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AutoCAD Architecture
Autodesk
Speed up architectural design and drafting with an industry-specific toolset that includes 8,500+ intelligent objects and styles. Design and produce renovations more quickly. Create documents and drawings using elements with real-world behavior and construction. Create with detail components and keynoting tools. AutoCAD® 2022 software includes industry-specific toolsets, an improved connected experience across platforms and Autodesk products, and new automations such as Count. Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing. Send a controlled copy of your drawing to teammates and colleagues to access wherever they are. Pull away drawing windows to display side by side or on multiple monitors, in the same instance of AutoCAD. Experience faster performance, including when plotting and for 3D graphics. Push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs to Autodesk Docs from AutoCAD.Starting Price: $220 per month -
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Cut2D
Vectric
Vectric’s Cut2D software is an intuitive, powerful tool designed for 2D CNC routing, milling, and engraving projects. It allows users to create and edit vector designs easily, producing toolpaths for profiles, pockets, drills, and inlays. The Desktop edition suits small CNC machines up to 24”x24”, ideal for hobbyists or small shops, while the Pro edition supports unlimited job sizes and advanced features like true shape nesting and job setup sheets for production environments. Cut2D offers extensive drawing, editing, and vectorization tools, including bitmap import and image tracing, enabling detailed and precise design work. The software integrates real-time 3D toolpath previews to ensure accuracy and optimize cutting before machining. Vectric’s tool database, job sheets, and post-processor management simplify CNC workflow and increase productivity.Starting Price: $449 one-time payment -
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Vectorworks Designer
Vectorworks
Built on Vectorworks Fundamentals, Designer has all the design and BIM capabilities of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, and Spotlight. It’s the most cost-effective way to get the entire suite of Vectorworks technology in one, easy-to-use software interface. Easily create and document any design you can imagine. Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow. The industry-leading design software for the entertainment business. The all-in-one solution for landscape design and planning. Your relationship with us doesn't end when you install the software. We’ll help you get up and running fast with online, classroom, or onsite training. Or, learn at your own pace with our online getting started guides and webinars, video tech tips, and community board. And, if you ever get stuck, we’re here to help with free technical support.Starting Price: $198 per month -
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Vectorworks Vision
Vectorworks
The seamless integration between Vectorworks Spotlight and Vision allows you to create design documents, automate paperwork, and visualize your design in rendered 3D views. When you’re done, easily send fixture and model information directly to Vision to previsualize, program, and cue your show. Vision puts the power to previsualize and cue your show at your fingertips. Available for both Mac and PC operating systems, this intuitive software works with your console and equips you to design creatively and efficiently. You will save time and money by previsualizing what your rig can do without needing to travel to the venue or having your crew stand by. Go beyond the ordinary with flexible Vision tools that allow you to customize colors, gobos, lenses, shutters, or any other fixture parameter. Tap into comprehensive fixture libraries that equip you to work more effectively than ever.Starting Price: $1,600 one-time payment -
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ConnectCAD
Vectorworks
ConnectCAD is built on Vectorworks Spotlight, you can take advantage of the flexible and robust design and documentation capabilities that make Spotlight the industry standard. With an extensive manufacturer library and a customizable 2D/3D hybrid environment, rest assured you have everything you need to design with confidence. Use ConnectCAD to work seamlessly not only with the rest of your team, but with event planners and other project stakeholders as well. Collaboration has never been easier.Starting Price: $153 per month -
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Build and assemble 3D scenes in this intuitive staging tool. Set up assets, materials, lights, and cameras. Export and share media, from images to web and AR experiences. Substance 3D Stager lets you make creative decisions in context. Refine and adjust your composition in real time. Visualize and edit advanced materials with complex lighting and shadows. Build your realistic 3D scenes with quick and efficient smart tools. Block out shapes, snap elements, activate physics to avoid collisions between models, and generate simple lights. Stager comes with models, materials, and lights to get started. Or explore and use the thousands of high-end assets made by our 3D experts and included with your Substance 3D Collection plan. Enhance your lighting with the environment light editor or add physical 3D lights to your scene for advanced lighting design.Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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Easily import a reference photo and transform it into a high-quality 3D material with features powered by Adobe Sensei. Closely match the original real-life surface and create seamless tileable materials from your captures. Combine multiple materials and parametric filters to create more advanced surfaces. Access thousands of materials on Substance 3D Assets and Substance 3D Community Assets. The possibilities are endless. Drag and drop your image, add a couple of prebuilt filters, and voila — a library of one-click generators, filters, and effects lets you quickly experiment and get results in just a few clicks. Send your assets directly to Substance 3D Painter and Stager. Use your content anywhere. Send your assets directly to Painter and Stager, or use them in your favorite 3D applications.Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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PlanStudio
Locatrix
PlanStudio® allows users to draft, edit, view and add to spatially accurate floorplans. Easy Push button evacuation sign publishing and secure online cloud repository with the automatic upload. Compliant with all relevant Australian legislation and standards. Full suite of drafting tools Compatible with iOS, Mac and Windows. No loss of data thanks to a cloud-based repository of building floor-plans and emergency installation data. Push-button publishing of finished evacuation signs. A simpler way to create evacuation signs and diagrams that will satisfy your client’s requirements. Captures data for all relevant fire and safety installations, including exit signage, extinguishers, hose reels, fire blankets and more. Every commercial building needs evacuation signs. Prior to this software, draftsmen could create a maximum of 15 evacuation signs per day. With PlanStudio®, evacuation signs can be created accurately and efficiently.Starting Price: $40 per sign -
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VeriStand
National Instruments
VeriStand application software helps you configure I/O channels, data logging, stimulus generation, and host communication for NI real-time hardware. You can also import simulation models and control algorithms, respond to events with configurable alarms, and enable test automation with macro recording, TestStand, .NET, and other software. You can interact with and monitor application data, alarm states, and system execution metrics using a run-time editable user interface. Although you don't need programming knowledge, you can also use a variety of software environments such as LabVIEW, ANSI C/C++, Python, and ASAM XIL to add custom functionality to VeriStand. VeriStand helps test engineers reduce the time they need to test their products with a wide range of functionality including configurable data acquisition, simulation model integration, test sequencing, and logging. Learn more about how you can use VeriStand to develop, deploy, and run your real-time tests.Starting Price: $2,065 per year -
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System Composer
MathWorks
System Composer™ enables the specification and analysis of architectures for model-based systems engineering and software architecture modeling. With System Composer, you allocate requirements while refining an architecture model that can then be designed and simulated in Simulink®. Architecture models consisting of components and interfaces can be authored directly, imported from other tools, or populated from the architectural elements of Simulink designs. You can describe your system using multiple architecture models and establish direct relationships between them via model-to-model allocations. Behaviors can be captured in sequence diagrams, state charts, or Simulink models. You can define and simulate the execution order of component functions and generate code from your software architecture models (with Simulink and Embedded Coder®).Starting Price: $740 per year -
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Formit
Autodesk
FormIt Pro is available only in the architecture, engineering & construction collection. FormIt is an intuitive 3D sketching tool for the conceptual design phase. Design anywhere, anytime within a simple and powerful design environment. Make informed design decisions with site context, solar impact, and energy analysis. Connect conceptual designs to BIM workflows with native Revit integration. The pro version of FormIt includes the tools in the FormIt app, plus Dynamo computation, and collaboration and analysis features. Get improved interoperability between FormIt Pro and Revit. Directly import FormIt files into Revit projects. Create roundtrip workflows for greater design exploration with more intuitive modeling capabilities of FormIt. Toggle between early and later design phases with smoother workflows that enable 3D sketching and more detailed documentation work.Starting Price: $390 per month -
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HelioScope
Folsom Labs
A web-based sales and design tool for solar professionals with the power to completely reshape your proposal generation process. From its robust 3D design engine and bankable energy yield simulator to its detailed financial calculator and drag-and-drop proposal editor; HelioScope makes responding to customer requests fast, easy, and bankable. We provide 3D design, rapid proposals, bankable simulations, unlimited designs, live support, single line diagrams, automatic cad export, one-click sharing, up to 5mw systems, 45,000 component library and global weather coverage and pan file support.Starting Price: $79 per month -
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PV*SOL
PV*SOL
PV*SOL offers the most detailed configuration and shade analysis for PV systems. Calculate solar output, panel sizing and economic forecasting for your system. Make better design decisions based on intelligent simulation models of your pv solar system. Help clients and partners understand the specifics of their solar installation with appealing professional reports. Incorporate financial incentives and complex tariff structures resulting in better financial planning. Get the best results with our flagship product using 3D technology for precise and realistic PV system design. Our industry-leading software is the ideal tool for fast and reliable PV system design. Get a sneak-peek into our solar calculation and PV power output software with the free online version of PV*SOL.Starting Price: €895 one-time payment -
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Aircada Pro
Aircada
Aircada Pro makes it easy to create augmented reality HMIs and overlay existing SCADA data above each piece of equipment. Workers can harness their phone’s camera to view their data in real-time, gaining access to each of the machines’ schematics, historical data, analytics, and more. Aircada Pro offers several features including: -Live in the field data monitoring. -Augmented reality tasks and work orders. -Alarms for fast response troubleshooting. -Facility map to search and locate all assets. -Messenger for efficient team communication. -Customizable virtual reality SCADA displays. With Aircada Pro and augmented reality, maintenance teams will now have all the information they need, live in the field, to safely, quickly, and enjoyably get the job done.Starting Price: $89/month/user -
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visTABLE
plavis
By using visTABLE® software, you can visualize the entire process. In manufacturing, value stream mapping helps identify waste by analyzing each step of material handling. The software allows to map the current state, apply lean principles to define the future state and to reduce the effort spent on non-value-adding processes. Improvement backed by VSM has never been easier. Lean thrives on visualization and transparency. Gain key figures about the current state. Based on the method of value stream mapping, the software helps to perform a logistics-oriented value stream analysis. Capture all of your value streams according to the line-back principle. The display of the map is automatic. If you add or remove processes or change transports, your VSM automatically adapts and maintains the optimal display. Provide your management with key figures on flow, value-adding processes and inventories.Starting Price: €249 per user per month -
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Cable High Voltage
Electrotechnik
Electrotechnik introduces Cabe High Voltage software for easy and accurate cable-rating calculation. A wide range of insulation conditions gets covered In Air and Groups in Air, Direct Buried or In-Ducts, Bonding Arrangements and Buried in Thermal Backfill. Custom cables get modelled from data sheets using the graphical cable model editor. There is a vast database of pre-modelled tables. The cable bonding arrangements get changed between solid with or without regular transition. In the transient module, you can determine the emergency and cyclic rating of single-core and multi-core circuits. The CHV software has modules to calculate short-circuit rating and magnetic fields intensity. Comprehensive directive PDF reports can get easily generated. We offer technical support from our experienced engineers at every step.Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license -
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SPACE GASS
SPACE GASS
SPACE GASS is a multi-purpose 3D analysis and design program for structural engineers. Its extensive range of features make it suitable for anything from beams, trusses and frames to buildings, towers, tanks, cable structures and bridges. Capabilities include a 64-bit multi-core solver, silky smooth 3D rendered graphics, plate finite elements, frame elements, cable elements, tension/compression-only elements, moving loads and links to many CAD and building management programs. Why SPACE GASS Save time, money, and get a safe and efficient design. Silky smooth graphical interface that lets you see your changes visually as you go. A fast sparse matrix solver that fully utilizes the parallel processing power of multi-core computers. A wide range of structural modeling tools, analysis options and design modules. Comprehensive video tutorials to walk you through some of the tricky stuff. Configurable for stand-alone or floating network systems.Starting Price: $600 per month -
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Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Sterison Technology
The next digitalization era is here. Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT) involves collecting and analyzing sensor-generated data to support equipment monitoring and maintenance, production process analytics and control, and more… -Industrial smart, connected products -Equipment utilization monitoring -Real-time industrial asset tracking and management -Connected supply chain management -Predictive maintenance -Production quality control -Defects Analysis System -Inventory management -Employee monitoring We guarantee a smooth transition towards Industry 4.0, by ensuring the step-by-step transformation of every segment of the supply and production chain. Sterison can develop a cost-effective IIoT software from scratch, using Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud services or open-source IoT platforms enabling sensor data collection and analytics, IIoT device connectivity, control and management.Starting Price: $5/Month/Signal -
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SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D is a powerful woodworking design software built by woodworkers, for woodworkers. Frustrated with traditional CAD tools, its founder launched SketchList nearly 15 years ago to simplify cabinet and furniture design. With intuitive 3D modeling, smart joinery tools, and a growing global user base of nearly 7,000, SketchList 3D empowers users to create precise, professional-grade designs with ease. Endorsed by Rockler Woodworking since 2007 and consistently top-rated, it’s the go-to solution for serious hobbyists and professionals alike.Starting Price: $79.99/month -
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AUGmentecture
AUGmentecture
A Patent Pending augmented reality communication and collaboration tool for architectural, engineering, and construction industries. AUGmentecture is an augmented reality platform for design collaboration that enables the viewing of 3D models in augmented reality (AR) format. Over 10,000 users and over 500,000 models viewed, AUGmentecture is the only augmented reality application that is effortless, rapid in converting models, and consistent in the market. One of the leading applications in the AR space, the AUGmentecture app is rated as the highest start in the Autodesk App Store as well as Android and iOS stores. Architects, engineers, and design professionals are using the AUGmentecture platform to display their 3D models in augmented reality on mobile devices and share them with colleagues. Our goal is to make augmented reality a day to day design communication and collaboration tool for architects, designers, and artists to simply Design, Upload, and View their models onStarting Price: $15/month/user -
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BEXEL Manager
BEXEL Manager
The innovative cloud-based, cross-project and cross-version data collection and analytics business intelligence solution for construction portfolio management. BEXEL Manager includes design and data review and analysis, quantity take-offs, clash detection, cost estimations, change management, value engineering, schedule management and facility management. Platform is optimized for manage colossal projects and integrate hundreds of files. With BEXEL Common Data Environment change or track changes, share or merge all your team work to one federated model, assign permissions and rights, do all advanced analysis and collaborate smoothly in an openBIM environment. BEXEL Manager is based on 3D Building Information Modeling and VDC technologies.Starting Price: $560 per year -
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InfiConnector
Infilock Inc.
A middleware that is installed on a range of gateways and connects equipment to InfiIoT and popular Internet of Things(IoT) or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) clouds. It securely connects various devices (e.g., PV panels, battery energy storage, HVACs, EV stations, compressors, and boilers) through industrial protocols (Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet) and cellular networks (LTE and 5G). InfiConnector is configurable from cloud services to collect data from devices and sensors and prepare data for data analysis and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cloud applications. InfiConnector provides a code-less edge computing and rule engine interface that configures any machine to machine, diagnostic, alerting, and log management services in a few minutes. The light middleware requires 512MB RAM, 1 core CPU, and 16GB disk. It is compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 and upper.Starting Price: $10/month/license -
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InfiIoT
Infilock Inc.
A highly secure and scalable Industrial IoT (IIoT) SaaS based on blockchain. InfiIoT has been hosted in the cloud and provides services over the Internet. All industrial and commercial customers can connect equipment regardless of their geographical location to the SaaS and monitor and control equipment over the internet in real-time very securely thanks to the blockchain. Data is encrypted during transmission and stored in immune chains of data that are highly resistant to cyberattacks. Furthermore, all signal commands are verified by multiple synchronized smart contracts to protect expensive equipment from cyberattacks. Moreover, InfiIoT provides a code-less Artificial intelligence (AI) engine for designing any data processing flow in a few minutes. Some applications are predictive maintenance, digital twin, energy and sustainability management, distributed energy resources management (e.g., Photovoltaic, battery energy storage, wind turbines), HVAC systems, EV charging, BMS/BAS.Starting Price: $25/month -
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Fatigue Essentials
AppliedCAx
Fatigue Essentials is a desktop application used to efficiently conduct structural fatigue analysis. Fatigue Essentials provides a user-friendly tool for conducting stress-life analysis either using classical stress calculations or linked with FEMAP™ and using the finite element generated stresses. The program is structured to guide the user through the analysis by following a tree structure. General analysis options are selected following loads, materials, and spectrum branches. Within each branch are options for analysis variations or input methods. Analysis results are available on-screen to paste into a report and/or as a damage contour plot in FEMAP. Covers most engineering requirements. Classic mode with user input stresses. Professional mode (FEMAP-linked) with the ability to read nodal stresses and push back results in a damage contour plot. Option for either interactive input or file input for stresses and cycles.Starting Price: $695 one-time payment -
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Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)
Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)
Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS) develops advanced and intuitive CAD software for foundation analysis & design. GEMS foundation analysis suite employs finite element modeling techniques for analysis & design of shallow and deep foundations. The foundation analysis suite includes modules for analyzing beam foundations, pile foundations and a specialized module for analyzing offshore pile foundations. Try GEMS foundation analysis suite for FREE on the cloud. It is also available for trial download and purchase for PC & Mac's.Starting Price: $500/year/user -
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Ansys Cloud Direct
Ansys
Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications -
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Logbookr
Logbookr
The aircraft logbook (also known as a technical logbook, flight folio, or journey log in some parts of the world) is outdated. You can install Logbookr on your crew's iPad, or use it right on your phone, and it allows you to enter flight times, defects, and ECTM data right from your device on the go. WiFi or data not required, you can sync the data when you are back on the ground or in the office. Entering a snag sends an email to maintenance so everyone is up to speed at all times. Logbookr works from any computer, phone, iPad, or other smart devices. Enter flights, defects, and ECTM data right from the cockpit. The aircraft screen shows which aircraft are ready for dispatch and how long until the next maintenance due. Also, any defects reported will show the aircraft as not ready for dispatch until you note they have been rectified.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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HOVER
HOVER
Home improvement shouldn’t be a mystery. Know what it will look like and what it will cost before the work even begins. HOVER generates the most accurate measurements (and a whole lot more) from a few photos of your home. With just a few photos, HOVER can create an accurately measured 3D model of a home. Your pro gets a detailed report of accurate measurements of your home from those photos. You get a 3D model of your home to design; with your pro, select materials for your project. Your pro uses your design choices and measurements to quickly and accurately estimate your project. Accurate measurements, fast estimates, direct orders, and happier customers mean more time and money to build your business. We help you connect and collaborate with homeowners, to make jobs simpler and more transparent. We offer direct ordering, production management, remote measurements, and automated estimates to make jobs more cost-effective and more efficient.Starting Price: $25 per property -
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CAD Exchanger
CADEX
CAD Exchanger technologies help software developers and end-users to work, share and collaborate on 3D data, which can come in any format, from any source, on any platform. APPLICATION FOR END-USERS • CAD Exchanger Lab. View, analyze and convert 3D data on desktop. SDKs & TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS • CAD Exchanger SDK. C++, C#, Java, Python libraries for applications and SaaS solutions. • CAD Exchanger Batch. Light-weight command-line tool for batch conversions in corporate or cloud environments. We are proud to have customers from Fortune-100 companies and feel honored to contribute to today’s leaders’ projects: Tesla in the automotive industry, Apple in consumer electronics, NASA in space exploration, Amazon in the delivery business and many others. • 250K+ CAD Exchanger Lab end-users • 1M+ CAD Exchanger SDK enabled end-users • 110+ countriesStarting Price: $590/per year -
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BPT-Pro
Baby Universe Inc.
BPT-Pro is an Adobe Illustrator's blueprint plug-in that can fully supports the design and drawing work of manufacturing, design, and design professionals. It makes possible to measure any segment, including free-form curves, as well as the area of objects with complex shapes. Even tedious tasks such as creating dimension lines and adding comments required for drawings can be easily and automatically generated by simply dragging the mouse. It is as easy to use as Illustrator's standard tools. You can not only speed up your work, but also improve accuracy of your professional results.Starting Price: $99 USD per year
