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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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Prompt2CAD
Prompt2CAD
Prompt2CAD turns plain-language descriptions into real, dimensioned CAD geometry in the browser. Users describe furniture, mechanical parts, product enclosures, prototypes, or other physical objects, then refine the generated parametric model with live controls and export production-friendly files including STEP, DXF, OBJ, STL, and GLB. Unlike generic AI 3D mesh tools, Prompt2CAD focuses on precise CAD-style geometry that can be edited, measured, and built.Starting Price: Free to start -
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IronFlock
IronFlock
IronFlock is industrial middleware: it connects machines, PLCs, and sensors, and makes their data usable through apps, dashboards, and AI — live in days instead of months. Built-in AI assistant: ask about production data in plain language and generate dashboards from a single conversation. No-code SCADA, dashboards, and alarms. Ready-made apps from the App Store, or build your own — Docker, Git, cloud IDE, open standards, no lock-in. For machine builders (OEMs): built-in billing lets you sell apps to your customers and push updates across the fleet. Free to start on the cloud edition; unlimited projects, devices, and users. Runs in the cloud, on-premise, or on an appliance. Designed around EU Data Act, NIS2, ISO 27001, and IEC 62443. Built by IronFlock GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany.Starting Price: $0 -
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Mango by Radix IoT
Radix IoT
Mango by Radix IoT is a vendor-agnostic IIoT and SCADA platform that connects to any device or manufacturer across 40+ protocols, unifying operational data into one real-time view. It polls data points and centralizes monitoring, control, and analytics for equipment, facilities, and global portfolios. Data centers, telecom, smart commercial properties, and energy enterprises on six continents run their critical infrastructure on Mango: one normalized, real-time data foundation, the layer AI requires for analytics, optimized operations, predictive maintenance, and workflow automation. Mango pairs with Radix IoT errProof, the first execution governance layer between systems of record and field teams. A Mango alarm triggers an errProof job plan: a technician follows a guided workflow, captures data at each step, and an audit trail auto-generates to verify resolution before closeout, closing the loop from detection to action. -
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DroneFTP
DroneFTP
DroneFTP is a pay-as-you-go cloud photogrammetry processing service for drone pilots, surveyors, engineers, GIS professionals, environmental consultants, and construction teams. Users upload drone imagery through a simple web-based workflow, and DroneFTP handles the computationally intensive processing in the cloud. Deliverables include georeferenced orthomosaics, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), LAZ point clouds, and contours for use in GIS, CAD, surveying, engineering, construction, and environmental workflows. DroneFTP eliminates the need for expensive dedicated processing workstations and recurring photogrammetry software subscriptions. It can also provide supplemental processing capacity for firms experiencing workload spikes. Photogrammetry processing starts at $10 per GB with no monthly or annual subscription required.Starting Price: $10 per GB -
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AStrutTie
Hangil IT
AStrutTie is strut-and-tie model (STM) design software for the parts of concrete structures where beam theory does not apply: deep beams, corbels, pile caps, pier caps, footings, abutments and anchorage zones. Pick a template, enter dimensions, materials and loads, and AStrutTie builds the strut-and-tie model, solves the truss and checks every strut, tie, nodal zone and anchorage against the design code. The calculation report prints each check with its clause reference, so the design can be reviewed line by line. Design codes: ACI 318, AASHTO LRFD, Eurocode 2, KDS and KDS-LSD - switch the code on the same model and compare. It runs in a web browser on Windows, macOS or Linux, with nothing to install; sign in with your email. The free tier covers models up to 15 nodes and prints a watermarked report. Standard and Pro subscriptions start at $100 per month. Professors and students can get Pro free for 12 months for teaching and research. Made by Hangil IT (Korea).Starting Price: $100/month -
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PVGround
PVGround
PVGround is a solar design platform delivered as AutoCAD and ZWCAD plugins for ground-mounted (PVGround) and rooftop (PVRoof) PV projects. PVGround reads terrain from the drawing to lay out panels, calculates how many MWp fit at different row spacings, analyzes shading including fences and trees, plans DC, AC and HV cable routes in 3D, groups pile lengths with tonnage, calculates cut and fill earthworks, and verifies the design with cross-sections. PVRoof models roof geometry, slope and orientation and places panels automatically or manually with shading analysis. Designs export to PVsyst, Excel, PDF and DXF. WebView shares a finished design through a token: reviewers open the 3D project (terrain, modules, piles, structures), live shading and read-only performance results (annual production, specific yield, PR) in any browser on phone, tablet or laptop, with no AutoCAD or license needed, while your DWG stays with you. 14-day free trial available. -
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Creality Cloud
Creality
Creality Cloud is an all-in-one 3D printing platform that combines model discovery, cloud slicing, remote printer control, monitoring, and community features. Users can browse and download STL files from a large model library, including free and premium content from 3D creators. The platform includes built-in cloud slicing so models can be prepared for printing from the web or app without relying entirely on separate desktop software. Creality Cloud can remotely control compatible printers, monitor print progress, and manage multiple devices from a centralized dashboard. Additional features include time-lapse recording, AI-assisted print detection, model sharing and trading, and community tools for exchanging tips and projects. The platform integrates with Creality Print and other Creality software so users can move models, sliced files, and print jobs between desktop, cloud, and connected printers.Starting Price: $7.99 -
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LMX
LMX Lighting
LMX is Windows desktop software for programming and running stage lighting. It combines graphical and command-line programming with tracked cue lists, palettes, presets, effects and an integrated 3D visualiser. Outputs include Art-Net, sACN (E1.31) and FT232R USB-DMX. GDTF import and a fixture editor support rig setup, while MIDI mapping and a browser remote support hands-on playback. Multi-track audio provides waveform navigation and playback controls. Registered beta users can obtain a free beta licence; the Microsoft Store describes unlicensed Demo Mode as limited to six fixtures. Planned Pro pricing after beta is £299 once or £19/month, subject to change.Starting Price: Free beta; Pro planned £299 -
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CADCraft
ArtCraft
CADCraft is an open-source computer-aided design and drafting application for creating and editing technical drawings. Its interface pairs a command line with a graphical drawing area and tools for 2D geometry, object snaps, layers, properties, dimensions, hatches, blocks, layouts, and plotting. The software reads and writes DXF and DWG files and exports PDF, SVG, and PNG. Users can create floor plans, mechanical part drawings, and other 2D designs, then arrange sheets with paper-space layouts and viewports. CADCraft runs as a native desktop app on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with an additional WebAssembly browser build. A command-line utility, JSON control protocol, and Model Context Protocol server support scripted drawing, inspection, and rendering. The project is under active development.Starting Price: $0 -
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3D Print Pass
EPATA LLC
3D Print Pass is a browser-based workspace for preparing and reviewing 3D-printing projects. Its workflows include STL and 3MF model checks; model inspection and preparation in Print Studio; written-symptom troubleshooting for failed prints; source and rights evidence checklists; and tools for sellers preparing listings. Users can organize findings and project context for handoffs to customers or independent print providers. The public beta includes a live Studio sample, browser-based listing-image layouts, sample reports, and practical guides. Pricing includes free features, credits, and monthly plans. Reports explain their evidence and limitations, and users should confirm findings in their chosen slicer and on the physical printer. -
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PrintHaus
PrintHaus
PrintHaus is a browser-based configurator for designing custom, 3D-printable buildings. It is aimed at model railway hobbyists, tabletop and diorama makers, dollhouse builders, and architectural model creators. Users set a building’s footprint, scale and number of storeys, choose roof forms, and add components such as windows, doors, stairs, balconies and interior details. The interactive 3D preview allows designs to be inspected and adjusted as they are built. PrintHaus generates the model geometry and prepares parts for 3D printing, including dividing oversized structures and arranging components on print beds. Designs can be exported as STL or 3MF files for slicer software, with optional STEP and GLB outputs for CAD or 3D-viewing workflows. The application also provides an MCP/HTTP interface for compatible AI clients to create and edit building models. -
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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. -
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MechDesigner
PSMotion
PSMotion Ltd is the developer of the world-leading machine design software - MechDesigner - the best software for cam, mechanism, and motion design of multi-axis machines. You can use MechDesigner to build, with confidence, the best possible packaging, assembly, and textile machines. You can also engage us at any stage of your machine design to quickly build your models, and, additionally, use all of our Motion-Design and Cam-Design expertise to give you the best possible machine performance within your design constraints. You can edit, update, and instantly observe changes, as the model continuously cycles, synchronized to a machine 'clock'. This working environment allows you to design a machine with optimal operating performance. You can collate important design parameters and their limits into one dialog, so you, or others, can review and edit your design at any time in the future. -
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Working Model 2D
Design Simulation Technologies
Working Model is the best selling motion simulation product in the world. Confirm your design with powerful analytical tools. Fast “run-analyze-refine” cycle helps to optimize designs before building physical prototypes. Reduce physical prototyping. You are in total control of the simulation environment. Quickly build, run, and refine simulations with pre-defined objects and constraints. Run, stop, reset, single step, or pause the simulation at any time. Analyze your latest design by measuring force, torque, acceleration, etc. acting on any object. View output as vectors or in numbers and graphs in English or metric units. Import your 2D CAD drawings in DXF format. Input values from equations, sliders and DDE links to MATLAB and Excel. Create bodies and specify its mass properties, initial velocity, electrostatic charge, etc. Run or edit scripts to optimize simulations, document models, and more. Create visually appealing presentations by attaching pictures. -
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FlyPal
BytzSoft Technologies
All Airlines, MRO's & Aircraft Operators have airworthiness, customer satisfaction, cost-control and manpower utilization as their top concerns. Its really important fpr organizations to, be in the aviation industry with good reputation and at same time achieve organic growth. All these concerns have to be addressed in a rational manner. Information Technology systems plays a vital role in correct implementation and control all major concerns of any Airline, MRO or Aircraft Operator. BytzSoft has been in the aviation & aerospace IT space since last 15 years and its flagship product (FlyPal) is amongst the top 5 contenders in the CAMO, M & E and MRO software globally. FlyPal delivers the entire continuum of the needs of any aviation organization by means of latest technology and zero tolerance in quality. Flexibility and Customer-Centric approach make FlyPal an obvious choice for Airlines, MRO's & Aircraft Operators of any scale or fleet size that wants true value for money. -
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STARLIMS
STARLIMS
We simplify the complexity of your entire product lifecycle management process. Easy-to-use and adaptable to your organization’s needs, the STARLIMS brand of lab informatics solutions support the rapidly changing data management needs across your organization. Our laboratory information management solutions (LIMS software) can integrate with your current systems, while also identifying opportunities to improve processes so you can bring high quality and safe products to market faster. -
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KeyShot
KeyShot
KeyShot brings you real-time 3D rendering that displays results instantly and reduces the time to create realistic product visuals. KeyShot is trusted by brands around the world for its speed, ease of use, scientifically accurate materials, and advanced material editing capabilities. Communicate your ideas easier, explore concepts sooner, and deliver jaw-dropping visuals faster – Try KeyShot today. KeyShot includes native support for over 30 leading 3D file formats. Free plugins offer one-click loading, while LiveLinking keeps your design in sync across applications. Whether it’s a small gadget or a massive assembly, using KeyShot means less time loading and more time creating. KeyShot includes over 750 preset materials, with thousands more on the KeyShot Cloud, and advanced capabilities to create your own. Apply textures, labels, and variations with ease. KeyShot’s powerful lighting, studio, and image tools allow you to capture and style the perfect shot, every time. -
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SimFlow
SIMFLOW Technologies
SimFlow is a desktop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis software for Windows and Linux OS. It is based on OpenFOAM libraries, acting like an OpenFOAM GUI. It is a professional CAE package for engineers offering fully-featured 3D simulations. SimFlow is a powerful general-purpose CFD software. It combines an intuitive graphical user interface with the advantages of the open-source OpenFOAM® libraries. Download SimFlow and use it for free in an evaluation mode to solve the most complex problems you face as an engineer, scientist or student. Maybe you use CFD software on a daily basis or maybe just want to start your adventure. Install SimFlow, rediscover the CFD world without any time limit and enjoy powerful fluid simulation software. -
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ideaMaker
Raise3D
IdeaMaker prepares Gcode for 3D printing and support STL, OBJ, OLTP and 3MF files. It features user-friendly interface and limitless customization for advanced users. For example, ideaMaker allows adaptive layer heights to automatically adjust the layer height depending on detail level required for printed area, further improving quality and reducing print time. Furthermore, user can differentiate the settings for single or multiple models by Modifier, Per-Group Setting, and Per-Layer Setting. In additional, ideaMaker provides customized support, free cut and model repair. ideaMaker is seamlessly linked to Raise3D’s other resources and tools. RaiseCloud is a cloud-based printer management platform enabling automate small batch manufacturing and print remotely. ideaMaker Library is an open library for user to get and share slicing profiles, model files and printing files. ideaMaker enables user to upload Gcode to Octoprint, thus its connected any 3rd party open-source 3D printer.
