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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 -
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Trace
Trace
Trace is an AI-native PCB design platform that takes hardware teams from idea to manufactured board. It combines professional schematic capture and PCB layout tools with intelligent agents that understand hardware in context. Users describe what they want to build in natural language, and Trace can research the problem, generate hierarchical multi-sheet schematics, parse datasheets, suggest components, check real-time availability, place parts, route multi-layer boards, tune matched-length signals, and run ERC, DRC, and design reviews. Its component library includes more than 30,000 symbols and footprints, with sourcing data from major distributors. Plan Mode researches complex tasks, asks clarifying questions, creates a step-by-step plan, and executes only after approval, while TraceRules preserves component preferences, layout constraints, and manufacturing targets across conversations.Starting Price: $20 one-time payment -
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FireFlow Studio for FDS
FireFlow Studios
FireFlow Studio for FDS is a fully integrated Windows GUI for NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), built by a practising fire safety engineer for fire engineering consultancies. It covers the complete workflow in one application: 3-D geometry modelling with DXF floor-plan tracing and automatic voxelisation of arcs and circles, multi-mesh setup with visible cells and MPI splitting, a guided fire-design wizard with a D* flame-resolution calculator, one-click runs of the bundled unmodified FDS solver with live monitoring of HRR and device outputs, and an integrated 3-D results viewer with slices, boundary quantities, smoke rendering, scenario-comparison tabs and CSV/PNG export. A built-in finite-element heat-transfer solver is live-coupled to the running FDS simulation, so structural steel temperatures develop alongside the fire with no external FEA package. Hand-written FDS decks round-trip.Starting Price: $449.99 AUD one-time (perpetua -
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DominoCAD
DominoCAD
DominoCAD is professional full-featured 2D and 3D CAD software with native DWG support and familiar AutoCAD-compatible commands, shortcuts and workflows. It includes professional drafting and modelling, ACIS solids, BIM interoperability with IFC and Revit underlays, STEP and IGES import/export, DGN and PDF support, point-cloud tools, and customization through LISP, VBA, .NET and IRX. DominoCAD Premium provides the complete toolkit in one edition with a perpetual licence, free technical support and a 30-day trial. It is designed for architects, engineers, surveyors, manufacturers, consultants, public organisations and other professionals who create, edit or manage DWG drawings on Windows.Starting Price: €299 one-time -
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QuantCAD-Hybrid
Dinamic pro ea srl
QuantCAD-Hybrid is a desktop software solution for CNC manufacturing quotation, RFQ analysis, and production cost estimation. Designed for CNC machining companies, job shops, subcontractors, and manufacturing departments, it helps users transform technical RFQ documentation into structured and traceable cost estimates and quotations. The software can work with CAD and technical documentation such as STEP files and PDF drawings. QuantCAD-Hybrid supports the analysis of individual parts, identification of manufacturing requirements, material selection, machining operation estimation, production time and cost calculation, and preparation of customer quotations. By combining CAD data analysis with manufacturing cost estimation, QuantCAD-Hybrid helps companies standardize their quotation workflow and reduce the manual effort required to evaluate CNC manufacturing requests.Starting Price: $4500/one-time license -
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Access Workspace
Access Group
Access Workspace: With all Access products in one place, working seamlessly together, Access Workspace changes how you engage with your software. It will transform your organization’s productivity and give you the freedom to do more. Business software is often only used by specially trained people in the organization. The apps in Access Workspace let everybody self-serve and get the answers they need without bothering those expert users. Now everyone can report progress, get approvals, and dramatically reduce the admin of repetitive tasks. Collaboration, communication and turbo-charged team-working. Analytics dashboards as standard for every Access product. Immediate access to the right information lets productivity soar. Routine tasks made easy, so you can get on with the job. Access Workspace shows you what you need in real-time. Now you can plan in the moment, and for the future. This is software that doesn’t get in your way, it lets you get on with your day. -
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WinAir
AV-Base Systems
Bring added value to your standard business processes with a reliable aviation maintenance and inventory software! As the most cost-efficient, easy-to-use, and structurally integrated maintenance and inventory control software system in the aviation industry, WinAir ties in every aspect of your operation to improve business efficiency and cut cost. This world-class aviation management solution helps streamline purchasing, production, inventory control, cost accounting, maintenance forecasting, and invoicing processes. WinAir also features bar coding, real-time labor management, and more. -
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Solumina
iBase-t
iBase-t is a trusted provider of software solutions for complex, highly-regulated manufacturers. Solumina, iBase-t's manufacturing execution system (MES), significantly improves manufacturing productivity, quality, and compliance by helping supervisors, operators, and plant managers to gain visibility and improve performance. By leveraging Solumina, users are provided with accurate work instructions, paperless processes, real-time data, and manufacturing intelligence. Powerful integrations include Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO), Manufacturing Execution Systems and Operations Management (MES/MOM), Supplier Quality Management (SQM), and Enterprise Quality Management Systems (EQMS). -
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Simio
Simio
Simio is a simulation, production planning and scheduling software designed from the ground up to support the object modeling paradigm. Simio aims to deliver rapid risk analysis and cost reduction capabilities to organizations of all sizes and industries. Simio is available in five editions to suit the unique needs of businesses: Personal, Design, Team, Enterprise, and Portal editions. Simio Academic Edition is also available to students and faculty. -
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MX System
QAV Aviation Systems
MX System is a feature-rich yet affordable aircraft maintenance system by QAV Aviation Systems. With MX System, today's aircraft operators can take advantage of a whole suite of features and functionality that lets them manage their aircrafts better. MX System offers maintenance component tracking, reliability analysis, maintenance planning, flight scheduling and log administration, maintenance control, aircraft status, parts purchasing, inventory control, and so much more. -
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Creo
PTC
Imagine, design, create, and innovate your products better with Creo, 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, and solutions for product design and development. Now, more than ever, product design and manufacturing teams are expected to create products more efficiently and cost effectively, without sacrificing innovation or quality. Fortunately, Creo delivers the most scalable range of 3D CAD product development packages and tools in today’s market. Creo 7.0 has breakthrough innovations in the areas of generative design, real-time simulation, multibody design, additive manufacturing, and others! Take your products from concept to digital prototype efficiently, precisely, and intuitively with Creo—on the cutting edge of CAD for more than 30 years. With Creo 7.0, PTC amply demonstrates its skill at adding compelling new features to an already robust tool-set using smart partnerships to extend its capabilities even further. -
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PSCAD
Manitoba Hydro International
As power systems evolve, the need for accurate, intuitive simulation tools becomes more and more important. With PSCAD you can build, simulate, and model your systems with ease, providing limitless possibilities in power system simulation. Included is a comprehensive library of system models ranging from simple passive elements and control functions to electric machines and other complex devices. PSCAD has benefited from over 40 years of continuous research and development. We are inspired by the ideas and feedback from our global user base. This philosophy has helped establish PSCAD as the most popular power system transient simulation package available today. Software maintenance is the most cost-effective way to protect, support, and maintain your investment. With it, you gain the greatest value from your software. -
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Qlucore Omics Explorer
Qlucore
Qlucore Omics Explorer is so easy to use that you no longer have to depend on an expert in bioinformatics to explore and analyze your Omics and NGS data sets. Qlucore Omics Explorer is a D.I.Y next-generation bioinformatics software for research in life science, plant- and biotech industries, as well as academia. The powerful and flexible visualization-based data analysis tool with inbuilt powerful statistics delivers immediate results and provides instant exploration and visualization of big data. The software is developed to allow the workflow which best suits you and your experiments and maximizes the outcome of your research. By combining instant visualization with powerful statistics and flexible selection methods, you will be able to see your results immediately. As a user, you decide your own workflow and starting point. You are in control and can tailor the exploration to meet your specific needs. -
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AMOS
Swiss AviationSoftware
With a history going back to the late eighties, the MRO software solution AMOS stands for innovation, high quality and continuity due to its proven track record of success, Swiss quality at its best. Decades of experience in both maintenance management and information technology have been incorporated into an easy-to-use, functionally superior and proven M&E software that empowers a large customer community to hold down costs and increase efficiency in aviation maintenance, but still maintain the highest standards of reliability and safety. Swiss AviationSoftware invests in the future of AMOS and is looking for dedicated employees who would like to join our team. Virtual cloud platform AMOScentral allows customers to collaborate with other members of the community. -
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aPriori
aPriori
aPriori, the leading Manufacturing Insights Platform, delivers strategic insights for manufacturers to continuously decide how to design a product and where to manufacture it. aPriori combines Product Cost Management, Design for Manufacturing and Sustainability, and Supplier Collaboration capabilities. The platform includes more that 450 manufacturing process simulation and more than 80 regional economic models, to yield insights that accelerate time to market by 20% while achieving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and decreased CO2 footprint. aPriori Manufacturing Insights Platform connects Design Engineers, Cost Experts, Sourcing/Procurement teams, and Supply Chain to collaborate, review real time insights to improve products, and optimize cost, carbon footprint and manufacturability to stay aligned with Corporate priorities and KPIs. More than 300 manufacturing companies in the world have chosen the aPriori Product Design & Manufacture Optimization platform. -
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Twinn Witness
Haskoning
Twinn Witness is a predictive simulation software developed by Royal HaskoningDHV that enables organizations to create dynamic virtual models of existing and planned facilities and operations. By experimenting with various 'what-if' scenarios, users can uncover in-depth business insights and validate decisions in a risk-free environment. The software offers both 2D and immersive 3D simulation models, facilitating improved communication and understanding of processes and data interrelationships. User-friendly, flexible, and powerful, Twinn Witness provides detailed insights into capital expenditures, continuous improvement, and operational enhancements before investments are made, thereby improving performance, reducing costs, and building robust business cases for sustainable growth and increased return on investment. -
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FARO Sphere XG
FARO Technologies, Inc.
FARO Sphere XG is a cloud-based digital reality platform that provides its users a centralized, collaborative experience across the company’s reality capture and 3D modeling applications. When paired with the Stream mobile app, Sphere XG enables faster 3D data capture, processing and project management from anywhere in the world. Sphere XG systematizes every activity while remaining intuitive to navigate, allowing users the ability to better organize their 3D scans and 360° photos alongside 3D models and manage that data across diverse teams around the world. With Sphere XG, 3D point clouds and 360° photo documentation can be viewed and shared all in one place, aligned to a floorplan and viewable over time. Ideal for 4D construction progress management where the ability to compare elements over time is critical, project managers and VDC managers can better democratize data and eliminate the need to use two platforms for their reality capture needs.
