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PlanMan
PlanMan
PlanMan is a cloud-based project management software designed specifically for architects and town planners. It offers a comprehensive suite of features to streamline administrative tasks and enhance productivity. Users can manage unlimited clients, projects, quotes, and invoices, all stored securely in one place. It includes built-in cloud storage for all project documentation, eliminating the need for shared network drives. Each project has a built-in chat room for instant communication, and client emails are stored against the relevant project for easy access. PlanMan's client portal allows clients to log in and view their enquiries, quotes, projects, documents, and invoices 24/7. Clients can also pay invoices online through Stripe or GoCardless integrations. The software supports managing co-consultants, creating and sending quotes from project templates, and generating invoices for clients and suppliers.Starting Price: Free -
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Moment of Inspiration (MoI)
Triple Squid Software Design
Moment of Inspiration (MoI) is a 3D modeling program that is focused on combining CAD accuracy with an intuitive, fluid UI. MoI is CAD software that's a little different. Focused on being easy to use, it's a great tool for designers and artists who want to construct accurate models. Booleans and 2D profile curve-driven workflow make a great companion modeler for rendering/DCC projects. Best-in-industry mesh export supporting n-gon mesh generation. Moment of Inspiration (MoI) works great for 3D printing.Starting Price: $295 one-time payment -
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Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software libraries and tools designed to aid in building robot applications. It provides services expected from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. ROS offers tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers. At its core, ROS provides a message-passing system, often called "middleware" or "plumbing," which manages communication between distributed nodes via an anonymous publish/subscribe pattern. This system is crucial for implementing new robot applications or any software system that interacts with hardware. ROS is a meta-operating system for robots, offering hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. It is licensed under an open source, BSD license.Starting Price: Free -
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CableCalc BS7671 18-2
CastlineSystems
CableCalc BS7671 is advanced electrical calculation and design software aligned with the latest BS7671:2018+A2:2022 Requirements for Electrical Installations (IET Wiring Regulations 18th Edition Amendment 2) that helps professionals size cables, evaluate circuits, and design distribution board projects with precision. It supports both single- and three-phase calculations for radial, ring, and sub-main circuits, calculating voltage drop, disconnection time, fault current, earth fault information, overload, short-circuit parameters, and correction factors such as temperature and grouping. It offers comprehensive databases of copper cables and protective devices to streamline selection and includes tools to generate detailed calculation documents, schedules, single-line diagrams, and schematic drawings for jobs ranging from simple circuits to multi-distribution board projects.Starting Price: $177.09 per month -
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Cognitive Design
Cognitive Design Systems
Cognitive Design by CDS is a next-generation concurrent engineering platform for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers in Aerospace, Defense, and Automotive. Powered by a proprietary implicit-geometry engine, it combines generative design (topology optimization, generative enclosure), manufacturing-driven constraints, simulation-driven analysis, and AI-powered design exploration in one unified platform. Engineers can generate and compare high-performance concepts faster, DfM constraints early (Casting, Machining, Metal AM), and automate repeatable workflows across entire product families — reducing time-to-design and eliminating late rework. Serving industry leaders across Japan, Europe, and the US.Starting Price: 12000€ -
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NeuralWing
Emmi AI
NeuralWing is a real-time neural simulation and design optimization model for transonic aircraft aerodynamics. It is built around the largest 3D transonic wing dataset, created from 30,000 steady-state CFD simulations of a 3D wing in the transonic regime, with variations across four geometry parameters and two inflow conditions. Using Emmi’s AB-UPT surrogate model trained on this data, NeuralWing enables users to modify wing geometry, test optimizations, and maximize aerodynamic efficiency in seconds. The model supports transonic 3D wing simulation, geometry and inflow variations, real-time inference, and design-parameter optimization. Its inputs include a geometry mesh in STL format, speed, and angle of attack, while its outputs include pressure, friction, velocity fields, and integral forces such as lift and drag. Geometry meshes are created in real time from four design parameters in a differentiable manner, allowing fast exploration of design changes.Starting Price: Free -
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NeuralMould
Emmi AI
NeuralMould is Emmi AI’s Large Engineering Model for injection molding, described as a new gold standard in AI for engineering: any geometry, any material, any injection gates, one model. It lets users select from a range of geometries and test injection, material, and gate placement parameters to simulate filling behavior in seconds, rapidly compare multiple scenarios, optimize process KPIs, and avoid frozen flow fronts. Injection molding simulation is highly complex because it involves multi-physics calculations that model transient flow of viscous plastic through thin-walled geometries under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. NeuralMould captures these phenomena across a wide range of injecting conditions and mold geometries, achieving performance comparable to traditional solvers with a fraction of the computation time. The model supports multi-material scenarios, fast prototyping, multi-gate configurations, and multiple process parameters.Starting Price: Free -
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Orca Slicer
Orca Slicer
Orca Slicer is a free, open source 3D printing slicer for FFF and FDM 3D printers, designed to turn 3D models into precise G-code with advanced calibration tools, intelligent print controls, and a user-friendly workflow. It gives makers a complete environment for preparing, tuning, previewing, and optimizing prints, with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Orca Slicer includes a comprehensive calibration suite for temperature towers, flow rate tuning, pressure advance, retraction tests, tolerance testing, maximum flow rate testing, and vertical fine artifact calibration, helping users fine-tune printers and filaments for better print quality. The slicer also offers precise wall and seam control, including outer wall spacing adjustments and scarf seams to improve accuracy and surface finish. It includes features for sandwich mode, polyholes, multi-plate workflows, printer setup, slicing settings, and detailed model preparation, giving users more control over how parts are printed.Starting Price: Free -
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LIGGGHTS
CFDEM
LIGGGHTS is an open source Discrete Element Method particle simulation tool for modeling particulate materials, with a focus on industrial granular and granular heat-transfer simulations. LIGGGHTS stands for “LAMMPS improved for general granular and granular heat transfer simulations,” and it builds on the LAMMPS molecular dynamics platform to extend DEM capabilities toward practical industrial applications. It can be used to simulate systems where material behavior emerges from the motion, collision, friction, cohesion, heat transfer, and interaction of individual particles. It is suitable for analyzing powders, grains, bulk solids, particulate flows, packed beds, conveying systems, mixing processes, hopper discharge, material handling, and other granular systems where particle-scale behavior matters. LIGGGHTS is currently used by research institutions and companies worldwide for the simulation of particulate materials, especially where open source flexibility.Starting Price: Free -
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LAMMPS
LAMMPS
LAMMPS, the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator, is a classical molecular dynamics code with a focus on materials modeling. It models ensembles of particles in liquid, solid, or gaseous states and can simulate atomic, polymeric, biological, solid-state, granular, coarse-grained, mesoscopic, or macroscopic systems using many interatomic potentials, force fields, and boundary conditions. LAMMPS can model systems in two or three dimensions, from only a few particles up to billions, and is designed to run efficiently on parallel computers while remaining easy to extend and modify. It includes potentials for solid-state materials such as metals and semiconductors, soft matter such as biomolecules and polymers, and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generally, as a parallel particle simulator at atomic, meso, or continuum scale.Starting Price: Free -
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MercuryDPM
MercuryDPM
MercuryDPM is an open source code for discrete particle simulations, designed to simulate the motion of particles or atoms by applying forces and torques from external body forces, such as gravity or magnetic fields, and from particle interaction laws. For granular particles, these forces are typically contact forces, including elastic, plastic, viscous, and frictional interactions, while molecular simulations can use interaction potentials such as Lennard-Jones. MercuryDPM is written as a versatile, object-oriented C++ code and is built to be understandable, flexible, and extensible for researchers and engineers who need to create new simulation models. It is developed extensively for granular applications, while remaining adaptable to other particle-based systems and long-range interactions. Its documentation guides users through installation, running simulations, visualization, analysis, and creating new MercuryDPM codes to model systems of their choice.Starting Price: Free -
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MFiX
National Energy Technology Laboratory
MFiX, or Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges, is an open source multiphase flow solver and NETL’s flagship suite of computational fluid dynamics tool for modeling reacting multiphase flows. It has become a standard for comparing, implementing, and evaluating multiphase flow constitutive models, and has been applied to a diverse range of multiphase flow devices and industrial systems. MFiX provides multiple modeling approaches, including a Two-Fluid Model, Discrete Element Model, Coarse-Grained Particle DEM, Superquadric Particle DEM, Glued-Sphere Particle DEM, Particle-in-Cell model, hybrid methods, and a single-phase solver for pure granular flows. These models can be used to simulate gasifiers, circulating fluidized bed combustors, fluidized beds, fluid catalytic crackers, chemical looping combustion systems, and other particle-fluid systems involving hydrodynamics, heat transfer, species transport, and chemical reactions.Starting Price: Free -
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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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CadVex
CadVex
CadVex is CNC machine shop quoting software that turns STEP files and drawings into transparent, editable manufacturing cost estimates. The platform analyzes part geometry to detect manufacturable features, required operations, and assumptions that influence production costs. Estimators can review and modify material and stock costs, setup and programming, machining operations, finishing, inspection, outside operations, shop rates, quantities, margins, and other commercial assumptions. Built-in DFM feedback connects manufacturability warnings directly to the 3D model and explains potential manufacturing impacts and suggested changes. CadVex also tracks drafts, sent quotes, wins and losses while providing visibility into open pipeline, won value, win rates, and customer performance. The software is available as a Desktop version for Windows and Apple Silicon Macs with local CAD analysis or as a browser-accessible Cloud version with analysis performed in CadVex Cloud.Starting Price: $2 -
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Prism
Navier AI
Prism is Navier AI’s desktop AI engineering platform for hardware, mechanical, aerospace, and other engineering teams. It combines parametric CAD, 3D viewing, physics simulation, code editing, and reporting in one application. Users can describe a part or study in natural language, create or refine CAD, and use AI agents to configure and run physics solvers, write scripts, inspect results, and generate plots, dashboards, reports, or slides. The solver catalog includes 12 solver families, such as OpenFOAM, SU2, CalculiX, Elmer, Project Chrono, and OpenModelica, plus Navier AI’s Ferro solver. Engineers can import STEP files, review scripts, meshes, and solver inputs, and run multiple agents in parallel to explore designs. Prism installs on Windows, macOS, and Linux; local solver workflows run on the user’s computer. The agent requires an internet connection and sends the content it reads to Navier AI’s model backend. Optional cloud compute can run approved solver jobs.Starting Price: $500/seat/month -
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SolidCraft
Tangency Labs
SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD application for designing and revising parts and assemblies. Users create dimensioned, constrained sketches, add features such as extrusions, revolutions, fillets, shells, holes, and patterns, and edit designs through a feature timeline with parameters and configurations. It includes component assemblies, joints, motion studies, sheet-metal workflows, and plastic-part tools. Desktop and browser editors, command-line tools, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support interactive, scripted, and agent-assisted modeling. SolidCraft imports and exports formats including STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ, and 3MF, with format-specific limits; assemblies can also be exported as URDF. The software serves people who design, inspect, edit, or exchange mechanical parts and assemblies.Starting Price: Free -
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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.
