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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 -
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Capital Harness Designer
Siemens
Capital Wiring Harness Designer enables engineers to create detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs. It offers automated part selection routines for components like wires, terminals, seals, and heat-shrink sleeves, facilitating the creation of comprehensive bills of materials. It includes configurable design rule checks to ensure adherence to organizational standards and supports the calculation of manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, and harness weights. Its collaborative design merges functions, allows for the integration of multi-source design inputs, and it manages multiple harness variants from a single design, streamlining the design process. -
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Capital Logic Designer
Siemens
Capital Logic Designer is a powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring both logical connectivity designs (signals) and physical wiring designs (wires, splices, multicores, etc.). This advanced tool lets engineers quickly and robustly develop logical electrical designs. It supports platform-level electrical design and visualization, simplifying design changes and decision-making through direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions. The tool automates and controls design tasks using rules-driven device placement and wire routing, with naming conventions, design rule checks, and templates that can be defined and automatically applied. It also provides early indications of wire routing, bundle diameters, and harness complexity, allowing wire lengths to be back-annotated to support accurate voltage-drop, weight, and other types of analyses. -
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VRED
Autodesk
Autodesk VRED is a professional 3D visualization and virtual prototyping software designed to bring complex data to life. It enables users to create high-quality renderings on-premises or in the cloud, visualize, review, and validate designs with ease and accuracy, and collaborate on any device, including virtual reality. VRED helps designers and engineers create product presentations, design reviews, and virtual prototypes using interactive GPU ray tracing and both analytic and cloud-rendering modes. It transforms complex design and engineering datasets into a holistic digital control model that can be used as a single source of truth. Users can access the latest design data anywhere, anytime, for high-quality collaborative review on desktop, mobile, or in VR using various utilities and streaming APIs. VRED supports features like data preparation, virtual prototyping, virtual photography, visual simulation, collaboration, and XR experiences. -
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FactSage
FactSage
FactSage is a comprehensive thermochemical software and database package developed jointly by Thermfact/CRCT (Montreal, Canada) and GTT-Technologies (Aachen, Germany). It integrates thermochemical packages, resulting from over 20 years of collaborative efforts. It comprises a series of information, database, calculation, and manipulation modules that access various pure substances and solution databases. FactSage is utilized by numerous industrial, governmental, and academic users in fields such as materials science, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, corrosion, glass technology, combustion, ceramics, and geology. Users have access to thermodynamic data for thousands of compounds, as well as evaluated and optimized databases for hundreds of solutions, including metals, oxides, slags, mattes, salts, and aqueous solutions. -
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GenomiX
VE3 Global
GenomiX is a unified analytics platform built to manage the complexity of modern genomics research and clinical workflows. It supports large-scale sequencing data, integrates fragmented systems like LIMS and EHRs, and enables multi-omics analysis across DNA, RNA, and epigenetics. With its cloud-agnostic, container-native architecture, GenomiX ensures flexibility, compliance, and scalability for both research and healthcare environments. The platform streamlines workflows with support for popular engines like Nextflow, WDL, and Snakemake, while offering preconfigured bioinformatics pipelines. Advanced AI and ML integrations accelerate clinical interpretation and research insights. GenomiX also prioritizes security, ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and NHS compliance while facilitating collaboration across institutions. -
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TruePILOT
Endel Digital Solutions
Endel Digital’s TruePILOT is a unified plant intelligence platform that integrates weighbridge software with critical production systems to provide complete operational visibility. It enables real-time monitoring, process consistency, and better decision-making to maximize plant efficiency. With features such as SCADA integration, ERP synchronization, machine communication, and IIoT connectivity, TruePILOT transforms traditional plant operations into smart, automated environments. The platform also leverages AI-driven trend analysis for predictive insights and cloud-based reporting for executive-level visibility. Complementary products like LabMAST, FleetAI, GateONE, and ManuFACT further enhance plant performance by digitizing quality testing, material dispatch, gate management, and batch processing. Trusted by leading industries such as manufacturing, mining, cement, and steel, Endel Digital provides end-to-end solutions that streamline and secure production environments.Starting Price: $8000 -
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Numerical Cloud
Numerical Innovations Inc.
With the Numerical Cloud, you get all the professional CAM / DFM / 3D Software Tools and Translators you need at an affordable cost. FAB 3000 - Professional Gerber, Editor, PCB Panelize and DFM Verification Software ACE 2D/3D Translator - The Easiest CAD/EDA/3D Conversion tool available EasyGerb for AutoCAD 2025 - AutoCAD Plug-in that's runs directly inside AutoCAD ACE for FUJIFILM Dimatix Printers - The Original OEM Conversion software built specifically for Fujifilm Dimatix printers. Runs Legacy Tools - FAB 3000 V7, EasyGerb V7, ACE 3000 V7 3D STEP and STL Translators The Numerical Cloud is our most valuable and affordable solution for all engineers! Use it when you need it - Includes Support - No Contract - Cancel Anytime. This is based on an auto-renewal / recurring credit card subscription.Starting Price: $74.99 -
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ACE 2D/3D Translator
Numerical Innovations Inc.
Simple, Powerful CAD / EDA / 3D Conversion Software to easily convert between ALL common EDA and CAD formats: DXF, Gerber, GDS-II, DWG, Postscript, PDF, HPGL, NC Drill/Rout, OASIS, Image files, ODB++, IPC-2581, SVG, and 3D formats STEP, STL. ACE 2D/3D gives you over 150 useful EDA, CAD, and 3D translators in one tool, so you're always prepared to handle any file translation. ACE 2D/3D costs less than most single-format commercial CAD translators, and with all those additional built-in translators - ACE gives you a better overall value! Available as a Subscription License or Perpetual License for an individual or team of engineers - both are affordable solutions for all levels of CAD Engineering - Beginner / Hobbyists to the Most Experienced CAD Engineer.Starting Price: $74.99/month/user -
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FAB 3000
Numerical Innovations Inc.
The Most Easy to Use Gerber Editor, Panelization, & DFM Tool Available. FAB 3000 is a "Full-Featured" CAM software package targeted for anyone who would like to have "high-end" CAM software to run advanced DRC/DFM verifications, generate component centroids, create SMT Stencil pads, and perform many other useful features. Get ALL the power of those other CAM tools costing thousands of dollars for a fraction of the price. Available as a Subscription License or Perpetual License for an individual or team of engineers - both are affordable solutions for all levels of PCB Engineering - Beginner / Hobbyists to the Most Experienced PCB Engineer.Starting Price: $74.99/user/month -
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HQDFM
NextPCB
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viAER
viAct.ai
viAct Drone AeroVision AI technology, viAER, is engineered to redefine aerial intelligence for the fast-emerging Hong Kong’s low-altitude economy. With seamless integration into existing digital ecosystems — from Smart Site Safety Systems, WMS, ERPs, to BIM, it ensures 99.9% accuracy in detecting anomalies, predicting maintenance needs, and optimizing on-site decisions. Whether it’s detecting structural deviations in construction, corrosion in offshore rigs, or surface instability in mining sites, viAER turns aerial visualization into actionable intelligence. Key Capabilities • Geospatial Mapping with centimetre-level accuracy • Safety Monitoring through Thermal and Visual anomaly detection • Automated Earthwork Volumetrics • Autonomous Confined/Restricted Space Inspection • Perimeter Security & Intrusion Detection • Incident Response & Emergency Mapping Powered by Edge AI, viAER delivers real-time insights even in low-connectivity or remote areas.Starting Price: $1000 -
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Paraxia-Plus-10
Sciopt Enterprises
With origins from Stanford U., Paraxia-Plus-10 is a Windows based optical design program specifically optimized for laser resonator and laser beam propagation applications. Its drag and drop layout mode enables real time visualization of beam properties using the “Digital Laser Workbench”. Laser engineers/designers can access laser beam data not generally available from geometric ray tracing optical design codes. Tools include optimization, tolerance analysis, stability plots, and FFT based rigorous beam propagation of arbitrary input beams. This enables simulation of diffraction effects and beam deviations from decentered and/or laser damaged components. Waist size and location is listed relative to each component, and beam diameter and beam radius of curvature is available anywhere along the beam path. Users can supply code to extend capabilities, and to enable scripting. The program is used worldwide by, consultants, laser companies, & govt. labs, often with multiple copies.Starting Price: $1,750 one time fee -
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DWGSee CAD
DWGSee
DWGSee CAD is a lightweight and affordable CAD software designed for fast, stable, and fully compatible 2D drafting. It offers a classic CAD interface with command line support, making it familiar to AutoCAD users while requiring far fewer system resources. DWGSee CAD allows users to open, edit, and create DWG, DXF, and DWF files with full compatibility across AutoCAD versions. The platform includes a comprehensive set of drawing, editing, and annotation tools for professional drafting workflows. Advanced features such as Dimension Driven design enable precise adjustments by modifying dimensions directly. DWGSee CAD supports exporting drawings to PDF or image formats and provides robust printing and batch printing capabilities. With a small installation size and a one-time lifetime license, DWGSee CAD delivers professional CAD functionality at a significantly lower cost.Starting Price: $198 -
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AVIX Suite
Solme
Originally created as a Continuous Improvement tool, AVIX has evolved into a comprehensive end-to-end solution composed of modules designed to meet each customer's specific needs. By providing precise data and linking information across functions, AVIX helps companies streamline operations, reduce waste, and increase overall production efficiency. The basic modules in AVIX Suite are: AVIX Method - Method and time study software for process documentation & production planning. AVIX Resource Balance - Line balancing software for workload balancing between workstations & operators. AVIX FMEA - FMEA software that makes FMEA analysis easy. AVIX SMED - SMED software for changeover time reduction. AVIX DFX - Design for assembly & BOM engineering software. AVIX Ergo - Ergonomic assessment software to improve workplace ergonomics. You can buy one or more modules and expand gradually as the need arises.Starting Price: $4050/year -
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Simcenter EDEM
Siemens
Simcenter EDEM is a high-performance Discrete Element Method tool for bulk material and particle simulation, designed to give engineers crucial insight into how granular materials interact with handling equipment across a range of operating and process conditions. It accurately simulates and analyzes the behavior of coal, ores, soils, fibers, grains, tablets, powders, rocks, crops, and other real-world materials. Users can get started quickly with extensive pre-calibrated material model libraries representing rocks, ores, soils, and powders, while validated physics models support dry, sticky, compressible, and more complex material behaviors. Simcenter EDEM can simulate complex, industry-scale particle systems involving many millions of particles with fast and scalable compute performance across CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU solvers. -
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PFC (Particle Flow Code)
ITASCA Consulting
PFC, or Particle Flow Code, is a general-purpose distinct-element modeling framework available as two- and three-dimensional programs, PFC2D and PFC3D. It is designed to simulate synthetic granular and solid materials as assemblies of variably sized rigid particles, including disks, spheres, rigidly connected clumps, and convex polygons or polyhedra. It provides an efficient and flexible way to model the motion, interaction, breakage, flow, deformation, and failure of particle systems across geomechanics, mining, civil engineering, materials processing, and industrial design. PFC is especially useful for problems where the behavior of a material emerges from particle-level contacts, bonding, friction, rearrangement, fracture, or flow rather than from a continuous mesh. Users can represent bonded materials such as rock, concrete, or cemented soil, as well as loose granular materials such as sand, gravel, ballast, ore, powders, and grains.Starting Price: $9,588 one-time payment -
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Bulk Flow Analyst
Overland Conveyor Company
Bulk Flow Analyst is a Discrete Element Method simulation tool designed to help engineers analyze and optimize bulk material flow throughout transfer chutes and conveyor systems. Developed and used by engineers with direct expertise in transfer chute design, the software is built to make DEM simulation intuitive and practical so users can focus on chute performance instead of managing complex DEM parameters. Bulk Flow Analyst can simulate transfer problems involving bulk materials moving through chutes, hoppers, feeders, conveyor transfer points, belts, and related material-handling equipment. It helps designers visualize and evaluate how particles flow, impact, accumulate, discharge, and interact with geometry under different operating conditions. Through DEM, it supports analysis of difficult conveyor design challenges such as flow requirements, chute plugging, belt wear, chute surface wear, dust generation, spillage, material degradation, and impact behavior.Starting Price: $1,000 one-time payment -
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Aspherix
DCS Computing
Aspherix is a state-of-the-art Discrete Element Method platform designed to simulate particle behavior in diverse systems and provide high-precision process modeling for industrial and research applications. It offers comprehensive DEM simulation tools for analyzing granular materials, powders, bulk solids, cohesive particles, polydisperse materials, and particle interactions across a wide range of environments and processes. Aspherix gives users strong control over simulation data, integrates information from multiple sources, and supports seamless analysis across varied formats, helping teams optimize operations and drive product innovation through data-driven simulation. With user-friendly dashboards and real-time analytics, the platform helps engineers move from complex particle behavior to fast, actionable insights. -
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realvirtual.io
realvirtual GmbH
realvirtual.io is a Unity-based framework for industrial digital twins and virtual commissioning in machine and plant engineering. It imports the customer's own CAD (STEP, SolidWorks, CATIA, NX), lets you define kinematics (drives, sensors, grippers) without altering the original geometry, and connects real or simulated PLCs and robot controllers through 15+ native interfaces (Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT/ADS, OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB) to one 3D model. It ships with full C# source code, so there is no black box and no vendor lock-in, and holds high-fidelity visuals at 60 fps while keeping cost far below legacy digital-factory tools. One model carries through sales, engineering, virtual commissioning, 3D HMI and operator training. A free Starter edition is on the Unity Asset Store; companion product realvirtual WEB (open source, Three.js) delivers the same model to any browser via one link.Starting Price: $0 -
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Archi Topography
Archi
Archi Topography turns classified LiDAR ground data into Revit terrain in seconds. It converts LAS and LAZ point clouds into Toposolid or TopoSurface geometry, processing millions of points with adjustable density, coordinate offsets and multi-core optimization, faster than CAD contour tracing. It imports large LAS/LAZ point clouds with density control; isolates terrain from complex laser scans; uses multi-core processing for speed; places geometry aligned to Revit internal coordinates; and exports CSV datasets. Windows; Revit 2015-2027. Per-seat from about EUR 179/year. 14-day free trial.Starting Price: $195 per user/year -
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DroneField
DroneSpot Kft.
DroneField is precision agriculture software that turns drone imagery into actionable field intelligence: high-resolution orthomosaic maps, NDVI crop analysis, and variable-rate spray plans ready for agricultural spray drones. It exports to DJI Agras, XAG, ABZ Innovation, and ISOBUS-compatible equipment (KML, Shapefile, ISOXML). Built for spray drone operators, agricultural service providers, and farms, it covers the complete workflow: plan the flight, process imagery, identify problem zones, and export precise treatment maps. Results can be shared with clients via a simple web link. DroneField runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and processes data locally — your field data stays under your control. Free trial with one complete project.Starting Price: 699€/year
