Best Engineering Software for Mac - Page 12
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Cheetah3D
Cheetah3D
Cheetah3D is a powerful and easy to learn 3D modeling, rendering and animation software which was developed from the ground up for Mac. So jump right into the world of computer generated imaging, create 3D artwork for your next iPhone game or make your first animated character. With a full set of polygon, subdivision surface and spline modeling tools the artists can focus on creating, safe in the knowledge that Cheetah3D has a breadth of features for the task. Cheetah3D makes modeling in 3D a breeze for new and experienced users alike. Character rigging is part of the seamless animation system of Cheetah3D where just about every property of an object can be animated. Breathe life into a character for your next iPhone game or animate an architectural fly-through by the powerful animation system built into Cheetah3D. Cheetah3D smoothly integrates the industrial strength Bullet physics engine to simulate rigid body and soft body dynamics.Starting Price: $99 -
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Godot
Godot
Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code. Nodes for all your needs. Godot comes with hundreds of built-in nodes that make game design a breeze. You can also create your own for custom behaviors, editors and much more. Flexible scene system. Create node compositions with support for instancing and inheritance. Visual editor with all the tools you need packed into a beautiful and uncluttered context-sensitive UI. Friendly content creation pipeline for artists, level designers, animators and everyone in between. Persistent live editing where changes are not lost after stopping the game. It even works on mobile devices! Create your own custom tools with ease using the incredible tool system. -
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Kerkythea
Kerkythea
Kerkythea is a freeware software that can produce high quality renders without spending a cent on software licensing. Kerkythea is using physically accurate materials and lights, aiming for the best quality rendering in the most efficient timeframe, with target to simplify the task of quality rendering by providing the necessary tools to automate scene setup, such as staging using the GL real-time viewer, material editor, general/render settings, editors, etc., under a common interface. Kerkythea is a full staging application for rendering your models. And now it’s available for all major platforms Windows, Linux and MacOSX! It accepts .3ds or .obj models, as well as having powerfully developed free exporter for SketchUp. -
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EQUINOX-3D
EQUINOX-3D
The 3D modeler with the fastest, fully integrated ray-tracer. Because "rasterization is so 20th century™" 3D modeling, animation, photorealistic rendering, photorealistic VR content creation, CAD/CAM, 3D printing, laser-cutting and much more! Why is EQUINOX-3D better? As our artist said: "all engineers should be forced to use the software they write". I use EQX many hours a day and there is no need to force me! Super-fast photorealistic renderer, the first fully integrated interactive ray-tracer in a modeler. You can do full editing/modeling on ray-traced windows! Powerful subdivision surface modeling. Powerful CAD/CAM features, 3D printing and laser-cutting support. Universal rendering API that allows full modeling on any renderer and fully integrated Cg renderer with a quality that closely matches the ray-tracer. HDR texture support and HDR rendering output. Super fast importance-sampled HDR environment light support. -
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appleseed
appleseed
appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects. appleseed is actively developed by a small, international team of talented volunteers from the animation and VFX industry. Its core mission is to provide individuals and small studios with a complete, reliable, fully open rendering package. Over the years appleseed has been used on several projects including TV documentaries, ads, promotional videos and an animation short. appleseed implements a modern workflow based on path tracing that enables artifact-free, single pass rendering with very little technical tuning. It is simultaneously capable of strictly unbiased rendering when total accuracy matters, and biased rendering when artistic freedom and shorter rendering time are paramount. -
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Jahshaka
Jahshaka
Create your piece of the metaverse today with free 3D virtual reality authoring and publishing tools created by artists, for artists. Jahshaka is a complete solution for the creation, distribution and monetization of virtual assets, scenes and worlds. It gives you tools you need including powerful project management, immersive 3d content creation, online and offline playback as well as the ability to publish online or host your own creations. Jahshaka gives you the tools you need to create virtual scenes and worlds, distribute them online and offline, and includes a fully interactive multi user engine for collaborative experinces. Jahshaka gives you the tools to distribute and share your virtual creations. Our standalone player lets people explore your creations on everything from laptops and desktops to mobile devices, and our world server lets you host your own collaborative VR environment. -
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Mixamo
Adobe
Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more. Empowering creativity with animated 3D characters. Bring your projects to life with 3D characters, skeletal rigs, and animations, ready for use in film, games, interactive experiences and illustration. Browse a collection of high-quality 3D characters. From realistic to cartoon, fantasy to sci-fi, there’s a character for every purpose. Each character comes fully textured and rigged so you can use immediately in your creative projects. Upload your custom character to Mixamo and get an automatically rigged full human skeleton, custom fit to your model and ready to animate. Customize your rigging options with optimizations for mobile performance. Explore a library of thousands of full-body character animations, captured from professional motion actors. Each animation is transferred to your own character and can be previewed and edited directly with Mixamo, so you can control the look and feel of each motion. -
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Creality Print
Creality
Creality Print is a 3D printing slicer software developed by Creality to help users prepare, manage, and monitor their 3D printing projects. The platform converts 3D models into printable files while providing tools for model editing, slicing configuration, and print optimization. Users can remotely control compatible Creality printers, monitor print jobs, and send files directly to printers through USB, Wi-Fi, or cloud-based connections. The software integrates with Creality Cloud, allowing users to upload, manage, and access models from a connected ecosystem. Creality Print supports multiple operating systems and offers an intuitive interface designed for both beginners and experienced makers. By combining slicing, printer management, and cloud connectivity, Creality Print simplifies the workflow from model preparation to final production. -
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PrusaSlicer
Prusa Research
PrusaSlicer is our own in-house developed slicer software based on the open-source project Slic3r. PrusaSlicer is an open-source, feature-rich, frequently updated tool that contains everything you need to export the perfect print files for your original Prusa 3D printer. PrusaSlicer is based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci. It's completely free and open-source. Thanks to the strong community and core team of developers in Prusa Research we can continually add new functionality. You can follow the development process on Github. Paint custom supports directly on the model! Or block automatically generated supports in selected areas. You can also use custom meshes as support blockers and enforcers. Everything is neatly saved in the project file, always customizable. Testers and developers at Prusa Research are constantly working on presets for 150+ filaments and resins. We are adding profiles on regular basis, following materials by the most popular manufacturers. -
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Emerson Ovation
Emerson
Emerson’s Ovation™ platform delivers a unified automation approach for modern power and water operations. Built on a robust DCS core and deployed across thousands of sites worldwide, Ovation supports over 1.4 million MW of generation capacity with deep expertise in turbine, boiler, HRSG, and renewable control. Its integrated suite includes SIS, SCADA, simulation with digital twin modeling, optimization tools, plant prognostics, cybersecurity, and AI-driven applications. Emerson also leads in water/wastewater automation, with successful DCS and SCADA implementations at more than 150 U.S. facilities managing 12 billion gallons daily. -
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MicMac
MicMac
MicMac is a free open-source (Cecill-B license) photogrammetric suite that can be used in a variety of 3D reconstruction scenarios. In aims mainly at professionnal or academic users but constant efforts are made to make it more accessible to the general public. One of MicMac strengths is its high degree of versatility. It can indeed be used in various fields, cartography, environment, industry, forestry, heritage, archaeology, etc. MicMac allows both the creation of 3D models and of ortho-imagery when appropriate. The software is suitable to every type of objects of any scale, from small object or statues with acquisition from the ground, to church, castle through drone acquisitions, to buildings, cities or natural areas through aerial or satellite acquisitions. The tools also allow for the georeferencing of the end products in local/global/absolute coordinates system. Some complementary tools opens the fields of metrology and site surveying. -
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openMVG
openMVG
Extend awareness of the power of 3D reconstruction from images and photogrammetry by developing a C++ framework. Simplify reproducible research with easy-to-read and accurate implementation of state of the art and "classic" algorithms. OpenMVG is designed to be easy to read, learn, modify and use. Thanks to its strict test-driven development and samples, the library allows to build trusted larger systems. OpenMVG provides an end-to-end 3D reconstruction from images framework compounded of libraries, binaries, and pipelines. The libraries provide easy access to features like images manipulation, features description and matching, feature tracking, camera models, multiple-view-geometry, robust-estimation, structure-from-motion algorithms, etc. The binaries solve unit tasks that a pipeline could require scene initialization, feature detection & matching and structure-from-motion reconstruction. -
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Qbiq
qbiq AI
qbiq is a first-of-its-kind AI planning and visualization solution that instantly creates customized layout alternatives and 3D virtual tours, reducing space planning turnaround time from weeks to minutes. Traditionally, finding the perfect space required manual validation by architects, a time-consuming and restrictive process. qbiq changes this by providing instant clarity and efficiency in space planning. With qbiq, anyone can plan, visualize, and optimize spaces in minutes. The platform eliminates the delays and limitations of manual processes, enabling faster decision-making and easy customization. qbiq democratizes space planning, empowering businesses and designers to turn their visions into reality quickly and effortlessly. -
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System Advisor Model (SAM)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Photovoltaic systems, from small residential rooftops to large utility-scale systems. Concentrating Solar Power systems for electric power generation, including parabolic trough, power tower, and linear Fresnel. Power purchase agreement (PPA) projects where the system is connected to the grid at an interconnection point, and the project earns revenue through power sales. The project may be owned and operated by a single owner or by a partnership involving a flip or leaseback arrangement. Third-party ownership is where the system is installed on the customer's (host) property and owned by a separate entity (developer), and the host is compensated for power generated by the system through either a PPA or lease agreement. -
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StarDrop
Optibrium
With its comprehensive suite of integrated software, StarDrop™ delivers best-in-class in silico technologies within a highly visual and user-friendly interface. StarDrop™ enables a seamless flow from the latest data through predictive modeling to decision-making regarding the next round of synthesis and research, improving the speed, efficiency, and productivity of the discovery process. Successful compounds require a balance of many different properties. StarDrop™ guides you through this multi-parameter optimization challenge to target compounds with the best chance of success, saving you time and resources by enabling you to synthesize and test fewer compounds. -
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Fluidit
Fluidit
We are developing the basis for smart cities. Our cutting-edge hydraulic modeling portfolio is specifically designed to solve urban infrastructure issues creatively and analytically. We empower modelers, engineers, and decision-makers to simulate water and energy systems, prepare for the future and make the best decisions every day. We think that water and energy are inseparable. Fluidit has developed a state-of-art software suite that uniquely caters to the complex interactions of urban water and energy systems. Fluidit’s intuitive and highly flexible user interface is shared between all our products, ensuring quick learning no matter which software you grab. Learn one, know all of them. Focus your time and energy on analysis and problem solving, not on model building and simulations. Enjoy our streamlined model-building tools and ultra-fast simulations that help you complete modeling tasks efficiently. At the same time, the software intuitively expands your capabilities. -
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DataMesh Director
DataMesh
Leveraging existing 3D assets like CAD/BIM files, DataMesh Director enables quick 3D Digital Twin content creation with PPT like drag-and-drop experience. With out-of-the-box support of IoT data binding, remote collaboration, one-click cross-platform content publishing, DataMesh Director users can create job SOP, support guide, 3D product manual, and real-time monitoring of robots and equipment, greatly improve frontline worker’s experience and efficiency. Unlike the professional tools, DataMesh Director is built for everyone. User can quickly complete tasks such as 3D training guidance, explanations, sales persentations within 10 mins of learning, reducing the cost of content production significantly. Provide remote expert with transparent information and operation processes to help frontline workers break the barriers of communication and reducing the cost greatly. -
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SenseHawk
SenseHawk
Custom-built for Solar, the SenseHawk Solar Digitization Platform (SDP) offers powerful features for every stage of your asset lifecycle. Built around an intelligent system model, the SenseHawk SDP keeps you in the know, helps you build, moves work forward, lets your teams collab, and allows you to detect and remediate asset issues. The nerve center of SenseHawk’s SDP, our Asset Information Model (AIM) enables stage- and stakeholder-specific use cases for all your work both onsite and in the office. Get actionable insights into site planning. Integrate layered inputs from SRTM, ALTA, and other surveys. Leverage in-built GIS to see location-specific views and data. Schedule projects, assign jobs, build workflows, configure quality controls, digitize documentation, and unify on-site and stakeholder reporting with a full-featured construction management suite. -
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Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise
Rocket Software
Fast and frictionless product design data exchange with your partners. Automated, traceable, secure CAD and PLM data exchange with your customers and suppliers. TRUfusion Enterprise is a simple, cost-effective complementary solution for companies using CAD and PLM systems such as Siemens NX and Teamcenter®, PTC Creo and Windchill™, and Dassault Systemes CATIA, allowing you to easily and securely manage the exchange of CAD files and related product design data from within your PLM system. Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise automates repetitive file-exchange activities between your company and your customers, suppliers, and partners, activities include importing and exporting to different PLM systems; translating CAD data into different formats; checking, restructuring, and renaming files to ensure integrity and quality; sending and receiving data; and tracking key activities. Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise supports or integrates with many CAD and PLM standards and systems out of the box. -
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Create Space
SignWarehouse
Create Space is a versatile, feature-rich but user-friendly application designed for crafters and creative people who want to design beautiful vector graphics for vinyl cutting. The user interface is simple and intuitive. Design features include outlines, drop shadows, auto-tracing, 3D welding, rhinestone templates, and an extensive shape library. Create Space supports contour-cutting with digital printers and advanced vinyl cutters and is fully compatible with MAC OS 10 and Windows 8/10. Create Space drives all vinyl express vinyl cutters and the exciting new MUSE vinyl cutters available exclusively from SIGNWarehouse. Support for automatic contour-cutting with MUSE, Vinyl Express Rogue, and other advanced vinyl cutters. Seamless SVG file format support. Import your craft cutter designs. Drawing tools and 200 vector shapes in the shape library. Powerful design effects including symmetrical mirror, wave effects, 3D rotate, drop shadow, knockout, puzzle generator, & more.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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Swiss-PdbViewer
Swiss-PdbViewer
Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) is an application that provides a user-friendly interface allowing to analysis of several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid mutations, H-bonds, angles, and distances between atoms are easy to obtain thanks to the intuitive graphic and menu interface. Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) has been developed since 1994 by Nicolas Guex. Swiss-PdbViewer was initially tightly linked to SWISS-MODEL, an automated homology modeling server developed within the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) at the Structural Bioinformatics Group at the Biozentrum in Basel. However, the SWISS-MODEL web interface evolved to a point where it is now possible to use it directly for advanced modeling. Maintaining a direct interface with Swiss-PdbViewer is too complex and no longer supported. -
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Avogadro
Avogadro
Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture. Avogadro is a free, open-source molecular editor and visualization tool, designed for use on Mac, Windows, and Linux in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high quality rendering and a powerful plugin architecture. -
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Rockhound
Kinemetrics
Rockhound, originally introduced as smarts, is a software platform designed to implement real-time data acquisition solutions from streams of one or more digitizers and perform vital functions on the data that are critical to the end user. The platform is modular as a building block structure where each module within a specific implementation may be connected in many useful and different ways. Developed in Java, the Rockhound software platform can be run on a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows, multiple Mac OS, and Linux. Also available is an optional software development Kit that allows users to create their own custom Rockhound modules for integrating with existing modules supplied by Kinemetrics. With the optional kit, users would be able to create their own specialized post-processing, data storage, notification, triggering, filtering, and other functions. -
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Antelope
Kinemetrics
The Antelope mission-critical data acquisition and processing software is used by the 10 largest seismic networks in the world (outside of Japan), being 100% commercially owned and supported by BRTT, Inc., a Kinemetrics strategic partner. Tie-in capability with virtually any seismic networks in the World. Unique automated real-time response spectra computation with exceedance alarms. Rich and documented APIs for interfacing client’s own programs. -
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Vytelle
Vytelle
Vytelle is a precision livestock company reshaping how cattle producers worldwide optimize their herds. Our solutions reduce uncertainty to help you make your most important mating and reproduction decisions. Vytelle SENSE™ is our proprietary individual animal data capture system. It records feed intake and in-pen weight gain measurements to help you identify elite-performing animals expressing economically and environmentally important traits. Our low-contact devices collect key performance data with no stress on the animal and automatically communicate it for processing and integration with other information. Built on 30 years of continuous advancement in helping producers collect and use cattle data, our decision tools are now driven by the industry’s only AI analytic engine. It quickly processes phenotypic, genomic, environmental and performance data into easy-to-read dashboards and reports, enabling more-informed choices for your cattle operation. -
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Vizcom
Vizcom
See your drawings come to life in seconds. Instantly visualize your ideas with AI-powered creative tools. Quick and effortless rendering. Create a high quality render in seconds with a quick sketch, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual rendering. Start a sketch using your favorite drawing tablet or iPad. Ideate quickly and accelerate your rate of innovation and creativity, efficiently. Supercharge your ideation process by creating unique renders without breaking your creative sprint. Never get the same image twice. Share projects and assets with your team. Share your ideas and see what your team can create together. Download the Vizcom desktop client app for Windows or Mac, and get started with your drawing tablet. -
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FRAMECAD
FRAMECAD
Gain efficient design and faster construction with the complete FRAMECAD system. Achieve accelerated delivery of cold formed steel (CFS) construction with automated engineering and detailing software that integrates with our world-leading factory control software and advanced roll-forming manufacturing equipment. The recent push towards increasing the use of technology in construction proves the significance of cold-formed steel CAD software (computer-aided design) and its design capabilities. This comes with many benefits including being able to deliver project faster, with fewer rework requirements, improving your return on investment. Design, engineering calculations, structural analysis, detailing, and roll-forming machine control an all-in-one cold-formed steel framing cad software. Provide extreme precision and efficiency in the construction process, lowering engineering, design, waste, and labor costs. -
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Framing
Elecosoft
Framing, the design tool for timber frame and floor construction, is a modular solution to fit the needs and requirements of today’s offsite construction market. Utilized extensively by timber frame manufacturers, structural engineers and design practices, the Framing software is used for the detailing of timber frame buildings in 3D, producing comprehensive material schedules, and manufacturing drawings for manual production along with direct links to industry automated machinery and saws. Framing is used for the detailing of various different types of timber frame buildings. Whilst working in primarily a 2D environment, a 3D model is created based on the user’s input, thereby allowing easy checking of levels and heights within the application. -
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Fuzzy Studio
Fuzzy Logic Robotics
Visual no-code robot programming and simulation. Designed for people who are not robotics experts. Compatible with all major robot brands (ABB, FANUC, KUKA, Staübli, Universal Robot & Yaskawa). Enables both offline and online robotic programming. Program any robot - no coding skills necessary. There is no need to learn or understand programming to use a robot. With our no-code user interface, visually interact with the 3D simulated environment and the robot programs are automatically generated for you. Get up and running right away without wasting time on details. Figure out how robotics can work for you with step-by-step application tutorials and our clear user interface. Design and simulate your robotic workcell. Design, simulate and modify an entire robotic process in just a few clicks. In Fuzzy Studio, anyone can layout, test, and reconfigure their robotic workcell. -
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AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Built on AMD’s high-performance Radeon™ Rays technology, Radeon™ ProRender’s complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for swift, impressive results. Features an extensive native physically-based material and camera system to enable true design decisions with global illumination. A powerful combination of cross-platform compatibility, rendering capabilities, and efficiency helps reduce the time required to deliver true-to-life images. Harness the power of machine learning to produce high-quality final and interactive renders in a fraction of the time traditional denoising takes. Free Radeon™ ProRender plug-ins are currently available for many popular 3D content-creation applications to create stunning, physically accurate renders.
