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ALCAD
ALCADS
ALCAD 2D/3D is the best AutoCAD Alternative. Same interface and functions as AutoCAD. This product only includes the CAD. Compare-Table ALCAD with AutoCAD here: Compare ALCAD | ALCAD (alcads.com) ALCAD – the fully compatible DWG-CAD CAD Interface and functions same as AutoCAD. ALCAD 2025 Professional 2D/3D is available as annual licence 199€ or one-time permanent licence for 349€.Starting Price: $199 -
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Spacemaker
Autodesk
Spacemaker is an intuitive, collaborative, cloud-based AI software that empowers architects, urban planners, and real estate developers to design high-quality site proposals. It enables users to create 3D massing models of their site and its surroundings using automatic data sets, test site proposals, and receive accurate analyses for over 100 criteria such as noise, wind, sun, and microclimate. Spacemaker streamlines early-stage planning and design workflows with intuitive tools and generative design, allowing for comprehensive feasibility studies and concept design. It offers ready-to-use data sets, smart design tools for fluid 2D and 3D drawing with real-time floor area tallying, and analyses for noise, wind, solar panels, sun, and parking design. Additional features include import and export capabilities with IFC and OBJ formats, automatic area calculations, microclimate analysis, visualization of differences between proposals, apartment generation, view analysis, etc. -
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Optiflow
Lambda Supply Chain Solutions
Optiflow is a supply chain network design platform that enables enterprise to build digital twins (network models) of the their supply chain to design future supply chain networks optimized for cost, service and sustainability. Optiflow is a cloud-based SaaS platform developed by Lambda Supply Chain Solutions to help organizations create Digital Twins for optimizing their supply chains. A Digital Twin is a mathematical model that mirrors an organization’s actual network, behavior, costs, and constraints, enabling businesses to gain an end-to-end view of their supply chain. With Optiflow, users can run WHAT-IF scenarios for various strategic and tactical decisions such as network design, sourcing optimization, and capacity planning. The platform uses the fast Gurobi mathematical solver to deliver quick and precise optimization results, and its simple, intuitive UI makes it easy for teams to collaborate and build models across functions and geographies.Starting Price: $6000 per month per user -
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Capital Harness Designer
Siemens
Capital Wiring Harness Designer enables engineers to create detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs. It offers automated part selection routines for components like wires, terminals, seals, and heat-shrink sleeves, facilitating the creation of comprehensive bills of materials. It includes configurable design rule checks to ensure adherence to organizational standards and supports the calculation of manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, and harness weights. Its collaborative design merges functions, allows for the integration of multi-source design inputs, and it manages multiple harness variants from a single design, streamlining the design process. -
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Capital Logic Designer
Siemens
Capital Logic Designer is a powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring both logical connectivity designs (signals) and physical wiring designs (wires, splices, multicores, etc.). This advanced tool lets engineers quickly and robustly develop logical electrical designs. It supports platform-level electrical design and visualization, simplifying design changes and decision-making through direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions. The tool automates and controls design tasks using rules-driven device placement and wire routing, with naming conventions, design rule checks, and templates that can be defined and automatically applied. It also provides early indications of wire routing, bundle diameters, and harness complexity, allowing wire lengths to be back-annotated to support accurate voltage-drop, weight, and other types of analyses. -
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VRED
Autodesk
Autodesk VRED is a professional 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software designed to bring complex data to life. It enables users to create high-quality renderings on-premises or in the cloud, visualize, review, and validate designs with ease and accuracy, and collaborate on any device, including virtual reality. VRED helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. It transforms complex design and engineering datasets into a holistic digital control model that can be used as a single source of truth. Users can access the latest design data anywhere, anytime, for high-quality collaborative review on desktop, mobile, or in VR using various utilities and streaming APIs. VRED supports features like data preparation, virtual prototyping, virtual photography, visual simulation, collaboration, and XR experiences. -
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FactSage
FactSage
FactSage is a comprehensive thermochemical software and database package developed jointly by Thermfact/CRCT (Montreal, Canada) and GTT-Technologies (Aachen, Germany). It integrates thermochemical packages, resulting from over 20 years of collaborative efforts. It comprises a series of information, database, calculation, and manipulation modules that access various pure substances and solution databases. FactSage is utilized by numerous industrial, governmental, and academic users in fields such as materials science, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, corrosion, glass technology, combustion, ceramics, and geology. Users have access to thermodynamic data for thousands of compounds, as well as evaluated and optimized databases for hundreds of solutions, including metals, oxides, slags, mattes, salts, and aqueous solutions. -
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Aibuild
Aibuild
Aibuild is an advanced additive manufacturing (AM) software platform that integrates AI-driven automation, hybrid manufacturing, and real-time monitoring to streamline industrial 3D printing processes. It supports a range of AM technologies, including polymer extrusion, metal DED, WAAM, concrete, and paste extrusion, compatible with both robotic and gantry systems. It combines additive and subtractive manufacturing within a single interface, offering CNC milling capabilities such as drilling, engraving, and contouring. Aibuild's AI assistant autonomously generates ready-to-print toolpaths, while its smart toolpathing adapts to complex geometries, optimizing bead dimensions and thermal behavior for improved print quality. It provides in-process monitoring using RGB and IR cameras to detect defects, ensuring quality assurance through thermal simulations and adaptive infill strategies. -
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enSights.ai
enSights.ai
enSights.ai is your AI‑based asset manager and centralized clean‑energy optimization platform that collects, stores, learns from, and analyzes digital assets in a single real‑time environment. It seamlessly connects directly to inverters, loggers, weather data, SCADA, DAS, revenue‑grade meters, PV, wind, storage batteries, EV charging stations, smart meters, and more, without extra hardware, and integrates across vendors via remote connectors. Utilizing digital‑twin technology, AI/ML algorithms, big‑data ingestion, data scrubbing, live monitoring, performance and financial analytics, maintenance management with ticketing, CRM, billing, financial visibility, and reporting, enSights delivers operational excellence and profitable growth. Users benefit from AI‑recommended diagnostics, root‑cause analysis, automated alerts, SLA tracking, CRM profiles, end‑user interfaces, and EV‑charging support with OCPP 1.6j. -
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GridOS
GE Vernova
GridOS is the first software portfolio designed specifically for grid orchestration, empowering utilities to navigate the energy transition by providing modern tools to orchestrate the complexity of the sustainable energy grid while driving reliability, resilience, and security even amid increasing renewables, DER penetration, severe weather, and cyber threats. It includes a robust suite of interconnected solutions that deliver real-time visibility, optimization, and control across transmission, distribution, markets, and DER ecosystems. GridOS Data Fabric unifies and contextualizes decentralized grid and IT/OT data via metadata cataloging and federation, enabling use cases like outage management, forecasting, grid automation, and violation avoidance without requiring coding expertise. -
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Sapio Scientific Data Cloud
Sapio Sciences
Sapio Scientific Data Cloud is a science-aware scientific data management system that unifies and contextualizes all your laboratory data, assay results, instrument outputs, archives, and third-party ELN/LIMS records into a single, searchable platform without any coding. It supports automated data capture and parsing from over 200 instrument adaptors, semantic search powered by ontologies, built-in charting, and advanced neural-network analytics (ANOVA, best-response curves, 4/5 PL curves, flow-cytometry gating), and AI-driven insights. Secure, role-based access and data archiving keep sensitive information safe, while protein, molecule, plasmid, and system-wide viewers let scientists explore results interactively. Deep integration with Sapio LIMS and ELN systems automatically associates data with samples, experiments, and entities. -
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IDEA StatiCa
IDEA StatiCa
IDEA StatiCa 25.0 is a world-leading structural design software that enables engineers to model, analyze, and code-check steel connections, concrete D-regions, and anchoring with unprecedented speed and accuracy. It lets you build and verify anchors or cast-in plates with U-, L-, or I-shaped rebars in custom foundations using a 3D CBFEM engine; design and fully check concrete walls and D-regions with ULS/SLS reporting; and create everything from simple bolted or welded beam-to-column connections to complex moment connections using over 250 predefined templates and parametric design workflows. Seamless BIM integration and automated links with major CAD and FEA tools ensure data synchronization, while its patented Component-Based Finite Element Model delivers true structural behavior, not approximations. Version 25.0 expands anchoring capabilities, streamlines initial connection setups, and evolves the checkbot app into an interactive design tool. -
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GenomiX
VE3 Global
GenomiX is a unified analytics platform built to manage the complexity of modern genomics research and clinical workflows. It supports large-scale sequencing data, integrates fragmented systems like LIMS and EHRs, and enables multi-omics analysis across DNA, RNA, and epigenetics. With its cloud-agnostic, container-native architecture, GenomiX ensures flexibility, compliance, and scalability for both research and healthcare environments. The platform streamlines workflows with support for popular engines like Nextflow, WDL, and Snakemake, while offering preconfigured bioinformatics pipelines. Advanced AI and ML integrations accelerate clinical interpretation and research insights. GenomiX also prioritizes security, ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and NHS compliance while facilitating collaboration across institutions. -
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TruePILOT
Endel Digital Solutions
Endel Digital’s TruePILOT is a unified plant intelligence platform that integrates weighbridge software with critical production systems to provide complete operational visibility. It enables real-time monitoring, process consistency, and better decision-making to maximize plant efficiency. With features such as SCADA integration, ERP synchronization, machine communication, and IIoT connectivity, TruePILOT transforms traditional plant operations into smart, automated environments. The platform also leverages AI-driven trend analysis for predictive insights and cloud-based reporting for executive-level visibility. Complementary products like LabMAST, FleetAI, GateONE, and ManuFACT further enhance plant performance by digitizing quality testing, material dispatch, gate management, and batch processing. Trusted by leading industries such as manufacturing, mining, cement, and steel, Endel Digital provides end-to-end solutions that streamline and secure production environments.Starting Price: $8000 -
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galvano
galvano.ai
galvano.ai is an AI companion for electronics engineers that reviews schematics and netlists against component datasheets to catch design mistakes before fabrication. It solves a common and costly problem: overlooked errors like missing pull-ups, miswired pins, or unsafe power connections that lead to PCB re-spins. Our target audience is students, hobbyists, and professional engineers who want a fast, intelligent second set of eyes on their designs. Validation comes from real-world use: I built galvano after burning weeks fixing mistakes on my own complex PCB projects, and early testers echoed the same pain. With galvano.ai, engineers save time, money, and frustration by building right the first time.Starting Price: $14 -
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Numerical Cloud
Numerical Innovations Inc.
With the Numerical Cloud, you get all the professional CAM / DFM / 3D Software Tools and Translators you need at an affordable cost. FAB 3000 - Professional Gerber, Editor, PCB Panelize and DFM Verification Software ACE 2D/3D Translator - The Easiest CAD/EDA/3D Conversion tool available EasyGerb for AutoCAD 2025 - AutoCAD Plug-in that's runs directly inside AutoCAD ACE for FUJIFILM Dimatix Printers - The Original OEM Conversion software built specifically for Fujifilm Dimatix printers. Runs Legacy Tools - FAB 3000 V7, EasyGerb V7, ACE 3000 V7 3D STEP and STL Translators The Numerical Cloud is our most valuable and affordable solution for all engineers! Use it when you need it - Includes Support - No Contract - Cancel Anytime. This is based on an auto-renewal / recurring credit card subscription.Starting Price: $74.99 -
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ACE 2D/3D Translator
Numerical Innovations Inc.
Simple, Powerful CAD / EDA / 3D Conversion Software to easily convert between ALL common EDA and CAD formats: DXF, Gerber, GDS-II, DWG, Postscript, PDF, HPGL, NC Drill/Rout, OASIS, Image files, ODB++, IPC-2581, SVG, and 3D formats STEP, STL. ACE 2D/3D gives you over 150 useful EDA, CAD, and 3D translators in one tool, so you're always prepared to handle any file translation. ACE 2D/3D costs less than most single-format commercial CAD translators, and with all those additional built-in translators - ACE gives you a better overall value! Available as a Subscription License or Perpetual License for an individual or team of engineers - both are affordable solutions for all levels of CAD Engineering - Beginner / Hobbyists to the Most Experienced CAD Engineer.Starting Price: $74.99/month/user -
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FAB 3000
Numerical Innovations Inc.
The Most Easy to Use Gerber Editor, Panelization, & DFM Tool Available. FAB 3000 is a "Full-Featured" CAM software package targeted for anyone who would like to have "high-end" CAM software to run advanced DRC/DFM verifications, generate component centroids, create SMT Stencil pads, and perform many other useful features. Get ALL the power of those other CAM tools costing thousands of dollars for a fraction of the price. Available as a Subscription License or Perpetual License for an individual or team of engineers - both are affordable solutions for all levels of PCB Engineering - Beginner / Hobbyists to the Most Experienced PCB Engineer.Starting Price: $74.99/user/month -
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DeepEX
Deep Excavation LLC
DeepEX is a powerful, advanced geotechnical application for the design and analysis of deep excavation projects. It enables engineers to perform structural and geotechnical design of any deep excavation model in one package, supporting wall types such as soldier piles, secant/tangent piles, sheet piles, and diaphragm walls, multiple support systems, including anchored walls, braced excavations with struts or rakers, top-down excavations with slabs and deadman walls, and allows modelling in 2D or full 3D. It supports various analysis methods, including limit equilibrium, non-linear (using elastoplastic Winkler springs) and finite element analysis; it integrates both structural and geotechnical checks, works with international steel member databases and design codes, offers automated workflows for rapid modelling (including voice-command entry and model wizards), and can export drawings and sketches or immersive 3D visualizations. -
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DeepFND
Deep Excavation LLC
DeepFND is a powerful, user-friendly software tool for deep foundation pile design that brings together geotechnical and structural calculations in one integrated environment. It allows engineers to compute axial geotechnical pile capacity (skin friction, end bearing) and estimate settlement response from SPT or CPT inputs, perform full lateral pile analysis (displacement, shear, moment) via defined head-loads or pushover routines, and design single piles, pile groups, and pile rafts, including custom pile-cap geometries. It supports nearly all pile types, drilled, driven, CFA, caissons, drilled-in-displacement, micropiles, and helical piles, and models soil-structure interaction either via soil springs or a full 3D finite-element engine. It enables structural checks under service and factored load conditions using international design codes (ACI, AISC, Eurocodes, AS/NZS, Chinese Standards, AASHTO LRFD). -
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AUTOSOL
AUTOSOL
AUTOSOL’s software platform is designed to unify industrial data communications by securely collecting, accessing, and sharing real-time, historical, and edge data from industrial devices and control systems into a centralized, actionable information stream. The core is AUTOSOL Communication Manager, an advanced multi-protocol polling engine and OPC server that connects with diverse field devices (RTUs, PLCs, meters) in their native protocols and delivers standardized data to SCADA systems, HMIs, databases, and analytics tools for operational visibility and control. It supports multiple telemetry types concurrently and bridges legacy systems with modern IIoT devices, enabling organizations to extend the life of existing infrastructure while adopting new technologies for enhanced performance. -
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LuxFlow Pro
LuxCreo
LuxFlow is a dental 3D printing preparation software that streamlines and automates complex print workflows, so dental professionals can go from design files to print-ready output with minimal effort. It integrates seamlessly with the LuxCreo ecosystem and simplifies tasks like automatic orientation, support generation, nesting, and slicing for a wide range of dental indications and resin workflows, turning traditionally manual preparation steps into a one-click process that saves time and reduces errors. Tailored specifically for dental applications, LuxFlow includes built-in professional-grade parameters and intelligent defaults that help ensure predictable, high-quality prints across crowns, models, nightguards, surgical guides, and other appliances. Users can import standard design files, leverage automated tools for optimal placement and support structures, and customize parameters when needed for advanced control. -
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DC-Software
DC-Software
DC-Software delivers a comprehensive suite of foundation engineering and soil mechanics tools designed for efficient geotechnical analysis, planning, design, and dimensioning of foundations and retaining structures. It features two main product groups: DC-Foundation for geotechnical calculations, groundwater lowering, and infiltration, and DC-Soil for subsoil examination including bore profiles, geological sections, geothermal borings, old load surveys, and GIS with document management. It supports recording geotechnical parameters in versatile ways, graphically displaying and evaluating subsoil investigation results, and performing advanced calculations for stability of footings, slope and base failure, settlement, piles, reinforced earth, gabions, cantilever and retaining walls, excavation pits, soil nailing, underpinning, and more, often in accordance with relevant standards and codes. -
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DWGSee CAD
DWGSee
DWGSee CAD is a lightweight and affordable CAD software designed for fast, stable, and fully compatible 2D drafting. It offers a classic CAD interface with command line support, making it familiar to AutoCAD users while requiring far fewer system resources. DWGSee CAD allows users to open, edit, and create DWG, DXF, and DWF files with full compatibility across AutoCAD versions. The platform includes a comprehensive set of drawing, editing, and annotation tools for professional drafting workflows. Advanced features such as Dimension Driven design enable precise adjustments by modifying dimensions directly. DWGSee CAD supports exporting drawings to PDF or image formats and provides robust printing and batch printing capabilities. With a small installation size and a one-time lifetime license, DWGSee CAD delivers professional CAD functionality at a significantly lower cost.Starting Price: $198 -
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AVIX Suite
Solme
Originally created as a Continuous Improvement tool, AVIX has evolved into a comprehensive end-to-end solution composed of modules designed to meet each customer's specific needs. By providing precise data and linking information across functions, AVIX helps companies streamline operations, reduce waste, and increase overall production efficiency. The basic modules in AVIX Suite are: AVIX Method - Method and time study software for process documentation & production planning. AVIX Resource Balance - Line balancing software for workload balancing between workstations & operators. AVIX FMEA - FMEA software that makes FMEA analysis easy. AVIX SMED - SMED software for changeover time reduction. AVIX DFX - Design for assembly & BOM engineering software. AVIX Ergo - Ergonomic assessment software to improve workplace ergonomics. You can buy one or more modules and expand gradually as the need arises.Starting Price: $4050/year -
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Alchemite
Intellegens
Alchemite provides AI-augmented physical modeling and solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from experimental and simulation data by combining machine learning with physics-informed models to improve prediction accuracy, reduce experimental costs, and optimize product and process development. Its solutions span materials discovery and design, predictive modelling of performance and reliability, multiscale modelling that connects atomistic to macroscopic behaviour, and automation of workflow tasks such as data integration, surrogate modelling, and model validation. It supports physics-aware neural networks and hybrid modelling approaches that respect underlying scientific laws while learning from data to enable faster and more accurate simulations, reduced reliance on expensive physical testing, and improved decision-making. Intellegens’ tools are applied in areas such as battery performance prediction, chemical process optimization, etc. -
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CalcSteel
CalcSteel
CalcSteel is a web-based structural steel design and analysis platform built to make professional engineering tools affordable and accessible. It features a full 3D browser editor that allows engineers to model structures directly online without downloads or installations. The platform includes a 6 DOF FEM solver and design verification according to major international standards such as AISC 360, Eurocode 3, NBR 8800, AS 4100, and IS 800. With over 640 steel profiles available, users can quickly assign sections and loads to their structural models. CalcSteel enables engineers to analyze, verify, and generate professional documentation and PDF drawings within minutes. Unlike traditional structural software that costs thousands per year, CalcSteel offers a free tier and paid plans starting at accessible monthly pricing. Designed for structural engineers, fabricators, firms, and students, it provides professional-grade tools without enterprise-level costs.Starting Price: $9/month -
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I After Sales
Components Engine
I After Sales (IAS) is a groundbreaking platform designed to transform the way businesses handle after-sales services. Focusing on innovation, simplicity and efficiency, IAS offers a comprehensive suite of tools that digitalize and streamline every facet of customer service. From creating interactive 2D and 3D spare parts catalogs to managing intuitive, customizable dashboards, IAS delivers advanced solutions that enhance both user experience and business productivity. Thanks to AI integration, the IAS platform unlocks powerful smart features: advanced chatbots for real-time user conversations, guided spare parts search, instant access to documents and orders, and customizable automated responses—all easily managed from the back office. Thanks to cloud technology, IAS ensures universal and secure data access, while supporting scalable and flexible business processes. -
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QuickArchViz
QuickArchViz
QuickArchViz is an AI-powered architectural visualization platform that turns CAD screenshots, 3D model captures, sketches, and interior references into client-ready concept visuals. Built for architects, interior designers, real estate teams, property developers, visualization studios, and architecture students, QuickArchViz helps users create exterior renders, interior visualizations, architectural sketches, material studies, and walkthrough-style visual assets without a traditional rendering pipeline. Users can upload rough visual inputs, choose a use case or visual style, and generate polished architectural imagery directly in the browser. QuickArchViz is designed for fast concept development, design iteration, client presentations, and early-stage visual exploration.Starting Price: $20/month -
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VCLAVIS
VCLAVIS
VCLAVIS is innovative web-based software for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design, developed by a team of experienced engineers. Designed to revolutionize the industry, it provides a totally new web based platform that enhances accessibility, efficiency, and compliance in pressure vessel engineering.Starting Price: $250
