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RSpace
RSpace
Researchers need tools that enable effective capture, management and sharing of research data. These tools, moreover, must integrate with data storage platforms/applications, other research tools, from enterprise chat to domain-specific tools like protocols.io, and data repositories. RSpace, the Connected electronic notebook, is the only ELN designed to fit seamlessly into the research data infrastructure at modern research-driven universities. As an early stage biotech you need to make rapid progress towards your next milestone. You also need to capture and organize your research data to lay the foundation for longer term IP protection and effective presentation of results to collaborators and investors. RSpace connects with research tools and with other components of the research infrastructure, to ensure the data that researchers produce is not only captured, but also properly managed and eventually made publicly available for others to view, query and re-use.Starting Price: $120 per user per year -
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Terragen
Planetside Software
Terragen 4 is faster, more interactive and easier to use. We’ve raised the bar of photorealism, while giving you new tools to create and explore your scenes more quickly and intuitively than ever before. The new Ray-Traced Preview (RTP) will revolutionize the way you use Terragen. It provides almost instant feedback as you work on your objects, shaders, atmosphere and lighting, allowing you to fine-tune your scenes much more quickly and easily. We’ve added simulation of the absorption of light by ozone in the atmosphere, making the already realistic atmosphere model practically indistinguishable from reality. Rendering engine enhancements allow Terragen 4 to render scenes which feature objects on average more than twice as fast as Terragen 3, and in some cases much more. The addition of high quality, context-aware lens effects such as bloom and starbursts bring an additional layer of photo realism, and all effects respond realistically to the characteristics of your light sources, etc.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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Polycam
Polycam
Polycam is the leading 3D capture application for iPhone and iPad! Create high-quality 3D models from photos with any iPhone or iPad, and rapidly generate scans of spaces with the LiDAR sensor. Edit your 3D captures directly on device, and export them in over a dozen file formats. Share your captures with friends and the Polycam community with Polycam Web and explore captures from around the globe on Poly World! Take photos and convert them into 3D models with photogrammetry. Great for scanning detailed objects and scenes. Generates 3D assets that are ready-to-use in any computer graphics application. Runs on any iPhone or iPad. Create unlimited scans for free directly on device, internet not required. Take unlimited measurements with inch-level accuracy for free with the Ruler tool. Automatically generate measurements of spaces on LiDAR captures. Upgrade to Polycam Pro and generate scale-accurate blueprints.Starting Price: $39.99 per year -
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SiteScape
SiteScape
The fastest way to capture and share immersive, scale-accurate 3D scans of buildings, rooms, and spaces with your LiDAR equipped iOS device. Forget scanning hardware that costs tens of thousands of dollars and takes hours of setup time. A single accurate scan is worth a thousand measurements. Say goodbye to an endless chain of emails with photo attachments. Just use our web viewer and send a single link to your entire team to measure and comment. Export industry-standard PLY and E57 files to integrate with any 3D software. Just open the SiteScape app, start scanning and watch as a high-resolution 3D scan appears before your eyes. It’s space-age tech made remarkably simple so your team can document more with way less overhead. Your high-resolution 3D scan is accurate to within an inch and robust enough for most site documentation & coordination. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a scan is worth 1,000 measurements.Starting Price: $39 per month -
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uMake
uMake
Create beautiful designs, photos, presentations, or 3D models, using a library of content and easy-to-use tools in uMake app for iPhone and iPad. Designing in 3D is now easier than ever. Drag and drop from the content library, or draw precisely using the precision tool. Everything you need is within reach. Create 3D text in seconds, or drag & drop shapes and objects from our vast content library. Already got something? It's a cinch to import file types like SketchUp or OBJ. Rather draw it yourself? Use the freestyle tool to sketch and doodle rapidly in 3D. Let your ideas flow! When precision matters, uMake puts you in control. Draw perfect lines, arcs, and angles, and specify exact dimensions. Push and pull extrusions or cutouts. Chamfer and fillet corners, and loft or revolve curves to create complex 3D surfaces. With intuitive inputs and powerful features, it's easy to model the shapes you envision.Starting Price: $7.99 per month -
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Maps Made Easy
Drones Made Easy
Collect better data for better results on any photogrammetry software or cloud processing solution! Compatible with DJI and Autel drones. All new and completely upgraded based on over 6 years of Map Pilot feedback. Map Pilot Pro helps you create and fly the optimal flight path to create great maps using the Maps Made Easy map processing service. Process into the final product using your own photogrammetry software or our Maps Made Easy online service. Mapping has never been easier. All flight logs and mission planning can be synced with Maps Made Easy's FlightSync system for enhanced debugging and troubleshooting to help users create the best maps around. Map Pilot Pro is a companion app intended for collecting data for the Maps Made Easy processing platform. Take control of your aerial maps. You collect the imagery. We'll handle the rest.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Measure
Measure
Fly and capture data with a user-friendly mobile app built for commercial use. Available for iOS and Android; compatible with DJI drones. Produce high-quality data products with an easy-to-use web portal and integrated industry-leading data tools such as Pix4D. Plan missions, track program activity, and manage your operations. Connect automatically with the integrated flight app or easily upload flight logs. Customize the feature set, add inspection tools, integrate systems, and get priority customer support to meet your business needs. Plan and manage flight operations from our cloud-based web platform. Fly with GPS-aided manual control or automated grid and waypoint patterns.Starting Price: $69 per user per month -
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Map Pilot Pro
Drones Made Easy
Map Pilot Pro helps you create and fly the optimal flight path to create great maps using the Maps Made Easy map processing service. Process into the final product using your own photogrammetry software or our Maps Made Easy online service. Mapping has never been easier. All flight logs and mission planning can be synced with Maps Made Easy's FlightSync system for enhanced debugging and troubleshooting to help users create the best maps around. Map Pilot Pro is a companion app intended for collecting data for the Maps Made Easy processing platform. Maps Made Easy's processing can be purchased by buying points on a pay-as-you-go basis or it can be subscribed to on a monthly basis. Collect top notch aerial data using Map Pilot Pro and process unlimited jobs of up to 325 images (12 megapixels) for free with Maps Made Easy.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Virtual Surveyor
Virtual Surveyor
Combine the power of your brain to interpret complex topographies with the calculation power of the computer to create drone surveys in very short times. Use drone data for a more efficient and safer mine management. Create more accurate reports on excavations and stocks. Bridge the gap with your specialized mining software. Keep track of your construction project with multiple drone surveys. Compare with your baseline or design surface and determine how much work needs to be done. Know the true value of your stocks with drone data. Set materials, calculate volumes, tonnages and monetary value for a single project or over time. The Drone Operator flies with a drone and acquires a set of pictures of the project site. The Surveyor creates a line survey, triangulation or contours in Virtual Surveyor.Starting Price: $125 per user per month -
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MechaniCalc
MechaniCalc
MechaniCalc, developed by MechaniCalc, Inc., is a suite of web-based calculators focused on machine design and structural analysis. These calculators perform analysis with a level of detail and comprehensiveness that would be expected in industry while also being intuitive and accessible. Use these calculators to move through design and analysis cycles more quickly and with greater confidence. We provide a comprehensive suite of calculators designed to automate mechanical engineering design and analysis. Each calculator comes with thorough documentation giving instructions on use as well as validation cases to show how the results of the calculators stack up against textbook solutions to example problems. We provide detailed reference material on mechanical engineering subjects as well as the methodology behind the calculators. Unrestricted access to all calculators and other content on the site. Ability to create new materials and cross-sections for use in the calculators.Starting Price: $9.99 per month -
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Sumo3D
Sumo Apps
Online 3D Editor to build and print 3D models. Integrates with Sumo Library to add models, images, sounds and textures from other apps. Create new content in a 3D environment. Create your reality by making what's in the world you walk in. Be your own Mesh, make what matters, everything is possible with Sumo3D! Design beyond your imagination! Everything is possible with Sumo3D and it's built in tools. Create three-dimensional multimedia masterpieces and share them with others! Use our tools to create animations. Sumo3D lets you create your own virtual playground! You can find all basic and less basic shapes from Sumo3D so you can start building your world with them. Add colours and textures to make it your own masterpiece. Create a whole new world to play around in. Because being unable to go outside and play should never stop you from exploring the bounds of your own mind. Build off of what you've already created by developing a better digital architecture in your own world.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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PVSketch
PVComplete
PVSketch is an intuitive web app designed to streamline solar project development. A friendly interface allows sales professionals easy access to a precision layout tool with little or no training. PVSketch helps visualize solar energy solutions and creates accurate energy modeling. PVSketch is part of the PVComplete platform. PVComplete allows solar developers, installers and engineers to work together on a single, versatile platform combining efficiency and accuracy. Sales professionals can begin a project quickly online with PVSketch and then transfer the project to PVCAD, our AutoCAD plugin, for a detailed engineering plan. PVSketch makes solar design simple. As little as five clicks and you can create a solar project packed with valuable information. Simple and instinctive drawing tools make accurate solar design accessible to any individual. While a single click can generate an entire layout if you dig deeper you can refine your solar design to create sophisticated designs.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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SunDAT
SunDAT
Web-based PV design for utility-scale and commercial solar. Our innovative, patented system for determining layout optimizes Ground Coverage Ratio (GCR) and helps engineer enhanced yields on rough terrain. Handle complex boundaries and obstructions with ease. Automate workflows and increase the efficiency of your design process with SunDAT. This feature allows you to identify areas that are beyond a certain slope tolerance or flag areas within a solar array layout that need to be graded or avoided. You can also visualize heatmaps, export them to PVsyst, and perform pile length calculations. SunDAT enables you to export your project data in multiple formats like PDF, DXF and DAE. This allows your design to be imported to programs like AutoCAD and PVsyst for continued design and analysis. SunDAT Web software optimizes large-scale utility and commercial PV design. Whether you are designing a 150MW utility-scale ground mount or a 2 MW commercial rooftop solar system, SunDAT will do it.Starting Price: $2,000 per year -
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Lyra Solar
Lyra Solar
Quickly and easily create permit-ready residential solar designs for free. Export ready-to-submit permit packages for as low as $49 in just a few minutes. Generate a ready-to-submit solar permit package at the click of a button. Every interaction is designed to be fast and simple. Lyra is so easy to use that any experienced solar professional can jump in without any training. Design just what you need for a permit, from a simple preliminary design to a down-to-the-component level permit-ready design. Generate a permit package from the design with the click of a button. Seriously, it's that easy. The Lyra solar design tool is free to use. All we need is your email address to get you set up and ready to knock out your first design. We work with solar design software companies to augment their offerings. If you lack permit packaging in your product offering, contact us to discuss how we can work together.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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Aircada Pro
Aircada
Aircada Pro makes it easy to create augmented reality HMIs and overlay existing SCADA data above each piece of equipment. Workers can harness their phone’s camera to view their data in real-time, gaining access to each of the machines’ schematics, historical data, analytics, and more. Aircada Pro offers several features including: -Live in the field data monitoring. -Augmented reality tasks and work orders. -Alarms for fast response troubleshooting. -Facility map to search and locate all assets. -Messenger for efficient team communication. -Customizable virtual reality SCADA displays. With Aircada Pro and augmented reality, maintenance teams will now have all the information they need, live in the field, to safely, quickly, and enjoyably get the job done.Starting Price: $89/month/user -
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JADBio AutoML
JADBio
JADBio is a state-of-the-art automated Machine Learning Platform without the need for coding. With its breakthrough algorithms it can solve open problems in machine learning. Anybody can use it and perform a sophisticated and correct machine learning analysis even if they do not know any math, statistics, or coding. It is purpose-built for life science data and particularly molecular data. This means that it can deal with the idiosyncrasies of molecular data such as very low sample size and very high number of measured quantities that could reach to millions. Life scientists need it to understand what are the features and biomarkers that are predictive and important, what is their role, and get intuition about the molecular mechanisms involved. Knowledge discovery is often more important than a predictive model. So, JADBio focuses on feature selection and its interpretation.Starting Price: Free -
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anima
AXYZ design
People and crowd animation software was developed specifically for architects and designers to add 3D animated characters to their projects quickly and easily. With anima®, 3D people become human beings. The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism. anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations. Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.Starting Price: €279 one-time payment -
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ruffus
ruffus
Ruffus is a computation pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics. Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort. Suitable for the simplest of tasks. Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive. No "clever magic", no pre-processing. Unambitious, the lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well. Ruffus is available under the permissive MIT free software license. This permits free use and inclusion even within proprietary software. It is good practice to run your pipeline in a temporary, “working” directory away from your original data. Ruffus is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines. Ruffus requires Python 2.6 or higher or Python 3.0 or higher.Starting Price: Free -
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GreenScapes
Landscape Design Imaging Software
GreenScapes is a fast and easy landscape, hardscape, and lighting design program. It is our most extensive program. Create landscape designs in a matter of minutes. Designs are photo-realistic renderings with the landscape, hardscape, and lighting installed. Greenscapes comes with built-in training videos for every command in the program and a tutorial sequence that takes you through a complete design step by step. There are no boring manuals to read. We also have advanced techniques you might want to see. GreenScapes will help you close the deal quickly. Potential clients fall madly in love with being able to see their home as if you completed the project. Let us show you. Our programs are Windows-based but work on a Mac with virtual environments like Parallels/Windows making it easy to switch between macOS and Windows in a single click, giving Mac users the best of both worlds. Create beautiful photo-realistic designs using GreenScapes landscape content.Starting Price: $500 one-time payment -
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progeEARTH
progeCAD
This Civil Survey software, comprised of Survey/Cogo, DTM, and Road Design modules, is powered by progeCAD® Professional. progeEARTH provides a low-cost alternative to the otherwise high-priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so. This Survey, Cogo, DTM, and Road Design software, used with progeCAD® Professional, provides a low-cost alternative to otherwise high priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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progeBILLD MEP
progeCAD
progeBILLD, professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application. progeBILLD Building Services software is very user-friendly. The program contains an intuitive, clear user interface, allowing you to begin designing without intensive software training. ProgeBILLD Mechanical/Structural is a powerful application to create mechanical and structural projects. It contains numerous libraries of standardized elements, steel profiles and other elements conforming to DIN, EN, ISO and other standards. Ready-to-use objects and commands automate the creation of details, schematics, and multi-view drawings. Thousands of industry standard bolts, screws, nuts, pins and other elements.Starting Price: $499 one-time payment -
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Hover
Hover
Home improvement shouldn’t be a mystery. Know what it will look like and what it will cost before the work even begins. HOVER generates the most accurate measurements (and a whole lot more) from a few photos of your home. With just a few photos, HOVER can create an accurately measured 3D model of a home. Your pro gets a detailed report of accurate measurements of your home from those photos. You get a 3D model of your home to design; with your pro, select materials for your project. Your pro uses your design choices and measurements to quickly and accurately estimate your project. Accurate measurements, fast estimates, direct orders, and happier customers mean more time and money to build your business. We help you connect and collaborate with homeowners, to make jobs simpler and more transparent. We offer direct ordering, production management, remote measurements, and automated estimates to make jobs more cost-effective and more efficient.Starting Price: $25 per property -
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Solibri Office
Solibri
Solibri is founded on the concept of Open BIM. Solibri Office can import building models from all major BIM software products by using the standardized IFC interface. Solibri finds the problems and helps to solve them so they don't become issues later on. We don't only point out the problems that could appear at the construction phase. We also point out the other areas that can become a problem once the building is at use. Solibri’s quality checking is based on both pre-defined and customizable rules, out of which you select which ones to use. We offer the best pre-defined rules on the market for checking not only model quality, but much more – imagine the ability to consider everything regarding, for example, the comfort of use in your newly constructed building, including details like thoroughly planned accessibility or perfectly sized and angled parking spaces.Starting Price: €280 per user per month -
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Kiber 3
VRMedia
Kiber3 empowers workforce providing "Instant Expertise Everywhere" where there is a need to accomplish ambitious tasks in challenging conditions. Kiber3 is a head mounted display integrated with property software for remote collaboration, that allows the consultation and sharing of real time informations and interaction between several participants through the use of Augmented Reality technology tools. Kiber3 allows remote workers to rapidly diagnose, inspect, operate and manage assets. Kiber 3 Kit, a rugged head-mounted device with a unique binocular visor, is designed to perform efficiently on the real needs of field and remote working collaboration and gets the job done, now. Interaction between people through technology is easy, safe and efficient.Starting Price: Free -
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EON-XR
EON Reality
Designed to bring Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions to as many people around the world as possible, EON-XR removes the obstacles that often come with incorporating AR and VR into an academic or industrial environment. Through EON-XR, educators, trainers, employers, and other users are able to create interactive and immersive AR and VR lessons without needing any coding or advanced technological knowledge. The lessons can then be distributed to their audience of students, trainees, employees, or the general public for consumption on common devices ranging from smartphones to laptops to publicly available headsets. EON-XR is preparing millions of students, employees, and citizens for the present and future while both replacing and aiding traditional training and teaching methods in dozens of countries around the world.Starting Price: Free -
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Bekonix
Bekonix
Our goal is really to help you create smart, connected projects and products from concept to final design. So that means everything from putting together the hardware components, the firmware, the behaviors and even the end-user mobile app to control it. The Bekonix Platform lets you try out ideas in minutes that would take days or weeks the traditional way. What’s more, since no programming is required, motivated creatives can jump in and not just talk about making a smart, connected product but invent it in real time. Unlike many prototyping tools out there, Bekonix is built for the next level of manufacturing. Real code, real connections. If you need larger volumes to reduce hardware costs, Bekonix can easily migrate with your needs.Starting Price: $79 per month -
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EnSuite ReVue
CADCAM
Share design data & invite anyone to evaluate, discuss, feedback & collaborate. Organize your design discussions for each design in one place, chronologically. Collaborate securely with complete visibility and accountability of your design evaluation & discussion. Securely evaluate, discuss, offer feedback & collaborate on design data. Offer rich feedback to your team, partner, or customer on the product designs at any time, from anywhere. The only place to share your designs with other stakeholders easily, quickly, securely. Retain complete visibility and accountability of your design discussions. Your team, partners, suppliers, and customers can view, evaluate, discuss, and collaborate with the 2D & 3D designs you share with them. A host of productivity tools makes it easy to work with design data. Discussion participants can share feedback using simple notes referencing relevant parts of the design.Starting Price: $1,995 one-time payment -
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Wings 3D
Wings 3D
Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Originally inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, Wings 3D has been developed since 2001, when Björn Gustavsson (bjorng) and Dan Gudmundsson (dgud) first started the project. Richard Jones (optigon) maintained Wings and coded many new features between 2006 and 2012. Wings 3D is currently maintained by Dan with the help of the great community. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. Wings 3D is written in Erlang, an open-source, functional programming language distributed by Ericsson. Wings 3D gets its name from the Winged Edge Data Structure (WEDS). This is the data structure used to store the adjacency relationships between edges, faces, and vertices in a Wings 3D model. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.Starting Price: Free -
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JSCAD
JSCAD
JSCAD is an open-source set of modular, browser, and command line tools for creating parametric 2D and 3D designs with Javascript code. It provides a quick, precise and reproducible method for generating 3D models, and is especially useful for 3D printing applications. There are different 'flavors' of JSCAD that you can use based on your needs. JSCAD is a solids modeling system. It is fundamentally unitless, however, when you export files, typically 1 unit in JSCAD corresponds to 1 millimeter in your model file. Modeling in JSCAD is often a case of building the shape you want out of primitives, but there are often many different options to get the same shape. Check out the examples on the JSCAD app's info menu to learn about the different capabilities. Booleans are one of the most important tools in the solid modeling toolkit. Many of the shapes that you will need to create on your journey can be created by joining, subtracting and intersecting simple shapes.Starting Price: Free -
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Snaptrude
Snaptrude
The collaborative building design for architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.Starting Price: $49 per month
