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Capture
Capture
Bring lighting, media and motion into your visualisation. Our rendering engine's outstanding colour accuracy and amazing performance will impress you right away! With a complete library of lighting fixtures, trusses, LED panels and video projectors you have everything you need to make your ideas come to life. When your design is complete you can render it to high quality image and video files. You can also export Capture's unique, stand-alone, presentations which deliver full interactivity with your design. Our DirectX and Metalnative rendering engine uses a wide colour ACEScg pipeline to ensure that the rendering and all colours are as reliable as technically possible. Get more out of the communication with your lighting console such as DMX talkback for fixture focusing, fixture selection for programming and patch exchange for setup.Starting Price: Free -
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Landscape Lighting Software
Landscape Lighting Software
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. Be sure to review the FAQ Page. Manufacturer option be added on the Landscape Lighting Site. Customized Software just with one manufacturer fixtures. Our easy-to-use lighting tool allows you to draw light at any width or intensity or spread the light out. Be sure to watch all the training movies.Starting Price: $260 one-time payment -
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Ansys Optics
Ansys
Modeling light propagation and its impact is crucial for measuring product performance and human comfort, perception and safety. Ansys Optics uniquely simulates a system’s optical performance and evaluates the final illumination effect, predicts and validates the impact of lighting and material variations on appearance and perceived quality all in real conditions. Visualize your product before it exists to deliver the ultimate virtual customer experience. Let Ansys Optics & optical simulation software lead you to the best solution, no matter the style of your project. The software easily solves complex optical problems and refines visual appearance for perceived quality. Significantly elevate final product quality with true-to-life visual experiences and combine design and engineering processes into a single, connected workflow. Prepare and appraise virtual prototypes of a cockpit HMI in a real-time, immersive environment. -
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OpenFlows WaterGEMS
Bentley
OpenFlows WaterGEMS provides you with a comprehensive yet easy-to-use decision-support tool for water distribution networks. The software helps improve your knowledge of how infrastructure behaves as a system, how it reacts to operational strategies, and how it should grow as population and demands increase. From fire flow and water quality simulations to criticality and energy cost analysis, OpenFlows WaterGEMS has everything you need in a flexible multiplatform environment. OpenFlows WaterGEMS is a superset of OpenFlows WaterCAD. Efficiently identify potential problems, accommodate service area growth, and plan/prioritize capital improvement projects by using criticality analysis, DMA planning, and pressure management tools to identify potential projects. Use real-time data to analyze energy use and costs, maximize operational efficiencies, minimize disruptions, and intelligently respond to emergencies.Starting Price: $2,735 per year -
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STAAD
Bentley
You can design, analyze, and document structural projects, anywhere in the world, with any material using STAAD. It offers you a flexible solution to cover all your structural engineering needs from the foundation up. STAAD is a comprehensive structural finite element analysis and design application that allows users to perform analysis on any structure exposed to static, dynamic, wind, earthquake, thermal, and moving loads. STAAD comes in different variations so you can choose what’s best for you. STAAD is a popular structural analysis application known for analysis, diverse applications of use, interoperability, and time-saving capabilities. STAAD helps structural engineers perform 3D structural analysis and design for both steel and concrete structures. A physical model created in the structural design software can be transformed into an analytical model for structural analysis. Many design code standards are incorporated into STAAD.Starting Price: $3,000 per year -
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ProStructures
Bentley
ProStructures is a comprehensive steel and concrete design application used to increase your productivity and profitability. With ProStructures, you can create and automatically update 3D models that include structural steel and reinforced concrete structures. ProSteel is a comprehensive application that allows you to model and detail steel structures for a variety of industries. Develop models and documentation for steel structures efficiently. Confidently deliver an accurate 3D model for steel structures and extract engineering, fabrication, and erection drawings. Leverage automatic updates whenever the 3D model is changed. Produce drawings for every steel shape, connection, and plate work from the 3D model. Generate and update in-drawing, external reports, and bills of material. Create 3D models and design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever you change the 3D model.Starting Price: $7,162 per year -
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TracePro
Lambda Research Corporation
Combines Monte Carlo ray tracing, analysis, CAD import/export, and optimization methods with a complete and robust macro language to solve a wide variety of problems in illumination design and optical analysis. Using TracePro’s user-friendly, 3D CAD interface you can create TracePro models by importing lens design or CAD files, or by directly creating solid geometry. TracePro uses a true solid modeling engine to ensure consistent and robust models. TracePro’s ray tracing engine is fast and accurate. Exact ray tracing to all surfaces even imported splines ‒ no missed intersections or “leaky” rays. Analysis Mode ray tracing, unique to TracePro, is a very powerful capability that creates an interactive environment. With Analysis Mode you can analyze every surface and object both visually and quantitatively. -
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Light-in-Night
Light-in-Night
Application for the design of street lighting and open areas. A mobile tool for designers and lighting specialists. Helps buyers of lighting equipment with the choice of fixtures. Set the parameters of the illuminated site or road. Choose fixtures and how to install them. After the calculation, you will receive a visual 3D model of the scene with a display of the illumination distribution. You can save the results of the lighting calculation and the parameters of the scene objects in the report. Sample projects made by professional lighting technicians will allow you not only to evaluate the possibilities of the program, but also to design your own lighting objects based on them.Starting Price: Free -
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LightStanza
LightStanza
LightStanza is trusted and accurate software. Users can now easily and accurately predict light in a variety of applications. Quickly communicate with team members and support with instant messaging embedded in your design. Import or start fresh, drop ies files in, and run your calcs. You can be up and running in minutes. Calc complex geometry without slowing down your computer and keep working. Explore a variety of daylight products including skylights, translucent glazing, dynamic glass, automated shading systems, and more. Highly customizable, point in time, annual metric, daylight factor, energy map, and glare calculations. euse Room and Space tags; plus add your own calc grids for verticals, slopes, stairs, exteriors and other areas. Dynamically choose and send families to LightStanza to cut back or add detail to your model.Starting Price: $900 per design per year -
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CoCut
CoCut
For most professional requirements our CoCut is the best choice because it transforms your familiar illustration program into a professional cutting application. Its advanced welding functions make multicolored graphics immediately cuttable. With it, CoCut Professional is the ideal tool for signage and Print & Cut workflows of all kinds. Cuts directly from the vector graphics program CorelDRAW. CoCut Pro recognizes the common cut marks for optical sensors and supports all known contour systems. Its Cut Mark toolbar assembles all tools that are necessary for a professional print & cut workflow with contouring, multi copies, and cutting plotter-specific registration mark creation. Step by step you prepare a print & cut job in your host program and pass it in order to get it out directly to CoCut's output module. Sophisticated segmentation of ultra-large plots. Displays material consumption. Multiple cutters are configurable and can be driven simultaneously on one computer.Starting Price: $599 one-time payment -
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MasterSeries
MasterSeries
MasterSeries is the UK's leading range of integrated structural analysis, design, drafting, and detailing software with over 10,000 users worldwide. From the industry-leading multi-material BIM-enabled modeling and design environment to a collection of powerful stand-alone modules, MasterSeries features the most extensive range of technically advanced structural engineering software you'll find under one roof. For you, this means you get more done in one package, avoiding the need to swap between different incompatible software and enter the same data multiple times. No two businesses are the same, so why should their software be? That's why the MasterSeries product range is modular in nature, providing an extremely flexible and scalable software solution. In this way you aren't forced to buy a costly single large product, perhaps with many features you don't need. You simply combine the modules you need to create the ideal software solution to meet the demands of your business. -
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MecaWind
Meca
MecaWind is a wind load calculator software used to calculate wind loads and/or wind pressures on the main wind force resisting system (MWFRS) of buildings and many other structures (chimneys, tanks, towers, open signs, closed signs, solar panels, rooftop equipment, canopy, bins, tanks, silos, and free-standing walls). It is based upon the ASCE 7 standard used throughout the United States for design loads, which is published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The MecaWind wind load calculator software contains multiple versions of the ASCE 7 standard as well as the Florida Building Code (FBC). For instance, it includes ASCE 7-05, ASCE 7-10, and ASCE 7-16, each being a different release of the same standard. The latest version is ASCE 7-16, and many of the changes found from the ASCE 7-10 version to ASCE 7-16 can be found in this article. ASCE 7-05 is also included in MecaWind, but this older version of the standard is used less frequently in jurisdictions.Starting Price: $209 per year -
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Altair S-FRAME
Altair
With S-FRAME, users can model, analyze, and design any structure regardless of its geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, nonlinear effects, or design code requirements. S-FRAME’s automated framework generators build models quickly and import models with BIM and DXF import links, and users can maximize productivity with integrated concrete and steel design tools for design, optimization, code compliance, and report generation. With S-FRAME, users can quickly define structures using modeling automation to generate regular framework structures, and standard or custom trusses, and use clone tools to replicate all or part of the model. Additionally, users can save modeling time by importing existing BIM and DXF models. S-FRAME’s advanced meshing tools create the finite element mesh, giving users the power to generate detailed analysis results in their specific areas of interest. Users can explore those areas of interest by easily converting members to multi-shell models. -
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Ansys Maxwell
Ansys
Ansys Maxwell is an EM field solver for electric machines, transformers, wireless charging, permanent magnet latches, actuators and other electr mechanical devices. It solves static, frequency-domain and time-varying magnetic and electric fields. Maxwell also offers specialized design interfaces for electric machines and power converters. With Maxwell, you can precisely characterize the nonlinear, transient motion of electromechanical components and their effects on the drive circuit and control system design. By leveraging Maxwell’s advanced electromagnetic field solvers and seamlessly linking them to the integrated circuit and systems simulation technology, you can understand the performance of electromechanical systems long before building a prototype in hardware. Maxwell offers a trusted simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic fields in industrial components. -
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Ansys CFX
Ansys
Known for its extreme robustness, CFX is the gold standard CFD software when it comes to turbomachinery applications. Both solver and models are wrapped in a modern, intuitive, and flexible GUI, with extensive capabilities for customization and automation using session files, scripting and a powerful expression language. Highly scalable high-performance computing will help speed up simulations including pumps, fans, compressors and turbines. New manufacturing methods have opened the door to more effective turbine cooling channel geometries. The new geometries will lead to better performance and efficiency but are more complex. To achieve highly accurate results, a team of Purdue engineers turned to Ansys CFX. The engineers executed key computations with little turnaround time. With the extra time, they could perform more in-depth comparisons and run further simulations to fully optimize their product. -
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hIOTron
hIOTron
hIOTron's machine monitoring product is a comprehensive solution that enables you to monitor and analyze your industrial machines in real-time. With this product, you can track machine performance, detect anomalies, predict failures, and schedule maintenance activities to improve uptime and reduce downtime. The machine monitoring product consists of a range of sensors and devices that collect data from your machines, such as temperature, pressure, vibration, and other operational parameters. This data is then transmitted to a central hub where it is analyzed using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns and trends. hIOTron platform provides a user-friendly dashboard that displays real-time machine data, key performance indicators, and alerts. It also provides reports and analytics to help you understand your machine performance and identify areas for improvement. -
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INCA MPC
Inca Tools
Advanced Process Control (APC) is a very cost-effective way to optimize your plant performance without changing the hardware. An APC application stabilizes the operation and optimizes production and/or energy consumption. A very valuable side effect also results in a better understanding of your production process. Advanced process control (APC) refers to a broad range of techniques and technologies that interact with the base layer process control systems (built up with PID controls). Some APC technologies are e.g. LQR, LQC, H_infinity, Neural, fuzzy, and MPC (Model-Based Predictive Control). An APC application optimizes your plant every minute, over and over again, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. MPC is the most popular APC technology used in the industry. The Model Predictive Control software uses a model of the process to predict the behavior of the plant in the foreseeable future. Typically a couple of minutes to even several hours ahead. -
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ABB Automation Builder is the integrated software suite for machine builders and system integrators wanting to automate their machines and systems in a productive way. Combining the tools required for configuring, programming, debugging, and maintaining automation projects, Automation Builder addresses the largest single cost element of most of today's industrial automation projects, time spent on working with the software. ABB Automation Builder covers the engineering of AC500 PLCs, AC500 safety PLCs, CP600 control panels, drives, and motion. A convenient setup helps to configure the installation. It also handles license registration, maintenance, and updates of the software. Automation Builder is available in basic (free), standard, and premium editions fitting the needs of small projects and managing the challenges of many and large projects for OEMs and system integrators. Automation Builder is immediately available by using the incorporated 30-day test license.
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3D Analyzer Software
3D Analyzer Software
3D Analyzer Software is a complete software solution based in AutoCAD, specifically designed for the flat panel industry. 3D Analyzer Software uses A.I to eliminate the manual process of calculating CNC machining operations, cutting lists and all other manufacturing data. -
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PLAXIS 2D
Bentley Systems
Every project is challenging, but the geotechnical analysis doesn’t have to be. PLAXIS 2D provides the power of fast computations. Perform advanced finite element or limit equilibrium analysis of soil and rock deformation and stability, as well as soil structure interaction, groundwater, and heat flow. PLAXIS 2D is a powerful and user-friendly finite-element (FE) software for 2D analysis of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics. PLAXIS is used worldwide by top engineering companies and institutions in the civil and geotechnical engineering industry. PLAXIS 2D is ideal for a range of applications from excavations, embankments, and foundations to tunneling, mining, oil and gas, and reservoir geomechanics. PLAXIS 2D includes all the essentials to perform deformation and safety analysis for soil and rock that do not require the consideration of creep, steady state groundwater or thermal flow, consolidation analysis, or any time-dependent effects. -
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CPillar
Rocscience
Get quick and easy stability analysis of surface or underground crown pillars and laminated roof beds using three different limit equilibrium analysis methods: rigid plate, elastic plate, and Voussoir (no tension) plate analysis. Perform probabilistic analysis to determine the probability of failure. Model variability in geometry, point of force application, joint and bedding strength, water pressure, external loads and more by assigning statistical distributions to variables. Perform sensitivity analysis using a range of values to evaluate the effects of changing model parameters on factor of safety. Originally developed for steeply dipping ore body geometries, by estimating crown geometry and assessing the stope geometry as steep or shallow, you can apply the most appropriate empirical relationships to your model.Starting Price: $495 per year -
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OpendTect
dGB Earth Sciences
OpendTect software consists of two parts: a free, open-source part and a commercial, closed-source part that is protected by FlexNet license managing software. The open-source part is OpendTect, a seismic interpretation software system for 2D and 3D seismic data, and for fast-track development of innovative interpretation tools. OpendTect can be extended with free plugins. The closed source part is OpendTect Pro, an extended version with extra functionality for professionals. OpendTect Pro can be further extended with commercial plugins that enable unique seismic interpretation workflows. -
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GPT GES
GPT
Block H125 mainly develops Qingshankou oil layer. The top structure of the Qing 1st sublayer is a broken nose structure blocked by reverse normal faults. The reservoir type is a layered lithological structure reservoir. The current injection-production scale is an encryption five-point well pattern, including 27 injection wells and 38 production wells. The main target layers in the north of Block H125 are delta front deposits. The main microfacies types of each sublayer are bars. Reservoir geological modeling technology is mainly divided into two major workflows structural modeling and property modeling. The property modeling includes sedimentary facies modeling, porosity modeling, permeability modeling, oil saturation modeling, and NTG modeling. In geological modeling, the first step is to use the well header and well picks to establish a structural model and to set the increment in I and J direction to control the grid quality and well pattern. -
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EVOLVE Shop
EVOLVE
EVOLVE understands the challenges that a SHOP Foreman faces as they manage large teams, scattered communications, and visibility into the FIELD. Our modules all sync seamlessly on one platform, which streamlines communications between Design, Shop, and Field – leading to less rework and more efficient workflows. -Effective collaboration between your shop, BIM dept. and the field, reducing the time spent on back-and-forth discussions and distractions. -Clear view of what needs to be done, when, and by whom in real-time for your work requests. This enables you to focus on the most critical tasks and deliver results on time. -Easy to learn and flexible to your operational needs and can grow with your business!Starting Price: $50/month/user -
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Seismic Pro
Geogiga
Comprehensive software package for near-surface seismic methods. Efficiently process reflection data in one application with multistep redo and undo. Import all records of a survey line at one time. Efficiently assign geometry with layout chart. CMP binning for crooked lines. AGC, trace balance, and time-variant scaling. Frequency filtering, F-K filtering, and Tau-p mapping. Spiking deconvolution and predictive deconvolution. Random noise attenuation. Surgical, top, and bottom trace muting. Gather sorting (CMP, common shot, common receiver, or common offset) Velocity analysis on CMP or common shot gathers. NMO correction and inverse NMO correction. A feature-rich application for processing single-fold seismic reflection or GPR data. Assign geometry in forward or reverse trace order. Support SEG-2, SEG-Y, SEG-D, ASCII, MALA, ImpulseRadar, and other data formats. Elevation correction and first-arrival alignment static correction. AGC, trace balance, and time-variant scaling. -
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MFrac Suite
Baker Hughes
MFrac Suite software enables you to create and execute efficient well stimulation designs in both conventional and unconventional plays to maximize production and extend the life of your well. By managing your planning process more effectively and integrating real-time data, minifracs, hydraulic fracturing, well production and economics, you gain confidence in your treatment plan and arrive at more meaningful reserves estimates. Our hydraulic fracturing design and analysis software enables you to target the most productive zones, determine effective fracture treatments, and monitor reservoir stimulation in real-time. Our software has supported engineers since the early days of frac modeling. Now, we are delivering a step-change in efficiency and capability for people who are responsible for unconventional well planning, stimulation modeling, frac execution and production forecast-based economic decisions.Starting Price: $240 per month -
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RokDoc
Ikon Science
RokDoc is the result of more than 20 years of innovative research and industry experience. RokDoc offers a seamless interface incorporating everything from data quality control to modeling and prediction, integrating multidisciplinary workflows for Quantitative Interpretation, Pore Pressure, and Geomechanics. Evaluate sandstone, shale, and carbonate reservoirs for improved hydrocarbon exploration, production, and optimization, CO2 sequestration, and geothermal surveying using a comprehensive and extensive library of rock physics, cutting edge seismic inversion techniques, and complete geomechanics solution. Automate and easily evaluate geological “what if” scenarios. Capture uncertainty in data and models to better understand the probability of success for subsurface resource exploitation and stored fluid monitoring. -
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Tecplot Focus
Tecplot
Tecplot Focus Gets You Answers Faster and enables you to quickly plot all your engineering and test data exactly the way you want. Analyze and explore complex datasets, arrange multiple XY, 2D and 3D plots, and then communicate your results to colleagues and management with brilliant, high-quality images and animations. Save even more time and effort by automating routine data analyses and plotting tasks. Available on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms, Tecplot Focus meets the needs of your multi-platform engineering group. -
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Geomagic Wrap
Oqton
Geomagic Wrap® delivers the most affordable, fast, accurate path from point clouds to 3D polygonal and surface models that you can use instantly in downstream engineering, manufacturing, art, industrial design, and more. As part of your 3D digital thread, Geomagic Wrap provides the digital bridge for creating perfect data to use directly in 3D printing, milling, archiving, and other 3D uses. With advanced exact surfacing tools, Geomagic Wrap delivers powerful, easy-to-use, cutting-edge modeling functions for that flawless 3D model. Scripting and macros also automate functions for repetitive tasks during the reverse-engineering process. Geomagic Wrap enables you to transform point cloud data, probe data, and imported 3D formats like STL and OBJ into 3D polygon meshes for use in manufacturing, analysis, design, entertainment, and archeology. -
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nanoCAD Construction
nanoCAD
nanoCAD’s Construction Module extends the nanoCAD platform with AEC drafting utilities and a library of standard parametric elements. It is designed to automate the preparation of construction drawings and documentation. nanoCAD platform provides you with a full set of basic and advanced design tools for creating and editing 2D/3D objects. It offers multiple drawing and editing methods for most geometric elements. nanoCAD platform is the base on which you build a more powerful CAD system to your specifications. nanoCAD’s Construction Module adds AEC drafting utilities to the nanoCAD platform, along with a library of standard parametric elements. It is designed to automate the preparation of construction drawings and documentation in the architecture, engineering, construction sector.Starting Price: $199 per year