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QCAD
Ribbonsoft
QCAD is a free, open-source application for computer-aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schematics and diagrams. QCAD works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The source code of QCAD is released under the GPL version 3 (GPLv3), a popular Open Source license. QCAD was designed with modularity, extensibility and portability in mind. But what people notice most often about QCAD is its intuitive user interface. QCAD is an easy-to-use but powerful 2D CAD system for everyone. You don't need any CAD experience to get started with QCAD immediately. Construction and modification of points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, and raster images. Very complete and extremely powerful ECMAScript (JavaScript) scripting interface. Various powerful entity selection tools.Starting Price: $39.92 one-time payment -
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Lumada IIoT
Hitachi
Embed sensors for IoT use cases and enrich sensor data with control system and environment data. Integrate this in real time with enterprise data and deploy predictive algorithms to discover new insights and harvest your data for meaningful use. Use analytics to predict maintenance problems, understand asset utilization, reduce defects and optimize processes. Harness the power of connected devices to deliver remote monitoring and diagnostics services. Employ IoT Analytics to predict safety hazards and comply with regulations to reduce worksite accidents. Lumada Data Integration: Rapidly build and deploy data pipelines at scale. Integrate data from lakes, warehouses and devices, and orchestrate data flows across all environments. By building ecosystems with customers and business partners in various business areas, we can accelerate digital innovation to create new value for a new society. -
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Alibre Design
Alibre
Alibre Design is a 3D modeling, analysis, manufacturing documentation, rendering, and publishing platform. It is used in every industry to take products from idea to revision to production. It can help your business to design everything from consumer products to wind turbines. An efficient and customizable user interface that lets you work like you want with helpful hints. A fast and precise sketching environment that captures design intent and makes changes easy. Robust and fully parametric 3D modeling tools and easy workflows speed up part creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. An automatically generated bill of materials that supports design data, physical properties, and dimensions. -
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Cupix
Cupix
Cupix is the trusted partner of choice for delivering the industry’s most flexible and easiest-to-deploy 3D digital twin platform to builders and owners everywhere. Capture your Jobsite in 3D with our simple-to-use mobile app while controlling a 360 camera. Then collaborate by sharing a variety of information related to the built-world lifecycle. All through a single platform. The industry's most advanced 3D digital twin platform is based on data captured from any source, anywhere, any time. Import any form of point cloud data into our unified 3D digital twin platform, including terrestrial and hand-held LiDAR scanners, drone photogrammetry, robots, and custom-built reality capture systems. Keep your team productive. Cupix 3D Digital Twins enable you to virtually inspect, annotate, and take measurements for any project, from the safety of your home. Catch and resolve costly mistakes before they happen. -
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12d Model
12d Solutions
12d Model is a powerful terrain modelling, surveying and civil engineering software package. Using 12d Model's screen menus and fast interactive graphics, the user effortlessly moves through a design. With 12d Model's powerful design capabilities, difficult surveying and civil design tasks can be easily visualized and completed. 12d Model includes a powerful programming language, which allows users to build their own options, from the extensive 12d Model programming library. 12d Model has been specifically designed for easy use. It is ideal for use at all stages of projects, and is particularly useful for large route selection and corridor studies. 12d Model is an essential tool in today's fiercely competitive business climate. 12d Model’s design option is the smarter solution for the design, modification and maintenance of Road and Highway projects. Enjoy advanced 3D tools to design local and major roads, intersections, roundabouts, highways, interchanges and much more. -
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SmartPlant
Hexagon PPM
Keeping engineering information current and accessible throughout the lifecycle is challenging, but SmartPlant® Foundation (SPF) is a proven custom solution for plant information management. It ensures secure access to plant information, including engineering designs, vendor data, RFQs, specification sheets and all other relevant documents. With SPF, users are enabled to make rapid and accurate design and operational decisions from large and complex data sets during the entire plant lifecycle. SmartPlant® Foundation, the Hexagon PPM total solution for plant information management, ensures secure access to plant information, including engineering designs, vendor data, purchase orders, RFQs, specification sheets, and all ancillary documents to support the plant lifecycle. SmartPlant Foundation enables the user to make rapid and accurate design and operational decisions from large and complex data sets. -
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Ansys Mechanical
Ansys
Ansys Mechanical is a best-in-class finite element solver with structural, thermal, acoustics, transient and nonlinear capabilities to improve your modeling. Ansys Mechanical enables you to solve complex structural engineering problems and make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) solvers available in the suite, you can customize and automate solutions for your structural mechanics problems and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Ansys Mechanical is a dynamic tool that has a complete range of analysis tools. Ansys Mechanical offers a dynamic environment with a complete range of analysis tools, from preparing geometry for analysis to connecting additional physics for even greater fidelity. The intuitive and customizable user interface enables engineers of all levels to get answers fast and with confidence. Ansys Mechanical creates an integrated platform that uses finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis. -
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GT STRUDL
Hexagon PPM
GT STRUDL® is structural engineering software offering a complete design solution, including 3D CAD modeling and 64-bit high-performance computation solvers into all versions. GT STRUDL includes all the tools necessary to analyze a broad range of structural engineering and finite element analysis problems, including linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, and can do so accurately in a fraction of the time of most other structural design software. Structural design software helps structural engineers create safe and effective designs, while managing the complexity of many different scenarios across a range of industries, including power, civil engineering, marine and infrastructure. Quality software includes many features, such as interoperability, structural analysis, database-driven design and quality assurance - all of which are included in GT STRUDL. -
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Tebis
Tebis
Tebis is a leading global provider of CAD / CAM and MES software and process solutions for the manufacturing industry. Tebis provides technology solutions for the manufacturing industry that improve efficiency, drive quality and produce better products. There is no problem that Tebis can’t solve. Our solutions deliver an immediate impact on product performance and long-term improvements in efficiency and reliability. We help company’s address today’s challenges while enabling tomorrow’s technologies. For your design and manufacturing, manufacturing planning and manufacturing documents. Tebis 4.1 is a complete parametric-associative CAD/CAM system with which all tasks in manufacturing preparation, design and CAM programming can be performed seamlessly in highly automated processing in a single system. Customers use the Tebis Browser – our free 3D data viewer for Tebis CAD model files– for communication within their companies and with suppliers. -
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Kozikaza
Kozikaza
Because building or renovating a home can become a real obstacle course if you don’t have the right support and advice. Since this happened to us, we wanted to pool our common experiences with this community site, Kozikaza, and include other experiences in the world of home creating. With Kozikaza, you have advice and ideas from other users at your fingertips. We aim to simplify all your projects for your home and put community, advice, and location to work in this area. In this adventure, we are joined by our partner ADEO, and an ever-growing community of home experts like you and us! Our architecture software helps you easily design your 3D home plans. It’s exterior architecture software for drawing scaled 2D plans of your home, in addition to 3D layout, decoration and interior architecture. In just a few minutes, you’ll have a virtual 3D home and can transform, arrange, and decorate it to your heart’s content with our 3D home plan software! -
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DesignSpark PCB
DesignSpark
Our free DesignSpark PCB is here to help your company explore more design options, leading to increased innovation. At the core of this unique software is a powerful software engine that enables you to capture schematics and design PCB boards and layouts. Our range of free-of-charge design tools and resources take your brightest ideas all the way through to final production. Whether you're looking for a design alone tool, a range of technical information, a complete design ecosystem, our complete suite can be integrated seamlessly into your existing design workflow. Be free when creating your schematic, there is no limitation on your schematic size or number of your schematic sheets. Feel free to use as many layers as you need on your next PCB design. There are no limits on the maximum number of nodes or pads and no restriction on the number of connections. The maximum size your PCB can be is 1m X 1m. -
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TraceParts
TraceParts
TraceParts is a leading 3D digital content provider for engineering, design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes & operations. TraceParts offers digital marketing services to help part vendors, 3D printing suppliers, software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads. Publish your products on the TraceParts CAD-content platform and the TraceParts Publishing Network, its affiliated network of partners’ sites and applications. Seamlessly integrate 3D content hosted and managed by TraceParts into your own website, using very rich and fully documented TraceParts API. Create your own user experience to browse, configure, view in 3D and download CAD models in 60+ different formats, using TraceParts Web Services. Create your custom mobile application for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. -
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GOM Inspect
GOM
GOM Inspect is a software for analyzing 3D measuring data from fringe projection or laser scanners, coordinate measurement machines (CMM) and other measuring systems. The GOM software is used in product development, quality control and production. Import of CAD data, measurement plans and 3D point clouds, creation and editing of polygon meshes. Alignment of measuring data to nominal data, dimensional analysis (2D, 3D, GD&T, SPC) and creation of measuring reports. GOM Inspect is a free viewer for 3D scan data, measuring reports and CAD data. If the CAD or single elements change, the measurement positions are automatically updated with “Smart Teach”. If a defect is detected by several tools, the found defects can be merged into one representation. With a new module, sheet metal and injection-molded parts can be virtually clamped and thus measured without complex clamping devices. -
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VisualSFM
VisualSFM
VisualSFM is a GUI application for 3D reconstruction using structure from motion (SFM). The reconstruction system integrates several of my previous projects: SIFT on GPU(SiftGPU), Multicore Bundle Adjustment, and Towards Linear-time Incremental Structure from Motion. VisualSFM runs fast by exploiting multicore parallelism for feature detection, feature matching, and bundle adjustment. For dense reconstruction, this program integrates the execution of Yasutaka Furukawa's PMVS/CMVS tool chain. -
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ProtaStructure
Prota Software
ProtaStructure is an innovative structural BIM solution for structural engineers to model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately. From one central model easily compare different schemes and automate your steel and concrete design, reducing design time and increasing project profitability. Use advanced integrated features including grouped member design, 3D FE Analysis, staged construction and seismic design, foundations and punching shear checks to quickly produce results. Handle changes with ease and seamlessly coordinate projects with architects, owners and other stakeholders with intelligent BIM integration. Save time and increase project profits with ProtaStructure. -
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PYTHA 3D CAD
PYTHA
From concept to completion PYTHA 3D CAD is one of the leading 3D CAD systems for woodworking and furniture design. From planning to presentation and production, PYTHA 3D CAD has unprecedented flexibility that delivers excellent results every time. With the highly intuitive user interface, our clients learn how to operate the system in short time frames. Our clients learn how to operate PYTHA with ease and at their own pace. Experience the competitive advantage our clients enjoy, when using PYTHA 3D CAD! PYTHA 3D CAD is the first choice for woodworkers who need powerful, intuitive software. Whether it be for planning high-end bedrooms, simple wardrobes, or luxury range kitchens, PYTHA can fulfill any task! Customers use PYTHA for commercial joinery, contract furniture, and highly detailed bespoke joinery. 2D and 3D construction within one system. Easy and intuitive meaning a fast learning curve. -
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Simufact Welding
Hexagon
Simufact Welding is a modular product line, which offers comprehensive functionality for modeling the elastic-plastic behavior of materials and structural welding simulation. The software covers different welding processes. Simufact Welding is designed for modeling and simulation of a wide range of thermal joining processes by means of structural welding simulation including usual arc and beam welding processes as well as brazing. Additionally, Simufact Welding provides possibilities to model heat treatment processes, variations of cooling and unclamping setups as well as mechanical loading of welded structures. Identify critical distortions, i.e. with respect to assembly, bulging, imbalances, and clearances. Investigate and optimize clamping tools even before an investment in tools has been made. Identify optimal welding directions and welding sequences. -
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Spacesium
Spacesium
Everyone can benefit from location intelligence, mapping, and analysis. Using interactive maps, the Online component of the Spacesium Geospatial Cloud enables you to link places and data. Utilize logical analysis tools and clever, data-driven methods to give location intelligence. Share your knowledge with the entire world or a particular community. Create exploratory interactive maps that help users understand your data. By incorporating the reliable location-based data offered by Spacesium Online, you may map your own data and gain insight. To assist with data exploration and visualization, use smart mapping. Share your maps with the public or with particular organizations. Develop web apps using your maps for a concentrated, engaging experience. Then either integrate the program into your ecosystem or have us create a unique mapping program for you.Starting Price: $99 -
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MESA
Sercel
MESA is a leading-edge software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for optimizing onshore, offshore, and transition zone survey design and planning. Data acquisition is the foundation of the seismic lifecycle. It is critical that accurate decisions are made from the start of the acquisition design process. Flexible and robust survey design tools are needed to accurately analyze the imaging objectives of a seismic project. MESA software addresses those needs for both land and marine projects by streamlining the survey design and planning process. Field-proven on land, towed streamer, and OBS survey designs; including multi-component and VSP surveys. -
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Reliability Workbench
Isograph
Fully integrated reliability and safety software for the professional. Reliability block diagram analysis Fault tree, common cause and importance analysis Event tree analysis with multiple risk categories Markov analysis including multi-phase modelling Link hazard logs and requirements to RBD or fault tree verification models Multiple standards support for system analysis including ARP 4761, IEC 61508, ISO 26262 Predict the reliability of electronic and mechanical components using MIL-217, Quanterion 217 Plus, SN29500, IEC 61709, FIDES, Telcordia TR/SR, IEC TR 62380, GJB299C and NSWC FMEA and FMECA to standards such as MIL-STD-1629A, BS 5760 Part 5, GJB 1391-92, AIAG & VDA, SAE J1739, ARP5580 Link to Requirements Management tools such as Jama Connect® Our software has been in continuous development since the 1980s and is the recognized standard for safety and reliability professionals. -
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Platforma
MiLaboratories
Platforma is a no-code bioinformatics software that converts raw next-generation sequencing (NGS) data into insights. It offers a user-friendly interface with modular, no-code "blocks" for complex analysis tasks like immune repertoire, single-cell, and gene expression data. Building on the legacy of its predecessor, MiXCR, Platforma also enables AI-powered selection for antibody/TCR candidates. The platform is designed to be accessible to scientists without a bioinformatics background, allowing for scientists to take control of their own discoveries and reduce time to insight. -
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Masterplan ERP
Masterplan ERP Inc.
Masterplan helps you run efficiently by integrating every facet of your business. Dig deep into your data and find the secrets to your company’s successes and discover ways to drive growth. -
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IBM Maximo® Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. Get the most value from your enterprise assets with Maximo Application Suite. It’s a single, integrated cloud-based platform that uses AI, IoT and analytics to optimize performance, extend asset lifecycles and reduce operational downtime and costs. With market-leading technology from IBM Maximo, you’ll have access to configurable CMMS, EAM, APM and RCM applications, along with streamlined installation and administration, plus a better user experience with shared data and workflows. Manage and maintain high-value assets with AI and analytics to optimize performance, extend asset lifecycles and reduce downtime and costs. Streamline inspection processes with seamless, automated asset inspections driven by real-time data and artificial intelligence.
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Gannet
Lundin Software
Register flight hours, cycles and special counters. Optionally register fuel consumption, leg times and pax. View status of aircraft counters. View reports with journey data. Create and maintain maintenance programs and revisions. Create maintenance tasks and set applicability for aircrafts or components. Specify task required parts and tools. Synchronize differences in different versions of maintenance programs. View task history. Enter task history. Create checks and packages. Define check applicability. Register airworthiness documents and archive them electronically. Set applicability from components or aircrafts. Define limits or repeat intervals. Cross reference between documents. Copy applicability between documents. See a list of handed in components with possible applicability. Control revisions of documents. See who registered, analyzed or double checked a document. See due status for a document vs. components or aircrafts. -
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Scilab
Scilab Enterprises
Numerical analysis or Scientific computing is the study of approximation techniques for numerically solving mathematical problems. Scilab provides graphics functions to visualize, annotate and export data and offers many ways to create and customize various types of plots and charts. Scilab is a high level programming language for scientific programming. It enables a rapid prototyping of algorithms, without having to deal with the complexity of other more low level programming language such as C and Fortran (memory management, variable definition). This is natively handled by Scilab, which results in a few lines of code for complex mathematical operations, where other languages would require much longer codes. It also comes with advanced data structure such as polynomials, matrices and graphic handles and provides an easily operable development environment. -
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COMSOL Multiphysics
Comsol Group
Simulate real-world designs, devices, and processes with multiphysics software from COMSOL. General-purpose simulation software based on advanced numerical methods. Fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. Complete modeling workflow, from geometry to postprocessing. User-friendly tools for building and deploying simulation apps. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. Create physics-based models and simulation applications with this software platform. -
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CATIA
Dassault Systèmes
CATIA is the world's leading solution for product design and experience. It is used by leading organizations in multiple industries to develop the products we see and use in our everyday lives. CATIA delivers the unique ability not only to model any product, but to do so in the context of its real-life behavior: design in the age of experience. Systems architects, engineers, designers, construction professionals and all contributors can define, imagine and shape the connected world. A Social design environment built on a single source of truth and accessed through powerful 3D dashboards that drive business intelligence, real-time concurrent design and collaboration across all stakeholders including mobile workers. An Instinctive 3DEXPERIENCE for both experienced and occasional users with world-class 3D modeling and simulation capabilities that optimize the effectiveness of every user. An Inclusive product development platform that is easily integrated with existing processes & tools. -
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Teamcenter
Siemens
Teamcenter® software is a modern, adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) system that connects people and processes, across functional silos, with a digital thread for innovation. The unmatched breadth and depth of the Teamcenter portfolio mean that you can solve more of the tough challenges required to develop highly successful products. From the easy, intuitive Teamcenter user interface, people across the organization can take part in the product development process more easily than ever before. No matter how you choose to deploy Teamcenter – whether it be on-premises, on-cloud, or SaaS delivered via Teamcenter X – you get the same proven solutions designed to help you innovate faster. Get started with Teamcenter by taking control of product data and processes, including 3D designs, electronics, embedded software, documentation, and your bill of materials (BOM). Reach greater returns on your PLM system by leveraging your product information across more domains and departments. -
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FreeCAD
FreeCAD
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. It reads and writes to many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others, making it possible to seamlessly integrate it into your workflow. FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD. -
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DesignSpark Mechanical
RS Components
We aim to give every engineer the power to quickly design and change product concepts in 3D without having to learn complex traditional CAD software. Our range of free-of-charge design tools and resources take your brightest ideas all the way through to final production. Whether you're looking for a design alone tool, a range of technical information, a complete design ecosystem, our complete suite can be integrated seamlessly into your existing design workflow. Import or save 3D models from variety of suppliers in the RSDOC format for use in your existing DesignSpark Mechanical design projects and speed up your design process. Create a BoM instantly at the click of a button and get quotes with live price & stock information through the RS online or Allied Electronics websites. This service is provided in partnership with TraceParts S.A. who are a premier supplier of 3D digital content for engineering applications.
