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Moldex3D
Moldex3D
Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastic injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you carry out in-depth simulations of the widest range of injection molding processes and to optimize product designs and manufacturability. In addition, its high compatibility and adaptability have provided users with an instant connection to mainstream CAD systems, generating a flexible simulation-driven design platform. Moldex3D is designed for auto manufacturers and design engineers to simulate and verify complex auto parts/molds based on true 3D technology. With Moldex3D, auto designers or makers are able to manage the life cycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacturing. This also helps component designers or suppliers to get rid of most potential problems in the early stage. Also, visualization of the entire injection molding processes of auto parts allows users to obtain solutions more efficiently. -
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HOOPS Exchange
Tech Soft 3D
Import over 30 CAD file formats into your application with the HOOPS Exchange SDK for CAD data translation, featuring fast and accurate read and write support for 2D and 3D CAD file formats including CATIA®, SOLIDWORKS®, Inventor™, Revit™, Creo®, NX™, Solid Edge® and many more, all through a single API. The HOOPS Exchange SDK is a set of C++ software libraries that enables development teams to quickly add reliable 2D and 3D CAD import and export to their applications, accessing a broad range of data including boundary representation (BREP), product manufacturing information (PMI), model tree, views, persistent IDs, styles, construction geometry, visualization and more without depending on any CAD system. Simplify CAD data import into your application and increase your 3D interoperability with fast and accurate access to over 30 CAD formats. The HOOPS Exchange API reads CAD data from popular 2D and 3D file formats and converts that data into the highly compressible file format PRC. -
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hIOTron
hIOTron
hIOTron's machine monitoring product is a comprehensive solution that enables you to monitor and analyze your industrial machines in real-time. With this product, you can track machine performance, detect anomalies, predict failures, and schedule maintenance activities to improve uptime and reduce downtime. The machine monitoring product consists of a range of sensors and devices that collect data from your machines, such as temperature, pressure, vibration, and other operational parameters. This data is then transmitted to a central hub where it is analyzed using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns and trends. hIOTron platform provides a user-friendly dashboard that displays real-time machine data, key performance indicators, and alerts. It also provides reports and analytics to help you understand your machine performance and identify areas for improvement. -
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OpendTect
dGB Earth Sciences
OpendTect software consists of two parts: a free, open-source part and a commercial, closed-source part that is protected by FlexNet license managing software. The open-source part is OpendTect, a seismic interpretation software system for 2D and 3D seismic data, and for fast-track development of innovative interpretation tools. OpendTect can be extended with free plugins. The closed source part is OpendTect Pro, an extended version with extra functionality for professionals. OpendTect Pro can be further extended with commercial plugins that enable unique seismic interpretation workflows. -
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EVOLVE Shop
EVOLVE
EVOLVE understands the challenges that a SHOP Foreman faces as they manage large teams, scattered communications, and visibility into the FIELD. Our modules all sync seamlessly on one platform, which streamlines communications between Design, Shop, and Field – leading to less rework and more efficient workflows. -Effective collaboration between your shop, BIM dept. and the field, reducing the time spent on back-and-forth discussions and distractions. -Clear view of what needs to be done, when, and by whom in real-time for your work requests. This enables you to focus on the most critical tasks and deliver results on time. -Easy to learn and flexible to your operational needs and can grow with your business!Starting Price: $50/month/user -
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RokDoc
Ikon Science
RokDoc is the result of more than 20 years of innovative research and industry experience. RokDoc offers a seamless interface incorporating everything from data quality control to modeling and prediction, integrating multidisciplinary workflows for Quantitative Interpretation, Pore Pressure, and Geomechanics. Evaluate sandstone, shale, and carbonate reservoirs for improved hydrocarbon exploration, production, and optimization, CO2 sequestration, and geothermal surveying using a comprehensive and extensive library of rock physics, cutting edge seismic inversion techniques, and complete geomechanics solution. Automate and easily evaluate geological “what if” scenarios. Capture uncertainty in data and models to better understand the probability of success for subsurface resource exploitation and stored fluid monitoring. -
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Tecplot Focus
Tecplot
Tecplot Focus Gets You Answers Faster and enables you to quickly plot all your engineering and test data exactly the way you want. Analyze and explore complex datasets, arrange multiple XY, 2D and 3D plots, and then communicate your results to colleagues and management with brilliant, high-quality images and animations. Save even more time and effort by automating routine data analyses and plotting tasks. Available on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms, Tecplot Focus meets the needs of your multi-platform engineering group. -
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CrowdRender
CrowdRender
CrowdRender is an alternative to render farms and render farm software (like deadline). Our software is licensed under the GPL V3, and primarily supports Blender's render pipeline, it supports Windows, MacOS and linux. The goal of the addon is to provide a simple, single install package that turns a laptop, desktop, workstation or server into a worker that can collaboratively render an animation or single image. We aim to make this as simple as possible so the plugin can be used by a single freelancer, without a deep knowledge of networking, right up to a technical director/software dev working at a large studio.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Ansys Icepak
Ansys
Ansys Icepak is a CFD solver for electronics thermal management. It predicts airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in IC packages, PCBs, electronic assemblies/enclosures, and power electronics. Ansys Icepak provides powerful electronic cooling solutions that utilize the industry-leading Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and electronic assemblies. The Ansys Icepak CFD solver uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI). Perform conduction, convection, and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection. Ansys’ complete PCB design solution enables you to simulate PCBs, ICs, and packages and accurately evaluate an entire system. -
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MxCAD
Chengdu Dream Kaide Technology Co.
Online CAD private cloud SDK, with rich web-side editing CAD functions, provides a large number of development interfaces, can be very quickly integrated into the enterprise's OA, ERP, PLM, PDM, drawing management system. End users do not need to install any plug-ins, according to the enterprise business scenarios and management processes, to achieve the exclusive drawing cloud services, corporate branding services and genuine authorization, private deployment to meet the security needs of the drawings, to help enterprises to achieve low-cost web-side browsing and editing of CAD drawings.Starting Price: $2800 per year -
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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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Synopsys Saber
Synopsys
Synopsys Saber is a solution of high-precision virtual prototyping tools for multi-domain power electronics design that consists of SaberEXP, SaberRD, and SaberES Designer. Saber allows an engineer to run complex simulations with varying component tolerances, generate best and worst-case results, and easily conduct “what-if” studies. Industry-leading accuracy lowers development costs by reducing the number of prototypes required. SaberEXP is a piecewise linear (PWL) quick converging simulator for power electronics, with seamless export into SaberRD. SaberRD adds an integrated design and simulation environment for mechatronic systems, with best-in-class analysis for power electronics validation. SaberES Designer is a wiring harness tool for optimizing wiring layout, materials, and costs, and can be integrated with industry CAD systems. Utilize systematic robust design methods to meet aggressive performance and reliability goals in compressed schedules. -
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Fritzing
Fritzing
Fritzing is an open source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as creative material for anyone. We offer a software tool, a community website, and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, fostering a creative ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional PCBs. Fritzing is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. With Fritzing Fab you can easily and inexpensively turn your circuit into a real, custom-made PCB. Fritzing can only act as a creative platform if many people are using it as a means of sharing and learning. Let us know how it fits your needs and how it doesn't show it to your friends, and share your projects. Fritzing offers several ways to easily create the part that you need. Fritzing, parts are organized into "bins" which can be accessed from the parts palette.Starting Price: €8 one-time payment -
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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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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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g-Platform : Acquisition QC
Geomage
g-Platform : Acquisition QC includes all the required applications for testing the acquired 2D/3D seismic in the field or on the vessel during acquisition process: - Geometry assignment QC and edit - FB picking and basic refraction statics - SC residual statics and deconvolution - Signal processing - Stack and post-stack migration Geomage g-Platform™ provide processor with an interactive and graphical experience of working with seismic data. The software has separate packages for Acquisition QC, Land, Marine, VSP and Depth imaging applications that simplifies licensing to the domain you require to work in.Starting Price: $6,000/year/user -
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AWS Thinkbox Sequoia
Amazon
AWS Thinkbox Sequoia is a standalone application for point cloud processing and meshing, compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. It accepts point cloud and mesh data in various industry-standard formats, converting point cloud data into a compact and fast-to-access intermediate cache format. Sequoia offers intelligent workflows to retain high-precision data efficiently, displaying all or a fraction of the point cloud data using adaptive view-dependent methods. Users can transform, cull, and modify point cloud data, generate meshes from point clouds, and optimize the produced meshes. The software supports projecting images onto points and meshes, generating mesh vertex colors, Ptex, or UV-based textures from point cloud colors and image projections. It exports resulting meshes to supported industry-standard mesh file formats and integrates with Thinkbox Deadline to perform point cloud data conversion, meshing, and export on network nodes. -
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picoCAD
Johan Peitz
picoCAD is a program to build and texture low-poly 3D models. Where many programs for modeling and texturing are bloated and overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. It is built on the PICO-8 platform and comes rich with constraints. Experiment to find your own workflow and anything is possible. picoCAD is a standalone application and you don't need PICO-8 to run it. Features include a streamlined and easy-to-use editor, the ability to place and modify meshes to create amazing things, live manipulation of textures and UV coordinates, a unique look with picoCAD's dithered shading, rendering in wireframe, solid fill, or textured modes, and it ships with a manual that is worth reading. You can save files in an easy-to-read text format, export Twitter-friendly GIFs, and export to OBJ/MTL for import into Blender, Unity, etc. A Steam key is included with every purchase.Starting Price: $5.95 one-time payment -
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MoveIt Pro
PickNik Robotics
Develop advanced robotics applications with production-ready AI. MoveIt Pro is an open platform designed to expedite the development of advanced robotic manipulation applications. MoveIt Pro offers features such as real-time object recognition, dynamic path planning, and force-compliant controllers, enabling robots to adapt to unexpected obstacles and handle objects of varying sizes and weights. The platform is hardware-agnostic, supporting a wide array of robot brands and types, which allows for flexible integration with existing systems. PickNik's expertise extends across various industries, including construction, oil and gas, agriculture, and space exploration, providing tailored solutions that reduce R&D costs and accelerate time-to-market. Their collaborative approach involves co-developing with clients' engineering teams to deliver groundbreaking robotic arm applications.Starting Price: $19,800 per year -
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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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Tecplot RS
Tecplot
Tecplot RS is an integrated visualization and analysis software tailored for oil and gas reservoir engineers. It facilitates the management and interpretation of reservoir simulation data through comprehensive XY plots, 2D cross-sections, and 3D grid visualizations. The platform supports data import from various simulation sources, enabling users to efficiently organize results, validate reservoir models, and effectively communicate findings across teams. Recent updates, such as the 2023 R1 release, have introduced features enhancing the assessment of history match quality by allowing the creation of selection sets based on deviation bands. Additionally, the software now supports the visualization of negative values in stamp plots, aiding in the analysis of fluid behavior trends within reservoirs. With a user-friendly interface, Tecplot RS ensures a short learning curve, complemented by full technical support and free online training. -
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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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VRED
Autodesk
Autodesk VRED is a professional 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software designed to bring complex data to life. It enables users to create high-quality renderings on-premises or in the cloud, visualize, review, and validate designs with ease and accuracy, and collaborate on any device, including virtual reality. VRED helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. It transforms complex design and engineering datasets into a holistic digital control model that can be used as a single source of truth. Users can access the latest design data anywhere, anytime, for high-quality collaborative review on desktop, mobile, or in VR using various utilities and streaming APIs. VRED supports features like data preparation, virtual prototyping, virtual photography, visual simulation, collaboration, and XR experiences. -
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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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Simcenter EDEM
Siemens
Simcenter EDEM is a high-performance Discrete Element Method tool for bulk material and particle simulation, designed to give engineers crucial insight into how granular materials interact with handling equipment across a range of operating and process conditions. It accurately simulates and analyzes the behavior of coal, ores, soils, fibers, grains, tablets, powders, rocks, crops, and other real-world materials. Users can get started quickly with extensive pre-calibrated material model libraries representing rocks, ores, soils, and powders, while validated physics models support dry, sticky, compressible, and more complex material behaviors. Simcenter EDEM can simulate complex, industry-scale particle systems involving many millions of particles with fast and scalable compute performance across CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU solvers. -
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PFC (Particle Flow Code)
ITASCA Consulting
PFC, or Particle Flow Code, is a general-purpose distinct-element modeling framework available as two- and three-dimensional programs, PFC2D and PFC3D. It is designed to simulate synthetic granular and solid materials as assemblies of variably sized rigid particles, including disks, spheres, rigidly connected clumps, and convex polygons or polyhedra. It provides an efficient and flexible way to model the motion, interaction, breakage, flow, deformation, and failure of particle systems across geomechanics, mining, civil engineering, materials processing, and industrial design. PFC is especially useful for problems where the behavior of a material emerges from particle-level contacts, bonding, friction, rearrangement, fracture, or flow rather than from a continuous mesh. Users can represent bonded materials such as rock, concrete, or cemented soil, as well as loose granular materials such as sand, gravel, ballast, ore, powders, and grains.Starting Price: $9,588 one-time payment -
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Aspherix
DCS Computing
Aspherix is a state-of-the-art Discrete Element Method platform designed to simulate particle behavior in diverse systems and provide high-precision process modeling for industrial and research applications. It offers comprehensive DEM simulation tools for analyzing granular materials, powders, bulk solids, cohesive particles, polydisperse materials, and particle interactions across a wide range of environments and processes. Aspherix gives users strong control over simulation data, integrates information from multiple sources, and supports seamless analysis across varied formats, helping teams optimize operations and drive product innovation through data-driven simulation. With user-friendly dashboards and real-time analytics, the platform helps engineers move from complex particle behavior to fast, actionable insights. -
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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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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
