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FlyFreely
FlyFreely
FlyFreely enables businesses and enterprises to start, scale and sustain their drone operations. Plan, execute and reconcile all your drone operations in one simple to use platform. We achieve this through our flexible platform technology that caters for any combination of operational and regulatory requirements. We can support all types of operations from simple VLOS to complex BVLOS operations like drone-in-a-box, delivery and urban air mobility. We tailor all data sources, rules, workflows, forms and reports to your specific country's regulatory requirements to make operating in one or multiple countries a breeze. Furthermore, the platform even enables offline planning and execution of missions to ensure you can operate anywhere in the world at anytime. Developed by formed commercial drone operators we understand the challenges faced by operators in the field. With FlyFreely you will spend less time on paperwork and more time flying.Starting Price: $45/Pilot/Month -
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AGERpoint
AGERpoint
With accessible tools to measure and monitor plants, Agerpoint’s spatial intelligence platform unlocks insights for sustainable food systems and trusted climate solutions. Growers, researchers, conservationists, and other agriculture and climate professionals capture data with their mobile devices by walking around a single plant or planted area of interest. Agerpoint capture uses the camera, LiDAR, and GPS data to record images, depth, and location. Live augmented reality feedback guides the user towards a successful capture. Edit your captures, view them using augmented reality, and share data with other platforms. Upload models to the Agerpoint cloud platform for more detailed modeling and measurements, including canopy size, trunk diameter, fruit count, disease presence, and species identification. -
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MagiScan
MagiScan
The app allows you to scan objects in real time and save the results in multiple formats including OBJ, STL, FBX, PLY, USDZ, GLB, and GLTF. Also, MagiScan can export its scanned 3D models to NVIDIA omniverse platform and integrate them smoothly into Minecraft as block structures. With MagiScan, you don't need any specialized hardware or technical expertise. All you need is a smartphone camera and the app to get started. Whether you're an artist, designer, or engineer, MagiScan offers a fast and affordable way to create 3D models of real-life objects. As a new user, you'll get a few scans for free without having to subscribe. This is a great way to get familiar with the app and see the quality of 3D models that MagiScan produces. Once you've used up your free scans, you can subscribe for unlimited access to the app's features.Starting Price: Free -
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h2x Engineering
h2x Engineering
h2x Engineering offers a user-friendly software solution to the traditional manual, tedious, and time-consuming design and calculation engineering tasks. Set up your project, add your required equipment, review the results, and export to PDF, AutoCAD, Revit, and more. -
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PIX4Dcatch
Pix4D
Create geolocalized open trenches models by simply walking around them. Accurately document and calculate volumes for invoicing. Quickly and accurately collect, process, and visualize as-built measurements and 3D models, even in the most demanding conditions. Complete an entire survey in a few minutes and create a 3D point cloud, a digital surface model, and a true orthomosaic of your area. Efficiently build accurate 3D collision scenes, add detailed measurements, and share insights with major forensic software platforms. To generate georeferenced 3D models, the collected images can be uploaded to PIX4Dcloud or exported to PIX4Dmatic. -
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CircuitLab
CircuitLab
Easy-wire mode lets you connect elements with fewer clicks and less frustration. Unit-aware expression evaluation lets you plot arbitrary signals of interest, such as differential signals or power dissipation. In-browser simulation and plotting lets you design and analyze faster, making sure your circuit works before ever picking up a soldering iron. Advanced simulation capabilities include frequency-domain (small signal) simulation, stepping circuit parameters through a range, arbitrary Laplace transfer function blocks, and more. Work with multiple signals easily with configurable plotting windows, vertical and horizontal markers, and calculations on signals. Draw generic rectangular symbols for IC or system-level wiring diagrams with just a few clicks.Starting Price: $24 per year -
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EveryCircuit
EveryCircuit
One animated circuit is worth a thousand equations and diagrams. Animations of voltages, currents, and charges are displayed right on top of the schematic, providing great insight into circuit operation. The real-time circuit simulation engine is custom-built for speed and interactivity. Easy one-click simulation, from simple resistors and logic gates to complex transistor-level oscillators and mixed-signal designs. While the simulation is running, you can flip switches, adjust potentiometers, tune LED current limiting resistors, ramp up input voltages, etc. The circuit will immediately respond to your changes, in real time. Mini-waveforms on top of schematic wires look different for digital and analog signals. Constant analog voltages are shown as numbers, digital wires are color-coded. Any pair of time-domain signals may be plotted in the XY mode. The oscilloscope scale and grid ticks are auto-updated to convenient values as the data changes.Starting Price: $15 one-time payment -
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DCACLab
DCACLab
Our online circuit simulator bridges the gap between theory and practice with an intuitive interface. It allows you to design, simulate, and share electronic circuits online, witnessing the interplay of components in real-time. You can directly observe and manipulate the behavior of circuits, making learning more engaging and effective. For educators, DCACLab enhances your lessons with interactive diagrams and live demonstrations. For students, it provides a safe space to experiment and learn, leading to a deeper understanding of electronics. With DCACLab, frustration turns into hands-on learning and comprehension. Discover the power of a realistic multimeter in our interactive simulator. With functions for measuring ohm, voltage, and resistance, it provides an enriching and realistic learning experience. Dive into the world of electronics with ease and understanding.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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Assemblio
Assemblio
Get your assembly plan in just 3 simple steps. We create your product assembly plan in front of you for free. Assemblio users achieve their results 16 times faster. Assemblio shows the way to the future of assembly planning. With the intelligent software, an entire assembly guide can be automatically generated in just a few minutes directly from a CAD model. Assemblio offers a forward-looking solution for our assembly planning. We can simplify your assembly planning from start to finish. With AI, you can shift instruction stages in real time, with no need to restart. Thanks to reverse engineering, our app is error-proof and requires no planning. According to client data, you can achieve identical results in only 8% of the time. Automate your assembly plan process and focus on the work that matters. Assemblio generates PDFs, videos, and fully digital step-by-step instructions. Schedule a demo and get your assembly plan created in real-time. -
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Beholder Desktop
Beholder Vision
Beholder Desktop is powerful photogrammetry software that is free for personal, non commercial use. Beholder Desktop enables you to quickly and easily create high resolution 3D models of real world objects using photos. The models built be Beholder Desktop can be exported to GLB, OBJ and STL file formats.Starting Price: $55 -
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ThreeD
Alignment Services LLC
ThreeD is a free Large-Volume Dimensional Metrology measurement program. ThreeD may be used for 3D Coordinate Measurement via multiple stations. ThreeD offers various tools including Coordinate Transformation, 3D Data Viewer, Geometric Fitting, Error Analysis, Help examples. Full Manual operation is available free (no instrument driver required); Contact your application supplier if to obtain Driver for your instrument(s). Typical instruments are of the 'Total Station' class. ThreeD is targeted towards basic Dimensional Metrology Measurement. ThreeD has no expressed or implied warranty. User is 100% responsible for evaluating appropriate use.Starting Price: 0 -
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Modbus RTU
Özgür Caner Filizli
Modbus RTU Master and Slave Emulator Software. Are you looking to streamline your industrial automation systems and ensure seamless communication between devices? Our Modbus RTU Master and Slave Emulator software is the perfect solution for you. Designed with both simplicity and versatility in mind, our emulator offers a comprehensive suite of tools to help you test, debug, and optimize your Modbus.Starting Price: $0 -
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Quilter
Quilter
Engineers at the world's most innovative electronics companies build with Quilter. Quilter is fully compatible with your existing designs and libraries. All completed designs are returned in the same file format they were submitted for inspection, modification, and export. Design your schematic using your ECAD application of choice (currently Altium or KiCAD). Upload your schematic and empty board file. Quilter auto-detects relationships between parts. Define any design constraints for your board. We validate tolerances against top fab houses. Quilter explores dozens of candidates and validates that all designs pass DRCs. Review candidates, select your favorite, and download board files for fabrication and testing. Quilter is more like a human designer than it is like an auto router. Quilter manages all aspects of PCB design including routing traces, placing components, managing board stackups, and generating custom pours. -
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CADMATIC Drawing Viewer
CADMATIC
CADMATIC Drawing Viewer is a free software for viewing and printing CAD drawings. It also includes basic drawing, editing, and printing features, but it does not allow saving. With CADMATIC Drawing Viewer you can open files in DRW, DWG, and DXF formats, both in 2D and in 3D. CADMATIC Drawing Viewer also contains predefined special printing routines for drawings created with CADMATIC Electrical. Although CADMATIC Drawing Viewer does not include all the functionalities of our CADMATIC Draw software, it does contain a selection of useful features to help you practice using our industry-leading solution. Opens and creates combination IFC models such as architectural, structural, HVAC, and electrical models compliant with the IFC 2x3 CV 2.0 standard. You can also change the appearance of the printouts in a wide variety of ways, such as the line thickness. Predefined special functions for layer processing and printing.Starting Price: Free -
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CF-MESH+
Creative Fields Holding, Ltd.
CF-MESH+ is the latest CFD meshing software version developed by Creative Fields. It comprises advanced meshing workflows with an easy-to-use front-end interface allowing for superior user experience and efficiency. It features a powerful set of tools and functionalities for generating quality CFD meshes in arbitrary complex geometries encountered within the industry. The software features a degree of robustness that will help you enhance your productivity and get a competitive advantage in your simulation efforts.Starting Price: $500 -
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UP Studio
Tiertime Corporation
UP Studio’s rich feature set and ease of use have gained a loyal following over the years. Many customers purchase Tiertime printers specifically because they love the software. With the support of the latest Task format (.TSK), users can set print parameters according to parts properties and print parts with variable parameters in a single printing process. This gives users unmatched versatility in planning production. Complete set of layout and adjustment tools. Simple to use, plug, and play with optimized print parameters. Trace support intuitively by hovering on the target support, the corresponding support will be selected in the support editor. Detailed tool path preview and pause print at specific layer. Save the current project into TSK file format for later use of sharing. Comphresive print preview with material usage and time estimates, allows you to cost prototypes before printing. -
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Bolt Analytics
S.A. RAPPRESENTANZE
Bolt Analytics is an intuitive and easy to use Windows software for engineers and technicians able to run a very detailed bolted joint analysis in seconds with the goal to assist users in dimensioning safe and reliable bolted joints.Starting Price: €96/year -
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Cufflinks
Cole Trapnell
Cufflinks assemble transcripts, estimate their abundances and test for differential expression and regulation in RNA-Seq samples. It accepts aligned RNA-Seq reads and assembles the alignments into a parsimonious set of transcripts. Cufflinks then estimates the relative abundances of these transcripts based on how many reads support each one, taking into account biases in library preparation protocols. Cufflinks was originally developed as part of a collaborative effort between the Laboratory for Mathematical and Computational Biology. In order to make it easy to install Cufflinks, we provide a few binary packages to save users from the occasionally frustrating process of building Cufflinks, which requires that you install the libraries. Cufflinks includes a number of tools for analyzing RNA-Seq experiments. Some of these tools can be run on their own, while others are pieces of a larger workflow.Starting Price: Free -
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Cellenics
Biomage
Turn your single-cell RNA sequencing data into meaningful insight with Cellenics software. Biomage hosts a community instance of Cellenics, an open source analytics tool for single-cell RNA sequencing data that has been developed at Harvard Medical School. It enables biologists to explore single-cell datasets without writing code and helps scientists and bioinformaticians to work together more effectively. It takes you from count matrices to publication-ready figures in just a few hours and can be integrated seamlessly with your workflow. It’s fast, interactive, and user-friendly. And it’s cloud-based, secure, and scaleable. The Biomage-hosted community instance of Cellenics is free for academic researchers with small/medium-sized datasets (up to 500,000 cells). It’s used by 3000+ academic researchers studying cancer, cardiovascular health, and developmental biology.Starting Price: Free -
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FARO SCENE
FARO
FARO SCENE is a powerful 3D point cloud processing software designed to capture, process, and register 3D point clouds efficiently. It offers features like automatic object recognition, scan registration, and positioning, enabling users to create detailed 3D visualizations of real-world objects and environments. Its user-friendly interface and automatic functions streamline workflows, making surveying up to three times more efficient than traditional methods. The software also includes interactive and hybrid registration capabilities, providing real-time visual feedback during the registration process. Additionally, SCENE offers virtual reality viewing, allowing users to immerse themselves in 3D data for enhanced analysis and presentation. Automatic data processing, filtering, and logging features provide a high-quality digital representation of reality at a glance. Versatile logging and validation tools provide data within specified tolerances. -
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CoppeliaSim
Coppelia Robotics
CoppeliaSim, developed by Coppelia Robotics, is a versatile and powerful robot simulation platform utilized for rapid algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and digital twin creation. It features a distributed control architecture, allowing each object or model to be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients (Python, Lua, Java, MATLAB, Octave, C, C++, Rust), or custom solutions. The simulator supports five physics engines, MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, and Vortex Dynamics, for fast and customizable dynamics calculations, enabling realistic simulation of real-world physics and object interactions, including collision response, grasping, soft bodies, strings, ropes, and cloths. CoppeliaSim provides forward and inverse kinematics calculations for any type of mechanism.Starting Price: $2,380 per year -
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ROCK Desktop
ROCK Robotic
ROCK Desktop is a comprehensive LiDAR processing and visualization software developed by ROCK Robotic. It enables users to process raw data from ROCK LiDAR systems, offering enhanced trajectory processing and the capability to visualize large datasets both in the field and the office. The software allows users to compose areas, select fields of view and range and includes features like ROCK Ray-Trace Colorization and SLAM/SLAM GCP Alignment. The free version serves as a point cloud visualizer, capable of compressing LiDAR file sizes by up to 10 times, facilitating easier sharing during presentations and seamless synchronization with ROCK Cloud projects. Advanced calibration tools provide users with control over their data, supporting both camera and LiDAR calibration. Integration with ROCK Cloud enables one-click access to cloud processing power, increasing upload speeds and allowing for quick project sharing. -
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ROCK Cloud
ROCK Robotic
ROCK Cloud is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the processing and analysis of LiDAR datasets. It offers real-time editing and classification capabilities, enabling users to efficiently compare, align, and merge data. The platform supports ground control point management and provides accurate reports to ensure data precision. Users can perform 3D GCP alignment, calculate stockpile volumetrics, and visualize inspection photos. The platform facilitates data storage and sharing, with multiple user access and customizable branding options. It also supports orthomosaic integration, allowing for a comprehensive deliverable experience. All data is securely stored on the ROCK Cloud, ensuring accessibility and collaboration among team members. Instantly order professional deliverables with only one-click of a button. We quality-check your data to make sure it's captured and aligned correctly. -
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Ansys Zemax OpticStudio
Ansys
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is a comprehensive optical design software utilized globally by companies and universities to create and analyze optical systems, including imaging, illumination, and laser systems. It offers a user-friendly interface that integrates analysis, optimization, and tolerancing tools, facilitating the design of complex optical systems for a wide range of applications. The software supports both sequential and non-sequential ray tracing, enabling precise modeling of light propagation through various optical components. Advanced features include structural and thermal analysis, allowing users to assess the impact of environmental factors on optical performance. OpticStudio also provides extensive materials and optical element libraries, enhancing the accuracy of simulations. For students, Ansys offers a free version of OpticStudio, providing hands-on experience in designing and analyzing optical systems, thereby preparing them for future careers in optics. -
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DWSIM
DWSIM
DWSIM is a free and open source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator that operates across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features an intuitive graphical user interface and offers capabilities previously exclusive to commercial simulators. DWSIM supports both steady-state and dynamic simulations, utilizing a parallel modular solver for efficient modeling. It includes advanced property packages. The simulator provides a comprehensive suite of unit operations, including mixers, splitters, separators, pumps, compressors, expanders, heaters, coolers, valves, pipe segments, shortcut columns, heat exchangers, various reactors, distillation and absorption columns, solids separators, cake filters, spreadsheets, Python scripts, and flowsheet unit operations. It also provides an Excel Add-In for performing thermodynamic calculations within spreadsheets and an automation API for creating, loading, modifying, running, and saving flowsheets.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Urbiverse
Urbiverse
Urbiverse helps you make smarter strategic decisions about urban mobility and logistics with AI‑driven simulations, synthetic data solutions, real‑time what‑if analysis, and optimized fleet sizing and infrastructure planning. It enables operators to forecast demand based on historical data, events, seasonal trends and real‑time analytics; simulate scenarios to determine the impact of new ride‑sharing, bike‑sharing, cargo‑bike or fleet‑size programs on traffic, user satisfaction, environmental goals, profitability and costs; evaluate financial implications under various tender conditions; optimize fleet distribution, operations management and micromobility parking; and combine real‑time and historical data to allocate resources efficiently across different vehicle types, empowering mobility operators and planners to move from guesswork to data‑driven decisions. Urbiverse processes millions of trips, supports infrastructure planning, and empowers urban fleet planners to test scenarios. -
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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
