Alternatives to Trimble EC-CAD

Compare Trimble EC-CAD alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to Trimble EC-CAD in 2024. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from Trimble EC-CAD competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.

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    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto

    Revizto unifies BIM intelligence and makes it immediately accessible and actionable for the entire project team. With Revizto’s advanced Issue Tracker predefined workflows project team members can identify and manage model-based issues in the 3D space and 2D sheets, including addressing clash groups. Revizto provides unified access to a project’s data both for 2D and 3D workflows, so anyone can use it depending on project requirements.
    Starting Price: $600.00/year/user
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    Trimble Field Points
    Ensure field layout points in BIM-coordinated models are accurately located in the field. Watch how easy it is to use Trimble's Total Robotic Station to import 3D models and accurately layout all points to be marked. Point creation and point layout software designed for contractors who need to create layout points to use with Trimble FieldLink. Ensure model points are accurately translated in the field. Integrate your SketchUp, Revit or AutoCAD files directly with FieldLink and RTS, RPT or GNSS units. Easily export points to Trimble FieldLink, bridging any gaps between design and work in the field. Automatic point insertion process on AutoCAD blocks and Revit family insertion. Streamline roundtrip workflows when importing staked points into the model. Generate reports to document the status of specific or all points within a drawing. Control points, insert manual points or generate automatic point locations to streamline the creation of layout data.
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    BIMPro

    BIMPro

    MSUITE

    BIMPro is design automation software for fast-paced mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors that increases design quality, eliminates the bore of dimensioning and tagging, and improves productivity up to 10x over the competition. By leveraging the power of your industry experience and ours, BIMPro’s rule-based automation allows users to quickly automate fabrication spool & sheet creation, hanger placement, point layout, shop drawings and more. Auto Spool rapidly creates assemblies using construction logic and project parameters to ensure that what gets fabricated in the shop will work for the field. DYI Spool Sheets easily automates the placement of views, dimensions, tags, and more. Whether you are placing dimensions on 3D views or Weld Mapping, let BIMPro MEP automate it. Empower design teams by removing tedious hurdles like properly placing hangers throughout a model. Collaborate with layout teams in the field by automating point placement and reporting.
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    SysQue

    SysQue

    Trimble

    Trimble SysQue. Trimble® SysQue® empowers detailers, engineers, and fabricators to work in tandem to build constructible, real-world, digitized models in Autodesk Revit. Trimble SysQue Design real-world constructible MEP models in Revit. Overview. Trimble® SysQue® empowers detailers, engineers, and fabricators to work in tandem to build constructible, real-world, digitized models in Autodesk Revit. One Seamless Constructible Workflow. Trimble SysQue - Duct Construct. Stay Current With Managed Content Work from a continually evolving database of over eight million parts, and request additional content. Enhance Your Model. Use materials and sizes based on actual manufacturer products. Easily Collaborate With Project Stakeholders Work from one constructible model, from design through to construction. Improve Your Workflows. Feature-richness to accelerate LOD 400 detailing. Real-Time Accuracy, Real-World Applicability. Detail on Top of a Generic Revit Model. Leverage SysQue
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    Stabicad

    Stabicad

    Trimble MEP

    Create 3D MEP models in Revit that are truly constructible. From concept to installation, Stabicad supports your design workflows with time-saving productivity tools, comprehensive UK compliant integrated calculations and always up-to-date manufacturer content. With Stabicad go beyond default Revit functionality and dramatically increase your design efficiency while creating usable mechanical and electrical outputs. Easily design pipe systems, configure switch ranges and place manufacturer-specific Revit families within a single BIM model. With the digital evolution of seamless end-to-end building design and construction workflows, the need for precision is now greater than ever. Which is why Trimble MEP has chosen to engage with CIBSE’s pioneering Software Verification Assessment program to verify the accuracy and efficacy of Stabicad’s powerful calculation engines.
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    Revit MEP

    Revit MEP

    Autodesk

    Revit Building Information Modelling software helps engineers, designers and contractors across the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) disciplines model to a high level of detail and co-ordinate with building project contributors. Streamline the engineering design process with Revit. Use a single model to enhance the communication of design intent, before construction begins. Conduct simulations and interference detection earlier in the design process. Use conceptual energy analysis data for engineering-driven calculations. Design, model and document building systems in the context of a full building information model, including architectural and structural components. Model for MEP fabrication with tools that automate the fabrication model layout. Prepare a model for detailed co-ordination of fabrication and installation. Revit helps team improve accuracy, and speed delivery.
    Starting Price: $1,503 per year
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    Design Master Electrical

    Design Master Electrical

    Design Master Software

    Electrical design software for Revit. Electrical and HVAC design software for AutoCAD. Unleash the power of your Revit model for electrical design. Generate a one-line riser diagram, size feeders, calculate voltage drop (correctly!), perform short-circuit analysis, and more. A complete electrical design program in the familiar AutoCAD environment. Integrate your calculations and drafting. Generate panel schedules, create one-line diagrams, calculate fault and voltage drop, and more. A complete HVAC design program in the familiar AutoCAD environment. Lay out, size, and draft your ductwork with ease.
    Starting Price: $400 per year
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    Fabrication ESTmep
    Produce more accurate estimates for MEP building system projects throughout detailing, fabrication, and installation. Use Fabrication ESTmep™ software to gain insight into project costs and generate competitive bids.CADmep/ESTmep/CAMduct share common content enabling flexible workflows to produce detailed models for estimation. Import models for cost estimation. Create more competitive bids quicker with design line. Manipulate databases for quick cost iterations. Show clients multiple service pricing options. Visualize job cost and cost analysis by color. Autodesk Fabrication ESTmep is a cost estimation software tool that lets mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) contractors produce more accurate cost estimates for MEP building systems projects throughout the detailing, fabrication, and installation workflows. Select from thousands of manufacturer’s items and pattern templates, including 54 newly added imperial ranges.
    Starting Price: $83 per month
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    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD is the number one BIM solution for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design used by thousands of companies in over 80 countries worldwide. MagiCAD makes the design of BIM models easier, faster and more accurate. Fully integrated within Autodesk’s Revit and AutoCAD platforms, MagiCAD offers a set of powerful modelling functions for each MEP discipline and enables integrated system calculations. With MagiCAD, you design with over 1,000,000 intelligent manufacturer-verified BIM objects from leading MEP manufacturers. Additionally, MagiCAD supports many local standards and symbols making it a unique and truly international solution. MagiCAD enables real-time and on-demand Clash Detection. Builderswork can be generated automatically based on space requirements around and between ducts, pipes, cable trays, fire dampers, etc., including insulation.
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    AutoCAD MEP

    AutoCAD MEP

    Autodesk

    Draft, design, and document building systems with an industry-specific toolset for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing). Workspace environments include individual palettes and domain-specific ribbons to optimize your workflow tasks. Improve your documentation's appearance and boost drafting productivity. Batch-convert single or multiple blocks and symbols. Get more MEP components and add folders to the Content Library. AutoCAD® 2022 software includes industry-specific toolsets, an improved connected experience across platforms and Autodesk products, and new automations such as Count. Create single or multiline text (mtext) as a single text object. Format the text, columns, and boundaries. Create dimensions automatically. Pass the cursor over selected objects to get a preview before you create it. Create leaders with a variety of content, including text or blocks. Easily format leader lines and define styles.
    Starting Price: $1,598 per year
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    Trimble FabShop

    Trimble FabShop

    Trimble MEP

    Industry-leading fabrication shop management software. Trimble® FabShop sets the bar for complete shop management by providing unparalleled control over and visibility into your entire fabrication process. The entire picture in one system; control and track jobs, projects, evaluate pre-fabrication opportunities, then identify and resolve conflicts before they impact the shop floor. Control how your parts are entered, formed and fabricated. Draw custom parts not found within our extensive libraries of 2D and 3D parts. Use auto shape nesting to eliminate material waste. Receive the information you need for specific jobs or for your entire shop. Customize the reports to see the information your way. Use our tracking and mobile applications to streamline activities between the shop and job site and ensure there are no more lost parts. Use industry-leading, auto shape nesting to view any blank space by piece number, blank number or cut order.
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    ZEN M.E.P.

    ZEN M.E.P.

    ZEN Industries

    ZEN M.E.P. is your source for shop drawings modeled with 21st Century accuracy. At ZEN, our team of experienced, high-tech draftsman take you from design, to fabrication and installation more efficiently than ever before. Combining old-school knowledge with state-of-the-art design systems allows us to deliver reliable shop drawings up to 50% faster, reduce errors to historic lows while meeting the most demanding specifications, deliver accurate data directly to your fabrication facility or ours, and assure that each duct section is precision fit to its location, connections, and support. The goal we’ve achieved is a simple one – superior shop drawings developed more cost-effectively than ever before. Visit our pages on Duct Drawings and Automating HVAC Production to learn more, or contact us today! Now you can quote projects more quickly, quote more projects, and do it all more cost effectively than ever before. Interested? Contact us today!
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    progeBILLD MEP
    progeBILLD, professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application. progeBILLD Building Services software is very user-friendly. The program contains an intuitive, clear user interface, allowing you to begin designing without intensive software training. ProgeBILLD Mechanical/Structural is a powerful application to create mechanical and structural projects. It contains numerous libraries of standardized elements, steel profiles and other elements conforming to DIN, EN, ISO and other standards. Ready-to-use objects and commands automate the creation of details, schematics, and multi-view drawings. Thousands of industry standard bolts, screws, nuts, pins and other elements.
    Starting Price: $499 one-time payment
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    Benchmark CAD

    Benchmark CAD

    Benchmark Enterprise Software

    Design, Estimate and Fabricate all with Benchmark Software and Benchmark CAD. Benchmark is the collaborative BIM solution that takes your projects from conception to completion. Benchmark offers a CAD alternative to those without an AutoCAD subscription with Benchmark CAD, a software that offers the full 2D and 3D design experience that you expect from an industry standard CAD program and works seamlessly with Benchmark's existing AutoCAD plug-ins. Using Benchmark CAD or AutoCAD, Benchmark Draft’s AutoCAD integration offers a wide feature set that benefits everyone in your workplace; from estimating in the office to commissioning in the field. begin every design and estimate using built-in SMACNA construction standards. Speed up the design process by tracing PDFs using Benchmark's Routed Systems with a powerful and customizable parts library that gives you the right part with the right connections.
    Starting Price: $140 per month
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    Vectorworks Spotlight
    Whether you work in lighting, scenic, film, event, or exhibit design, Vectorworks is the only solution with the flexibility to support your entire process. Sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. Choose from a huge library of lighting, audio, video, scenic, and rigging manufacturer content, and create light plots and automate paperwork to meet tight deadlines. We offer the most default import/export capabilities available, so you can incorporate design and technical production information from anywhere. Project sharing enables your entire team to work on the same Vectorworks file concurrently. And you can communicate through mobile viewing and sharing with Vectorworks Cloud Services rendering, storage, and file sharing. Add Vision to Spotlight and easily explore changes to your design and wow your clients.
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    EVOLVE Mechanical
    EVOLVE Mechanical is easy to use and will feel familiar to CADmep users. As an extension of Revit Fabrication, you can use EVOLVE Mechanical with your existing CADmep database. Additionally, our customized Revit Fabrication training course has helped hundreds of companies and thousands of users make the transition. The end result? On average, our customers are up and running on EVOLVE Mechanical in three days.
    Starting Price: $3,500
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    FINE MEP
    CAD & BIM Software for Architecture, Engineering & Construction Intelligent Building Design BIM has never been so easy and affordable. 4M provides the Architecture & Engineering Community with Advanced Verticals since 1986 and with Innovative BIM Solutions since 1994. Today 4M has more than 35.000 Active Users in over 65 Countries Worldwide. 4MCAD Professional CAD new v.21 Smart and low-cost Alternatives to AutoCAD® for 2D & 3D Design in DWG IDEA Architectural Design Intuitive and Powerful BIM Software for 3D/5D Architectural Design in DWG & IFC. FINE MEP Building Services Advanced BIM software for Building services design and calculation. FineENERGY. Advanced BIM software for Energy Simulation and Energy Rating. The Smart Alternative to AutoCAD. 100% DWG Our CAD Software use DWG as their native file format. You can open and modify drawings created by AutoCAD and vice-versa without any import or export. Similar Look & Feel.
    Starting Price: $720, one-time payment
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    GeoHECRAS

    GeoHECRAS

    CivilGEO, Inc.

    GeoHECRAS is a river modeling software used to compute water surface profiles for steady and unsteady flow models, bridge and culvert roadway crossings, FEMA floodplain encroachments, stream restorations, inline reservoir structures, off-channel storage areas, and much more. GeoHECRAS offers: • Quickly Build 1D & 2D HEC-RAS Models • Automatic Assignment of Land Cover as Manning’s Roughness • Digital Terrain Cross Section Cutting • Automated Bridge & Culvert Sizing and Designing • Automated FEMA Floodplain Encroachments • LiDAR Elevation Terrain Processing • Automated Model Calibration • AutoCAD, MicroStation & ESRI ArcGIS Compatible • 100% Compatible with US Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS GeoHECRAS provides an easy-to-use, single graphical platform to rapidly create stunning HEC-RAS models and 3D visualizations from a variety of different data sources like AutoCAD, MicroStation, ArcGIS, Google Maps, and more.
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    AutoPIPE

    AutoPIPE

    Bentley

    AutoPIPE provides you with a comprehensive and advanced software tool specializing in pipe stress analysis. Increase your productivity and improve quality control with an intuitive modeling environment and advanced analysis capabilities. Ensure efficient workflows between pipe stress engineers, structural engineers, and CAD designers through interoperability with leading plant design applications. AutoPIPE includes special features for advanced buried pipeline analysis, operational (hot) clash detection, wave loading, fluid transients, and FRP/GRP or plastic pipe, as well as time-saving integration with other Bentley and third-party applications such as OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Hexagon PDS and SmartPlant, Autodesk Plant 3D, and Aveva E3D Design. AutoPIPE automatically determines the optimal pipe support locations to satisfy your design requirements with the most cost-effective solution, without sacrificing quality or safety.
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    Intergraph Smart P&ID
    Intergraph Smart® P&ID software develops and manages your piping and instrumentation diagrams, focusing on design quality and consistency in the context of the plant asset. The piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is the detailed drawing of the process roadmap in an industrial facility. It shows the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control those related processes. The documents are developed, accessed, shared and modified throughout the plant lifecycle from design to operation. The best P&ID software focuses on a task-based approach. Connecting tasks between engineering, construction and operations is crucial to improving deliverables. Hexagon PPM makes data and information sharing a cornerstone of its products, so all engineering information is kept up-to-date to accurately reflecting the as-built plant. This enables other disciplines to base their design decisions on information from the latest digital P&IDs.
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    Autodesk Advance Steel
    Advance Steel is a Dedicated Steel detailing package, the Software tool is a 3D modelling environment that then translates into a document management system. The 3D model consists of intelligent structural objects such as Beams, Plates, Bolts and Welds, with these combined together using the Parametric Connection tools that can be propagated within the model via connection copying tools, the model then becomes the hub for the creation of General Arrangements, Shop Assembly and Part drawings to allow for fabrication. These tools also extend into platework with ability to create complex folded plate details for flat pattern development drawings for shop use. Tools for creating steel frameworks from intelligent macros that allow for adjustments to the overall frame dimensions, section profile selection, this combined with the Parametric connection’s tools for standard connections types, with the ability to create custom connection details for bespoke situations.
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    EVOLVE Electrical
    The savviest detailing departments leverage technology to accomplish more work in less time. EVOLVE Electrical software creates an easy-to-use Revit experience for our end user and produces a level of accuracy that is needed to efficiently fabricate and construct your projects. From constructible BIM workflows to automated spooling, EVOLVE Electrical gives companies the tools they need to finish projects on time and within budget.
    Starting Price: $3,500
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    Isogen

    Isogen

    Hexagon PPM

    Isogen® is the world's leading solution for the total automation of piping isometric drawing production and is the Hexagon PPM standard system for drawing piping isometrics. Isogen is bundled with Intergraph Smart® 3D, PDS®, CADWorx®, CAESAR II®, Intergraph Spoolgen® and Intergraph Smart Isometrics. Isogen is also supported by all major piping design solution vendors who will either bundle Isogen with their product or will output one of the two Isogen data files – the PCF or the older IDF. Eliminating the need to manually edit isometric drawings significantly reduces fabrication and on-site construction errors. Consistent drawing content is provided through isometric repeatability, which ensures that the number of drawings, basic content and spool and weld numbers following pipe design changes remain consistent.
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    SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional
    SOLIDWORKS® Electrical Professional combines the electrical schematic design capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematics with the 3D capabilities of SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D in one package. Embedded electrical systems planning requires a unified electrical toolset that provides single- and multi-line schematic tools. Embedded system design also requires all work in 2D and 3D to be synchronized for both mechanical and electrical parts. Electrical system planning tool for creating complex embedded electrical system utilizing simple pictorial representations of electrical components and interconnectors. Schematic creation tool with a simplified user interface optimized for simplification of repetitive tasks. Generate 2D panel representations from an electrical schematic, with 2D outlines of electrical components. Extensive library of industry-standard schematic symbols (IEC, ANSI, JIS, GB) combined with a database of manufacturer parts.
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    Integraph Smart Isometrics
    Intergraph Smart® Isometrics, powered by Isogen®, is an easy-to-use, powerful Microsoft® Windows®-based, specification-driven, pipe-sketching application for the as-built plant. Designed to meet the design and documentation challenges of EPCs, fabricators and owner operators, Smart Isometrics is a versatile 2D design product that plays an important role in the production and transfer of piping data along the Digital Isometric Value Chain. The user will have improved productivity through the automation of drawing production and reduced manual editing time. Smart Isometrics is a standalone solution that is user-friendly, so minimal training is required. It is a quick and easy implementation for users. It also reduces errors for increased accuracy. Smart Isometrics enables the sketching of individual pipelines or piping systems in only minutes and generation of isometric drawings in seconds.
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    CAD Schroer M4

    CAD Schroer M4

    CAD Schroer

    CAD Schroer offers standard software and applications for CAD, PLM, PDM, IoT, VR and AR. Our products are divided into the M4 and i4 product ranges. The M4 product line includes CAD, plant engineering and factory design solutions. With our i4 product range we support your industry 4.0 and digitization projects with standardized AR, VR or IoT software. As of version 7.0, CAD Schroer has merged the MEDUSA4 and MPDS4 products into a single CAD suite. All CAD products from this release onwards will be bundled under the common M4 brand. The product packages will be grouped by industry, and will be given appropriate product names, such as M4 DRAFTING for 2D design in mechanical engineering, or M4 FACTORY for 2D/3D layout in factory planning.
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    RIBTEC
    Integrated solutions are essential in times of tight schedules and scarce resources. Therefore, RIBTEC offers various synergies in calculation, design and construction. You benefit from a time-saving data flow in the sense of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the overall process of structural design. RIB's software solutions for structural engineers range from structural, building and ground engineering as well as finite element calculations to tunnel and bridge construction and the drawing of formwork and reinforcement plans. RIB has been developing pioneering solutions for structural design and FEM since 1961. The RIBTEC programs are successfully used by over 5,000 engineering offices, inspection engineers, construction companies and planning departments in the public and industrial sectors. With more than 100 structural analysis programs, RIBTEC comprehensively covers the practice of structural design.
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    ElectricalDesign
    TiSoft ElectricalDesign helps you design any building's electrical installation, make all the necessary calculations ensuring code compliance, and produce a variety of drawings, floorplans, schematics and reports. It will also provide a wealth of information that will assist you in making design decisions early on, avoid oversizing materials and equipment and visualize the installation prior to construction. For the acceleration of distribution modeling, default values ​​have been given by the program to all the new elements that the user can then change. The electrical distribution is depicted in the form of a hierarchical tree and the electrical panels are placed as nodes of the tree. You can easily add distribution boards to the delivery tables. In each table add its loads and for each load enter its power in kW, length and type of cable. For each point on the network, the program calculates in detail and shows you the short-circuit level in kA.
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    Integraph Smart Electrical
    Design and maintain a safe, reliable power distribution system from load identification to plant startup using the leading Electrical Design Software from Hexagon PPM. Fast-track project execution for engineering companies and lower operational risk for plant owners are keys to business success, and Hexagon can help you achieve these goals. Intergraph Smart® Electrical Design Software is a task-specific, rule-driven and data-centric solution that helps you gain a competitive edge in the industry. Smart Electrical-enforced design consistency as a single source for creating deliverables. Intelligent data updates the deliverables and eliminates the need for manual drawing updates. Update the data with the new EDE (Engineering Data Editor) to allow viewing data and performing editing or other operations on one or more items of a specified item type similar to work in Excel.
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    DNAsp

    DNAsp

    Fitfactory Technology

    We provide metal finishing production control software that’s not only designed for metal finishing, but adaptable to different capabilities. Designed by a team with decades of experience in aerospace treatments, the system provides full Nadcap traceability from docketing to despatch. Manage production from quotation to invoice, with full paperwork generation for Nadcap compliance, including job splitting & grouping, storage of consumables and hazardous materials and control of precious metals. Every metal finisher’s different. So, not only is our system designed for the metal finishing, but we also configure the software for different industries. Include customer specifications and assign them to SFDC users to monitor vat chemical levels. Split & group operations so you can track when parts from different jobs go in the same oven. Easily produce Certificates of Conformity to ensure customers' specs match plating thickness.
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    ArCADia-ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS
    Intended for designers of electrical and power equipment systems in buildings and it can be used to create professional documentation of internal low-voltage electrical systems. This module expands the capabilities of the ArCADia BIM program with advanced functions, which means that part of the building modelling options are available in the ArCADia BIM program. Numerous benefits from working in BIM technology: automatic checking of collisions with other building elements, advanced 3D preview, export to IFC format. One of the few CAD/CAE solutions for electricians allows to draw the installation project in a building in accordance with the BIM technology. Generating structural diagrams of power lines for electrical installations projects (schematic diagram of internal power lines between designed distribution boards).
    Starting Price: $320 one-time payment
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    HEC-RAS

    HEC-RAS

    US Army Corps of Engineers

    The Hydrologic Engineering Center's (CEIWR-HEC) River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) is a software allows the user to perform one-dimensional steady flow, one and two-dimensional unsteady flow calculations, sediment transport/mobile bed computations, and water temperature/water quality modeling. The purpose of this software's website is to enhance the support services provided to HEC-RAS customers. The HEC-RAS website provides a number of resources, which include helping the user download software, learn how to use HEC-RAS, resolve problems, report bugs, and suggest improvements to CEIWR-HEC products and service. Unfortunately, CEIWR-HEC is unable to provide phone or email technical support to non-USACE customers. However, CEIWR-HEC does encourage anyone who finds an issue with CEIWR-HEC software, to please report that issue through the HEC-RAS Bug Report page. Also, please review CEIWR-HEC's Support Policy page for further details.
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    PowerCalc

    PowerCalc

    Electric Power Calc

    These values indicate the information supporting the design’s intent and confirm a balanced and protected power distribution system including short circuit current, system grounding arrangement, voltage hierarchy and connection to the grid. PowerCalc is a new way to design the power distribution system in a building. It’s a powerful tool with database-driven results for fewer design hours, errors and process hiccups. PowerCalc selects appropriate values from its fully populated proprietary database for compliance with the NEC and other applicable codes and engineering standards. This proprietary database includes the NEC look-up tables. more on inputs/outputs, Just 3 inputs / circuit (load kVA, load type and # of poles) = 300 NEC / IEEE and other compliant outputs. Instant changes automatically propagated across your design.
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    AutoBid Mechanical
    Accuracy and speed are just a few reasons why Trimble® AutoBid® Mechanical is the leading software designed specifically for commercial mechanical, piping, and plumbing contractors. Specification-driven takeoffs speed up the takeoff process. Leverage the pre-built database of over 100,000 items and pre-built assemblies you access with the click of a button. Autofitting generation is the heart of fast takeoff. Our patented approach is the fastest. Your subscription includes Trimble’s market-leading AutoBid Mechanical and AutoBid SheetMetal estimating software, integrated OnScreen View graphical takeoff, Advanced Image Manager (AIM) tool, TRA-SER material and labor pricing, submittal management and Trimble Connect collaboration tools. Plus, you get an exclusive preview of Trimble Estimation MEP Pro web-based estimating software. The AutoBid Estimating Essentials subscription makes it even easier to get access to Trimble’s market-leading mechanical, piping and sheet metal estimating.
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    AutoBid SheetMetal
    Your complete sheet metal estimating software solution now part of a value-packed subscription. Designed with advanced technology and years of sheet metal experience, Trimble® AutoBid® SheetMetal is the fastest, most accurate estimating software for sheet metal contractors. Specification-driven takeoffs speed up the process by applying specs that automatically determine item properties. Smooth integration with a variety of third-party applications that accelerate estimating and job costing processes. Excel-based bid reports allows you to summarize data quickly and effectively. Customize the constructions standards to normalize your company's regulations. Your subscription includes Trimble’s market-leading AutoBid Mechanical and AutoBid SheetMetal estimating software, integrated OnScreen View graphical takeoff, Advanced Image Manager (AIM) tool, TRA-SER material and labor pricing, submittal management and Trimble Connect collaboration tools.
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    METS

    METS

    SPD Enterprises

    METS is the Best Application for Project Estimation and Material Tracking. A true web-based application built and optimized for MEP contractors by people who know the business. From collaboration to accountability, METS is the most comprehensive material management solution for MEP Projects. METS's integral systems for extended validations and approval of various business processes augments the capability to "Delegate with Authorization" yet retain control and monitoring of the projects. METS's tools to perform on-demand analysis and its efficiency to get project status and deviations reports etc., all assists the team in taking prompt, reliable and accurate decisions. Prominent Challenges for HVAC projects are controlling the Scope of Work, minimizing deviations/variance, and delegating of authority. METS is the best way to accurately estimate, has robust change control management, delegates authority with limitations, and best tool for continuous monitor tracking.
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    Envisioneer
    Cadsoft develops Envisioneer, 3D BIM technology. From the initial design concept through delivery of material on-site, Envisioneer is the design hub. Easy to use design, visualization, estimating and working drawing tools, make it a robust package for residential projects. Cadsoft Envisioneer home design software offers virtual reality (VR). Imagine being fully immersed in a space before a single 2x4 arrives on site. With Envisioneer technology and Oculus Rift you can. Envisioneer directly supports Oculus Rift and is a perfect collaboration tool. Everyone can visualize the final project and changes instantly occur. Use it as a virtual showroom. Have informed conversations, before problems arise on site. Need a takeaway sizzle, use the Envisioneer VR app to share immersive panoramas and Google Cardboard scenes with clients or onsite crews, so they can view their project on their own time and device! Visit www.cadsoft.com to learn more about Envisioneer!
    Starting Price: $995.00/one-time/user
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    Intergraph Smart Engineering Integrity
    The next step in engineering leads to rule-based or knowledge-based designs. The majority of an engineer’s time is spent looking for data and checking for correctness and consistency. ARC found in its market surveys that on average, engineers spend 40 to 60 percent of their day looking or checking for information. These tasks of finding and verifying can now be automated with Intergraph Smart® Engineering Integrity (SEI), which will check on Intergraph Smart P&ID (SPID), Smart Instrumentation (INS), and Intergraph Smart Electrical (SEL) designs. SEI can validate the data quality/consistency against company engineering practices and standards plus check across the application. For example, this software can verify if a control valve on the P&ID is also in Intergraph Smart Instrumentation to be designed with the right process data and sizes.
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    CAESAR II

    CAESAR II

    Hexagon PPM

    CAESAR II® is the industry standard for pipe stress analysis, letting you build, assess and report on piping systems of any size or complexity in accordance with more than 35 international piping code standards and many environmental and equipment guidelines. Integration with CAD design packages lets you quickly import models, reducing risk for errors and costly iteration time between CAD and stress analysis divisions. We offer the highest quality CAESAR II and CADWorx training available in the world today, at a fraction of the cost for conventional classroom training. Some of our many benefits: No travel, No missed work, easy to follow step-by-step instruction, Convenient, and self-paced. All of our training includes full printed lesson guides. We offer the highest quality CAESAR II and CADWorx training available in the world today, at a fraction of the cost for conventional classroom training.
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    BAMROC

    BAMROC

    Vavetek.AI

    BAMROC automatically resolves MEP clashes at lightning speed. It is the only AI software specifically designed for MEP coordinators that analyzes, explores solutions, and adjusts MEP services seamlessly. BAMROC creates a clash-free environment, elevating MEP coordination to a new standard of efficiency and accuracy. BAMROC transforms pre-construction design by automating MEP clash resolution and removal. Traditional methods of resolving MEP clashes involve time-consuming manual coordination and iterations. BAMROC transforms pre-construction design by automating MEP clash resolution and removal.
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    SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

    SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

    Dassault Systèmes

    Simulate the fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces that are critical to the success of your designs. SOLIDWORKS® Flow Simulation is an intuitive Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution embedded within SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD that enables you to quickly and easily simulate liquid and gas flows through and around your designs to calculate product performance and capabilities. SOLIDWORKS® products are easy to learn and use, and work together to help you design products better, faster, and more cost efficiently. SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation enables you and your team to simulate fluid flow, heat transfer, and fluid forces that are critical to the success of your product. Companies of all sizes need integrated solutions to help them innovate and grow their business. With integrated CFD tools you can efficiently analyze the effects of fluid flow, heat transfer, and related forces on your projects and process multiple “what if” scenarios to help you optimize designs quickly.
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    EVOLVE Shop
    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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    AutoCAD Mechanical
    Design faster with an industry-specific toolset for mechanical engineering, including 700,000+ intelligent parts and features. Isolate and restore layer groups and specify linetypes and lineweights. Update geometry automatically when changes occur. Minimize manual redraws. Produce accurate drawings with standard components. Efficiently analyze designs, including shaft, spring, belt, chain, and cam generators. Detail native Inventor part and assembly models. Use intelligent drafting tools made for mechanical design. Custom content library and publishing. Create and save custom content. Preview fillet, chamfer, and offset commands. Take the power of AutoCAD® wherever you go. Smart mechanical engineering dimensions. Create dimensions using abbreviated dialog boxes. 2D DWG with a view of the standards tab on the open options panel. Support for international drafting standards. Deliver standards-based design documentation.
    Starting Price: $220 per month
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    ProSteel

    ProSteel

    Bentley

    With ProSteel software you can efficiently create accurate 3D models for structural steel, metal work, and steel assemblies. You can then quickly generate design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever the 3D model changes. Additionally, detailed output to CNC machines automates the steel fabrication process. ProSteel fully supports your construction and planning tasks for structural steel and metal work in a 3D modeling environment. Working with AutoCAD or MicroStation, you get an intuitive and integrated multi-material modeler perfectly suited to layout complex structures, produce shop drawings, assemble all your connections, and manage your bills of materials. Quickly extract 2D drawings that automatically update when the 3D model changes. Easily exchange information with other disciplines thanks to interoperability with other Bentley and third-party applications.
    Starting Price: $4,193 per year
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    AutoCAD

    AutoCAD

    Autodesk

    CAD software to design anything—with time-saving toolsets, web, and mobile apps. AutoCAD® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings. Draft, annotate, and design 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects. Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, adding blocks, creating schedules, and more. Customize with add-on apps and APIs. AutoCAD includes industry-specific features and intelligent objects for architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical design, and more. Automate floor plans, sections, and elevations. Draw piping, ducting, and circuiting quickly with parts libraries. Auto-generate annotations, layers, schedules, lists, and tables. Use a rules-driven workflow to accurately enforce industry standards.
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    Starting Price: $1,268 per user per year
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    AutoCAD Architecture
    Speed up architectural design and drafting with an industry-specific toolset that includes 8,500+ intelligent objects and styles. Design and produce renovations more quickly. Create documents and drawings using elements with real-world behavior and construction. Create with detail components and keynoting tools. AutoCAD® 2022 software includes industry-specific toolsets, an improved connected experience across platforms and Autodesk products, and new automations such as Count. Safely review and add feedback directly to a DWG file without altering the existing drawing. Send a controlled copy of your drawing to teammates and colleagues to access wherever they are. Pull away drawing windows to display side by side or on multiple monitors, in the same instance of AutoCAD. Experience faster performance, including when plotting and for 3D graphics. Push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs to Autodesk Docs from AutoCAD.
    Starting Price: $220 per month
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    BeckerCAD

    BeckerCAD

    SoftMaker

    Professional CAD software for architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and much more. Detailed drawing, designing and modeling in 2D and 3D. Powerful, precise and 100% compatible with AutoCAD. May be installed on 3 PCs. Whether you are engaged in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or architecture, BeckerCAD12 3D Pro enables you to design and model detailed 2D and 3D models. The wide range of drawing, editing and labeling tools helps you to accurately create objects ranging from 2D production drawings that are true to size up to rendered 3D visualizations. Complex 3D graphics can be easily imported in order to create impressive presentations. BeckerCAD12 3D Pro has a programming interface with Python and is fully compatible with AutoCAD and CADdy++ Mechanical Design. Realistic scene preview through improved light sources with advanced settings options. Adoption of object colors, material properties, etc., from graphics and saving bills of materials.
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    LITIO

    LITIO

    LITIO

    LITIO 2.0 is a sheet metal add-on for AutoCAD, GStarCAD, ZwCAD & BricsCAD [and cadmate] that calculates and draws the flat sheet development of ducts, rectangle-to-round transitions, cylinders, cones, pipe intersections, connections, Ys, elbows, etc. LitioLAB 1.0 is an advanced, complex-shape, mathematical drawing tool for AutoCAD, GStarCAD and ZwCAD, that helps you draw complex shapes (either 2D curves, 3D curves or 3D surfaces), that are not available as standard commands within AutoCAD or GStarCAD or ZwCAD. Give your AutoCAD/GStarCAD/ZwCAD advanced drafting capabilities? Import XLS coordinate point data and draw them as CAD entities? Easily draw complex math shapes? LITIO 2.0 sheet metal for AutoCAD, GStarCAD, ZwCAD & BricsCAD [and cadmate]. Do you need to manufacture sheet metal parts and patterns?
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    Analyzer CAD

    Analyzer CAD

    3dAnalyzerSoftware

    Use our built-in library to drag in cabinets to your desired size or draw your own cabinets using AutoCAD 3D Modelling tools. Our software supports all AutoCAD versions with an autoloader mechanism from 2012 onwards. Analyzer CAD Is fully customizable with all parts being editable. You can create an infinite number of cabinets that are only limited by your hardware. Analyzer CAD is designed to be used for kitchens, wardrobes, wall units, office furniture, and custom cabinets. Get the ability to add or remove machines easily, keep track of your seats, more seats, more savings, cancel when ever you like, and cabinets updated regularly! You can draw your own cabinets in AutoCAD, but you cannot add them to the Analyzer CAD library. We can add custom cabinets for you. You can however add cabinets to your own library in AutoCAD as usual. To modify go to 3D tools, ungroup the cabinets and modify using normal AutoCAD tools.
    Starting Price: $15.27 per month
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    Hurricane for AutoCAD

    Hurricane for AutoCAD

    74Mph Solutions

    Batch edit your AutoCAD drawings in 3 clicks (or less), Make simple, complex and/or dynamic changes to each drawing. Manage your files to process. Keep lists, save "project" directories. Share these lists and "user-scripts". Combine user scripts to accomplish complex editing tasks. (You can even store scripts specific to each project, and retrieve them easily.) AutoCAD Electrical ".WDP" project file compatibility - Double-click an AutoCAD Electrical .WDP (Project) file within Hurricanes file selector, to quickly load an entire AutoCAD Electrical project into the FileQueue. This means you can EASILY use AutoCAD to Batch Plot your files, Batch Purge, Batch Bind, batch script anything, maximizing your PC's power to perform redundant tasks fast! Add more time-saving batch script functionality to AutoCAD Electrical, Mechanical, and Architectural. Batch all drawings run in a single AutoCAD session (They don't "open-run-close, open-run-close...")
    Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment