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iClone
Reallusion
iClone is the fastest real-time 3D animation software in the industry, helping you easily produce professional animations for films, previz, animation, video games, content development, education and art. Integrated with the latest real-time technologies, iClone simplifies the world of 3D Animation in a user-friendly production environment that blends character animation, scene design and cinematic storytelling; quickly turning your vision into a reality. Animate any character instantly with intuitive tools for face and body animation. Create facial animations with accurate lip-sync, puppet emotive expressions, muscle-based face key editing, and an unparalleled iPhone facial capture. Create realistic or stylized, animation-ready humanoid 3D characters in a short time. Powerful animation features get scenes moving thanks to ultimate creative control.Starting Price: $599 per license -
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Render[in]
Render[in]
Render[in] is a fully integrated, real-time radiosity engine developed for SketchUp (Free and Pro) users. Powered by Artlantis 6.5’s rendering engine, Render[in] 3 gives SketchUp users the high-definition, photorealistic renderings they’ve been looking for, in a robust, easy-to-use application. Just as in photography, the respect of color is essential in rendering. Render[in]’s new global illumination engine improves images for a better perception of colors, textures, and materials. Thanks to both the ISO and Shutter parameters, it is easier than ever to fine-tune a scene’s lighting.Starting Price: €190 per license -
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FluidRay
Fluid Interactive
All the tweaking of materials, lights or any other scene properties are immediately visible as real-time feedback in the viewport, making your workflow faster and much more pleasurable. FluidRay is the only interactive renderer that doesn’t suffer from GPU limitations. GPU based renderers work well only on specific tasks while FluidRay does it all easily and quickly. Working with FluidRay is effortless. The interactive workflow is extremely intuitive and anyone can get up to speed in just a few minutes. FluidRay allows you to quickly make visually stunning previews of your architectural projects, interior designs, jewelry projects, and more. Interactive rendering makes designing products and environments an easy and fun process. FluidRay makes it easy to quickly prototype your designs and generate super high quality preview images. FluidRay’s compatibility with Rhino enables designers to create 3D models in Rhino and easily import into FluidRay.Starting Price: $14.99 per month -
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Flamingo nXt
Robert McNeel & Associates
Present your Rhino models in their best light. Next generation rendering technology. Flamingo nXt was developed for designers. You don't need to be a CG professional to quickly present your Rhino model in the best light. Results in a few clicks and a few minutes. In Rhino, just click Render to try the nXt defaults, or spend a few minutes to select a lighting scenario and add some materials before you click Render. Flamingo nXt 5 allows you to easily create stunning, life-like images in Rhino. With nXt you don't need to be a professional renderer to get realistic results quickly. You provide materials and lighting and press the Render button. nXt provides the simulation. Unlike many rendering products, there are very few settings to worry about or understand. nXt produces realistic results by simulating light transport in your model. Indirect lighting as well as complex reflection and refraction can be easily incorporated into the simulation.Starting Price: $195 -
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Adobe Dimension
Adobe
Discover new dimensions in design. Adobe Dimension is the fastest way to bring your designs to life in 3D. Get it as part of Creative Cloud All Apps plan. Create engaging content in 3D faster with high-quality models, materials, and lighting. Dimension makes it easy to build brand visualizations, illustrations, product mockups, packaging designs, and other creative work. Create real-life images in real time. Visualize your branding, packaging, and logo designs in 3D. Drag and drop a vector graphic or image onto a 3D model to see it in a real context. Easily search Adobe Stock for 3D assets optimized for Dimension right within the app. Create lifelike virtual photographs with depth, texture, and the right lighting. Combine 3D models with 2D designs from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, materials from Substance, background photographs, and lighting environments. Import custom assets from third-party 3D apps, and export your scenes as layers to refine them further in Photoshop.Starting Price: $20.99 per month -
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RenderMan
Pixar
Advanced technology from Pixar Animation Studios for rendering VFX and animation. With a new state-of-the-art framework optimized for physically-based rendering, RenderMan can deliver unmatched flexibility for any production pipeline. Not only is RenderMan used for our own feature films at Pixar, it is also used throughout the industry for rendering Visual Effects and animation, making scalability and versatility one of its core strengths. Now you can get out-of-box production tools straight from Pixar Animation Studios, including materials and light transport, no development required. Physically based shading allows RenderMan to deliver highly realistic lighting with minimal setup, including full support for multi-bounce ray traced global illumination and ray traced subsurface scattering. Much research and development has gone into making these traditionally expensive effects a production reality. Materials come fully loaded with all of the creative options.Starting Price: $5 per lincense -
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Verge3D
Soft8Soft
Verge3D® is a powerful and intuitive toolkit that allows Blender, 3ds Max, or Maya artists to create immersive web-based experiences. Verge3D can be used to build interactive animations, product configurators, engaging presentations of any kind, online stores, explainers, e-learning content, portfolios, and browser games. The high-tech 3D web technology becomes accessible with Verge3D. Your exquisite content will live on your website being appreciated by the billion-sized Internet population. Interactivity, including the true 360° view, zoom, and animation, will bring an entirely new level of engagement to your creations. It will work everywhere, from a small smartphone to a workstation and even a TV set. We designed and assembled all the tools you need in one place and called it Verge3D. Find out how Verge3D can transform your business and differentiate your enterprise from the rest of the industry!Starting Price: $290 -
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Chaos Phoenix
Chaos
Versatile dynamics simulator that seamlessly integrates with Autodesk 3ds Max and V-Ray. Chaos® Phoenix is capable of a wide range of effects including fire, smoke, liquids, flames, explosions, rigid body simulations, ocean waves, mist and splashes to list just a few. Quick presets and fast setup make it easy to get started, and its powerful simulation engine offers complete control over more complex effects. Chaos® Phoenix is an all-in one solution for fluid dynamics. Simulate fire, smoke, liquids, ocean waves, splashes, spray, mist and more. Built for 3D artists who want to create dynamic FX using quick presets, fast setup and intuitive controls. Preview and render interactively in the viewport. Adjust simulations on the fly. Create all types of physically-based fluid effects with fast, flexible controls for rendering, retiming and refining simulations. Integrated seamlessly into 3ds Max and optimized to render with Chaos V-Ray®.Starting Price: $33 per month -
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RhinoCAM
MecSoft Corporation
RhinoCAM is a CAM Software plug-in that runs completely inside of Rhinoceros 6.0 & 7.0 (Windows only). RhinoCAM marries the power of Rhino’s freeform modeling with the legendary CAM functionality of VisualCAM to bring you a product of unrivaled capability. With seamless and complete integration RhinoCAM, acts and feels like you are working with Rhino when generating CNC programs. RhinoCAM is also fully associative to any geometry changes within Rhino. RhinoCAM includes modules for MILL, TURN, NEST & ART. RhinoCAM comes in 5 different configurations to suit the various needs of our customers. These are Express (XPR), Standard (STD), Expert (EXP), Professional (PRO) & Premium (PRE). RhinoCAM comes in 5 different configurations to suit the varied machining needs of our customers. Ideal for getting started with CAM programming. Includes 2 & 3 axis machining methods. Packed with sufficiently powerful manufacturing methods.Starting Price: $595 -
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RoboDK
RoboDK
RoboDK is a powerful and cost-effective simulator for industrial robots and robot programming. RoboDK simulation software allows you to get the most out of your robot. No programming skills are required with RoboDK's intuitive interface. You can easily program any robot offline with just a few clicks. RoboDK has an extensive library with over 500 robot arms. The advantage of using RoboDK's simulation and offline programming tools is that it allows you to program robots outside the production environment. With RoboDK you can program robots directly from your computer and eliminate production downtime caused by shop floor programming. Use your robot arm like a 5-axis milling machine (CNC) or a 3D printer. Simulate and convert NC programs to robot programs (G-code or APT-CLS files). RoboDK will automatically optimize the robot path, avoiding singularities, axis limits and collisions. Simulation and Offline Programming of industrial robots has never been easier.Starting Price: €145 -
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Bantam Tools
Bantam Tools
At Bantam Tools, we make desktop CNC machines with professional reliability and precision at an affordable price. Bantam Tools manufactures desktop CNC milling machines that provide professional reliability and precision at an affordable price. Bantam Tools blends hardware innovation with accessible software and inclusive community to transform the way our world is designed and manufactured. We believe that the process of going from idea to object should be seamless. Our team has decades of applied knowledge of CNC machines and software, and as a result, we understand the path to a full-stack user experience that will create passionate users. With the launch of the Bantam Tools Desktop CNC Milling Machine, we’re excited to announce our entirely new control software! Quickly and easily set up new jobs using our conductive probing, update speeds and feeds using our built-in tool library and feel confident in your design by relying on our preview visualization.Starting Price: $199 per year -
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ArtiosCAD
Esko
The world’s most popular structural design software for packaging. The world’s most popular structural design software for packaging, ArtiosCAD is designed to boost productivity for packaging professionals handling structural design, product development, virtual prototyping and manufacturing operations. With ArtiosCAD you don’t need to be a math genius to create challenging designs. The software handles all the metrics for you. It builds a perfectly fitting package around any imported 3D CAD product model. This way you’ll be able to focus solely on your creativity. ArtiosCAD saves hours of design work by turning custom designs into resizable design templates and adding them to your corporate library. A full integration of structural design and graphic design with production files also eliminates costly mistakes downstream in the workflow. Fold your design in 3D to check for inconsistencies before going to print.Starting Price: $206.67 per user per month -
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Interior Design 3D
Interior Design 3D
Interior Design 3D software is an easy-to-use and powerful program for interior design, house remodeling, and floor layout creation. Thanks to its handy building tools, you can easily recreate your house blueprints or build the plan anew in both 2D and 3D view modes. This software features 600+ decoration materials, a huge built-in library of furniture items, and a comprehensive set of sample plans to make home designing simple and enjoyable. Draw yourself a new kitchen. The software will automatically calculate the measurements Use the extensive catalogue of 600+ decorative materials - tiles, wallpaper, any type of flooring. Take a virtual tour of your new living room to see if everything matches & there’s enough space. This interior design app for PC is a perfect choice for beginners because it is refreshingly easy to use.Starting Price: $29.40 per license -
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Allegro X Design Platform
Cadence Design Systems
The Cadence Allegro X Design Platform is the ultimate solution for navigating modern electronic complexities that help support your diverse PCB design needs. As a full-stack engineering platform, it provides a scalable and highly integrated environment for multi-board electronic system design. Allegro X ensures that your global teams can effectively and concurrently collaborate to minimize project risks, lower production costs, and ensure design compliance and standards are met. Electrical engineers and PCB designers can make data-driven decisions with access to constraints and integrated analysis workflows reducing turnaround time while ensuring product reliability, manufacturing, and first pass success.Starting Price: Available Upon Request -
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Guthrie CAD Viewer
Guthrie CAD/GIS
Our CAD Viewer 2021 is a standalone application that is capable of viewing all AutoCAD and MicroStation drawings. CAD Viewer can be operated with remote desktop access software such as TeamViewer in a tele-commuting environment. We also offer an advanced version of CAD Viewer, CAD Markup 2021, that includes markup and measurement features. Easy to view and print all AutoCAD® DWG/DXF/DWF formats including AutoCAD 2022. View Adobe® PDF, MicroStation® DGN, Inventor, and other CAD formats. One time fee for a perpetual license. Fast technical support that you can not expect with other free viewer software. No registration required to download and use. Quick download and simple installation. Instantly load and print CAD drawings. Convert and Publish CAD drawings as PDF or JPEGs. Convenient network installation and network license for multiple users licenses. CAD Viewer features include save to PDF, convert DWG to PDF, DXF to PDF, DGN to PDF, with the option to output drawings individually.Starting Price: $65 per user -
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K-Display View
Kubotek3D
K-Display® View software means less effort getting all the design details to everyone in your chain. Programs and apps for reading, navigating, and measuring all major CAD file formats on any device. With K-Display View, you will always be prepared for the next CAD file, no matter what it is. K-Display requires no additional CAD software and is designed with an intuitive interface, allowing manufacturing, sales, support, and service departments to easily view and interrogate files. You can relax because K-Display View is a local install, read-only program so you will never save a changed version of the file or need to upload sensitive/customer data to the Internet. Powered by Kubotek’s next-generation Kosmos technology, K-Display employs full multi-threaded processing guaranteed to bring a new level of speed when opening larger files. K-Display View has desktop and mobile compatible versions, supporting Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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ABViewer
CADSoftTools
ABViewer is universal software for PC for working with drawings. It enables you to view, edit, convert, measure and print DWG and other CAD files, as well as 3D models and raster images. You can work with a separate fragment of a drawing or, on the contrary, with a group of files. All this at an attractive price! ABViewer allows converting single files or a group of files. Batch conversion provides a wide range of export settings, for example, black-and-white mode, specifying the output file size, etc. The 3D section panel has controls for setting up visual display of 3D models and section planes. The panel is available in the 3D Viewer mode. The commands and options of the 3D Section panel enable to customize 3D model viewing. To display parts of a model, section and gizmo use the settings located at the top of the form. It is possible to create several planes at the same time.Starting Price: $48 -
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Amethyst CADwizz Ultra
CADwizz
This is the latest version of our top-selling CAD viewer. It supersedes the CADwizz MAX and CADwizz LE versions, and has been completely rewritten. In addition to greater stability and improved 3D features, the program offers increased speed and performance through OpenGL and DirectX rendering. AutoCAD is not required, small and lean, easy-to-use interface, greater stability, improved 3D features, increased speed and performance, supports the latest versions of AutoCAD, and it's compatible with Windows 10. Quickly and easily select AutoCAD files with the built-in File and Thumbnail explorers. Browser style Forward/Back buttons allow easy file navigation. Render 3D models as wireframe, hidden line, flat shaded, or gouraud shaded. Select either parallel or perspective projections. Supports hidden line removal on printing. Directly open zipped archives and view multiple drawings. Mark-up drawings with redline annotations.Starting Price: $19 per user -
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Easy CAD Viewer
BENZSOFT
Easy CAD Viewer allows you to view and print various AutoCAD drawings on your PC easily and quickly. It also enables you to manage 2D and 3D CAD drawings. Easy CAD Viewer works with AutoCAD DWG, DXF, DWF files of all versions as early as AutoCAD Release 9 and as recent as AutoCAD 2020. Easy CAD Viewer is the fastest multiple-threading CAD drawings viewer available for Microsoft Windows all versions. The software is more than a viewer, it converts DWG, DXF, DWF drawings to image formats such as BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and TGA. You also can access Easy CAD Viewer by right-clicking any drawing stored on your PC. You can view and manage your CAD files even if you don't have AutoCAD software installed, since Easy CAD Viewer is a standalone program. Full zoom control including zoom in, zoom out, zoom extents, zoom to fit, zoom to window. Rotate drawings clockwise or anticlockwise for easy review. Obtain geometric information from drawings such as distance, length, mass, and volume.Starting Price: $69 -
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Predator Software
Predator Software
Since 1994, Predator Software focuses on automating manufacturers worldwide with innovative and award-winning software applications. Predator Software is an industry leader in Industry 4.0, lean manufacturing, industrial networking solutions and automation via shop floor control or SFC. Predator's SFC technologies include CNC networking, machine monitoring, OEE, production data management, data collection, machine simulation & verification, tool & gage crib management, traveler management, CNC post processing, flexible manufacturing systems and robotic cell control software.Starting Price: $250 -
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Predator DNC
Predator Software
Predator DNC software provides an industrial networking solution for all of your CNC machines, robots, CMMs, PLCs, laser markers, dot peen markers, tool presetters and test stands. Predator DNC transfers your CNC programs, CNC variables, offsets, parameters, PLC registers and other production data to and from your manufacturing equipment. It supports 50+ industrial communication protocols for dripfeeding, downloading, and uploading via parallel, RS-232, RS-422, Ethernet and wireless Ethernet. Stop using USB drives, diskettes, PCMCIA cards, switch boxes, paper tape or a proprietary hardware contraption to communicate with your CNC machines, robots, CMMs, PLCs, 3D printers, laser markers, dot peen markers, tool presetters and test stands. Predator DNC provides a true network solution ensuring the latest files are pulled from your file server or Predator PDM vaults and, when changes occur, the edits are stored back on your file server.Starting Price: $700 -
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PlantFactory
e-on software
PlantFactory is the most powerful solution on the market for modeling 3D vegetation. Its procedural, yet artist-friendly toolbox empowers you with unprecedented control over every detail. Create anything, from tiny mushrooms to majestic trees. Whether you need ultra-realistic, high polygon plants for VFX and archviz, stylized vegetation for commercials or lightweight objects for real-time engines, PlantFactory will cover all your needs while integrating seamlessly into your pipeline. PlantFactory offers three different modeling methods that can be mixed and matched. Draw plants with primitives or self-made brushes, use components (building blocks), or create everything from scratch with nodes. Thanks to its open-ended design, PlantFactory can also generate non-organic objects with repeating structures easily. UV-unwrapping and proper edge flow and topology are handled automatically by smart algorithms. Focus more on creating content and less on technical nuisances.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Haltian Empathic Building
Haltian
Haltian Empathic Building is a solution for digital workplaces. Saves you time, provides more choice, is super easy to use, and helps you to be healthier. The Empathic Building digital twin guarantees a superb end-user experience and delivers the key data for operational excellence. The solution combines features such as find and book desks and meeting rooms, find people to co-create and collaborate, navigate to rooms with wayfinding, share your voice and raise important issues. Haltian Empathic Building for return to office after COVID-19 pandemic is the optimal solution that is easy to use, includes a safe environment for collaboration, optimization of space, removal of frictions, and employee empowerment.Starting Price: €4.99/month/desk -
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INSYDIUM Fused
INSYDIUM
INSYDIUM Fused contains all of our plugins and products in one complete collection. Everything you need to create stunning particle effects, realistic terrains and fulfil modeling tasks through to the final render. Plus, all our available 3D resources, hours of training, technical support, and content repository files. Get your copy of INSYDIUM Fused, which includes X-Particles, the ultimate particle engine for Cinema 4D, TerraformFX, Mesh Tools, Cycles 4D and much more. An essential component of an artist’s toolkit, X-Particles is the solution to satisfy all your particle needs, cloth, smoke, fire, fluids, grains and dynamics. Designers can switch effortlessly between motion graphics and VFX, within a unified system. Create outstanding ParticleFX from solar systems, FUI, holograms and medical visualizations to abstract artwork. Multiple options to combine emitters and modifiers, gives you a range of possibilities.Starting Price: $188.34 per 3 months -
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4Industry
4Industry
4Industry allows your workers and machines to achieve true world-class manufacturing, exponentially improving your OEE. By capturing data with our Continuous Improvement process, your Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) is guaranteed to become a better version of itself, every day. The 4Industry Suite includes a full manufacturing engagement layer (Anomalies, Deviations, RCFA, Counter Measures, Improvements), automated by smart workflows and offering unlimited expandability thanks to ServiceNow’s platform integration capabilities! 4Industry mission statement is: “Helping our customers achieve world class manufacturing by creating innovative solutions”. This is represented when we look at the 4Industry platform. Mobile focussed, new features that improve operator experience and help our customer achieve higher production with less safety incidents. -
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TPT
PIKETEC
With TPT you can test ECU software and embedded control systems in all development phases such as model-in-the-loop (MiL testing), software-in-the-loop (SiL testing), processor-in-the-loop (PiL testing), hardware-in-the-loop (HiL testing), ECU testing and vehicle testing. Whether you create a simple module test or a complex system test, TPT provides unique features to create those tests intuitively and flexibly. Safety standard directives can be satisfied while testing with TPT up to the highest safety level. Relevant standards, such as ISO 26262, are well supported. TPT supports all testing activities from test case design/generation, test execution, test assessment and reporting, as well as test management and requirements traceability. We designed TPT to be the best tool for testing signal-oriented systems. With TPT your test case design is very powerful, easy to handle and easy to maintain even for complex systems with large interfaces. -
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Virtual Surveyor
Virtual Surveyor
Combine the power of your brain to interpret complex topographies with the calculation power of the computer to create drone surveys in very short times. Use drone data for a more efficient and safer mine management. Create more accurate reports on excavations and stocks. Bridge the gap with your specialized mining software. Keep track of your construction project with multiple drone surveys. Compare with your baseline or design surface and determine how much work needs to be done. Know the true value of your stocks with drone data. Set materials, calculate volumes, tonnages and monetary value for a single project or over time. The Drone Operator flies with a drone and acquires a set of pictures of the project site. The Surveyor creates a line survey, triangulation or contours in Virtual Surveyor.Starting Price: $125 per user per month -
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AutoCAD Mechanical
Autodesk
Design faster with an industry-specific toolset for mechanical engineering, including 700,000+ intelligent parts and features. Isolate and restore layer groups and specify linetypes and lineweights. Update geometry automatically when changes occur. Minimize manual redraws. Produce accurate drawings with standard components. Efficiently analyze designs, including shaft, spring, belt, chain, and cam generators. Detail native Inventor part and assembly models. Use intelligent drafting tools made for mechanical design. Custom content library and publishing. Create and save custom content. Preview fillet, chamfer, and offset commands. Take the power of AutoCAD® wherever you go. Smart mechanical engineering dimensions. Create dimensions using abbreviated dialog boxes. 2D DWG with a view of the standards tab on the open options panel. Support for international drafting standards. Deliver standards-based design documentation.Starting Price: $220 per month -
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AutoCAD Electrical
Autodesk
Efficiently create, modify, and document electrical controls systems with an industry-specific toolset for electrical design. Generate and update customized reports. Easily share DWG™ drawings with stakeholders. Use folders to organize drawings and reorder files for electrical drafting projects. Publish schematics to multipage PDFs. Reduce errors with automatic numbers for wires and tags for components. Use Circuit Builder for simple electrical design. Select from a rich library of electrical symbols. Catch problems before the build phase begins. Keep track of parent/child contacts in real-time. Define a project's I/O assignments. Enhanced preview and direct component insertion. Integrated mechatronics solution with Inventor. Coil and contact cross-referencing, PLC I/O drawings from spreadsheets, catalog browser for parts, real-time error checking, electrical schematic symbol libraries, circuit design and reuse, wire numbering, component tagging, and more.Starting Price: $220 per month -
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Revit LT
Autodesk
With Revit LT™ software, our most cost-effective BIM (Building Information Modeling) solution, you can produce high-quality 3D architectural designs and documentation. Simplify project processes by standardizing on BIM workflows. Automate workflows to improve design quality and help reduce risk. Stay on track more easily with comprehensive planning and project scheduling. Qualify for projects requiring BIM deliverables. Offer your clients insight into your designs with 3D modeling and visualization tools. Exchange designs with other Revit and AutoCAD software users. Revit LT software is available with a subscription only. We no longer sell perpetual licenses. Share files easily with export and batch export of Revit LT views and sheets to 2D PDF files with user-defined naming rules. Connect form making to documentation with improved Revit interoperability with Rhino. Model and modify wall profiles more quickly and with greater control for sloped and tapered walls.Starting Price: $60 per month
