropbox, project management tools like Asana, then printing everything into a binder for PI and company compliance. Since 2007 Docollab has worked with leading organizations and institutions, under stringent workflow and compliance requirements, to create the most intuitive and robust platform for all your research needs whether you're an individual, small research team or a multi-national corporation. Intuitive structure to manage, maintain, and archive everything in one place (Electronic Lab Notebook). Structure your work, projects and files into folders and sub-folders.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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Autodesk Advance Steel
GRAITEC
Advance Steel is a Dedicated Steel detailing package, the Software tool is a 3D modelling environment that then translates into a document management system. The 3D model consists of intelligent structural objects such as Beams, Plates, Bolts and Welds, with these combined together using the Parametric Connection tools that can be propagated within the model via connection copying tools, the model then becomes the hub for the creation of General Arrangements, Shop Assembly and Part drawings to allow for fabrication. These tools also extend into platework with ability to create complex folded plate details for flat pattern development drawings for shop use. Tools for creating steel frameworks from intelligent macros that allow for adjustments to the overall frame dimensions, section profile selection, this combined with the Parametric connection’s tools for standard connections types, with the ability to create custom connection details for bespoke situations. -
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HomeByMe
Dassault Systemes
Discover our offers to take benefit from the best of HomeByMe. One time pack or subscription? Choose the one that suits you best. Have only one floor (multi floor plans will need to be submitted one floor per order, every order is delivered as a unique project). Indicate all the measures on your floor plan (we need at least one measure to make sure your project is on the right scale). Choose the furnished or unfurnished project offer and then upload your floor plan. Within 3 working days, be notified by email of the delivery of your 3D project. Customize your interior by adding different coverings, furniture and decorative accessories by choosing them from our catalog. Your 3D project will include all the walls, doors and windows defined on your floor plan. In each room of the 3D project we will place a minimalist starter set of furniture and a different floor type to show our breadth and capability. (Accessories, decorations, multi-level floors or exteriors are not included).Starting Price: $14.74 per month -
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Floor Plan Mapper
Floor Plan Mapper
Floor Plan Mapper is an innovative software application designed to solve the simple problem of locating staff, printers, meeting rooms and whatever else you need to find within an office building. Floor Plan Mapper creates an interactive map of your floor plans from which you cans search for and find employees, visually book desks, locate meeting rooms, create office seating plans and much more. Floor Plan Mapper is available as a online hosted software as a service, or as an on-premise installation.Starting Price: $28 -
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Arctech Pro
Wildcard
Create inspection plans in seconds from your saved templates, edit them and add the design team to get you BCAR project up and running and submitted to the BCMS. Inspections and issues are logged against an element on the plan so you can easily see what elements have been inspected, and when and whether issues were raised. When the project is complete use the 'as inspected' feature to upload to BCMS. Using our BCAR app you can quickly and easily carry out inspections on site. Base your inspection on a floor plan on for a particular element to save time. As issues are found you can mark up images, make comments and take linked images. See previous issues that are still open and close them while you are on-site. Once finished images and data are synced back to the main server, to the contractor portal and the inspection report output is created.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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CAEplex
Seamplex
Just open a regular web browser such as Firefox or Chrome and search online for “caeplex.” It works in any operating system such as Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, etc. The computations are performed on our servers so CAEplex works on any existing PC, laptop, tablet or phone without requiring any hardware update nor maintenance. No need to buy a new computer nor to add RAM to your oldie one. Our killer feature: “ease and speed.” A CAEplex case can be solved from scratch down to the results in less than one minute thanks to our 3-step workflow. If you know a faster FEA app, please let us know. CAEplex can be used from any mobile device such as a tablet or phones, no matter how old or wrecked. Access and show your work from any location at any time. Enjoy working in an agile development leveraging simulation (we rather say “modeling”), additive manufacturing, and mobile online collaboration.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing is the smartest choice for small businesses that require the basic and integrated functions of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System. QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing provides out-of-the-box, base functions for business areas such as Manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management and Supplier Chain Management. Both economical, and user friendly, QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing has the lowest learning curve, and it does not require a high degree of customization as found in the majority of existing ERP solutions. Typical ERP implementation projects for enterprises can consumes months, requires a consulting team, and usually requires changes to existing business processes. QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing already fits the basic requirements for small businesses and requires minimal additional setup time.Starting Price: $749 one-time payment
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SNOK
SecureNok
SNOK™ is a cybersecurity monitoring and detection system tailored for industrial networks and control systems. SNOK™ detects targeted industrial attacks such as espionage, sabotage, malware, and other security interruptions in control systems. SNOK™ uniquely combines network and endpoint monitoring of components such as PLC’s, HMI’s, Servers etc. We are cybersecurity experts on industrial automation and control systems. Our skilled advisors and technicians help you secure critical infrastructure and production facilities, train your staff and implement secure practices. Hacking, malware and viruses have attacked IT systems for decades. Recently, cyberattacks has grown into a serious threat to critical industrial infrastructure as well. What has happened and how can infrastructure be protected? Assets in the Oil & Gas Industry are attractive targets for cyber-attacks with potentially severe consequences.Starting Price: $0.01 -
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Simcenter Simsolid
Siemens
Simcenter Simsolid is a Siemens simulation and structural analysis tool that helps designers and engineers analyze fully featured CAD assemblies without geometry simplification or meshing. By removing two of the most time-consuming steps in traditional FEA, it allows teams to validate structural performance much faster. The software can handle large and complex assemblies, including models with rough contact surfaces, gaps, or overlapping geometry. Simcenter Simsolid delivers accurate results in seconds to minutes on a standard PC, making it useful for rapid design comparison and simulation-driven development. It supports a wide range of analysis types, including linear and nonlinear statics, thermal analysis, modal analysis, fatigue analysis, dynamic simulations, buckling, composites, and random response. With CAD interoperability, advanced connections, materials, boundary conditions, and visualization tools, Simcenter Simsolid helps teams bring better products to market faster. -
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WELSIM
WelSimulation LLC
WELSIM finite element analysis software helps engineers and researchers conduct simulation studies and prototype virtual products.Starting Price: $45 per user per month -
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Traxxall
JSSI Traxxall
The New Standard in Maintenance Tracking Comprehensive Set of Tools for Aircraft Maintenance Management Purpose-built for Corporate Flight Departments, Charter Operations, and Management Companies 24/7 System Support, Ongoing Compliance Management, and Record Keeping Advanced Tracking software with robust reporting capabilities Powerful, centralized API - making integration with other aviation software providers seamless About Traxxall maintenance Tracking Traxxall Maintenance Tracking offers a comprehensive set of tools for aircraft maintenance management. Purpose-built for corporate flight departments, charter operations, and management companies, Traxxall helps you unlock actionable maintenance intelligence to enable better planning and compliance, and optimize your schedule and aircraft availability. Its dedicated team of analysts are available 24/7 - offering rapid response times and answers to all of your system questions. -
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MachineMetrics
MachineMetrics
MachineMetrics is transforming MES for modern manufacturers. As the leading real-time production intelligence platform, MachineMetrics delivers AI-powered machine monitoring and ERP-integrated MES capabilities purpose-built for discrete manufacturing. Legacy MES systems are slow, rigid, and complex—MachineMetrics accelerates time to value with a modular, no-code platform that connects any machine, regardless of make or model. Core MES features—work order management, intelligent scheduling, OEE analytics, and downtime tracking—are powered by real-time machine data. Frontline operators benefit from ShopPulse, an intuitive tablet interface for job tracking, alerts, and labor entry. Executives gain visibility through dashboards, custom reports, and automated workflows. Seamlessly integrating with ERP systems, MachineMetrics synchronizes labor, job, and schedule data bi-directionally. The result: a fully aligned, agile production environment—without the burden of traditional MES -
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EMWorks
EMWorks
EMWorks provides best-in-class electromagnetic simulation software for electrical and electronics design with multiphysics capabilities. The company’s products are fully and seamlessly embedded in SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Inventor®. Applications include electromechanical and power electronics, antennas, RF and microwave components, and power and signal integrity of high-speed interconnects. EMS is an electromagnetic field simulation software for designing and optimizing electromagnetic and electromechanical devices such as transformers, electric motors, actuators, and sensors inside SOLIDWORKS® and Autodesk® Inventor®. EMWorks2D is a 2D electromagnetic simulation software for 2D planar and axis-symmetric geometries and it is completely embedded inside SOLIDWORKS. This product enables users to do quick simulations before migrating to 3D and helps in rapid product development. -
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FBO Director
Essinta Labs
Your front desk personnel needs quick, easy to use software that makes quick turns PERFECT! Select an invoice by tail number or customer. Select fuel, enter a meter reading and gallons are instantly calculated. With fbo director your CSRs and fuelers make fewer mistakes, thus reconciling your accounting is easy. What might take several hours each morning in another system takes just minutes. Our accounting includes tail number tracking, fuel company credit card processing, contract fuel support, into-plane fees, and fuel inventory tracking. When it comes to running a successful FBO, efficient operations are key. That's why we designed FBO Director - to provide a complete, user-friendly software package that would help streamline complex processes and maximize profits. FBO Director can help automate many of your business operations. So you can focus on what you do best - providing excellent service to your customers. -
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Ansys BladeModeler
ANSYS
Ansys BladeModeler software is a specialized, easy-to-use tool for the rapid 3D design of rotating machinery components. Ansys BladeModeler is used to design axial, mixed-flow and radial blade components in applications such as pumps, compressors, fans, blowers, turbines, expanders, turbochargers, inducers and more. Ansys BladeModeler is integrated with Ansys DesignModeler to deliver complete 3D geometry modeling capabilities and allow any number of geometric features, such as hub metal, blade fillets, and cut-offs and trims to be added. Blade designs can be combined with other non-bladed components, like housings, blade roots or complex 3D tip regions. These non-bladed components can be created directly or imported using CAD connections to all major CAD vendors without limits on the designs that can assembled and assessed. You can choose the level of geometric detail for your analysis. -
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Siemens Industrial Edge
Siemens
Siemens Industrial Edge is an edge computing platform designed to bring real-time data processing and intelligent insights directly to the manufacturing shop floor. It combines hardware, software, connectivity, applications, edge devices, and centralized management into a scalable industrial ecosystem. The platform helps manufacturers collect, process, analyze, and manage data from industrial assets more efficiently. Industrial Edge supports IT and OT integration by connecting shop floor systems with cloud platforms, IIoT services, ERP, MES, SCADA systems, and MQTT brokers. It also enables production analytics, intelligent maintenance, software-defined automation, and AI-powered optimization for quality, throughput, and defect detection. With secure management, flexible deployment, and ecosystem apps, Siemens Industrial Edge helps manufacturers improve productivity, reliability, and decision-making. -
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Vectorworks Landmark
Vectorworks
This all-in-one program will transform your design, presentation, irrigation, and documentation workflows. Unlike other software, Vectorworks has the flexibility to support your entire project from beginning to end, or anywhere in the process — with tools created specifically for you as a landscape professional. With Vectorworks Landmark’s BIM capabilities, they are. That means a change in one place is reflected everywhere. So, as changes occur, you can spend more time designing and less time manually updating drawings. The process of Building Information Modeling gives you the power to optimize your designs. Automatically generate schedules and reports. Calculate construction costs and material takeoffs. Analyze terrain for cut/fill, slope, and drainage. Evaluate water budgets and track sustainability goals, like leed and sites projects.Starting Price: $3,045 one-time payment -
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ProSimPlus
Fives ProSim
ProSimPlus is a chemical process simulation software very intuitive and easy to use, so users adopt it very quickly. The software is a solution that is widely used by the world’s leading oil, gas, chemicals, energy or bio-based industry companies. Fives ProSim offers process simulation software and services that allow industries to improve their operations, increase their profitability or reduce their environmental impact. For more than 30 years Fives ProSim has been designing and developing process simulation and optimization software in the oil, gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, energy and other process industries. Fives ProSim is today at the heart of two challenges that the industry must face to remain competitive: the digital transition and the energy transition. Fives ProSim stands out thanks to the ease of use of its software, the responsiveness of its support team. -
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PlusSpec
RubySketch
PlusSpec is the most powerful, affordable and easy to learn 3D BIM/Virtual Design Construction & Estimating software for the Design & Construction Industry. From Design & Sales to Estimating & Procurement, PlusSpec offers one integrated solution created to help you become more efficient & profitable. PlusSpec has been made for people who are low on time, and we’ve included the support you need so you can quickly master the software. The only BIM software you can actually design with. Immerse your clients in 3D and sell your designs. Create professional 2D drawings. Manage client budgets. Develop stronger relationships with stakeholders. PlusSpec will allow you to do more than just quantify. Quote Fast. End Error and Oversight. Visualize Risk & Complexity. Transform the way you Communicate. Deliver more than just a Paper Quote. Whether you are Designing & Drafting, or Estimating & Building (or both), specifying products is a key part of the process.Starting Price: $990 per year -
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Home Designer
Chief Architect
Home Designer Software is the top-rated 3D interior design, remodeling and home design software. Based on technology from Chief Architect's professional architectural software, Home Designer is made easy for DIY. Discover why Home Designer is the best home design app to visualize and design your next house project. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers. Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings, and 360 panoramic renderings. Chief Architect's software is purpose‑built for residential design with building tools that can automatically generate roofs, foundations, framing, and dimensions. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model. These 3D models can be shared with homeowners, structural engineers or subcontractors using the 3D Viewer app.Starting Price: $79 one-time payment
