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ROCK Desktop
ROCK Robotic
ROCK Desktop is a comprehensive LiDAR processing and visualization software developed by ROCK Robotic. It enables users to process raw data from ROCK LiDAR systems, offering enhanced trajectory processing and the capability to visualize large datasets both in the field and the office. The software allows users to compose areas, select fields of view and range and includes features like ROCK Ray-Trace Colorization and SLAM/SLAM GCP Alignment. The free version serves as a point cloud visualizer, capable of compressing LiDAR file sizes by up to 10 times, facilitating easier sharing during presentations and seamless synchronization with ROCK Cloud projects. Advanced calibration tools provide users with control over their data, supporting both camera and LiDAR calibration. Integration with ROCK Cloud enables one-click access to cloud processing power, increasing upload speeds and allowing for quick project sharing. -
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Welders Log
Welders Log
Welders Log is a cloud-based welding procedure software designed to streamline the creation and management of essential welding documentation, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as AWS D1.1 and ASME Section IX. The platform includes forms for Procedure Qualification Records (PQR), PQR Test Results, Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), Welder Qualification Test Records (WQTR), and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), all enhanced with intuitive features like pre-populated drop-down lists and auto-filled sections to expedite form completion. Users have access to an extensive library of joint designs and weld passes, with the capability to create custom drawings using the built-in drawing tool. Welders Log automatically generates continuity logs to help maintain welder certifications and offers full-text search functionality for efficient document retrieval. All documents are stored as PDFs, facilitating easy sharing and distribution.Starting Price: $105 per month -
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WeldOffice
C-spec
C-spec's WeldOffice WPS is a comprehensive welding procedure software that automates the creation and management of Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS) and Procedure Qualification Records (PQR), ensuring compliance with the latest ASME Section IX and AWS D1.1 code requirements. The software features automatic code checking, supported by active ASME, AWS, and ISO committee members, providing users with confidence in the code compliance of their welding procedures. It includes universal forms that support multiple codes, such as ASME IX, ISO 15614, AWS B2.1, D1.1, D1.2, D1.3, D1.4, D1.5, D1.6, D9.1, and API 1104, and accommodates multiple welding processes, including SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, SAW, PAW, ESW, EGW, and OFW, on a single document sheet. The software also provides built-in preheat and post-weld heat treatment tables from ASME and AWS standards, a comprehensive database of over 5,800 base metals and 5,600 filler metals.Starting Price: $7,500 one-time payment -
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Tecplot RS
Tecplot
Tecplot RS is an integrated visualization and analysis software tailored for oil and gas reservoir engineers. It facilitates the management and interpretation of reservoir simulation data through comprehensive XY plots, 2D cross-sections, and 3D grid visualizations. The platform supports data import from various simulation sources, enabling users to efficiently organize results, validate reservoir models, and effectively communicate findings across teams. Recent updates, such as the 2023 R1 release, have introduced features enhancing the assessment of history match quality by allowing the creation of selection sets based on deviation bands. Additionally, the software now supports the visualization of negative values in stamp plots, aiding in the analysis of fluid behavior trends within reservoirs. With a user-friendly interface, Tecplot RS ensures a short learning curve, complemented by full technical support and free online training. -
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Terrasolid
Terrasolid
Terrasolid develops software for processing airborne and mobile LiDAR data and images. The Terrasolid applications provide versatile and capable tools for surveyors, civil engineers, designers, planners, for everyone who needs to process and utilize 3D LiDAR data and images. Discover the world's leading point cloud processing platform. Visualize, analyze, and extract data interactively. So long limits! Process raw laser points, images, trajectories, and survey data with TerraScan combined with additional Terrasolid applications, such as TerraMatch, TerraModeler, TerraPhoto, and TerraSurvey. Visualize up to 50 billion points at a high speed with TerraStereo. If your point cloud usage is UAV exclusive, Terrasolid offers full and light versions of its software products which can be combined in packages tailored to your specific workflow requirements.Starting Price: €5,400 one-time payment -
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TerraScan
Terrasolid
TerraScan, developed by Terrasolid, is a specialized software solution for managing and processing various types of point clouds, including those from airborne, mobile, UAV, and terrestrial laser scanning. It offers robust import and project structuring tools to handle extensive datasets from laser scanning campaigns, along with corresponding trajectory information. The software features automatic, semi-automatic, and manual classification routines, enabling efficient filtering and categorization of point clouds. Users can generate 3D vector models of buildings up to Level of Detail 2 (LOD2) across large areas, vectorize power lines, conduct corridor analyses to identify potential hazards and assess road surface conditions, including the detection of paint lines and curbstones. TerraScan supports multiple import and export formats, such as LAS, LAZ, TerraScan Binary, and user-defined ASCII formats, ensuring compatibility with various data sources.Starting Price: €5,400 one-time payment -
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STATUS 5
Eclipse Scientific
STATUS 5 is a user-friendly software tool designed to assess the efficiency and reliability of non-destructive testing techniques and evaluate operator performance. It enables technicians, even those with limited statistical knowledge, to generate Probability of Detection (POD) curves, optimization plots, and summary tables through statistical analysis of imported data. The software supports various statistical models and offers an automated model recommendation based on the most efficient POD curve derived from the user's data. STATUS 5 includes noise study and threshold optimization tools to adjust POD model inputs based on inspection system properties, as well as sizing accuracy and optimization tools to calculate flaw sizing capabilities and provide guidance for optimizing calibration curves. The interface allows for quick importing and exporting of Excel documents or manual data entry.Starting Price: $8,300 one-time payment -
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Welding Qualifier is a comprehensive software solution designed to assist in the creation, management, and maintenance of Procedure Qualification Records (PQRs), Welding Procedure Specifications (WPSs), and Welder Performance Qualifications (WPQs). It incorporates the latest welding code rules from ASME, ISO, AWS, and API standards, ensuring compliance with essential variables, test requirements, and approval ranges. The software features built-in material databases, eliminating the need to manually search through material specifications for ASME P Numbers or ISO 15608 Group Numbers. Its dynamic forms automatically adjust layouts based on the type of weld and processes used, including only relevant variables and tests. Welding Qualifier facilitates welder continuity management by providing advance warnings for updates at 6-month, 2-year, and 3-year intervals, with sign-off capabilities by authorized personnel. It ensures full approval traceability through multi-sign-off functionality.Starting Price: $1,914.77 one-time payment
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Welding Coordinator is a customizable welding fabrication management software designed to enhance efficiency and ensure full traceability of fabrication information across an organization. It facilitates the automatic updating of welder qualification records, enabling users to identify qualified welders and appropriate procedures. The software generates comprehensive progress and productivity reports, encompassing key variables for each weld, defect analysis, engineering data, and production and quality control details. Additionally, it produces essential production information, such as welding procedure qualification numbers, welder IDs, and welding dates. The welding Coordinator streamlines the creation of 'end of manufacturing' reports by automatically compiling project data books, weld data sheets, WPSs, PQRs, WPQs, and NDE/NDT reports. The platform ensures complete traceability from design through to sign-off and can be tailored to meet specific organizational requirements.Starting Price: $9,573 one-time payment
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Bento
EvolveLAB
Bento is a suite of free Revit add-ins developed by EvolveLAB to enhance productivity for architects, engineers, and contractors. It supports Revit versions 2019 through 2024 and offers tools that automate tasks such as generating model elements, controlling point cloud visibility, numbering views on sheets, and more. This tool allows users to quickly and easily customize the detail numbers of Revit views, simplifying the process of adjusting view detail numbers. Enables users to toggle the visibility of point cloud files on and off from a Revit ribbon button, which can be tied to a keyboard shortcut for maximum efficiency. Bento enables users to select multiple views from the project browser and open them all at once, with options to close all other views, as well as tile and group the newly opened views by view type. See the size of their local or cloud model, work shared or non-work shared, with a single click, eliminating the need to navigate through folders. -
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ArchitectGPT
ArchitectGPT
ArchitectGPT is an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes home and interior design by enabling users to transform their spaces effortlessly. By simply uploading a photo of any room and selecting a preferred style, the AI generates photorealistic previews in seconds, allowing for instant visualization of design ideas. The platform offers a diverse library of over 80 design themes and 40 room/outdoor types, catering to various aesthetic preferences. Features such as the magic editor allow users to modify specific areas within an image by painting over them and describing the desired change, facilitating seamless customization. Additionally, ArchitectGPT provides tools like Enhance + Upscale, which improve image quality and resolution up to 4K, ensuring professional-grade visuals suitable for client presentations or marketing materials. The platform supports integration with architectural design software, allowing users to upload exports from AutoCAD, Revit, or SketchUp.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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PC Draft
Microspot
PC Draft Professional is a powerful and easy-to-use 2D CAD application for Windows, designed to simplify floor and garden plan design, architectural drawing, and technical illustration. It offers precise vector tools, smart units, and a fully-featured scaled environment, enabling users to create professional 2D CAD drawings efficiently without extensive learning curves. The latest version, PC Draft 6.0, introduces several enhancements, including improved MacDraft file sharing and compatibility, an updated interface, custom scales for greater control, increased drawing size, linear and circular gradient creation, expanded color and pattern options, increased undo and redo limits, opacity settings for fills and strokes, a star tool for complex shapes, a centered drawing area, a symbol library catalog palette, and a custom layers palette. These features streamline the design process, making it accessible for both novices and seasoned draftsmen.Starting Price: $349 one-time payment -
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Ansys Zemax OpticStudio
Ansys
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is a comprehensive optical design software utilized globally by companies and universities to create and analyze optical systems, including imaging, illumination, and laser systems. It offers a user-friendly interface that integrates analysis, optimization, and tolerancing tools, facilitating the design of complex optical systems for a wide range of applications. The software supports both sequential and non-sequential ray tracing, enabling precise modeling of light propagation through various optical components. Advanced features include structural and thermal analysis, allowing users to assess the impact of environmental factors on optical performance. OpticStudio also provides extensive materials and optical element libraries, enhancing the accuracy of simulations. For students, Ansys offers a free version of OpticStudio, providing hands-on experience in designing and analyzing optical systems, thereby preparing them for future careers in optics. -
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OSLO
Lambda Research Corporation
OSLO (Optics Software for Layout and Optimization) is a comprehensive optical design program developed by Lambda Research Corporation. It integrates advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization methods with a high-speed internal compiled language, enabling users to address a wide array of challenges in optical design. OSLO's open architecture provides designers with significant flexibility to define and constrain systems according to their specific requirements. The software is capable of modeling various optical components, including refractive, reflective, diffractive, gradient index, aspheric, and freeform optics. Its robust ray tracing algorithms and analytical tools offer a solid foundation for optimizing and evaluating lenses, telescopes, and other optical systems. OSLO has been employed in designing numerous optical systems, such as space telescopes, camera lenses, zoom lenses, scanning systems, anamorphic systems, cinema systems, microscopes, ocular systems, etc. -
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Ansys Lumerical Multiphysics is a photonics component simulation software that enables the seamless design of photonic components by capturing multiphysics effects, including optical, thermal, electrical, and quantum well interactions, within a unified design environment. Tailored for design engineering workflows, this intuitive product design software offers a fast user experience, facilitating rapid design exploration and providing detailed insights into real-world product performance. It combines live physics and accurate high-fidelity simulation into an easy-to-use interface, supporting faster time-to-market. Key features include a finite element design environment, integrated multiphysics workflows, comprehensive material models, and capabilities for automation and optimization. The suite of solvers and seamless workflows in Lumerical Multiphysics accurately capture the interplay of physical effects in modeling both passive and active photonic components.
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LightTools
Synopsys
LightTools is a comprehensive 3D optical engineering and design software that supports virtual prototyping, simulation, optimization, and photorealistic renderings of illumination applications. It enables users to quickly create illumination designs that work right the first time, reducing prototype iterations and accelerating time to market. Key features include sophisticated solid modeling with full optical accuracy, state-of-the-art ray tracing speed with user-controlled accuracy and resolution, and the ability to create light sources from any geometric model for unlimited flexibility. LightTools offers application-specific utilities to help users quickly build complete models, extensive source and materials libraries, including LEDs and BSDF measurements, and robust data exchange support for mechanical CAD data. The software provides an interactive, dynamic link with SOLIDWORKS and includes multiple modules that can be licensed in various configurations to best match user needs. -
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OptSim
Synopsys
Synopsys OptSim is an award-winning photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and fiber-optic system simulator that enables engineers to design and optimize photonic circuits and systems. It offers state-of-the-art time- and frequency-domain split-step algorithms, providing a native photonic-domain environment for accurate simulations. OptSim can function as a standalone solution with its own graphical user interface or integrate into the OptoCompiler Photonic IC design platform. When integrated with OptoCompiler, OptSim supports electro-optic co-simulation with Synopsys PrimeSim HSPICE and PrimeSim SPICE electrical circuit simulators, and seamlessly integrates with the PrimeWave Design Environment for advanced simulation, analyses, and visualization, including parametric scans, Monte Carlo, and corner analyses. The software includes extensive libraries of photonic and electronic components and analysis tools, and supports numerous foundry process design kits (PDKs). -
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OptoCompiler
Synopsys
Synopsys OptoCompiler is the industry's first unified electronic and photonic design platform, combining mature and dedicated photonic technology with Synopsys' industry-proven electronic design tools to enable engineers to produce and verify complex photonic integrated circuit designs quickly and accurately. By providing schematic-driven layout and advanced photonic layout synthesis in a single platform, OptoCompiler bridges the gap between photonic experts and integrated circuit designers to make photonic design accessible, fast, and flexible. OptoCompiler supports electronic-photonic co-design to ensure scalable design processes and offers comprehensive features for hierarchical design, enabling multiple designers to work closely together to shorten product development cycle times. The platform includes dedicated native photonic simulators, in conjunction with industry-standard electrical simulators, for accurate simulation results that account for statistical variations. -
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OpTaliX
Optenso
OpTaliX is a comprehensive program for computer-aided design of optical systems, thin film multilayer coatings, and illumination systems. It provides powerful features to conceptualize, design, optimize, analyze, tolerate, and document virtually any optical system. OpTaliX includes geometrical and diffraction analysis, optimization, thin film multilayer analysis and refinement, non-sequential ray tracing, physical optics propagation, polarization analysis, ghost imaging, tolerance analysis, extensive manufacturing support, user-defined graphics, illumination, macros, and many more. It is successfully used for the design of photographic and video lenses, industrial optics (beam expanders, laser scanners, reproduction, machine vision), space optics, zoom optics, medical optics, illumination devices, fiber optical telecom systems, infrared optics, X-ray optics, telescopes, eyepieces, and many more.Starting Price: €1,600 one-time payment -
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RayViz
Lambda Research Corporation
RayViz is a SOLIDWORKS add-in developed by Lambda Research Corporation that enables users to apply and save optical properties directly within the SOLIDWORKS CAD environment. This integration allows for the assignment of optical characteristics from the TracePro property database, which are then stored as part of the SOLIDWORKS model. Users can define light sources and perform ray tracing within SOLIDWORKS to visualize light rays and paths, facilitating tasks such as beam path verification, detection of vignetting by mechanical structures, and identification of light leakage in light guides. RayViz includes catalogs of LED sources, as well as sources with Gaussian and Lambertian beam profiles. A significant advantage of RayViz is its ability to save SOLIDWORKS models in TracePro file format, enabling comprehensive optical analysis in TracePro. If modifications are made to the SOLIDWORKS model, the "update from RayViz" option in TracePro allows for synchronization of the changes. -
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VirtualLab Fusion
LightTrans
VirtualLab Fusion is an advanced optical design software that facilitates fast physical optics modeling by connecting various field solvers through a unique operator and channel concept. This integration enables efficient simulations that balance accuracy and speed. The software offers a range of packages tailored to specific optical design needs, providing tools and functionalities to support diverse applications. With an intuitive user interface, VirtualLab Fusion simplifies the design process, allowing users to focus on innovation and optimization. The platform also provides access to tips, tricks, training, and webinars to enhance user proficiency. -
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LucidShape
Synopsys
Quickly and easily create reflector or lens geometry with LucidShape FunGeo. It leverages proprietary algorithms that automatically calculate and construct optical geometries based on user-defined illuminance and intensity patterns. This unique, functional approach gives you the freedom to focus on overall design objectives rather than the implementation details of complex optical components. Accelerate LucidShape illumination simulations with GPUTrace and experience a quantum leap in speed. LucidShape is the first optical simulation software to take advantage of graphics processing unit computing to deliver simulation speed increases by orders of magnitude compared to multithreading capabilities. Use LucidShape's visualization module to demonstrate luminance effects when light sources in a model are illuminated and depict all interactions between system geometry and light sources. -
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Synopsys TCAD
Synopsys
Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) refers to the use of computer simulations to develop and optimize semiconductor process technologies and devices. Synopsys TCAD offers a comprehensive suite of products that includes industry-leading process and device simulation tools, as well as a powerful graphical user interface-driven simulation environment for managing simulation tasks and analyzing simulation results. In addition, Synopsys TCAD provides tools for interconnect modeling and extraction, providing critical parasitic information for optimizing chip performance. The latest version of TCAD Sentaurus includes many new exciting features and performance enhancements. If you are a customer entitled to maintenance services, then you can access TCAD Sentaurus W-2024.09-SP1 and download release notes directly from SolvNetPlus. Sentaurus Calibration Workbench is built for automated workflow-oriented calibration of TCAD models, based on innovative machine learning capabilities. -
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PrimeWave Design Environment
Synopsys
The Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment is a comprehensive and flexible, AI-driven environment for simulation setup and analysis of analog, RF, mixed-signal design, custom-digital, and memory designs within the Synopsys Custom Design Family. It delivers a seamless simulation experience around all the engines of Synopsys PrimeSim simulators, with comprehensive analysis, improved productivity, and ease of use. As a key component of the Synopsys AI-Driven Analog Design solution, the Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment can optimize complex analog designs, across multiple test-benches and hundreds of PVT corners and quickly converge on optimal design points that meet the engineer’s specifications. The PrimeWave Design Environment also offers a unified workflow-driven analysis for all PrimeSim Reliability Analysis applications consisting of guided analysis setup, intuitive visualization, and debug and root-causing capabilities to enable a reliability-aware design methodology. -
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3DIC Compiler
Synopsys
Synopsys 3DIC Compiler, built on the industry’s leading digital implementation platform and using a common fusion data model, enables seamless migration to 2.5/3D heterogeneous integration. In a single environment, the platform allows analysis-driven feasibility exploration, multi-die partitioning, and foundry technology selection for prototyping and floor planning. This enables analysis-driven design implementation, including advanced packaging and die-to-die routing, with golden signoff verification. 3DIC Compiler integrates with Synopsys 3DSO.ai, the industry’s first autonomous AI optimization solution for multi-die designs, to maximize system performance and quality of results for thermal integrity, signal integrity, and power network design. The 3DIC Compiler platform, successfully adopted by customers, is certified by leading foundries for advanced process and packaging technologies. -
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Simpleware
Synopsys
Unlock the power of Simpleware software to seamlessly process 3D & 4D image data from MRI, CT, and micro-CT. Dive into your data with advanced visualization, detailed analysis, and accurate quantification. Create precise models ready for design, simulation, and 3D printing workflows. The Simpleware W-2024.12 release advances Simpleware software's further adoption of AI-assisted segmentation tools and streamlined design features to accelerate all your 3D image processing and analysis workflows. Our industry-leading 3D image processing and model generation platform allows you to create products and workflows from 3D & 4D image data and integrate seamlessly with design and simulation tools. Intuitive interface with quick-and-easy access to all tools and features. Comprehensive analysis of even the most complex 3D image data. Generate design and simulation-ready models of the highest quality. -
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Sentaurus Process
Synopsys
Sentaurus Process is an advanced 1D, 2D and 3D process simulator for developing and optimizing silicon semiconductor process technologies. It is a new-generation process simulator for addressing the challenges found in current and future process technologies. Equipped with a set of advanced process models, which include default parameters calibrated with data from equipment vendors, Sentaurus Process provides a predictive framework for simulating a broad range of technologies from nanoscale CMOS to large-scale high-voltage power devices. Sentaurus Process is part of a comprehensive suite of core TCAD products for multi-dimensional process, device, and system simulations, embedded into a powerful user interface. Fast prototyping, development, and optimization of a broad range of technologies with comprehensive physics-based process modeling capabilities. Enhance device performance by optimization of thermal and mechanical stress in process structures with stress history. -
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DWSIM
DWSIM
DWSIM is a free and open source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator that operates across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features an intuitive graphical user interface and offers capabilities previously exclusive to commercial simulators. DWSIM supports both steady-state and dynamic simulations, utilizing a parallel modular solver for efficient modeling. It includes advanced property packages. The simulator provides a comprehensive suite of unit operations, including mixers, splitters, separators, pumps, compressors, expanders, heaters, coolers, valves, pipe segments, shortcut columns, heat exchangers, various reactors, distillation and absorption columns, solids separators, cake filters, spreadsheets, Python scripts, and flowsheet unit operations. It also provides an Excel Add-In for performing thermodynamic calculations within spreadsheets and an automation API for creating, loading, modifying, running, and saving flowsheets.Starting Price: Free -
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ALCAD
ALCADS
ALCAD 2D/3D is the best AutoCAD Alternative. Same interface and functions as AutoCAD. This product only includes the CAD. Compare-Table ALCAD with AutoCAD here: Compare ALCAD | ALCAD (alcads.com) ALCAD – the fully compatible DWG-CAD CAD Interface and functions same as AutoCAD. ALCAD 2025 Professional 2D/3D is available as annual licence 199€ or one-time permanent licence for 349€.Starting Price: $199 -
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iTwin Capture Modeler
Bentley
iTwin Capture Modeler is a comprehensive desktop application developed by Bentley Systems, designed to create engineering-ready reality data for infrastructure projects. It enables users to generate multiresolution 3D models, such as reality meshes, point clouds, and orthophotos, from simple photographs or LiDAR point clouds, providing precise digital context for design, construction, and operations workflows. The software supports projects of any scale, from small objects to entire cities, and offers advanced features like masks, water constraints, and retouching tools to enhance reality data. iTwin Capture Modeler is available in two versions, the standard edition and iTwin Capture Modeler Center, which allows for unlimited clustering to expedite the processing of large-scale projects. The application ensures interoperability by supporting a wide range of GIS formats, facilitating seamless integration into various workflows.Starting Price: $4,175 one-time payment