Page 10 | Best Engineering Software for Windows - April 2025 Reviews & Comparison

ConnectCAD

Vectorworks

ConnectCAD is built on Vectorworks Spotlight, you can take advantage of the flexible and robust design and documentation capabilities that make Spotlight the industry standard. With an extensive manufacturer library and a customizable 2D/3D hybrid environment, rest assured you have everything you need to design with confidence. Use ConnectCAD to work seamlessly not only with the rest of your team, but with event planners and other project stakeholders as well. Collaboration has never been easier.

Starting Price: $153 per month

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PlanStudio

Locatrix

PlanStudio® allows users to draft, edit, view and add to spatially accurate floorplans. Easy Push button evacuation sign publishing and secure online cloud repository with the automatic upload. Compliant with all relevant Australian legislation and standards. Full suite of drafting tools Compatible with iOS, Mac and Windows. No loss of data thanks to a cloud-based repository of building floor-plans and emergency installation data. Push-button publishing of finished evacuation signs. A simpler way to create evacuation signs and diagrams that will satisfy your client’s requirements. Captures data for all relevant fire and safety installations, including exit signage, extinguishers, hose reels, fire blankets and more. Every commercial building needs evacuation signs. Prior to this software, draftsmen could create a maximum of 15 evacuation signs per day. With PlanStudio®, evacuation signs can be created accurately and efficiently.

Starting Price: $40 per sign

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Formit

Autodesk

FormIt Pro is available only in the architecture, engineering & construction collection. FormIt is an intuitive 3D sketching tool for the conceptual design phase. Design anywhere, anytime within a simple and powerful design environment. Make informed design decisions with site context, solar impact, and energy analysis. Connect conceptual designs to BIM workflows with native Revit integration. The pro version of FormIt includes the tools in the FormIt app, plus Dynamo computation, and collaboration and analysis features. Get improved interoperability between FormIt Pro and Revit. Directly import FormIt files into Revit projects. Create roundtrip workflows for greater design exploration with more intuitive modeling capabilities of FormIt. Toggle between early and later design phases with smoother workflows that enable 3D sketching and more detailed documentation work.

Starting Price: $390 per month

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anima

AXYZ design

People and crowd animation software was developed specifically for architects and designers to add 3D animated characters to their projects quickly and easily. With anima®, 3D people become human beings. The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism. anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations. Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.

Starting Price: €279 one-time payment

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Cable High Voltage

Electrotechnik

Electrotechnik introduces Cabe High Voltage software for easy and accurate cable-rating calculation. A wide range of insulation conditions gets covered In Air and Groups in Air, Direct Buried or In-Ducts, Bonding Arrangements and Buried in Thermal Backfill. Custom cables get modelled from data sheets using the graphical cable model editor. There is a vast database of pre-modelled tables. The cable bonding arrangements get changed between solid with or without regular transition. In the transient module, you can determine the emergency and cyclic rating of single-core and multi-core circuits. The CHV software has modules to calculate short-circuit rating and magnetic fields intensity. Comprehensive directive PDF reports can get easily generated. We offer technical support from our experienced engineers at every step.

Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license

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SPACE GASS

SPACE GASS is a multi-purpose 3D analysis and design program for structural engineers. Its extensive range of features make it suitable for anything from beams, trusses and frames to buildings, towers, tanks, cable structures and bridges. Capabilities include a 64-bit multi-core solver, silky smooth 3D rendered graphics, plate finite elements, frame elements, cable elements, tension/compression-only elements, moving loads and links to many CAD and building management programs. Why SPACE GASS Save time, money, and get a safe and efficient design. Silky smooth graphical interface that lets you see your changes visually as you go. A fast sparse matrix solver that fully utilizes the parallel processing power of multi-core computers. A wide range of structural modeling tools, analysis options and design modules. Comprehensive video tutorials to walk you through some of the tricky stuff. Configurable for stand-alone or floating network systems.

Starting Price: $600 per month

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Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)

Sterison Technology

The next digitalization era is here. Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT) involves collecting and analyzing sensor-generated data to support equipment monitoring and maintenance, production process analytics and control, and more… -Industrial smart, connected products -Equipment utilization monitoring -Real-time industrial asset tracking and management -Connected supply chain management -Predictive maintenance -Production quality control -Defects Analysis System -Inventory management -Employee monitoring We guarantee a smooth transition towards Industry 4.0, by ensuring the step-by-step transformation of every segment of the supply and production chain. Sterison can develop a cost-effective IIoT software from scratch, using Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud services or open-source IoT platforms enabling sensor data collection and analytics, IIoT device connectivity, control and management.

Starting Price: $5/Month/Signal

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ruffus

Ruffus is a computation pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics. Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort. Suitable for the simplest of tasks. Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive. No "clever magic", no pre-processing. Unambitious, the lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well. Ruffus is available under the permissive MIT free software license. This permits free use and inclusion even within proprietary software. It is good practice to run your pipeline in a temporary, “working” directory away from your original data. Ruffus is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines. Ruffus requires Python 2.6 or higher or Python 3.0 or higher.

Starting Price: Free

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Fatigue Essentials

AppliedCAx

Fatigue Essentials is a desktop application used to efficiently conduct structural fatigue analysis. Fatigue Essentials provides a user-friendly tool for conducting stress-life analysis either using classical stress calculations or linked with FEMAP™ and using the finite element generated stresses. The program is structured to guide the user through the analysis by following a tree structure. General analysis options are selected following loads, materials, and spectrum branches. Within each branch are options for analysis variations or input methods. Analysis results are available on-screen to paste into a report and/or as a damage contour plot in FEMAP. Covers most engineering requirements. Classic mode with user input stresses. Professional mode (FEMAP-linked) with the ability to read nodal stresses and push back results in a damage contour plot. Option for either interactive input or file input for stresses and cycles.

Starting Price: $695 one-time payment

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GreenScapes

Landscape Design Imaging Software

GreenScapes is a fast and easy landscape, hardscape, and lighting design program. It is our most extensive program. Create landscape designs in a matter of minutes. Designs are photo-realistic renderings with the landscape, hardscape, and lighting installed. Greenscapes comes with built-in training videos for every command in the program and a tutorial sequence that takes you through a complete design step by step. There are no boring manuals to read. We also have advanced techniques you might want to see. GreenScapes will help you close the deal quickly. Potential clients fall madly in love with being able to see their home as if you completed the project. Let us show you. Our programs are Windows-based but work on a Mac with virtual environments like Parallels/Windows making it easy to switch between macOS and Windows in a single click, giving Mac users the best of both worlds. Create beautiful photo-realistic designs using GreenScapes landscape content.

Starting Price: $500 one-time payment

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progeEARTH

progeCAD

This Civil Survey software, comprised of Survey/Cogo, DTM, and Road Design modules, is powered by progeCAD® Professional. progeEARTH provides a low-cost alternative to the otherwise high-priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so. This Survey, Cogo, DTM, and Road Design software, used with progeCAD® Professional, provides a low-cost alternative to otherwise high priced Land survey, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, and corridor design software including working directly with AutoCAD DWG files, without having to pay a fortune to do so.

Starting Price: $399 one-time payment

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progeBILLD MEP

progeCAD

progeBILLD, professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application. progeBILLD Building Services software is very user-friendly. The program contains an intuitive, clear user interface, allowing you to begin designing without intensive software training. ProgeBILLD Mechanical/Structural is a powerful application to create mechanical and structural projects. It contains numerous libraries of standardized elements, steel profiles and other elements conforming to DIN, EN, ISO and other standards. Ready-to-use objects and commands automate the creation of details, schematics, and multi-view drawings. Thousands of industry standard bolts, screws, nuts, pins and other elements.

Starting Price: $499 one-time payment

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Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS) develops advanced and intuitive CAD software for foundation analysis & design. GEMS foundation analysis suite employs finite element modeling techniques for analysis & design of shallow and deep foundations. The foundation analysis suite includes modules for analyzing beam foundations, pile foundations and a specialized module for analyzing offshore pile foundations. Try GEMS foundation analysis suite for FREE on the cloud. It is also available for trial download and purchase for PC & Mac's.

Starting Price: $500/year/user

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Logbookr

The aircraft logbook (also known as a technical logbook, flight folio, or journey log in some parts of the world) is outdated. You can install Logbookr on your crew's iPad, or use it right on your phone, and it allows you to enter flight times, defects, and ECTM data right from your device on the go. WiFi or data not required, you can sync the data when you are back on the ground or in the office. Entering a snag sends an email to maintenance so everyone is up to speed at all times. Logbookr works from any computer, phone, iPad, or other smart devices. Enter flights, defects, and ECTM data right from the cockpit. The aircraft screen shows which aircraft are ready for dispatch and how long until the next maintenance due. Also, any defects reported will show the aircraft as not ready for dispatch until you note they have been rectified.

Starting Price: $20 per month

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CAD Exchanger

CADEX

CAD Exchanger technologies help software developers and end-users to work, share and collaborate on 3D data, which can come in any format, from any source, on any platform. APPLICATION FOR END-USERS • CAD Exchanger Lab. View, analyze and convert 3D data on desktop. SDKs & TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS • CAD Exchanger SDK. C++, C#, Java, Python libraries for applications and SaaS solutions. • CAD Exchanger Batch. Light-weight command-line tool for batch conversions in corporate or cloud environments. We are proud to have customers from Fortune-100 companies and feel honored to contribute to today’s leaders’ projects: Tesla in the automotive industry, Apple in consumer electronics, NASA in space exploration, Amazon in the delivery business and many others. • 250K+ CAD Exchanger Lab end-users • 1M+ CAD Exchanger SDK enabled end-users • 110+ countries

Starting Price: $590/per year

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AVISAV QSMS

AVISAV

AVISAV QSMS is an ICAO / EASA /FAA compliant, user friendly, easily navigable Aviation Quality and Safety Management (QSMS) Software with quality graphics. AVISAV QSMS is a Centralized platform for: - Occurrences Reporting, and Investigation Management Tool. - Quality Audits Management tool. - ONE OF A KIND: SMS IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT TOOL: Assess your current SMS implementation inside your organization. Assign tasks of SMS Implementation to your team members. Be 24/7 prepared for any internal and external audits. - Customizable Quality and Safety metrics analytics dashboard. - log, track, and asses all quality and safety issues. - Manage SPIs/SPTs. - Hazard Register: Complete and calculate hazards and risks assessments. - Documents management: The application provides a central location to store files. - Communications Management: Post company news, safety alerts, updates. - Surveys Management Tool: create, edit, distribute surveys to assess quality and safety levels.

Starting Price: £1.25/User/Month

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BPT-Pro

Baby Universe Inc.

BPT-Pro is an Adobe Illustrator's blueprint plug-in that can fully supports the design and drawing work of manufacturing, design, and design professionals. It makes possible to measure any segment, including free-form curves, as well as the area of objects with complex shapes. Even tedious tasks such as creating dimension lines and adding comments required for drawings can be easily and automatically generated by simply dragging the mouse. It is as easy to use as Illustrator's standard tools. You can not only speed up your work, but also improve accuracy of your professional results.

Starting Price: $99 USD per year

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EXDXF-Pro

Baby Universe Inc.

EXDXF-Pro is an ideal DXF convert plug-in for Adobe Illustrator (AI). I can solve data compatibility problems between CAD software and AI. Specific functions include an "Export function" that outputs DXF data from AI and an "Import function" that opens DXF files in AI. Recently, CAD software is offered by many manufacturers, and the software is developed to be compatible with other CAD software. In particular, the file format uses the "dxf" extension to ensure compatibility in the exchange of data between CAD software and to facilitate the exchange of data between designers. CAD software and AI also use this "DXF" for data compatibility. However, compatibility problems are not infrequent. EXDXF-Pro's "Export Function" can output data in R12 format (AC1009) as "DXF" in R12 format, which is a highly popular format.

Starting Price: $99 USD per year

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Flow Calc 365

John R. Hamilton Enterprises, Inc.

Flow Calc 365 is an advanced and powerful software calculator for open channel flow using the Manning Equation for regular and irregular channel geometries for steady uniform flow including circular and elliptical pipes. Civil Engineers have found Flow Calc to be a useful tool for quick calculation results and professional reports. Flow Calc can be used to solve for Manning N Value, Channel Slope, Normal Depth, and Flow Rate for irregular channels and pipe channels including elliptical pipes. Rating Tables of Flow Rate versus Normal Depth are easily created where the user can modify variables of a channel such as side slope, channel slope, Manning N Value, and other variables. Flow Calc 365 uses trusted software installation practices utilizing RSA SHA-256 encryption technology to provide the highest level of security trust with validation reputation that is compliant with Microsoft Smartscreen® technology.

Starting Price: $99/year/license

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EON-XR

EON Reality

Designed to bring Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions to as many people around the world as possible, EON-XR removes the obstacles that often come with incorporating AR and VR into an academic or industrial environment. Through EON-XR, educators, trainers, employers, and other users are able to create interactive and immersive AR and VR lessons without needing any coding or advanced technological knowledge. The lessons can then be distributed to their audience of students, trainees, employees, or the general public for consumption on common devices ranging from smartphones to laptops to publicly available headsets. EON-XR is preparing millions of students, employees, and citizens for the present and future while both replacing and aiding traditional training and teaching methods in dozens of countries around the world.

Starting Price: Free

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Bekonix

Our goal is really to help you create smart, connected projects and products from concept to final design. So that means everything from putting together the hardware components, the firmware, the behaviors and even the end-user mobile app to control it. The Bekonix Platform lets you try out ideas in minutes that would take days or weeks the traditional way. What’s more, since no programming is required, motivated creatives can jump in and not just talk about making a smart, connected product but invent it in real time. Unlike many prototyping tools out there, Bekonix is built for the next level of manufacturing. Real code, real connections. If you need larger volumes to reduce hardware costs, Bekonix can easily migrate with your needs.

Starting Price: $79 per month

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K-Display Convert

Kubotek

No matter where they come from K-Display® Convert will get CAD files ready to be read with the tools you have. The programs require no additional CAD software licenses. Beyond just straight pass-through of data, K-Compare Convert allows filtering out objects by simply hiding the parts you don't want in the output file. Powered by next-generation Kubotek Kosmos technology, K-Display employs full multi-threaded processing guaranteed to bring a new level of speed when opening larger files. K-Display Convert has versions supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux. Count on these programs to translate all the MCAD files that come your way into formats you can use. Simple display commands and options for 3D models. Check distances, surface areas, and solid volumes. Save as STEP, IGES, ACIS, STL, and PDF files. Licenses ready for purchase in our web store.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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Wings 3D

Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Originally inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, Wings 3D has been developed since 2001, when Björn Gustavsson (bjorng) and Dan Gudmundsson (dgud) first started the project. Richard Jones (optigon) maintained Wings and coded many new features between 2006 and 2012. Wings 3D is currently maintained by Dan with the help of the great community. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. Wings 3D is written in Erlang, an open-source, functional programming language distributed by Ericsson. Wings 3D gets its name from the Winged Edge Data Structure (WEDS). This is the data structure used to store the adjacency relationships between edges, faces, and vertices in a Wings 3D model. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Starting Price: Free

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IRender nXt

RenderPlus

IRender nXt will improve client presentations of your SketchUp models. High-quality architectural renderings created with IRender nXt from your SketchUp models can be an important addition to your client presentations and proposals. Stop waiting on your 3D renderings. Deliver projects ahead of schedule. Render multiple jobs simultaneously. Get your computer back while you are rendering your 3D models. Stop upgrading your computers and use our fast machines instead. Watch IRender nXt create a photo-realistic rendering of an object with just one click. Without changing the SketchUp model, use IRender nXt to create a high-quality rendered image. It’s easy to create light fixtures and add them to a model. IRender nXt includes point, spot, ceiling, floor, and table lighting. IRender nXt is a powerful plugin for producing high-resolution architectural renderings from SketchUp models. IRender nXt is fully-integrated with materials, lighting, and components with an easy-to-use interface.

Starting Price: $499 one-time payment

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Snaptrude

The collaborative building design for‍ architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.

Starting Price: $49 per month

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SweetLight

The SweetLight DMX controller system includes powerful lighting control software and a set of DMX interfaces to suit your requirements. Fully take advantage of your lights with an easy DMX control system, and let the software play alone a varied show for hours. Select a group of par cans and adjust channel levels & fade mode and duration for each step. Select a group of moving lights, and for the chosen channels, load/draw a curve and adjust the delay between all fixtures. Select the fixtures and apply them rainbow/text scrolling / animated pictures effects. Customize your screen with pages, buttons and sliders of your choice. Connect a midi control surface to drive all with color control of the midi buttons. Drag and drop the light & audio & video files at a specific time to build the show. Build your stage with our bank of 3D objects, position your fixtures, and watch the lightshow in our 3D rendering.

Starting Price: Free

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Modelur

Modelur brings architects, urban designers, and planners all the essential tools needed to easily test multiple urban massing options in your favorite 3D modeling environment. Without having to manually recalculate areas and other parameters in Excel! Enter the area’s zoning regulations such as max. FAR, site coverage, green areas, max. building height and more, and create custom land-use types for greater flexibility and calculation precision. Use the urban massing generator to see how zoning rules perform in space and set maximum geometrical building values for the generator to get you started with a basic draft or simply import your dwg floor plans. Use the power of parametric modeling and automated data calculations to start designing and iterating your ideas. Say no more to manually transferring your model data to spreadsheets. Our Excel LiveSync functionality synchronizes all your model data to Excel spreadsheets in real-time.

Starting Price: €149 per month

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ChalmLite

Chalmit

3D realistic renders, multi-language support, improved CAD layer management and so much more, discover ChalmLite 6.0 today. With simple, user-friendly windows based interfaced packed with new features, ChalmLite 6.0 allows users to create simple or complex lighting designs. Visualize lighting designs in realistically rendered 3D environments. Utilize a comprehensive set of quick estimators for your project and download the results in single-page reports. Enhanced luminaire selection tools for hazardous environments. Reports with links directly to online product resources.

Starting Price: Free

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HDR Light Studio

Lightmap

The best way to achieve realistic 3D lighting is through the influence of real-world lighting references. In the 3D industry, HDRI lighting is used to aid with replicating real-life lighting scenarios. The HDRI map used highly affects the quality of HDRI lighting. The conventional ways of making your own HDRI maps involve picking up a camera and shooting real-life environments. So, it’s no surprise that many 3D artists settle for off-the-shelf stock HDRI Maps. However, that’s like a photographer using the same lighting setup for a motorcycle and a car shoot – it will never happen. It’s why we believe that 3D artists deserve to handcraft a unique lighting design for every 3D scene. Perfect lighting is achieved by having the right lights in the right place. HDR Light Studio has been engineered to take this literally. It’s why it’s known as the ultimate 3D lighting design tool to easily and quickly create your HDRI maps.

Starting Price: $176.22 per year

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OptiWin 3D Pro

Glamox

OptiWin 3D Pro is our own lighting calculation program, which we offer free of charge to our customers and partners. The program makes it possible to carry out lighting calculations for comprehensive and complex projects. Correct lighting calculations are important for maritime and oil and gas projects to satisfy norms and requirements and lux levels. Such calculations also make it possible to implement corrective measures at an early stage of a project. OptiWin 3D Pro calculations are provided in the form of well-documented reports. Provides easy and fast lighting calculations using CAD drawings.

Starting Price: Free

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Best Engineering Software for Windows - Page 10

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Windows as of April 2025 - Page 10

ConnectCAD

PlanStudio

Formit

anima

Cable High Voltage

SPACE GASS

Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)

ruffus

Fatigue Essentials

GreenScapes

progeEARTH

progeBILLD MEP

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Logbookr

CAD Exchanger

AVISAV QSMS

BPT-Pro

EXDXF-Pro

Flow Calc 365

EON-XR

Bekonix

K-Display Convert

Wings 3D

IRender nXt

Snaptrude

SweetLight

Modelur

ChalmLite

HDR Light Studio

OptiWin 3D Pro

Best Engineering Software for Windows - Page 10

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Windows as of April 2025 - Page 10

ConnectCAD

PlanStudio

Formit

anima

Cable High Voltage

SPACE GASS

Sterison Industrial IoT (IIoT)

ruffus

Fatigue Essentials

GreenScapes

progeEARTH

progeBILLD MEP

Geotechnical Engineering Modelling Software (GEMS)

Logbookr

CAD Exchanger

AVISAV QSMS

BPT-Pro

EXDXF-Pro

Flow Calc 365

EON-XR

Bekonix

K-Display Convert

Wings 3D

IRender nXt

Snaptrude

SweetLight

Modelur

ChalmLite

HDR Light Studio

OptiWin 3D Pro

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