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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 -
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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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HQDFM
NextPCB
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viAER
viAct.ai
viAct Drone AeroVision AI technology, viAER, is engineered to redefine aerial intelligence for the fast-emerging Hong Kong’s low-altitude economy. With seamless integration into existing digital ecosystems — from Smart Site Safety Systems, WMS, ERPs, to BIM, it ensures 99.9% accuracy in detecting anomalies, predicting maintenance needs, and optimizing on-site decisions. Whether it’s detecting structural deviations in construction, corrosion in offshore rigs, or surface instability in mining sites, viAER turns aerial visualization into actionable intelligence. Key Capabilities • Geospatial Mapping with centimetre-level accuracy • Safety Monitoring through Thermal and Visual anomaly detection • Automated Earthwork Volumetrics • Autonomous Confined/Restricted Space Inspection • Perimeter Security & Intrusion Detection • Incident Response & Emergency Mapping Powered by Edge AI, viAER delivers real-time insights even in low-connectivity or remote areas.Starting Price: $1000 -
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ArchiQuill
ArchiQuill
ArchiQuill is an AI-powered architectural rendering platform that transforms sketches, elevations, and design concepts into photorealistic images within seconds. It supports popular design tools like SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, and more, allowing architects to turn their digital or hand-drawn ideas into polished visuals instantly. With specialized tools for exterior design, interior spaces, landscape projects, and garden layouts, ArchiQuill streamlines the entire visualization process. Designers can explore fast concept development, real-time AO map rendering, and intelligent design recommendations powered by AI. The platform also encourages creativity by offering style customization and rapid prototyping capabilities. Built for speed, simplicity, and professional-grade quality, ArchiQuill helps architects focus on design rather than time-consuming rendering workflows.Starting Price: $29/month/person -
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Pathmode
Pathmode
Pathmode is the intent engineering platform for product teams building with AI. It transforms messy user feedback from support tickets, interviews, and research into structured, execution-ready specifications. Product managers, engineers, and designers can map user journeys, synthesize evidence into machine-readable IntentSpecs, and auto-sync them to tools like Linear, Jira, Cursor, and Claude. Pathmode connects the dots between what users actually need and what your team builds — eliminating guesswork and enabling AI agents to act on real user intent.Starting Price: 0 -
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BAESS Labs
BAESS Labs
BAESS Labs is an AI-powered solar design platform built to streamline the entire project development process. It enables users to generate Bills of Quantities, perform energy simulations, and create financial analyses in minutes. The Smart PV Designer offers visual module placement, shading analysis, and real-time optimization. Users can model ROI, IRR, and NPV while generating professional reports for client presentations. With global weather data integration, projects can be designed accurately anywhere in the world. The platform uses AI credits to power intelligent features while offering a free plan to get started. Designed for speed and efficiency, BAESS Labs helps solar professionals save significant time on system design and proposal creation.Starting Price: $18/month/user -
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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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vPlan AR
ValidPixel LLC
vPlan AR is a LiDAR-powered floor planning platform designed for contractors, restoration teams, inspectors, estimators, architects, and property professionals. Using LiDAR-enabled iPhones and iPads, users can quickly scan rooms and buildings to generate accurate floor plans without manual measurements or traditional surveying workflows. The platform combines mobile room scanning with a browser-based floor plan editor that allows users to refine layouts, manage multi-room and multi-floor projects, add architectural elements, and export professional documentation. vPlan AI also includes AI-powered tools that help analyze floor plans, calculate dimensions and square footage, answer questions about layouts, and streamline documentation workflows. Key Features: LiDAR-powered room and building scanning Automatic wall and dimension detection Browser-based floor plan editor Multi-room and multi-floor project support AI-powered floor plan assistant PDF, DXF, XML, and 3D modelStarting Price: $19 -
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Thoa
Thoa.io
Thoa is a cloud bioinformatics platform that solves the six most expensive problems researchers face daily: environment and dependency conflicts, pipeline management, reproducibility, scaling compute, collaboration, and data sharing. Run Nextflow and Snakemake workflows on managed cloud infrastructure (up to 12TB RAM) with zero DevOps setup. Thoa's AI-assisted debugger resolves environment issues in real time, so pipelines don't crash hours into execution. Every run automatically captures its full execution context: data, software versions, environment, and machine config. Share complete analyses with collaborators in one click. Recipients can view and re-run results without creating an account or mirroring infrastructure. Supports Docker, Conda, Singularity, Python, and R.Starting Price: $35/user/month -
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Aircraft Inspecti
Aircraft Inspecti
AircraftInspecti is a mobile and web application built exclusively for independent aircraft technical representatives — the licensed engineers and consultants who carry out pre-purchase, delivery, redelivery, lease return, and C-check inspections on commercial and business aircraft. It eliminates the 4–8 hour administration burden after every physical inspection. After leaving the hangar: sorting handwritten notes, organising field photos, cross-referencing findings against ATA zones, and assembling a professional client report. AircraftInspecti handles all of this in the field. Core features: zone-based photo capture mapped to ATA 100 zones, auto-generated finding reports from field inputs, digital inspection checklists for pre-buy, delivery, redelivery, lease return and C-check inspections, client-ready PDF export, and an inspection history log per aircraft registration. Available on iOS, Android, and web. Built for the independent tech rep, not enterprise MRO.Starting Price: $19 USD/month -
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realvirtual.io
realvirtual GmbH
realvirtual.io is a Unity-based framework for industrial digital twins and virtual commissioning in machine and plant engineering. It imports the customer's own CAD (STEP, SolidWorks, CATIA, NX), lets you define kinematics (drives, sensors, grippers) without altering the original geometry, and connects real or simulated PLCs and robot controllers through 15+ native interfaces (Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT/ADS, OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB) to one 3D model. It ships with full C# source code, so there is no black box and no vendor lock-in, and holds high-fidelity visuals at 60 fps while keeping cost far below legacy digital-factory tools. One model carries through sales, engineering, virtual commissioning, 3D HMI and operator training. A free Starter edition is on the Unity Asset Store; companion product realvirtual WEB (open source, Three.js) delivers the same model to any browser via one link.Starting Price: $0 -
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A blast of brilliant, associated items is influencing the building to process more perplexing. This multifaceted nature implies more partners from numerous designing areas should be included. With these different areas comes a blend of dialects, devices, and databases. To bring together partners, associations are receiving model-based frameworks building (MBSE) systems as a major aspect of their application lifecycle exercises that offer a typical, visual dialect and organized designing methodology. Solutions from PTC provide a collaborative, visual approach for better communication, clarity, and maintainability of all product data. MBSE applies modeling, tools, and methods to improve your systems engineering programs and projects, spurring technological innovation and positively impacting costs and productivity. Quality and regulatory compliance is also improved as risks are discovered and mitigated sooner.
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Simio
Simio
Simio is a simulation, production planning and scheduling software designed from the ground up to support the object modeling paradigm. Simio aims to deliver rapid risk analysis and cost reduction capabilities to organizations of all sizes and industries. Simio is available in five editions to suit the unique needs of businesses: Personal, Design, Team, Enterprise, and Portal editions. Simio Academic Edition is also available to students and faculty. -
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Creo
PTC
Imagine, design, create, and innovate your products better with Creo, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, and solutions for product design and development. Now, more than ever, product design and manufacturing teams are expected to create products more efficiently and cost effectively, without sacrificing innovation or quality. Fortunately, Creo delivers the most scalable range of 3D CAD product development packages and tools in today’s market. Creo 7.0 has breakthrough innovations in the areas of generative design, real-time simulation, multibody design, additive manufacturing, and others! Take your products from concept to digital prototype efficiently, precisely, and intuitively with Creo—on the cutting edge of CAD for more than 30 years. With Creo 7.0, PTC amply demonstrates its skill at adding compelling new features to an already robust tool-set using smart partnerships to extend its capabilities even further. -
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PSCAD
Manitoba Hydro International
As power systems evolve, the need for accurate, intuitive simulation tools becomes more and more important. With PSCAD you can build, simulate, and model your systems with ease, providing limitless possibilities in power system simulation. Included is a comprehensive library of system models ranging from simple passive elements and control functions to electric machines and other complex devices. PSCAD has benefited from over 40 years of continuous research and development. We are inspired by the ideas and feedback from our global user base. This philosophy has helped establish PSCAD as the most popular power system transient simulation package available today. Software maintenance is the most cost-effective way to protect, support, and maintain your investment. With it, you gain the greatest value from your software. -
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SwiftComp
AnalySwift
SwiftComp is a revolutionary multiscale, multiphysics composite simulation code that quickly and easily delivers the accuracy of 3D FEA at the efficiency of simple engineering models. In doing so, SwiftComp reduces barriers for engineers by enabling them to model composites as easily as metals using conventional structural elements in their FEA codes (without losing accuracy while capturing all the microstructural details). SwiftComp provides unified modeling for 1D (beams), 2D (plates/shells), or 3D structures, calculating all the effective properties. Use SwiftComp either independently for virtual testing of composites or as a plug-in to power your conventional structural tools with high-fidelity composites modeling. SwiftComp can compute the best structural model for use in macroscopic structural analysis, as well as perform dehomogenization to compute the pointwise stresses in the microstructure. SwiftComp directly interfaces with ABAQUS, ANSYS. -
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VABS
AnalySwift
VABS is a popular general-purpose cross-sectional analysis tool for quickly and easily computing beam properties and recovering 3D fields of composite beams, including helicopter and wind turbine blades. It is the only tool capable of rigorously decoupling an original 3D slender solid with complex microstructure into a simple engineering beam model. AnalySwift’s roots are in the aerospace industry, where its tools have been used for composite beams (helicopter rotor blades, propellers, high aspect ratio wings, wing section design), plates/shells, and 3D structures. Used for several years in the wind turbine industry, VABS delivers rapid, rigorous results when modeling wind turbine blades. SwiftComp provides additional solutions for plates/shells, and 3D structures manufactured from composites. As the automobile industry adopts a higher use of composites, opportunities increase to leverage SwiftComp and VABS to model a wide variety of structures, including beams, plates, shells, etc. -
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SimWalk
SimWalk
SimWalk simulation services and products are successfully deployed by authorities and consultancies around the globe. Ever since our foundation over a decade ago, we are pushing boundaries and embrace the latest technology to optimally serve the transport, aviation, sports and building industry helping to manage their crowds. Prepare your facility, rail station, airport or stadium for the increasing capacity needs of the future. Our services support effectively the impact analysis of different planned designs on crowd dynamics and safety. Managing day to day operations in public transport or aviation facilities is a highly demanding task. We support the effective facility management by data analysis, simulation and planning of crowd dynamics. Today, public transport terminals and buildings are highly vulnerable targets for a multitude of threats. We are experts in helping authorities to raise awareness for security issues and proposing actionable solutions.
