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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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D5 Lite
D5
D5 Lite is a free, AI-native, real-time visualization plugin developed by D5, specifically designed to integrate directly into 3D modeling software, primarily SketchUp (versions 2021–2026). It serves as an early-stage design tool that bridges the gap between raw, "white-box" massing models and high-quality, rendered visual concepts without requiring users to leave their modeling workspace. It is part of the "D5 All-in-One Workflow," which includes D5 Render and D5 Works.Starting Price: $38/month -
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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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Yade
Yade
Yade is an extensible open source framework for discrete numerical models, focused on the Discrete Element Method. Its computation parts are written in C++ using a flexible object model that allows independent implementation of new algorithms and interfaces, while Python is used for rapid and concise scene construction, simulation control, postprocessing, and debugging. Yade is designed for researchers and engineers who need to create, run, inspect, modify, and extend particle-based simulations through scripts, interactive commands, graphical tools, and reusable simulation components. Simulations can be built from specialized generators or constructed directly with Python scripts, giving users flexibility for developing custom models, importing geometries, reusing code, and controlling the full simulation loop. It represents each simulation as a scene containing bodies, interactions, and resultant forces, with bodies defined by geometry, material properties, state variables, etc.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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AMTOS
Aggregator Solutions Ltd.
AMTOS — Aviation Maintenance Training & Operations System — is a cloud-hosted platform purpose-built for EASA Part-147-approved Maintenance Training Organizations (MTOs). It unifies the entire training lifecycle in a single system: personnel enrollment, course scheduling, a Part 66 question bank, online computer-based exams, attendance tracking, and regulatory reporting — all on a single shared database. Role-tailored dashboards serve administrators, instructors, and students simultaneously. Compliance tools include EASA Form 148 Certificate of Recognition generation, audit-ready records, and BI dashboards for performance oversight. AMTOS eliminates the duplication and version-control risks of spreadsheet-based workflows, keeps every record authoritative and up to date, and scales from a single MTO to a multi-site training network. -
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Rendervi
Rendervi
Rendervi is an AI render studio made by architects for architects, built to create consistent renders at the speed of AI. It is designed for architecture and visualization teams that care about quality, speed, and control, helping them enhance architectural renders, change materials, or push a model preview toward photorealism without losing the original design intent. Rendervi turns architectural previews into precise, client-ready renders with ready-to-use workflows for render mode, concept mode, photo-realism mode, material edit, material study, and upscaling. Teams can move from a sketch, wireframe, layout direction, SketchUp export, Revit preview, or raw CAD/BIM model view into a strong visual starting point much faster than a traditional visualization pipeline. It supports controlled edits for daylight, finishes, styling direction, environment, details, and materials while preserving layout, composition, geometry, and the core design logic.Starting Price: $12.99 per month -
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IIoTNext
CONSYST Digital Industries Pvt Ltd.
IIoTNext provides affordable industrial IoT solutions that help organizations collect, monitor, and use data from connected industrial assets. The platform supports on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based IIoT architectures so businesses can choose the deployment model that best fits their operations. It helps companies improve productivity, efficiency, uptime, and visibility across equipment, infrastructure, and field assets. IIoTNext supports industrial connectivity through protocols and frameworks such as OPC-UA, ODBC, MQTT, and HTTPS. Its solutions are used across industries including water and wastewater, marine, renewable energy, cold storage, HVAC, power, infrastructure, and IT-OT convergence. By enabling remote monitoring, control, alerts, and data exchange, IIoTNext helps organizations advance Industry 4.0 and digital transformation initiatives.Starting Price: $30/month/user -
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Relay Tripping Curves PRO2
PROTELECTSA
Relay Tripping Curves PRO2 (RTC2) is Windows desktop software built by protection engineers, for protection engineers. It plots trip curves for relays, circuit breakers, and transformers on a log-log plot, verifies selectivity between devices, and generates the complete technical report that real engineering work demands. Field test sets measure, but they don't relate the reading back to the primary system, plot the curve, or leave evidence that a setting actually coordinates. RTC2 solves that. Features: 7 relay brands, each mirroring the manufacturer's real display and native nomenclature, 10 circuit breaker trip units with L/S/I/G zones, Transformer damage curve per ANSI/IEEE C57.109-2018, inrush and short-circuit current, ΔT selectivity calculation between devices, PDF reports with primary-equivalent current, curve equation, plot, and signatures, Fully bilingual (English/Spanish), 100% offline Free DEMO with no time limit. Paid editions (perpetual license, one-time payment)Starting Price: Free demo -
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ViewCompanion Premium
Terje Helgesen Software Companion
ViewCompanion Premium is a powerful Windows application for viewing, printing, converting, annotating and measuring technical drawings and documents. The software supports AutoCAD DWG and DXF files together with PDF, PLT, HPGL/2, DWF, CGM, TIFF, CALS, Gerber, Excellon, ODB++ and many other engineering and raster formats. Files can be opened individually or processed in batches, making ViewCompanion Premium suitable for both everyday viewing and automated document workflows. Users can convert drawings and documents to PDF, PDF/A, DXF, TIFF, PNG and several other output formats. Batch conversion and batch printing tools make it easy to process large collections of files, while command-line support can be used for integration with scripts and scheduled tasks. ViewCompanion Premium also includes markup and measurement tools. Add text, symbols, stamps, barcodes, images, dimensions and other annotations directly to supported files.Starting Price: $95 -
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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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Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a free, open source tools for modeling and visualizing fire-driven flows. FDS is a computational fluid dynamics code that numerically solves a form of the Navier–Stokes equations for low-speed, thermally driven flow, with particular emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. It uses large-eddy simulation to represent complex fire-plume dynamics and can be applied to scenarios involving fire, wind, sprinklers, ventilation, geometry, materials, and other conditions that influence fire behavior. Users define a scenario through text-based input files, run the calculation with FDS, and analyze the resulting data. It displays output from FDS and CFAST simulations using OpenGL-based 3D graphics and scientific visualization methods, including animated smoke and tracer particles, two- and three-dimensional shaded contours, iso-surfaces, temperature fields, and flow vectors showing direction and magnitude.Starting Price: Free
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CircuitSim
CircuitSim
CircuitSim is a full SPICE circuit simulator with a 3,000+ component library and a modern schematic editor. No install, free to get started. Built for students, educators, and professionals. It runs in a browser tab and needs no admin rights, so it works on Chromebooks and locked-down school laptops. Run seven kinds of analysis: interactive, interactive operating point, transient, AC sweep, DC operating point, DC sweep, and parameter sweep. Results plot on oscilloscope-style charts, with probes you can drop anywhere in the circuit. Define custom parts from SPICE model text or import KiCad symbols. CircuitSim also imports Multisim Live designs ahead of that product's retirement on September 15, 2026. It is the only browser tool that opens .csim, .ms14, and .msjs files, and it rebuilds the schematic with wiring, placement, net labels, probes, and simulation settings intact. Classroom licensing adds seat assignment, anonymous student seats, and private student work.Starting Price: $2.99 -
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SignalPGx
SignalPGx
SignalPGx is a global pharmacogenomics reporting and medication intelligence platform for laboratories, hospital systems, provider networks, clinics, pharmacy partners, and healthcare enterprises. The platform turns genotype data into physician-reviewed, evidence-backed medication guidance through white-label PGx reports, SignalAI-assisted interpretation, a Medication Intelligence Graph, Living Patient Passport, medication simulation, and living reanalysis. SignalPGx supports VCF, Agena MassARRAY, CSV, and custom lab file formats, with EHR-ready integrations including SMART on FHIR, HL7/FHIR, CDS Hooks, and REST APIs. Built for enterprise healthcare deployment, SignalPGx includes tenant isolation, RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and scalable multi-region AWS infrastructure. -
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eFieldData
eFieldData
eFieldData is a complete electronic field data management system and cloud-based automated workflow platform built for construction materials testing, geotechnical engineering, and field inspection operations. It connects scheduling, work orders, mobile field data collection, laboratory testing, reporting, timesheets, invoicing, and client communication in one centralized workflow. Field technicians can use the iOS or Android mobile app to access project details, record asphalt, concrete, soil, and other test results, attach site photos, GPS-tag locations, and sync information in real time. Standardized electronic forms include preset calculations and support ASTM, AASHTO, and state DOT requirements, while automated validation helps reduce data-entry errors and improve consistency. Field samples flow directly into lab management, where technicians can track samples, complete testing, use predefined calculations, and generate reports without duplicate entry or manual matching.Starting Price: Free -
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ForneyVault
ForneyVault
ForneyVault is construction materials testing software designed to automate concrete QA/QC workflows from field testing through lab strength testing and office reporting. It integrates testing machines, third-party software, and project systems to eliminate manual errors, increase productivity, and produce reliable, traceable results. ForneyField is a mobile app that captures and syncs sample data and wet concrete properties, while ForneyLink provides a testing-machine interface that helps technicians work faster with minimal human error. ForneyTools gives users a central interface to manage sample data, projects, and report approval workflows. With the platform at the center of the testing environment, teams can eliminate manual specimen identification, testing steps, and data handoffs. Test results flow directly from the machine to the database and LIMS without being altered, reducing potential human failure points and supporting accurate results.Starting Price: $120 per month -
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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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Magnum
Field Precision LLC
Magnum is a versatile tool for 3D finite-element magnetostatic calculations. The program features high accuracy and speed at a moderate price. Magnum can perform three types of calculations: 1) free-space fields in unbounded volumes for given applied currents, 2) bounded fields in the presence of coils, permanent magents and saturable isotropic ferromagnetic materials and 3) pulsed fields in regions with ideal conductors. The program handles saturation effects in ferromagnetic materials and modern permanent-magnet materials (NdFeB and SmCo). The package includes five linked components: Geometer (build 3D structures in an interactive environment), MetaMesh (automatically create conformal hexahedron meshes), MagWinder (build complex 3D drive coil assemblies), Magnum (generate magnetic-field solutions interactively in a window or under command control), and MagView (make 2D/3D plots and perform quantitative analyses).Starting Price: $890 perpetual license -
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Noodle Biomedical Literature Discovery
Helena Bioinformatics
Noodle is Helena Bioinformatics' free biomedical literature discovery platform for researchers, clinicians reviewing literature, and research software developers. Search by topic or publication identifier, inspect PMID, DOI and PMCID records, discover related papers, and explore citation links and semantic literature neighbourhoods in an interactive research trail. Source-linked publication records help users follow evidence back to the original research. A public, read-only MCP interface also makes these discovery functions available to compatible AI agents without authentication. Noodle is intended for research and literature review. Semantic similarity and graph proximity are discovery signals, not proof of causality or clinical recommendations. Research resource identifier: RRID:SCR_028920.Starting Price: Free -
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OmniTrak
Field Precision LLC
OmniTrak is the most advanced software tool available for the analysis of 3D charged-particle devices. The program combines finite-element methods with advanced interpolation techniques for fast and accurate orbit calculations. OmniTrak packages are complete tools that handle mesh generation, field solution, particle initiation, orbit tracking and analysis. OmniTrak has applications to areas such as high-power microwave sources, vacuum microelectronics, photomultipliers, particle accelerators, electrostatic and agnetostatic spectrometers, electron microscopes, ion-mobility spectrometers and high-power relativistic beams.The package includes ten integrated components: Geometer (build 3D structures in an interactive environment), MetaMesh (automatically create conformal hexahedron meshes), HiPhi (generate electrostatic solutions interactively in a window or under command control), PhiView (electric field plots and analysis), MagWinder (build complex 3D drive coil assemblies), etc.Starting Price: $1490 -
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Powerlily
Powerlily
Powerlily is a solar operating system that brings design, proposals, CRM, permitting, field operations, invoicing, and fleet monitoring into one connected platform. It carries a customer from first contact through design, sale, installation, and long-term service without rebuilding the same project across separate tools. Teams can capture and qualify leads, preserve attribution, manage solar-native pipelines, and automate follow-up based on real events. Live 3D design supports roof, ground, carport, and commercial arrays with stringing, setbacks, shading, and 8,760-hour per-panel production simulation, while battery analysis connects usage, tariffs, incentives, and financing to hour-by-hour storage behavior and long-term value. Powerlily can generate editable single-line diagrams, coordinated permit-ready plan sets, branded proposals, e-signatures, invoices, and field schedules from the same project record.Starting Price: $20.83 per month -
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XFdtd
Remcom
XFdtd is a full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software created by Remcom. This innovative and full-featured electromagnetic simulation solver provides high-performance computing options and simplifies the analysis of the most complex EM problems. XFdtd offers a wide range of applications that include microwave device design, antenna design and placement, radar and scattering, biomedical applications, automotive radar, waveguides, military and defense contracts, RFID, EMC/EMI, and more.Starting Price: $14750.00/one-time/user
