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nXtRender
nXtRender
Create photorealistic, still, panorama, and animation image files from 3D models using raytracing and radiosity technologies. It’s fast and easy to generate high quality results – nXtRender is a great renderer at an affordable price, and works seamlessly within AutoCAD and Revit. Whether designing for work or fun, nXtRender’s seamless integration into AutoCAD makes it quick and easy to create photo-realistic renderings that show your designs at their best. nXtRender optimizes your design-time by saving your settings together with the 3D model and allowing post-render processing. Update your design and update your render, without starting over again. With the nXtRender Engine you can create great results. Save time with an efficient workflow that makes changes easy. Create stunning images that wow your client and help you win business.Starting Price: $349 per license -
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Penguin
Penguin
Penguin brings freehand sketching, watercolor painting, cartoon-like rendering and technical illustration to Rhino and AutoCAD. Penguin is a conceptual, sketch and cartoon, non-photometric scan line renderer. With Penguin you can create stylized images of your models with an artistic look for enhanced graphic and visual appeal. Penguin 2.0 runs inside Rhino and has the same hardware requirements. Rhino with Penguin runs on ordinary Windows desktop and laptop computers. No special hardware is needed beyond what is required for AutoCAD. Penguin 2.0 is completely integrated with Rhino. All of its configuration dialogs can be accessed as any other Rhino dialog would be, inside Rhino properties or object properties. The dockable object properties panel updates while other commands run or while changing the selection. Penguin 2.0 supports any Rhino native object, including 2D objects like dimensions or curves. You can define specific settings for those objects like any other object. -
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Redshift
Maxon
Redshift is a powerful GPU-accelerated renderer, built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering. Tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and integrates with industry standard CG applications. Redshift has the features and uncompromising quality of a CPU renderer, but at GPU rendering speeds. Unlike other GPU renderers out there, Redshift is a biased renderer that allows the user to adjust the quality of individual techniques in order to get the best performance/quality balance for their production. Redshift supports complex, advanced shading networks and texturing capabilities as required for production-quality rendering. Flexible, production-ready shader, compatible with PBR workflows of Allegorithmic Substance and Unreal Engine. Control how materials behave for certain ray types. Useful for customizing GI or double-sided polygon shading.Starting Price: $500 -
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Massive Prime
Massive Software
Academy Award winning Massive Prime™ is the complete solution for authoring, directing and rendering custom autonomous agents for animation and visual effects. Massive is the world’s most sophisticated crowd simulation software for rapidly creating realistic crowd scenes. In many cases, our Ready To Run Agents™ together with Massive for Maya or Massive for Max is the ideal solution for creating crowds. But when a shot calls for agents to perform custom motion or behaviors, then choose Massive Prime. Massive Prime's intuitive node based interface allows artists to interactively create AI enabled agents without any programming. Whether your custom agents number in the few to thousands, professional artists rely on Massive Prime to deliver realistic and natural crowd performances that are without equal. Each agent can have any number of actions. Actions can be motion captured clips or keyframe animations. -
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Realsoft 3D
Realsoft Graphics
Open design combined with a rich set of features has been the main strength of Realsoft 3D. Feature wise, Realsoft 3D challenges the most famous competitors and offers a better price/performance ratio. In some areas (e.g. SDS modelling, ray tracing), the product is the best on the market. Another major advantage is that the intelligent, context sensitive user interface is suitable for both novice users and skilled professionals. The program grows with and adapts to the skill level of the user. The program is used in different applications, for example by artists working in the advertising industry, architects, product designers, educational institutions, game industry and hobby users. As a versatile yet affordable product ($700), Realsoft 3D has quite a large group of potential users. Realsoft 3D is a powerful tool for making best quality photorealistic images, and there is a huge number of people who need images every day.Starting Price: $700 -
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Daz 3D
Daz Productions
Founded in 2000, Daz 3D is a 3D modeling software and content company specializing in morphable, posable human models, two of which are the most widely used 3D figures worldwide (Victoria and Michael). Used by top brands and illustrators, Daz Studio gives amateurs and professional graphic artists a free, time saving tool to create and customize their creations. Daz is used in film, TV, animation, video games, web design, print illustrations and more. Download Daz Studio and explore our huge library of free and premium 3D content. Start building custom scenes and characters in seconds with our smart content library. Export beautiful photo-realistic images and animations with studio-class processing. Explore our huge library of free and premium 3D content, like characters, hair, creatures, vehicles, environments, and more. Build your own universe with Daz Studio, the free 3D software. Export beautiful photo-realistic images and animations with studio-class processing. -
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3DBrowser
Mootools
3DBrowser is an application dedicated to the management and optimization for your 3D content. It includes a 3D viewer, an image viewer linked to a powerful file explorer. Thanks to its agility and efficiency, 3DBrowser can be integrated into very different production pipelines: architecture, video games, scientific data, 3D printing, etc. Fast and efficient, it allows you to organize your 3D model libraries with the help of large customizable preview thumbnails. You can display, filter, sort, organize, search among your 3D scenes and images in order to find the exact model you need in few seconds. To make it easier to organize large 3D collections, you can document, annotate, categorize all your content to find them on your computer or local network. 3DBrowser facilitates interoperability between different 3D software. It will perfectly fit into a production pipeline including, for example, 3ds Max, Maya or Sketchup in conjunction with Unreal Engine or Unity.Starting Price: €89 per license -
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Ansys VRXPERIENCE Perceived Quality offers a physics-based, real-time solution for design evaluation involving lighting, colors and materials variations. Test and validate your product design in context. VRXPERIENCE Perceived Quality can instantly compare multiple design intents for materials and lighting. The process allows you to validate choices against design specifications and select lighting and material combinations in lifelike conditions. Create a virtual prototype from a 3D format and easily prepare a virtual model, helping you make choices early in the design process, in real-time optical simulation. With the live preview of Ansys VRXPERIENCE Perceived Quality immersive virtual reality visualizations, bring in physics-based lighting conditions to explore how your lighting and material choices will look in reality.
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Clara.io
Clara.io
Clara.io is a full-featured cloud-based 3D modeling, animation and rendering software tool that runs in your web browser. With Clara.io you can make complex 3D models, create beautiful photorealistic renderings, and share them without installing any software programs. This is the perfect Three.JS or Babylon.JS editor for creating and tweaking your web game content. Huge photorealistic material library. Easy advanced materials. Flexible lighting setups. Blazing speed. Simultaneous multi-user editing. Always on versioning. Per-user permissions. Review tools. Familiar UI. Responsive workflows. Undo/redo. Drag/drop. Context menus everywhere. Clara.io is the latest innovation from the trusted and experienced team at Exocortex. Exocortex's suite of products are trusted by hundreds of creative teams at studios around the world.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Indigo Renderer
Indigo Renderer
Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, photorealistic GPU and CPU renderer aimed at ultimate image quality, by accurately simulating the physics of light. State-of-the-art rendering performance, materials and cameras models - it's all made simple through an interactive, photographic approach. Indigo's OpenCL-based GPU engine provides industry-leading performance on Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. With a single modern GPU, it's approximately 10x faster than before. Simply add more GPUs and get the horsepower to quickly render incredible 4K images and animations. A dark UI mode. Interactive material previews and light-layer thumbnails. RGB colour curves and snappy trackball navigation. These are just some of the new features making Indigo 4 the most streamlined and enjoyable version yet. A dark UI mode. Interactive material previews and light-layer thumbnails. RGB colour curves and snappy trackball navigation.Starting Price: $835 per license -
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SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS
Turn your 3D CAD data into photo-quality images, animations, and interactive 3D content that bring your products to life. Quickly and easily create professional, photo-quality images, animations, and other interactive 3D content to get your products to market faster. SOLIDWORKS® Visualize allows you to leverage your 3D CAD data to create photo-quality content in the fastest and easiest way you can–from images to animations, interactive web content, and immersive Virtual Reality. Bring your products to life. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is the “camera” for your CAD data! SOLIDWORKS® products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost efficiently. A seat of SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard is included with each seat of SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium on active Subscription. SOLIDWORKS Visualization solutions enable you and your team to quickly transform new ideas into great products, beating your competition to the market. -
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ZBrush
Pixologic
ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has revolutionized the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Built within an elegant interface, ZBrush offers the world’s most advanced tools for today’s digital artists. With an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, ZBrush creates a user experience that feels incredibly natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist within. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows you to create limited only by your imagination. Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. This facilitates the interaction of 3D models, 2D images and 2.5D Pixols in new and unique ways. ZBrush gives you all of the tools needed to quickly sketch out a 2D or 3D concept and then take that idea all the way to completion. You can create realistic renders directly in ZBrush with lighting and atmospheric effects.Starting Price: $39.95 per month -
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AppGameKit
AppGameKit
AppGameKit VR adds powerful and easy-to-use VR commands to your core AppGameKit Script language. With just a few commands you can start to develop your own VR experiences, from detecting the head-mounted displays to registering touch events from the touch controllers. Users must already own AppGameKit and have an OpenVR compatible head-mounted display (HMD) and HTC Vive controllers or optional Touch controllers to use this DLC. This DLC is currently only available for the Windows platform. There are over 60 commands provided and we’ve created some getting started demos to show you how to get up and running with your own creations. Visualize and manage your media assets with the asset browser window. View media such as images, 3D models and text files and listen to sound and music files. There are over 60 commands provided and we’ve created some getting started demos to show you how to get up and running with your own creations.Starting Price: $29.99 per license -
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Clarisse iFX
Isotropix
Clarisse iFX is a powerful CG toolset trusted by internationally renowned creative studios. Built by artists for artists, it is designed to simplify today’s complex creative workflows, empowering users with interactivity, speed and power over datasets containing bazillions of polygons.Created in response to feedback from today’s front-line CG creatives, Clarisse iFX unifies powerful rendering, lighting and look development tools under a single, accessible package. Thanks to its integrated CPU based rendering engine, based on unidirectional path-tracing users can work interactively on rich, data-heavy environments, scenes and assets, with full visibility over their creative decision-making. Clarisse iFX fits seamlessly into the core of any modern production pipeline. It’s an intuitive, flexible and comprehensive toolset tailored to the needs of studios and production teams working in CG today – not ten years ago.Starting Price: $499 one-time payment -
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SmartSketch
Hexagon PPM
SmartSketch® is an innovative tool for the technical office, combining world-class business diagramming with award-winning drawing technology. It is a versatile, cost-effective precision engineering and drafting product that gives EPCs and owner operators a competitive edge throughout the plant lifecycle by speeding productivity, cutting costs and offering a sophisticated degree of automation for detail work. SmartSketch® is a versatile and cost-effective precision engineering and drafting product. It gives EPCs and O/Os a competitive edge throughout the plant lifecycle by speeding productivity, cutting costs, and offering a sophisticated degree of automation for detail work. As an interlocking piece of Hexagon PPM’s best-in-class lifecycle solution, SmartSketch is a premium tool for the drawing generation tasks inherent in your work process. You can also support Intergraph Smart® 3D drawing production and editing. -
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Ansys Sherlock
Ansys
Ansys Sherlock is the only reliability physics-based electronics design tool that provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early stage design. Ansys Sherlock automated design analysis provides fast and accurate life predictions for electronic hardware at the component, board and system levels in early design stages. Sherlock bypasses the ‘test-fail-fix-repeat’ cycle by empowering designers to accurately model silicon–metal layers, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and assemblies to predict failure risks due to thermal, mechanical and manufacturing stressors--all before prototype. With embedded libraries containing over 500,000 parts, Sherlock rapidly converts electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) files into computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) models. Each model contains accurate geometries, material properties and translates stress information. -
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Ansys Discovery
Ansys
Ansys Discovery features the first simulation-driven design tool combining instant physics simulation, high-fidelity simulation and interactive geometry modeling in a single easy-to-use experience. By combining interactive modeling and multiple simulation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind product, Discovery allows you to answer critical design questions earlier in the design process. This upfront approach to simulation saves time and effort on prototyping as you explore multiple design concepts in real time with no need to wait for simulation results. Ansys Discovery answers critical design questions early in your process with speed and accuracy. Boost productivity and performance by eliminating long waits for simulation results. Discovery lets engineers focus on innovation and product performance. By answering critical design questions early in the process, thus decreasing engineer labor and physical prototyping costs, Ansys Discovery allows for a ROI boost across your organization. -
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Ansys SPEOS
Ansys
Ansys SPEOS predicts the illumination and optical performance of systems to save on prototyping time and costs while improving your product’s efficiency. Ansys SPEOS delivers an intuitive and comprehensive user interface, enhanced productivity with use of GPUs for simulation previews and easy access to the Ansys multiphysics ecosystem. SPEOS has been assessed by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) against CIE 171:2006 test cases, assessing the accuracy of light modeling software and showing the performance benefits of Ansys SPEOS. Turn on the light in your virtual model and intuitively explore the propagation of light in 3D. The SPEOS Live preview function features simulation and rendering capabilities so you can design products interactively. Cut iteration time and speed up your decision-making process by performing simulations correctly the first time, automatically designing for optical surfaces, light guides and optical lenses. -
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Ansys Motor-CAD
Ansys
Ansys Motor-CAD is a dedicated electric machine design tool for fast multiphysics simulation across the full torque-speed operating range. Motor-CAD enables design engineers to evaluate motor topologies and concepts across the full operating range, to produce designs that are optimized for performance, efficiency and size. Motor-CAD software’s four integrated modules—EMag, Therm, Lab, Mech—enable multiphysics calculations to be performed quickly and iteratively, so users can get from concept to final design in less time. Fast calculations and streamlined data input processes leave time for Motor-CAD users to explore more motor topologies and fully assess the impact of advanced loss effects in the initial stages of an electromechanical design. The release includes powerful new features for design optimization, multi-physics analysis and system modelling for electric motors. Fast multiphysics simulation across a full torque-speed operating range. -
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Alibre Workshop
Alibre
Alibre Workshop is a combination of two tools - Alibre Atom3D and MeshCAM Pro for Alibre. Using the two together, you can design and refine 3D models or 2D drawings and then create toolpaths for your mill. The last step - walking to the mill and pressing go - is all that's left. Create relief images in your favorite image editor or find them online. Machine them directly to create stunning pieces, no CAD required. Signs, terrain, art - so many possibilities. -
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KEPServerEX
PTC
Connects disparate devices and applications, from plant control systems to enterprise information systems. KEPServerEX is the industry’s leading connectivity platform that provides a single source of industrial automation data to all of your applications. The platform design allows users to connect, manage, monitor, and control diverse automation devices and software applications through one intuitive user interface. KEPServerEX leverages OPC (the automation industry’s standard for interoperability) and IT-centric communication protocols (such as SNMP, ODBC, and web services) to provide users with a single source for industrial data. The platform is developed and tested to meet our customers’ performance, reliability, and ease-of-use requirements. Watch our two-minute video below to see how KEPServerEX solves common connectivity challenges—providing secure and reliable access to real-time industrial data so everyone from the shop floor to the top floor can make smarter decisions.Starting Price: $452 -
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Telit deviceWISE
Telit
When it comes to building and managing your IIoT solution, you need a platform that helps all of your devices and applications “talk” to one another easily. That’s where our IIoT platform Telit deviceWISE® for Factory comes in. With Telit deviceWISE for Factory, you don’t need custom code to quickly connect to your enterprise and IoT applications, including those on Amazon, SAP and IBM Watson. Our IIoT platform simplifies quickly connecting the factory to enterprise and the value chain so that you can get the data you need to improve productivity and drive profit. You have better things to do with your time than create custom code to address all your IIoT connectivity challenges. With our platform, you plug in deviceWISE, allow it to automatically connect your devices and applications, and start quickly configuring with drag-and-drop logic. Use deviceWISE to seamlessly integrate around your existing system architecture or build a new system as you see fit. -
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HPE Industrial IoT
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices acquire and analyze data from connected assets, locations, and people to act upon insights at the industrial edge. Get hold of your data—then use it wisely. Bring computing to your data streams to shorten decision times and eliminate the expense and risk of sending data to the cloud. Find relationships in your data to determine cause and effect, and improve efficiency and predictability. You can make the most of your data with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions from HPE. Use your data to manufacture more quickly, predict failures, reduce unexpected downtime, and increase automation. Converge OT and IT data in ruggedized systems with data center-like capabilities at the edge. Build a network to connect, protect, and use data. Is your IoT infrastructure ready to deliver measurable ROI? Learn how to overcome technical and management challenges that may arise during IoT projects. -
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Predix Platform
GE Digital
Predix Platform is the place where industry runs. As a scalable, asset-centric data foundation, it is a comprehensive and secure application platform that can run, scale, and extend digital industrial solutions. The platform delivers shared capabilities that industrial applications require: asset connectivity, edge technologies, analytics and machine learning, big data processing, and asset-centric digital twins. Designed as a distributed application platform, Predix Platform is optimized for high volume, low latency, and integration-intensive data management and analytics-driven outcomes. Predix Essentials is a complete solution for industrial monitoring and event management. Predix Essentials brings you the power of the Predix Platform, with asset connectivity, edge-to-cloud data processing and a feature-rich user console—packaged and pre-configured for rapid results. No development required. -
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Autodesk Forma
Autodesk
Spend less time searching for data and working with fragmented tools. Import your site proposal and access all relevant data sets in one space. From feasibility to site acquisition, Autodesk Forma (formerly Spacemaker) empowers you to make confident data and insight-driven decisions. Work digitally from day one. Improve the quality and speed of the early planning phase. Never compromise! Discover ways to optimize for density and living qualities. You shouldn’t have to wait weeks every time you want to assess the living quality of your site. With Autodesk Forma you can improve your site proposal at any time, and instantly understand the impact of the changes made. Don’t settle for second best when it comes to your creativity. With Autodesk Forma you can discover and compare more options for your site than ever before. Autodesk Forma offers a single space where architects, developers, consultants, and municipalities can work together effectively and efficiently. -
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Floor Plan Creator
Floor Plan Creator
Move rooms and symbols with mouse or set their sizes and distances numerically when high precision is required. Use your mobile device on location and complete the work on your computer at the office. See your project in 3D, as many floors as you need. Camera can be freely positioned. Create detailed and precise floor plans. See them in 3D or print to scale. Add furniture to design interior of your home. Have your floor plan with you while shopping to check if there is enough room for a new furniture. Native Android version and HTML5 version available that runs on any computer or mobile device. Projects can have multiple floors with rooms of any shape (straight walls only). Import existing plan and use it as a template. Automatic calculation of room, walls and level area; perimeter; counts of symbols. Symbol library: doors, windows, furniture, electrical, fire survey. User symbol library, where you can store rooms, symbols (also grouped) and labels for quick reuse.Starting Price: $5 per year -
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Metareal
Metareal
Metareal is a reality capture company. We’re developing tools for photographers and designers to easily create and share virtual environments without the need for expensive 3D scanning equipment. In other words, Metareal lets you build truly 3D VR experiences and publish them, no game engines or development skills required (imagine sharing a VR version of your apartment online so you can meet there virtually with your friends!). We also offer reality capture production services to games, vfx, and web design companies who want to create mobile-ready virtual experiences from real-world locations. Although they look as good as expensive tours made with 3D scanners costing thousands of dollars, Metareal's 3D virtual tours are invariably simpler to make, and the whole process is fast and dependable. Here are the top benefits of using Metareal Stage. Metareal works great with almost any 360 camera or DSLR (plus pano bracket).Starting Price: $8.16 per month -
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Envision evCreator
Canvas GFX
Envision evCreator is a powerful graphics application* combining 2D drawing and image editing with 3D model handling for creating technical illustrations, product visualizations, animations, charts, text and more. The evCreator handles the preparation of every visual asset you need to add to your instructional content - as well as the creation of end-to-end documents. Envision evCreator gives technical creatives the autonomy to work with 2D graphics, images and 3D CAD models in a single, intuitive application. No more switching between different apps for different uses, and no more delays caused by reliance on engineering teams for 3D model screenshots. 2D drawing, 3D CAD, and vector graphics in a single, easy to use application: - Image editing - 3D CAD visualization - Flow charts and process diagrams - Animation with text to speech - Smart annotation & dimension tools - Charts, tables, symbols - Export to JPG, PNG, PDF, MP4, and more -
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Canvas Envision
Canvas GFX
From a powerful creator app to hosted solutions and deep integrations with manufacturing tech stacks, Canvas Envision delivers interactive instructional experiences that minimize errors and delays. The Envision platform is an End-to-end solution for creating, managing, and consuming interactive digital work instructions. Cloud collaboration and document viewing. Available hosted or in your private cloud. Document viewers will be able to easily access and consume digital instructional content containing precise 2D graphics, narrated animations, and fully interactive embedded 3D models. Interactive digital instructions are proven to drive faster time to task completion, and reduce error count. - Create end-to-end digital work instruction documents - Leverage 2D drawing, image editing, and 3D visualization - Create 3D model animations with text-to-speech narration - Collaborate with teams on document creation - Deliver fully interactive instructional experiences -
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Doxel
Doxel
Doxel automates construction progress tracking for owners and general contractors. By contextualizing vast amounts of disparate project data from the site, BIM, schedule, and budget, Doxel empowers teams with an objective view of their project today and an accurate prediction of where it will be tomorrow. Leveraging machine generated and prioritized risk analysis, teams are guided to the right problems in order to stay ahead of cost overruns and schedule delays. How it works: Doxel compares 360 video of your site with your BIM and schedule You get: Work in place tracking- save an average 10 hours per week per superintendent vs. manual tracking Full documentation of your jobsite Schedule reports- work in place compared to schedule, automatically Production rate tracking- compare percent complete to your schedule Budget- Save hours reconciling pay applications with objective data Predictive clash detections- Know when a component installed out-of-tolerance Objective data
