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ParaView
Kitware
ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that enables users to build visualizations for analyzing data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. It supports interactive 3D exploration and programmatic data processing through batch processing capabilities. ParaView is designed to handle extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources, making it suitable for supercomputers analyzing terascale datasets as well as laptops for smaller data. The application features a client-server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets and generates level-of-detail models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. ParaView's extensible architecture is based on open standards, allowing for customization and integration with existing tools and workflows. It includes readers for various well-known file formats and offers more than 200 filters and tools for data processing and visualization.Starting Price: Free -
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Tomviz
Kitware
Tomviz is an open source, cross-platform application designed for the processing, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomographic data, with a particular focus on electron tomography. It provides a robust graphical interface that allows users to render objects as shaded contours or volumetric projections, facilitating the manipulation and analysis of large 3D tomograms. Users can work with multiple datasets simultaneously, applying various colormaps and visualization settings to rotate, slice, animate, and save visualizations as images or video files. The platform supports advanced data analysis through histograms, multicorrelative statistics, multiple filters, and user-customized Python scripts. Additionally, Tomviz enables tomographic reconstructions of experimental data, offering a comprehensive suite of Python tools for 3D analysis to accommodate custom algorithms. It is compatible with 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.Starting Price: Free -
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GRASS GIS
GRASS
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite utilized for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and visualization. It supports raster, vector, and geospatial processing, enabling advanced modeling, data management, imagery processing, and time series analysis with a Python API, optimized for large-scale analysis. GRASS GIS is compatible with multiple operating systems, including OS X, Windows, and Linux, and can be accessed through a graphical user interface or integrated with other software such as QGIS. The software includes over 350 modules for rendering maps and images, manipulating raster and vector data, processing multispectral image data, and creating, managing, and storing spatial data. GRASS GIS is widely used in academic and commercial settings, as well as by governmental agencies.Starting Price: Free -
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Whitebox
Whitebox
Whitebox Geospatial Inc. offers innovative geospatial software built on open-source platforms, providing a suite of tools for advanced geospatial data analysis. Their flagship product, WhiteboxTools Open Core (WbT), contains over 475 tools for processing various types of geospatial data, including raster, vector, and LiDAR datasets. WbT is designed for seamless integration with other GIS software, such as QGIS and ArcGIS, enhancing their analytical capabilities. It features extensive use of parallel computing, operates without the need for additional libraries like GDAL, and can be utilized from scripting environments, making it a versatile choice for geospatial professionals. For users seeking advanced functionalities, Whitebox offers the Whitebox Toolset Extension (WTE), a paid extension that adds more than 75 tools for sophisticated geospatial data processing. Additionally, Whitebox Workflows for Python (WbW) provides geospatial professionals with next-level geoprocessing.Starting Price: $500 one-time payment -
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PloCon
Isoplotec Corporation
PloCon is a program that continuously prints the drawing of HPGL / vector / image file to Windows printer. It does not display. (1) Paper and output scale - Specify paper and automatically scaled to fit paper size - Specify paper and output on designated scale - Automatic paper selection with specified scale Automatic selection of the optimum paper and orientation of the printer that matches the drawing size scaled in the drawing area (2)"Interactive print" / "Print from other applications" (3) Line color, width change, whole drawing black and white / color switching, pen ON / OFF (4) Vector font of character font / True type font switching (5) Multi-page support (6) Reading of many file formats as shown below. HP-GL, HP-GL/2, HP RTL, EMF, PDF, DXF, DWG, GERBER, NC-drill, IGES, SXF,EMF, TIFF, JPEG, Bitmap, PCX, FPX, GIF, PNG (7) Output mode Folder monitoring output Batch file outputStarting Price: $70/license -
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Dot3D
DotProduct LLC
DotProduct offers professional-grade mobile 3D scanning solutions through its Dot3D software, compatible with iOS, Windows, and Android devices. This platform enables instant, accurate, and reliable 3D digitization of complex environments, modernizing workflows across various industries. Dot3D Pro supports Windows and Android devices equipped with Intel RealSense cameras or DotProduct's DPI kits, facilitating fully-featured scanning capabilities. For iOS users, Dot3D provides large-scale, professional-grade 3D laser scanning for iPads and iPhones with built-in LiDAR cameras. The software allows real-time 3D reconstruction with live quality feedback, local data optimization for high accuracy, and advanced targeting for improved results. Users can capture ultra-precise measurements, annotate in 3D, and export color point cloud data in various formats, including DP, E57, LAS, LAZ, PTS, PTX, PLY, and RCS.Starting Price: $149 one-time payment -
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QElectroTech
QElectroTech
QElectroTech is a free, open source software designed for creating complex industrial electrical diagrams. It supports a wide range of diagram types, including electrical, plumbing, geothermal, air-conditioning, hydraulics, pneumatics, domotic, and photovoltaic systems, among others. With over 8,000 symbols available in the latest version, it allows users to create detailed technical diagrams across various fields. The software is licensed under the GNU/GPL license and is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux platforms. Its features include a flexible symbol library and user-friendly tools for creating professional-grade schematics. The software is supported by contributions from industrial companies and engineers, including Soliton Controles Industriais and C-Born Engineering, which assist in development and translation. Additionally, QElectroTech supports DXF export for easier integration with other software.Starting Price: Free -
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Veras
EvolveLAB
Veras is an AI-powered visualization app compatible with SketchUp, Revit, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, and web platforms, designed to enhance creativity and inspiration by utilizing your existing 3D model geometry. It offers a geometry override slider, allowing users to balance creativity and precision by adjusting the adherence to the original model geometry. The render selection feature enables targeted modifications within specific image areas, facilitating real-time adjustments with precision. Additionally, the render from the same seed function allows for consistent iterative design by reusing initial parameters with new prompts. Veras is accessible via a web app, eliminating the need for complex installations or expensive BIM software; users can upload images or sketches directly through their browser to utilize its full capabilities. The software supports various versions of popular design tools.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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ArkoAI
ArkoAI
ArkoAI is an AI-powered cloud rendering tool designed to streamline the visualization process for architects and designers. It integrates seamlessly with popular design software, including SketchUp, Rhino3D, and Revit, allowing users to generate high-quality renders directly from their active views. The platform supports various versions of Windows. ArkoAI offers two primary modes, render mode and ideate mode, it maintains the integrity of 3D geometry while rendering context and materials, ensuring accurate visualizations. Ideate mode enables users to explore diverse design ideas by leveraging AI to modify the geometry of 3D models, fostering creativity and innovation. The platform includes advanced features such as a seed set, which ensures consistent rendering styles across multiple views by allowing users to select specific seed values. Additionally, the negative prompt feature guides the AI model away from undesirable outcomes.Starting Price: $39 per month -
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Glyph
EvolveLAB
Glyph is a Revit plugin developed by EvolveLAB that automates and standardizes various documentation tasks, including view and sheet creation, tagging, dimensioning, and sheet packing. It offers customizable bundles that combine multiple tasks, facilitating the synchronization of custom tasks across multiple projects. Key features include the ability to dimension multiple views simultaneously, tag views and sheets by category, create views by level, scope box, room, or category, and generate sheets using data from Excel. The plugin also provides an AI-powered copilot feature to enhance efficiency. Glyph supports Revit versions 2019 through 2025 and offers both fixed and floating licensing models to accommodate different team sizes. Recent updates have improved the user interface, added new dimensions and tagging settings, and enhanced performance across all modes. Additionally, Glyph allows for the creation of custom logos or icons for tasks.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Morphis
EvolveLAB
Morphis is a co-authoring and data-driven generative design application that integrates seamlessly with Autodesk Revit, enabling architects and designers to generate responsive design solutions in real time using Revit rooms and families. The plugin supports Revit versions 2020 through 2024, facilitating the creation of layouts by selecting rooms, areas, or filled regions within Revit. Users can generate various design layouts by defining paths, adjusting region orientations, and specifying module properties, allowing for rapid exploration of design options. Morphis offers features such as area selection, baking or placing rooms and walls with customizable parameters, and importing modules from Excel sheets, enhancing workflow efficiency. Recent updates have improved user experience by automating wall type population and enhancing the reliability of the baking and placing walls feature.Starting Price: $59 per month -
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SuperPro Designer
Intelligen
SuperPro Designer facilitates modeling, evaluation, and optimization of integrated batch and continuous processes across various industries, including biotech, pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food processing, consumer goods, metallurgical, materials, water purification, wastewater treatment, and air pollution control. It combines manufacturing and environmental operation models, enabling users to concurrently design and optimize manufacturing and end-of-pipe treatment processes, promoting pollution prevention and control. The software includes over 140 unit procedures and operations, such as well-mixed reactors, fermentors, plug flow reactors, crystallizers, distillation columns, and various separation and purification units. SuperPro Designer provides rigorous reaction and vapor-liquid equilibrium separation modules, material and energy balances, extensive chemical component and mixture databases, equipment sizing and costing, and thorough process economics.Starting Price: $9,995 per year -
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OpenModelica
OpenModelica
OpenModelica is an open source modeling and simulation environment based on the Modelica language, intended for industrial and academic use. Its development is supported by the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC), a non-profit organization. The platform aims to provide a comprehensive Modelica modeling, compilation, and simulation environment distributed in both binary and source code forms for research, teaching, and industrial applications. OpenModelica supports the Modelica Standard Library and is compatible with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is designed to facilitate the development and execution of both low-level and high-level numerical algorithms, making it suitable for control system design, solving nonlinear equation systems, and developing optimization algorithms applied to complex applications. The platform also offers tools for debugging, visualization, and animation, enhancing the user experience in modeling and simulation tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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Stella Architect
isee systems
Stella Architect is the definitive modeling tool for creating professional simulations and presentations. Seamlessly create, design, and publish models to share with anyone, anywhere, anytime. With a simple click, people can engage with your simulations anywhere on any device with a modern web browser. Assemblies are premade model structures that simplify the modeling process. Assemblies take the messy math out of modeling, as artificial intelligence suggests formulas and units, allowing you to build a running model in minutes. Assemblies are fully editable to fit the needs of your system. You can even create your own for later use. Stella Architect allows you to build rich flight simulators and learning environments on top of Stella models that clearly explain model concepts and invite users to explore different assumptions and see the outcomes over time. Stella Architect interfaces can be published on the web, on the desktop, or on mobile devices.Starting Price: $509 per month -
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3D-DOCTOR
Able Software
3D-DOCTOR is an advanced 3D modeling, image processing, and measurement software for MRI, CT, PET, microscopy, scientific, and industrial imaging applications. It supports both grayscale and color images stored in DICOM, TIFF, Interfile, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PGM, MRC, RAW, or other image file formats. 3D-DOCTOR creates 3D surface models and volume rendering from 2D cross-section images in real-time on your PC. You can export the polygonal mesh models to STL, DXF, IGES, 3DS, OBJ, VRML, PLY, XYZ, and other formats for surgical planning, simulation, quantitative analysis, finite element analysis, and rapid prototyping applications. You can calculate 3D volume and make other 3D measurements for quantitative analysis. 3D-DOCTOR's vector-based tools support easy image data handling, measurement, and analysis. 3D CT/MRI images can be re-sliced easily along an arbitrary axis. Multi-modality images can be registered to create image fusions.Starting Price: $480 per year -
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Universal Scene Description
Universal Scene Description
Universal Scene Description (USD) is an open source framework developed by Pixar Animation Studios for the interchange of 3D graphics data across various digital content creation tools. USD provides a rich and powerful toolset for reading, writing, editing, and rapidly previewing 3D scene data. With many of its features geared towards performance and large-scale collaboration among many artists, USD is ideal for the complexities of the modern pipeline. One such feature is Hydra, a high-performance preview renderer capable of interactively displaying large data sets. USD supports a variety of file formats, including usda, usdc, and usdz (a zero-compression, unencrypted zip archive), facilitating flexibility in data representation and exchange. The framework also includes tools like usdedit, a script that converts any single USD-readable file into its .usda text equivalent for easy editing.Starting Price: Free -
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LiDAR360
GreenValley International
LiDAR360 is a comprehensive LiDAR point cloud processing and analysis software developed by GreenValley International. It offers a suite of modules tailored for various industries, including terrain analysis, forestry management, mining, and power line inspection. The software supports massive data processing, is capable of handling over 300 GB of LiDAR data simultaneously, and includes more than 10 advanced point cloud processing algorithms. Key features encompass data preprocessing, filtering, point cloud classification, digital terrain, surface model generation, and 3D visualization. LiDAR360 also provides tools for individual tree segmentation, forest parameter extraction, and regression analysis for biomass estimation, aiding in efficient forest resource surveys. For mining applications, it facilitates open-pit mine modeling, volume change analysis, and tunnel section analysis.Starting Price: $3,300 one-time payment -
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Requs AI Predict Software FMEA
Mission Ready Software
The Requs Suite includes software reliability prediction, software FMEA, software reliability sensitivity analysis and software reliability growth. Requs AI Predict has the only machine learning model to predict defect density in software - before the code is even written. It predicts escaped defects, failure rate, MTBSF, reliability and availability too. The Requs Software FMEA is the only intelligent software tool for software design FMEA. It determines which of the Common Defect Enumerations (CDEs) are applicable and their relative likelihood. It allows for importing of design from MBSE tools. It supports international FMEA standards and can be used for both reliability and safety analyses. The Advanced Sensitivity Analysis supports tradeoffs between reliability, cycle time, people effort, test effort. It shows which factors are most and least important for reducing defect density. The Reliability Growth Module is used during testing to trend defects and forecast MTBSF.Starting Price: $1199/year/user -
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Capital X Panel Designer
Siemens
Capital X Panel Designer is a cloud-native electrical CAD solution that simplifies complex electrical design processes. It features a drag-and-drop interface, smart schematic automation tools, and real-time collaboration capabilities, allowing users to create circuits quickly and efficiently. It supports automatic wiring, symbol and wire tagging, circuit reuse, and real-time cross-referencing. Accessible via web browsers on various devices, it offers intelligent numbering for symbols and wires, automatic terminal generation, and seamless integration with cloud services. Designed for ease of use, it requires no downloads or installations, enabling teams to collaborate globally with version control and secure access permissions.Starting Price: $93.45 per month -
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Moment of Inspiration (MoI)
Triple Squid Software Design
Moment of Inspiration (MoI) is a 3D modeling program that is focused on combining CAD accuracy with an intuitive, fluid UI. MoI is CAD software that's a little different. Focused on being easy to use, it's a great tool for designers and artists who want to construct accurate models. Booleans and 2D profile curve-driven workflow make a great companion modeler for rendering/DCC projects. Best-in-industry mesh export supporting n-gon mesh generation. Moment of Inspiration (MoI) works great for 3D printing.Starting Price: $295 one-time payment -
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Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software libraries and tools designed to aid in building robot applications. It provides services expected from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. ROS offers tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers. At its core, ROS provides a message-passing system, often called "middleware" or "plumbing," which manages communication between distributed nodes via an anonymous publish/subscribe pattern. This system is crucial for implementing new robot applications or any software system that interacts with hardware. ROS is a meta-operating system for robots, offering hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. It is licensed under an open source, BSD license.Starting Price: Free -
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SCAPE CoCreator
SCAPE Technologies
SCAPE CoCreator is a no-code robotic automation platform that empowers users to build, simulate, and deploy robotic workflows without programming expertise. It seamlessly integrates hardware and software within a user-friendly environment, enabling the creation of robotic applications powered by 3D vision and AI. Users can test and validate solutions in a digital twin environment and on actual hardware, significantly reducing development time and costs, up to 95% compared to traditional methods. It supports effortless integration with 3D scanners conforming to the GenICam standard, ensuring smooth communication and operation. With support for Python and C++, CoCreator allows for the development of custom solutions tailored to specific tasks. Its intuitive interface enables users to create robotic applications without any coding, making it accessible to users of all skill levels.Starting Price: Free -
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SkyCAD
SkyCAD
SkyCAD automates wire and component numbering, manages parts lists and BOMs, updates cross‑references, creates panel layout designs, and more. It features automated numbering, BOMs, and parts‑lists management, automated cross‑references, license sharing, and requires no training. With unique design‑reuse features such as design‑by‑systems and configuration management, the software ensures efficiency and consistency. It offers intuitive, user‑friendly tools for generating PLC and other component blocks automatically and can generate PLC drawings from an I/O list in Excel. The panel layout design is supported directly within the platform. SkyCAD supports European and American drawing styles. A rich tutorial library and responsive support forums empower users to get up to speed quickly. Standard (free) and advanced licenses are available, with the free license meeting the needs of many users and the advanced license providing additional features at a reasonable cost.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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PhotoVCarve
Vectric
PhotoVCarve instantly converts photographs and images into high-quality toolpaths that can be run on virtually all CNC routing and engraving machines. PhotoVCarve is also perfect for machining 3D lithophanes directly from photographs, which make perfect gifts, keepsakes, and mementos that will last for generations. PhotoVCarve creates lines of grooves that vary in width and depth to represent the detail in a photograph or image. The quality of the finished result is very dependent upon a high level of contrast between the material surface and the machined grooves. PhotoVCarve machines dark areas in a photograph with wide grooves and the lighter areas with narrower ones. It automatically calculates the toolpaths based on the cutter selected. Lithophanes are 3D photographs that, when viewed in normal lighting, look a little dull and lifeless, but when back-lit, transform into stunning 3D pictures with depth and detail.Starting Price: $6.21 per month -
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EasyCarve
Vectric
Quickly and easily carve 3D models on your CNC machine with EasyCarve. Powered by Design & Make, EasyCarve has access to over 7,000 CNC‑ready 3D relief models from its built‑in library. Follow the simple steps set out in the software to choose your 3D model, choose your material and tooling, generate and preview your toolpaths, and you’re all set to export your toolpath to carve on your CNC machine. Once you’ve loaded your model, choose your material and tooling to generate your toolpaths. Preview your toolpaths to make sure you’re happy with how it will carve. Simply save and export your toolpaths. Now you’re ready to head over to your CNC machine to start carving. Model styles include cut-out, dish, and recessed, enabling you to add 3D content to new and existing projects.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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CarveCo Maker
CarveCo
The Carveco software range is available in three variants, each crafted to provide you with the freedom and flexibility to design and manufacture a range of 2D and 3D products quickly and easily. Carveco Maker is quick to learn and easy to use, with powerful design and manufacturing features that power up your CNC, making it great for small businesses or home hobbyists taking their first step into creating personalised products. Carveco Maker Plus builds on the Maker feature set by adding powerful 3D design, manufacturing, and productivity tools geared toward increasing the output, range, and efficiency of your manufacturing business. It introduces fades to relief artwork, complex weaves, direct sculpting with smooth and erase tools, spin and turn tools for circular relief, a fade relief tool for height control, and a cookie cutter to edit relief artwork.Starting Price: Free -
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NVIDIA Isaac Sim
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Isaac Sim is an open source reference robotics simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse, enabling developers to design, simulate, test, and train AI-driven robots in physically realistic virtual environments. It is built atop Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), offering full extensibility so developers can create custom simulators or seamlessly integrate Isaac Sim's capabilities into existing validation pipelines. The platform supports three essential workflows; large-scale synthetic data generation for training foundation models with photorealistic rendering and automatic ground truth labeling; software-in-the-loop testing, which connects actual robot software with simulated hardware to validate control and perception systems; and robot learning through NVIDIA’s Isaac Lab, which accelerates training of behaviors in simulation before real-world deployment. Isaac Sim delivers GPU-accelerated physics (via NVIDIA PhysX) and RTX-enabled sensor simulation.Starting Price: Free -
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NVIDIA Isaac Lab
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Isaac Lab is a GPU‑accelerated, open source robot learning framework built on top of Isaac Sim, designed to unify and simplify robotics research workflows such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion planning. It leverages realistic sensor and physics simulation to support accurate training of embodied agents, providing ready‑to‑use environments, spanning manipulators, quadrupeds, and humanoids—with support for 30+ benchmark tasks and integration with popular RL libraries like RL Games, Stable Baselines, RSL RL, and SKRL. Isaac Lab features a modular, configuration‑driven design that enables developers to easily create, modify, and scale learning environments; it also supports collecting demonstrations via peripherals (gamepads, keyboards) and allows custom actuator models to facilitate sim‑to‑real transfer. The framework is built for both local and cloud deployment, accommodating flexible scaling of compute resources.Starting Price: Free -
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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 -
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FlexSim
FlexSim Software Products, Inc.
FlexSim is a problem solving tool that allows you to accurately answer any question about your business. It's powerful simulation software, built from the ground up to make simulation as easy as possible, without sacrificing an ounce of function or visual appeal. You can create beautiful, detailed models that deliver results yet make an impact in the way spreadsheets or charts never could, and you can do it all in just minutes with drag-and-drop controls and easy-to-use features.