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GROMACS
GROMACS
GROMACS is a free and open source suite for high-performance molecular dynamics and output analysis. It is a versatile package for simulating the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles, with a strong focus on materials modeling, biomolecular simulation, and particle-based systems. GROMACS is primarily designed for biochemical molecules such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, which involve many complicated bonded interactions, but its speed in calculating nonbonded interactions also makes it useful for non-biological systems such as polymers and other materials. It can model ensembles of particles in liquid, solid, or gaseous states and supports a wide range of molecular dynamics workflows, from basic energy minimization and equilibration to production simulations and detailed trajectory analysis.Starting Price: Free -
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NAMD
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. Based on Charm++ parallel objects, it scales from desktop and laptop computers to high-end parallel platforms, hundreds of cores for typical simulations, and beyond 500,000 cores for the largest simulations. NAMD is built for researchers who need to simulate large molecular systems efficiently while preserving compatibility with widely used molecular modeling workflows. It uses the popular molecular graphics program VMD for simulation setup and trajectory analysis, and it is file-compatible with AMBER, CHARMM, and X-PLOR. It is designed to support biomolecular simulations involving proteins, membranes, nucleic acids, solvents, ions, and other molecular systems where atomic interactions and time-dependent motion need to be studied in detail.Starting Price: Free -
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ESPResSo
ESPResSo
ESPResSo, the Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter, is a highly versatile open source simulation package for performing and analyzing scientific molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo many-particle simulations. It is designed as a universal tool for simulating a variety of soft matter systems, especially coarse-grained atomistic or bead-spring models used in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and process engineering. ESPResSo can be used to simulate polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, polyelectrolytes, ferrofluids, gels, biological systems, DNA, lipid membranes, bacterial motion, and super-capacitors. In coarse-grained models, a group of atoms or molecules is treated as a single bead, allowing researchers to investigate larger time and length scales than would be practical with fully atomistic simulations. ESPResSo supports classical molecular dynamics simulations in different statistical ensembles.Starting Price: Free -
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frontline.io
frontline.io
frontline.io is an AI-powered XR platform for machinery manufacturers that unites training, support, and operations in one workspace. The platform uses Digital Twins, AR, VR, AI guidance, and remote assistance to help teams improve workforce readiness and machine uptime. Manufacturers can convert CAD files, PDFs, Word documents, manuals, and expert knowledge into interactive workflows and guided procedures. frontline.io supports immersive training, step-by-step maintenance flows, real-time remote expert support, parts catalogs, analytics, and multilingual content translation. The platform helps teams reduce training costs, increase first-time fix rates, create content faster, and improve remote support outcomes. Built for industrial teams, frontline.io replaces static manuals with interactive Digital Twins and AI-guided workflows for field service, operations, and workforce enablement.Starting Price: $300/month/10 users -
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LensHH-LT
Synapse Optics
LensHH-LT is sequential optical design software for refractive and reflective imaging systems - real capability without an enterprise seat price. Analyses cover ray tracing, Seidel and higher-order aberration coefficients, ray and OPD fans, FFT and geometric MTF, PSF, wavefront maps, spot diagrams, field curvature, distortion and relative illumination. Optimization runs local or global: multi-start and basin-hopping search, glass substitution across full catalogs, stock-lens matching and saddle-point construction. It reads and writes Zemax, Code V, OSLO, Optalix and Optiland, so existing designs open intact. Alongside the GUI it exposes an API, a CLI and an open MCP server, letting AI agents such as Claude build systems, run optimizations and read analyses back. Windows, Linux and Apple Silicon macOS. $385 perpetual license, not a subscription. 45-day trial. Free for students and academics: the full program, two years, renewable once. Offline activation for air-gapped machines.Starting Price: $385 -
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C.A.L.M. Airline Suite
C.A.L.M. Systems
C.A.L.M. (Computerized Aircraft Log Manager) Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of aviation maintenance management software solution. The company's Airline Suite offers a robust set of modules, including Computerized Aircraft Reliability Tracking System (C.A.R.T.S) and Continuous Aircraft Surveillance (C.A.S), that ensure fleet readiness and enhance the aviation maintenance community's productivity, efficiency, and safety. Key features of the Airline Suite include electronic log books, flight log tracking, bulletin tracking, maintenance forecasting, budget forecasting, temples for common component lists, and more. This software monitors discrepancies and reports mechanical reliability and corrective actions or deferrals. It is integrated with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed. Features and reports.Starting Price: $1000 per month -
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RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher is a leading floor plan software that makes it easy to create, edit, and share accurate and high-quality floor plans. An easy-to-learn drag-and-drop interface enables you to draw plans from scratch or order existing plans to be drawn for you through RoomSketcher's redraw services. 2D and 3D plans can be customized with accurate measurements, annotations, and company branding. RoomSketcher is available on desktops and tablets, and can be used anywhere with an internet connection, as projects are stored in the cloud and sync across devices. RoomSketcher is used by thousands of real estate professionals, interior designers, and general contractors all over the world. Save time, win clients, and elevate your marketing with RoomSketcher's impressive and professional floor plan visuals. -
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Siemens Industrial Edge
Siemens
Siemens Industrial Edge is an edge computing platform designed to bring real-time data processing and intelligent insights directly to the manufacturing shop floor. It combines hardware, software, connectivity, applications, edge devices, and centralized management into a scalable industrial ecosystem. The platform helps manufacturers collect, process, analyze, and manage data from industrial assets more efficiently. Industrial Edge supports IT and OT integration by connecting shop floor systems with cloud platforms, IIoT services, ERP, MES, SCADA systems, and MQTT brokers. It also enables production analytics, intelligent maintenance, software-defined automation, and AI-powered optimization for quality, throughput, and defect detection. With secure management, flexible deployment, and ecosystem apps, Siemens Industrial Edge helps manufacturers improve productivity, reliability, and decision-making. -
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Bizprac
Bizprac Software
The builders using Bizprac construction estimating software discovered that job estimations are done faster and more effectively. Bizprac construction job software allows you to easily manage projects from estimate to invoice and gives you the job status and resource levels in real-time. Bizprac’s construction job costing software is fully integrated which means that at a click of a button you can compare your project budget against your project actuals. Bizprac’s construction job costing software is fully integrated which means that at a click of a button you can compare your project budget against your project actuals. View actual costs vs budgets for each job in real-time. Creditor PO automatically extracts all materials. Job tracked in the same cost center format as estimate. Bill of materials contains the supplier codes and descriptions. Produce contract variations. Lock Creditor PO to invoice. -
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PlusSpec
RubySketch
PlusSpec is the most powerful, affordable and easy to learn 3D BIM/Virtual Design Construction & Estimating software for the Design & Construction Industry. From Design & Sales to Estimating & Procurement, PlusSpec offers one integrated solution created to help you become more efficient & profitable. PlusSpec has been made for people who are low on time, and we’ve included the support you need so you can quickly master the software. The only BIM software you can actually design with. Immerse your clients in 3D and sell your designs. Create professional 2D drawings. Manage client budgets. Develop stronger relationships with stakeholders. PlusSpec will allow you to do more than just quantify. Quote Fast. End Error and Oversight. Visualize Risk & Complexity. Transform the way you Communicate. Deliver more than just a Paper Quote. Whether you are Designing & Drafting, or Estimating & Building (or both), specifying products is a key part of the process.Starting Price: $990 per year -
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Home Designer
Chief Architect
Home Designer Software is the top-rated 3D interior design, remodeling and home design software. Based on technology from Chief Architect's professional architectural software, Home Designer is made easy for DIY. Discover why Home Designer is the best home design app to visualize and design your next house project. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers. Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings, and 360 panoramic renderings. Chief Architect's software is purpose‑built for residential design with building tools that can automatically generate roofs, foundations, framing, and dimensions. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model. These 3D models can be shared with homeowners, structural engineers or subcontractors using the 3D Viewer app.Starting Price: $79 one-time payment -
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HighDesign
ILEXSOFT
Drafting and architectural design in one, comprehensive software. All the tools you need to complete your project from start to success. In HighDesign Standard and Pro, extend the default resource libraries of line types, hatches, patterns, textures, styles an types. Annotate, dimension and document your project with standard-compliant tools and parametric properties. HighDesign imports and exports your project as DXF, DWG 2019, Tiff, Jpeg, Gif and PNG with alpha channel. Organize your project in a clean structure of layers, views, specialized sheets and styles. HighDesign's modern user interface simplifies complex tasks and keeps everything you need exactly where you need it. HighDesign R6 is available for Mac and Windows: it comes with the same interface, feature set and file format for both Mac and Windows platforms: this means that exchanging files and sharing resources between different machines and with external collaborators has never been so easy.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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AggreGate
Tibbo Systems
AggreGate is a white-label full-stack Internet of Things integration platform that drives a digital transformation of your enterprise from connecting the assets to "slicing and dicing" their data for discovering some valuable insights. The Platform and derived vertical products also help integrators, OEMs, telecoms, and MSPs render IoT services running both on the edge and in their cloud. Design and develop your consumer or industrial IoT app in days, deploy into production in weeks. Industrial automation and process control via the 4th generation SCADA/MES platform. Building Automation. Build a unified command and control center for your intelligent facility. Cut HVAC/energy and other operating costs. Deliver digital services for higher resident satisfaction. Data Center Supervisor. Manage both industrial and IT equipment of your data center via a single umbrella system. Design dynamic floor plans, build custom dashboards, integrate with DCIM. -
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Strata Design 3D CX
Strata
Design 3D CX gives you all the tools you need to complete professional 3D projects. Illustrators, product & package designers, display & interior designers – and other creative professionals – rely on Strata Design 3D CX to realize their vision. Easy to learn, hundreds of hours of video tutorials, and connections to Adobe® and other tools make getting up to speed – and integrating with your workflow – a breeze. Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. Quick start templates, libraries, predefined effects, backgrounds, environments and more allow designers to create complex scenes in minutes. With a user interface and tools that are familiar to today’s 2D designers, you invest your time learning 3D design concepts rather than a new design paradigm. For many, the thought of 3D modeling is a daunting task. Design 3D offers an extremely friendly modeling toolset and environment for manipulating your polygons, splines, and primitives into any 3D object.Starting Price: $595 one-time payment -
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MapleSim
Waterloo Maple
From digital twins for virtual commissioning to system-level models for complex engineering design projects, MapleSim is an advanced modeling tool that helps you reduce development time, lower costs, and diagnose real-world performance issues. Remove vibrations with better control code, not hardware upgrades. Diagnose root-cause performance issues with detailed simulation results. Validate new design performance before physical prototyping. MapleSim is an advanced system-level modeling and simulation tool that applies modern techniques to dramatically reduce model development time, provide greater insight into system behavior, and produce fast, high-fidelity simulations. Scale and connect as the needs of your simulations grow more complex. Take your designs further with our flexible modeling language. Combine components across different domains in a virtual prototype. Solve tough machine performance problems. -
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Simcenter X
Siemens
Simcenter X is a cloud-powered multi-domain simulation suite from Siemens designed to help engineering teams accelerate innovation with flexible SaaS access. It brings together trusted Simcenter simulation applications with cloud deployment, high-performance computing, and scalable licensing. The platform supports CFD, mechanical, systems simulation, and MDAO tools so teams can work across multiple disciplines in one environment. Simcenter X helps reduce engineering silos by improving collaboration, data management, and cross-domain simulation workflows. Its centralized cloud-managed entitlements, universal tokens, and one-click HPC access make it easier to manage users, resources, and peak simulation workloads. With Simcenter X Advanced, organizations can simplify licensing, expand simulation capacity, and empower engineers to run complex studies more efficiently. -
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Veryon
Veryon
We help everyone in the aviation industry get their aircraft more uptime. The key is having a better technology platform to manage everything from maintenance to manuals. Get everything you need right at your fingertips, including real-time visibility of maintenance data, operations data, regulatory data, and more. With an intuitive platform interface that makes it easier to find what you’re looking for, plus a team of experts with deep aviation knowledge. With an intelligent database that leverages AI and machine learning to simplify everything from documentation to troubleshooting. After nearly 50 years in the business, we have built a growing reputation for getting our customers more aircraft uptime. -
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Vectorworks Architect
Vectorworks
With more support for common file formats than any other BIM solution, Vectorworks Architect can pull together all necessary information to start your project, providing everything you need for conceptual design, site planning, and analysis all in one interface. Quickly confirm design intent while transitioning from massing models to concept models. BIM software isn’t exactly known for promoting creative expression. But Vectorworks is different. We allow you to freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. So you’re not limited by presets and strict parameters — you have the flexibility you need to design anything you can imagine. Getting the most out of the “I” in Building Information Modeling is essential for optimizing your designs. -
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TSM
The Service Manager
TSM Evolution is our Cloud-based operations and field service management solution fully hosted within the Australian based Amazon Web Service (AWS) Environment. This includes current best in class security and backup protocols. TSM Evolution is a comprehensive yet fully configurable business management solution, providing the required flexibility to properly manage your field service operational workflow requirements. Access your data anywhere, anytime to manage your business effectively.Starting Price: $45 per user/month -
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PROAD Software
J+D Software
More success regardless of location: PROAD is your virtual memory! Organise all business processes via a single solution and gain more time for your core business. Of course our agency software is not just for agencies. Other industries and companies are confronted with similar challenges in the acquisition, planning and project management. And since more and more companies from consulting and IT are using our tools, we are also familiar with this area. The bigger a company is, the more complex the structures, organisation and management. After 30 years of experience and over 1,000 customers, we know what solutions make sense and who they make sense for. The main criterion ist your company's size. Simply choose your package and if necessary adapt the details individually.Starting Price: $25 per user per year -
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MediaLab Document Control
MediaLab
MediaLab’s Document Control is a powerful way to manage your laboratory’s policies, procedures, and documentation. Our twenty years of expertise in clinical laboratories have created a document control solution that guides you to full compliance with all laboratory standards, regulations, and best practices. Document Control provides an automated, centralized platform for all of your document approvals, workflows, edits, sign-offs, audits, and more—with flexibility and customization features to match your laboratory’s unique needs. MediaLab's Document Control supports: • Digital records and version control of all documents, • Standardization across all documents from all sites, • Electronic signatures that meet 21 CFR Part 11 standards, • Customized approval workflows and processes, • Robust searching to easily locate specific documents, and more! -
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Scan2CAD
Scan2CAD
Scan2CAD is conversion software that enables users to convert designs for CAD. Stop manually tracing or outsourcing redrawing. Scan2CAD repeatedly saves days for companies converting designs. We've spent the last 20 years developing the most accurate automatic raster to vector conversion for CAD. Scan2CAD is not only a raster to vector solution. Convert your vector files such as PDFs for CAD. Convert any popular file-type such as images and PDFs to industry standard file-types such as DXF and DWG. Edit your designs with Scan2CAD's Drawing and Editing tools. Each tool is designed for absolute accuracy. With Scan2CAD you have the flexibility to edit your raster and vector designs within the same application.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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PaleBlue
PaleBlue
Create immersive training courses in minutes, building on top of rich and powerful templates. Turn your employee training programs into engaging virtual experiences that last – on screen devices or in Virtual Reality. Reduce training costs by introducing immersive training. Improve efficiency of your operations saving up to 40% project budget. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected. Immersive training is fun and easy to follow. Gamification makes it much more engaging than an eLearning course. Go through operations and procedures before they take place in reality. The more you exercise, the more prepared you are for the unexpected. -
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Mingo
Mingo Smart Factory
Trusted by leading manufacturers, Mingo Smart Factory is an easy-to-use, fast to deploy OEE software that can be set up in less than 1 day. Collect data automatically and get insight into important manufacturing KPIs like OEE, cycle time, downtime, utilization, throughput, and many others with visuals like scoreboards, dashboards, and mobile app. Start small and as you grow, expand to a full manufacturing productivity platform. With Mingo, improve OEE and get insight into what's happening in the plant. Mingo Smart Factory is manufacturing productivity and analytics software that provides real-time visibility on the factory floor that helps reduce downtime, improve on-time delivery, and increase profitability of manufacturing companies. Mingo empowers manufacturers to start simple, think big, move fast, and easily grow from a single machine at one plant to thousands of machines across the globe with manufacturing productivity and analytics software. -
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iC3D
Creative Edge Software
iC3D allows you to create 3D digital prototypes fast and easy. Whether you create carton, glass, cans, flexibles or shrink-wraps, iC3D enables real-time visualization and validation throughout the design process from concept to production. No specialist programs, hardware, or outside assistance are required, just a single application using a simple Illustrator file or PDF for photorealistic results on-the-fly.Starting Price: $145/month -
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LibreCAD
LibreCAD
LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. LibreCAD started as a project to build CAM capabilities into the community version of QCad for use with a Mechmate CNC router. Since QCad CE was built around the outdated Qt3 library, it had to be ported to Qt4 before additional enhancements. This gave rise to CADuntu. The project was known as CADuntu only for a couple of months before the community decided that the name was inappropriate. After some discussion within the community and research on existing names, CADuntu was renamed to LibreCAD. Porting the rendering engine to Qt4 proved to be a large task, so LibreCAD initially still depended on the Qt3 support library. The Qt4 porting was completed eventually during the development of 2.0.0 series, thanks to our master developer Rallaz, and LibreCAD has become Qt3 free except in the 1.0.0 series.Starting Price: Free -
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Designer Pro
CAD International
Even if you already have CAD drawing software such as AutoCAD® or RealCAD, get Designer Pro to model your architectural designs in full 3D. Designer Pro is the worlds fastest architectural modeller for domestic and light commercial building design and will automatically create 2D plans, elevations, sections and 3D perspectives on any site. Unleash the unrivalled power of the world's fastest and easiest architectural CAD software products for both 3D design and 2D detail drafting with full technical support in one bundled solution. Sketch or rough-in your designs in plan or 3D, then push and pull your building into shape with exact dimensions. Explore design ideas and make incredibly fast and sweeping changes in a just a few clicks. Assess your designs on any site. Designer Pro 'Enhanced' edition is an intelligent BIM (Building Information Modeling) system as well as a rapid building design, costing and visualisation tool.Starting Price: $1429 per license -
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Repetier-Host
Repetier
Import one or more 3D models and place, scale, rotate or duplicate them on your virtual bed. Slice your plate with different slicers and optimal settings for perfect results. Check the result completely, in regions or layer for layer. Print directly from the host via USB or TCP/IP connection, via SD card or via Repetier-Server. Repetier-Host works with almost all popular 3D FDM printers! Repetier-Host is your ALL-IN-ONE software solution, which gives you countless benefits. Repetier-Host can handle up to 16 extruders with different filament types and colors simultaneously and visualize the result with individual filament colors, so you can see your result before printing. Repetier-Host includes directly 4 different slicers: Slic3r, Slic3r Prusa Edition, CuraEngine and Skeinforge. If that is not enough, you can use any other slicer you want with Repetier-Host. -
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Augmentir
Augmentir
Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field. -
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Adams
Hexagon
Adams helps engineers to study the dynamics of moving parts, and how loads and forces are distributed throughout mechanical systems. Product manufacturers often struggle to understand true system performance until very late in the design process. Mechanical, electrical, and other subsystems are validated against their specific requirements within the systems engineering process, but full-system testing and validation comes late, leading to rework and design changes that are riskier and more costly than those made early on. As the world's most famous and widely used Multibody Dynamics (MBD) software, Adams improves engineering efficiency and reduces product development costs by enabling early system-level design validation. Engineers can evaluate and manage the complex interactions between disciplines including motion, structures, actuation, and controls to better optimize product designs for performance, safety, and comfort.
