Best Engineering Software for Windows - Page 11
View:
Compare the Top Engineering Software for Windows as of September 2026 - Page 11
Sort By:
-
1
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. -
2
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. -
3
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 -
4
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 -
5
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 -
6
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 -
7
AutoCAD Architecture
Autodesk
Speed up architectural design and drafting with an industry-specific toolset that includes 8,500+ intelligent objects and styles. Design and produce renovations more quickly. Create documents and drawings using elements with real-world behavior and construction. Create with detail components and keynoting tools. AutoCAD® 2022 software includes industry-specific toolsets, an improved connected experience across platforms and Autodesk products, and new automations such as Count. Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing. Send a controlled copy of your drawing to teammates and colleagues to access wherever they are. Pull away drawing windows to display side by side or on multiple monitors, in the same instance of AutoCAD. Experience faster performance, including when plotting and for 3D graphics. Push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs to Autodesk Docs from AutoCAD.Starting Price: $220 per month -
8
Cut2D
Vectric
Vectric’s Cut2D software is an intuitive, powerful tool designed for 2D CNC routing, milling, and engraving projects. It allows users to create and edit vector designs easily, producing toolpaths for profiles, pockets, drills, and inlays. The Desktop edition suits small CNC machines up to 24”x24”, ideal for hobbyists or small shops, while the Pro edition supports unlimited job sizes and advanced features like true shape nesting and job setup sheets for production environments. Cut2D offers extensive drawing, editing, and vectorization tools, including bitmap import and image tracing, enabling detailed and precise design work. The software integrates real-time 3D toolpath previews to ensure accuracy and optimize cutting before machining. Vectric’s tool database, job sheets, and post-processor management simplify CNC workflow and increase productivity.Starting Price: $449 one-time payment -
9
Vectorworks Designer
Vectorworks
Built on Vectorworks Fundamentals, Designer has all the design and BIM capabilities of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, and Spotlight. It’s the most cost-effective way to get the entire suite of Vectorworks technology in one, easy-to-use software interface. Easily create and document any design you can imagine. Sketch, draw, and model in a fully integrated BIM workflow. The industry-leading design software for the entertainment business. The all-in-one solution for landscape design and planning. Your relationship with us doesn't end when you install the software. We’ll help you get up and running fast with online, classroom, or onsite training. Or, learn at your own pace with our online getting started guides and webinars, video tech tips, and community board. And, if you ever get stuck, we’re here to help with free technical support.Starting Price: $198 per month -
10
Vectorworks Vision
Vectorworks
The seamless integration between Vectorworks Spotlight and Vision allows you to create design documents, automate paperwork, and visualize your design in rendered 3D views. When you’re done, easily send fixture and model information directly to Vision to previsualize, program, and cue your show. Vision puts the power to previsualize and cue your show at your fingertips. Available for both Mac and PC operating systems, this intuitive software works with your console and equips you to design creatively and efficiently. You will save time and money by previsualizing what your rig can do without needing to travel to the venue or having your crew stand by. Go beyond the ordinary with flexible Vision tools that allow you to customize colors, gobos, lenses, shutters, or any other fixture parameter. Tap into comprehensive fixture libraries that equip you to work more effectively than ever.Starting Price: $1,600 one-time payment -
11
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 -
12
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 -
13
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 -
14
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 -
15
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 -
16
SPACE GASS
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 -
17
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 -
18
ruffus
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 -
19
SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D
SketchList 3D is a powerful woodworking design software built by woodworkers, for woodworkers. Frustrated with traditional CAD tools, its founder launched SketchList nearly 15 years ago to simplify cabinet and furniture design. With intuitive 3D modeling, smart joinery tools, and a growing global user base of nearly 7,000, SketchList 3D empowers users to create precise, professional-grade designs with ease. Endorsed by Rockler Woodworking since 2007 and consistently top-rated, it’s the go-to solution for serious hobbyists and professionals alike.Starting Price: $79.99/month -
20
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 -
21
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 -
22
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 -
23
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 -
24
GEMSai
GEMSai
GEMSai is an AI-powered geotechnical engineering and foundation analysis software platform designed to help engineers perform advanced foundation modeling, analysis, and design with greater accuracy and efficiency. The platform combines finite element modeling (FEM) techniques with AI-assisted workflows to support the analysis of shallow foundations, pile foundations, raft foundations, pile groups, and offshore pile systems. GEMSai provides specialized modules for land-based, bridge, waterfront, and offshore foundation projects while supporting discrete spring-bed models, elastic half-space models, and multilayered soil analysis. The software is available for Windows, macOS, and cloud environments, giving engineers flexible deployment options for different project requirements and workflows. GEMSai is designed to streamline complex geotechnical engineering processes while improving precision, speed, and usability for foundation analysis and design tasks.Starting Price: $500/year/user -
25
Logbookr
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 -
26
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+ countriesStarting Price: $590/per year -
27
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 -
28
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 -
29
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 -
30
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
