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Ansys Vista TF
Ansys
2D throughflow simulation is a critical step in the rotating machinery design process. Vista TF provides you with quick answers and can grant a better insight to your design or expose unexpected issues. Perform initial design iterations in 2D before moving to detailed 3D analysis to reduce development time and engineering resources. Achieve stronger insight to your rotating machinery design with Ansys Vista TF. This software provides detailed 2D flow simulation and enables you to refine product performance in early design stages. A high-performance turbocharger is a critical component for engine performance. The engineers at PCA were looking for a way to optimize turbocharger performance while simultaneously finding the most efficient approach to their problems. Ansys Vista TF quickly proved to be the best answer, as it offered fast, high-quality answers contained in a streamlined workspace. -
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Vectorworks Fundamentals
Vectorworks
Freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. You’re not limited by presets and strict parameters, you have the flexibility you need to design anything you can imagine. Increase your efficiency by automatically generating reports from your designs. Run “what if” scenarios and automate schedules and calculate costs to maximize each design element. We offer the most default import/export capabilities available, as well as support for, and direct links with AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop, and Cinema 4D. Need to solve a specific design problem? Vectorworks is also a robust CAD platform that can be easily customized. Whether you’re looking to automate a routine task or develop a custom application, we can help. With an extensive suite of drawing, illustration, and rendering tools, Vectorworks allows you to produce remarkable line drawings and 3D presentations. -
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Carlson Civil
Carlson Software
Carlson Software’s Civil Suite is a powerful software bundle made up of: Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, and Carlson GIS. These four civil-related modular programs, working together, will allow you to create all of your deliverables at a fraction of the long-term costs compared to other software alternatives. Carlson Civil provides the most robust automation and ease-of-use of any civil design solution available today, and it does dynamic updating without a single custom object. Carlson Civil’s wide selection of “power” tools enable users to increase their productivity as they create better road, site, and subdivision designs in less time. Carlson Hydrology is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-master hydrologic and hydraulic software solution that works simply in the commonly user CAD environment of polylines, text and layers. Carlson Hydrology provides site drainage and runoff analysis, plus storm drain system design and drafting, and pond design and sizing.Starting Price: $395 per year -
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Kingdom
S&P Global
Making it easier for geoscientists, drillers and engineers to collaborate. Even though the world of oil and gas has become more complex, your software does not have to be. Kingdom™ integrates geoscience, geophysics and engineering into a single, easy-to-use software solution, enabling asset teams to make confident and faster decisions from exploration to completion. Our solutions are simplified, giving you access to advanced geoscience/scientific tools that are affordable, easy to learn and install and come with excellent support and training. Optimized for unconventional, conventional and deepwater plays, Kingdom helps you assess the potential of regional geologic trends or discover where assets are underperforming, all within a singular, cost-effective and easy to learn environment. Hit the zone 95% of the time with Kingdom Geosteering. Enhanced collaboration increases productive geology and enables better predictions. -
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3D Slash
3D Slash
The perfect tool for non-designers and children to create in 3D. A unique interface, slash, a cube, using a set of tools As fun and compelling as a building game! VR view, project pictures or text on your model, and engrave them! Basic features to get started right away. Intuitive to pick up, no training required. Use the basic tools to hammer or rebuild. Paint your models, using a wide color palette. Create your 3D logo or text in a click. Start from an .stl or .obj file. Model with high precision. Sculpt shapes using an image or a photograph. Copy-paste, move, resize, flip, combine in a click! Insert rounded shapes, .stl or .obj files to your model. Select and work parts of your object by color. Project pictures or text on your model, and use them as a decal! Create student accounts on the teacher dashboard. No email address is required for students. View in real-time the files created by the students.Starting Price: $2 per month -
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ArcGIS Urban
Esri
Issues like housing availability, sustainability goals, and economic changes are compelling cities to better plan for the future. ArcGIS Urban enables planners and design professionals to collaborate across teams with a web-based 3D application that supports scenario planning and impact assessment. ArcGIS Urban enables the digital transformation of city and regional planning to encourage collaboration with community stakeholders and help all groups work toward a more sustainable future. Create, track, and review development projects with a digital twin of your city. Incorporating building information modeling (BIM) and other types of 3D information throughout the project review process gives planners and developers a common view of urban development guidelines and reduces the time required for building applications. ArcGIS Urban makes creating, editing, and managing land-use and zoning plans simple with an interactive 3D environment built with planners in mind. -
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QGIS
QGIS
Create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and mobile devices. For your desktop, server, in your web browser and as developer libraries. QGIS is a user-friendly open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities. QGIS provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyze data, and compose printable maps. We also collect case studies of how people all over the world use QGIS for their GIS work. You can view combinations of vector and raster data (in 2D or 3D) in different formats and projections without conversion to an internal or common format. -
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With the Aircraft Maintenance & Inventory (AMI) system, you can forget about spreadsheets or high-priced non-specific software. AMI is full-featured and tailored to your aircraft maintenance operation, plus it is free to use! AMI is a powerful and elegant set of aviation maintenance systems fully integrated to work seamlessly together, saving time and money in the process. An integrated inventory system using the latest in Kanban efficiency paradigms, plus easy reordering capabilities built-in. A feature-rich in-depth look at all the inner workings of your shop. Use to increase efficiency and impact the bottom line. Powerful system fully integrated into one easy-to-use web-based platform. Access it from your office, your hanger, or on the flight line. WBParts, Inc. values the trust that our customers place in us by letting us act as custodians of their data. Connections are encrypted using the latest security standards and best practices.
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BoltsEtAl
Scimulate LLC
BoltsEtAl identifies every hole in your 3D CAD assembly. Users can specify fastener configurations for each hole, after which the software automatically builds corresponding nuts, bolts, and washers. All parts are oriented and packaged neatly into one STEP file, eliminating manual part placement, and the newly-constructed bodies are automatically tallied in a Bill of Materials PDF, eliminating manual part counting. BoltsEtAl integrates with all major CAD programs.Starting Price: Varies by Organization Size -
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PathWave RFIC Design
Keysight Technologies
Go beyond traditional RF simulation to design, analyze, and verify radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Achieve confidence with steady-state and nonlinear solvers for design and verification. Wireless standard libraries accelerate the validation of complex RFICs. Before taping out an RFIC, verification of IC specifications via RF simulation is a must. Simulations include effects of layout parasitics, complex modulated signals, and digital control circuitry. With PathWave RFIC Design, you can simulate in both the frequency and time domain and bring your designs to and from Cadence Virtuoso. Accurately model components on silicon chips. Optimize designs with sweeps and load-pull analysis. Integrate RF designs in the Cadence Virtuoso environment. Increase performance using Monte Carlo and yield analysis. Simplify debugging with safe operating area warnings. Utilize the latest foundry technology immediately. -
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ReliaSoft
Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK)
ReliaSoft software provides a powerful range of reliability software solutions to facilitate a comprehensive set of reliability engineering modeling and analysis techniques. We are the leading reliability solution provider for product test, design, maintenance strategy and optimization. Our products support a wide range of reliability and maintainability analysis techniques, such as life data analysis, accelerated life testing, system modelling and RAM analysis, reliability growth, FRACAS, FMEA and RCM analysis to meet and improve reliability of your products, processes and optimize maintenance planning. -
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20-sim
20-sim
20-sim is a modeling and simulation software package for mechatronic systems. With 20-sim you can enter models graphically, similar to drawing an engineering scheme. With these models, you can simulate and analyze the behavior of multi-domain dynamic systems and create control systems. You can even generate C-code and run this code on hardware for rapid prototyping and HIL-simulation. 20-sim provides you with features that allow you to create models very quickly and intuitively. You can create models using equations, block diagrams, physics blocks and bond graphs. Various features help you to build your models, simulate them and analyze their performance. Models are built in the 20-sim editor. This editor contains a large model library with building blocks to help you to construct models. The model library contains many components such as block diagrams and bond graphs.Starting Price: €108 one-time payment -
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Ansys SCADE Architect
Ansys
Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers. It provides full support of industrial systems engineering processes, such as ARP 4754A, ISO 26262 and EN 50126. SCADE Architect features functional and architectural system modeling and verification in a SysML-based environment. Ansys SCADE Architect has been specifically developed for system engineers; the underlying SysML™ technology is hidden, making modeling more user-friendly and intuitive. Ansys tools support software development aligned to the FACE Technical Standard at both the model and generated code levels, providing users with an easy workflow that passes the FACE Conformance Test Suite (CTS), a necessary test process included in the FACE Technical Standard. -
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Keysight VEE
Keysight Technologies
VEE (W4000D) is an easy graphical programming tool with wide connectivity (GPIB, Serial, LAN) for automating test and measurement tasks in analysis and reporting. Keysight VEE Pro 9.33 is an easy-to-use graphical language environment that provides a quick path to measurement and analysis, replacing VEE Pro 9.3. Designed for easy expansion, flexibility and compatibility with the latest industry standards, Keysight VEE allows seamless operation with hardware and software from Keysight and other manufacturers. Keysight VEE Pro 9.33 now includes sample programs for the latest Keysight instruments. What’s more, programs that are developed in VEE Pro 9.2 work seamlessly in VEE Pro 9.33. VEE Pro 9.0, VEE Pro 9.2, VEE Pro 9.3 and VEE Pro 9.32 users can upgrade their VEE software to VEE Pro 9.33, at no additional cost. Existing VEE Education users cannot upgrade their old VEE Education versions (8.5 and below) to the new VEE Education 9.33, and must purchase VEE Education 9.33 directly. -
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Maple Flow
Maplesoft
Maple Flow is a mathematics tool that makes it easy for engineers to brainstorm, develop, and document their design calculations. Combining a simple, freeform interface with a comprehensive math engine, Maple Flow provides a whiteboard-style environment that automatically keeps calculations live as users refine, reposition, and develop their work. Do calculations, write documentation and easily refine your work in an environment that does not feel like a programming tool or a spreadsheet. Place math, text, images, or plots wherever you wish, and reposition your work with the mouse or keyboard – Maple Flow keeps everything organized behind the scenes. Maple Flow contains all the powerful features that technical professionals expect in a calculation tool, with fast solvers, built-in units tracking, flexible plots, and more. -
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PathWave EM Design
Keysight Technologies
Electromagnetic (EM) simulation brings you insight before physical prototyping. Customize EM simulations for speed and accuracy. Integrate EM analysis with your circuit simulations. EM simulations can take hours to run. Shorten your import and export time by integrating your EM simulation software with PathWave Circuit Design software. Integrate EM analysis with circuit simulations to maximize efficiency. 3D EM solid modeling environment for creating arbitrary 3D objects and importing existing 3D models from other CAD environments. Prerequisite for preparing a 3D geometry for 3DEM simulation by defining ports, boundary conditions and material properties. 3D EM solid modeling environment and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulator. Compliance testing for Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) and Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC). -
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PathWave RF Synthesis
Keysight Technologies
Analyze RF and microwave circuits and systems with fast simulation and powerful optimization tools. Explore performance trade-offs with automatic circuit synthesis technology. PathWave RF Synthesis (Genesys) provides entry-level functionality suitable for all RF and microwave circuit board and subsystem designers. Identify RF design errors missed by traditional spreadsheet calculations with PathWave Circuit Design. With this entry-level design environment — including circuit, system, and electromagnetic simulators — you will gain confidence in your design reviews before hardware realization. Just a few mouse clicks and you can watch as your matching network is synthesized and optimized automatically. Then, transfer the design to PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) for inclusion into a more complex design. -
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MotionBuilder
Autodesk
Capture, edit, and play back complex animations with MotionBuilder® 3D character animation software. Work in an interactive environment optimized to help you work faster and more efficiently without compromising creativity. Produce high-quality 3D character animations with prebuilt moves. Create realistic character movements using one of the industry's fastest animation tools. Fine-tune character animations with production-proven tools used to manipulate motion capture data. Included software development kit and FBX data exchange enable easy interoperability with other 3D applications. MotionBuilder software is available with a subscription only. We no longer sell perpetual licenses. Your MotionBuilder subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. With a subscription to MotionBuilder software, you can install it on up to 3 computers or other devices.Starting Price: $1,950 per year -
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PVCAD
PVComplete
For solar designers who want the highest standard of precision and accuracy. PVCAD delivers unparalleled efficiency so you can finalize designs and quote jobs faster. Selecting design criteria from PVCAD’s integrated databases not only saves time but reduces the risk of costly errors and omissions. We are constantly growing our database of thousands of different inverters, modules, and racking partners. Users can also add their own equipment using the database button in the PVCAD ribbon. Would you like to have your equipment added to our database? PVCAD uses production modeling powered by PVWATTS created by NREL. Accurate 8760 data gives hour-by-hour production data over the course of the entire year. We use the most up-to-date weather data available with global coverage provided by Meteonorm. Lastly, modeling in AutoCAD allows for the most precise system measurements available with any drafting software. With valuable resources at arm’s reach, designers can achieve expert results.Starting Price: $180 per month -
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SolarEdge Designer
SolarEdge
SolarEdge Designer is a free web-based platform that helps solar professionals like yourself lower PV design costs and generate winning customer proposals. plan, build and validate your SolarEdge residential and commercial systems from inception to installation with this powerful selling tool that can help you close more deals. Streamlined design process featuring many automatic procedures such as stringing, instant design validation, multiple obstacle detection and bulk Power Optimizer barcode mapping. Seamless export of the site layout to the SolarEdge Monitoring Platform. Offer compelling customer proposals with comprehensive reports and accurate energy simulations, independently evaluated by DNV GL. Leverage detailed financial analysis capabilities to accurately forecast system owners’ electricity bill savings and ROI. Impress your customers with a visually attractive 3D simulation of their site. -
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PVCAD Mega
PVComplete
Quickly complete site capacity layouts for utility-scale projects of any size using click-and-drag control and place tracker blocks at any angle within the project site. Perform more accurate site assessments in less time by analyzing all piers, verifying that trackers can be deployed to specification. Eliminate guesswork and see how modifying structural and electrical components affect system design and performance estimates. Generate automatic pier plans with pier locations, corresponding surface altitude, and top-of-pile reports for leading tracker systems, including Nextracker and Array Technologies. Automatically generate a PVSyst shade scene (.SHD) file. Also generates a project file (.PRJ) and meteo file (.MET). Open the files in PVSyst to model the energy yield including topography effects. Easily export your design to PVSyst for bankable energy yield modelling.Starting Price: $295 per month -
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Solargraf
Solargraf
Create detailed roles & permissions for everyone on your staff. From account owner to sales and even accounting, give everyone on your team custom access to the portions of the software they need and nothing they don’t. View all of your active projects whether new, in progress, or closed on a handy dashboard. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks with a live, bird’s eye view of everything happening in your account. Customize your proposals with your company color scheme, reorder or remove proposal sections, and add your logo and cover image to give your quotes a personal flair. Use our good, better, best feature to offer multiple product and pricing options to your clients on a single proposal for them to e-sign on the quote they like best. Get everything you need to apply for your permits and engage the homeowner like never before remotely by using our virtual site assessment feature.Starting Price: $229 per month -
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Sighten
Sighten
Sighten exists to support the people selling, financing, and installing solar every day. That’s why we love hearing about our customers growing faster or operating more efficiently because of Sighten design, proposal, and sales software. Grow your channel with the only solar software that has a dedicated solution for channel managers and multi-state teams. You’ll be able to see your entire deal pipeline in the same place and easily communicate with partners. Trying to operate without good software will leave you disorganized and will ultimately limit your reach and revenue. You’ll face obstacles with deal visibility, partner communication, and introducing financing to your channel unless you have a seamless platform.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Solar Pro
Laplace Systems
Simulation including the shadow influence by surrounding buildings and objects allows users to check optimal settings and module designs before system installation. The software calculates the I-V curve of solar modules accurately and quickly based on the electric characteristics of each manufacturer's product. The software calculates the amount of generated electricity based on the latitudes, longitudes, and weather conditions of the installation site. This leads to precise simulation results. The software determines the necessary components for installing PV system automatically based on the settings. Supports power generation simulation using half-cell modules. In addition, half-cell solar cells can be registered in the solar cell module database. -
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GeoT*SOL
Valentin Software
With GeoT*SOL you can simulate the heat pump system to the minute in order to determine annual performance figures (COP) and contribution margins. The systems can have other heat generators such as gas condensing boilers and solar systems. Movovalent, monoenergetic and bivalent modes of operation can be selected for operation. The annual performance factor according to VDI 4650 is an important factor for comparing plants according to their efficiency. It forms the basis for many funding measures and approval procedures. GeoT*SOL calculates the profitability according to the recommendation of the Federal Association of the Solar Industry (BSW) taking into account the funding: comparison of the costs of the heat pump system with a comparison system; capital value and production costs (heat price); modified internal rate of return (MIRR), profit taking into account the reinvestment. -
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InsightSUITE
First Insight
First Insight offers a next-gen decision platform that enables designers, merchants, brand managers, buyers, and marketing teams to answer the key questions they face every day by engaging consumers with digital surveys specifically designed for the retail industry. Retail leaders use First Insight’s digital testing platform (InsightSUITE) to enable growth by unlocking value from their target customers. Our solution collects zero-party, voice of customer data and combines it with AI to make financial goals a reality. Why First Insight? First Insight's digital engagement module lets you engage prospects, consumers, customers, and employees via a simple and immersive, browser-based user experience. This Voice of the Customer software gathers feedback via survey questions, sentiment ratings, valuations, and open comments. Enterprises can customize the engagement with their own branding, incentives, and links all within one integrated platform. -
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Collimator
Collimator
Collimator is a modeling and simulation platform for hybrid dynamical systems. We allow engineers to design and test complex, mission critical systems in a way that is reliable, secure, fast and intuitive. Our customers are electrical, mechanical and control systems engineers who are using Collimator to increase productivity, improve performance and collaborate more effectively. They do this using our out of the box features including an intuitive block diagram graphical editor, Python blocks to develop custom algorithms, Jupyter notebooks to parametrize and optimize their systems, high performance computing in the cloud and role based access controls. -
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Cintoo Cloud
Cintoo
If you are building, renovating, or managing your AEC or infrastructure assets using terrestrial laser scanning, Cintoo Cloud is your platform of choice to enhance all your scan-BIM workflows and make collaboration both easy and fast. Different stakeholders all have different objectives, resources, and technical knowledge. Cintoo Cloud makes it easy for you to share projects with your team, clients, or subcontractors, creating different permission levels to manage project access and what users can do online. Provide your internal teams and external stakeholders with the ability to collaborate and share the most up-to-date trustful data concerning the as-built condition of your project or asset.Starting Price: €90 per month -
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Fogwing IIoT Platform
Factana Computing
Fogwing is the next generation Industrial IoT platform engineered with features to build IoT Solutions for various industrial use cases; from industrial equipment monitoring, asset tracking, equipment condition monitoring to predictive maintenance. Users can build and deploy IoT based automation solutions without deep information technology expertise. The extended data analytics provides data driven analytical processes to predict operational risks and actions at lower TCO!Starting Price: $12 -
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Hologress META-TAILOR
Hologress
With META-TAILOR, You can dress 3D characters the way you dress. Naturally, layer and style clothes to make game-ready outfits. Build outfits using our expansive clothing library. Combine hundreds of high-quality 3D clothes. With more added all the time. You can also import your own clothes obj. Craft game-ready 3D outfits in a way that is familiar and natural. Enjoy unlimited exports from our clothing library. Import characters from popular 3D platforms. Enjoy game-ready topology. Standard on all of our clothes. Skip straight to animation, with automatic skin weights. New features, updates, and 3D clothes are added all the time. Transfer characters to target platforms in just a few clicks. Clean, game-ready, low poly mesh topology. Animation ready with auto-skin weighs generation. Its sucks when you're trying to create something great, only to be delayed by overly technical workflows. META-TAILOR takes the time & difficulty out of putting fitted clothes onto real-time 3D characters.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment
