Best Small Business Engineering Software - Page 2

Compare the Top Small Business Engineering Software as of April 2025 - Page 2

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    ARES Commander
    2D & 3D CAD software to create & modify technical drawings in DWG format with choice between Perpetual, Network or Annual licenses. Experience the agility of the n°1 alternative to AutoCAD. Cost-effective, ARES Commander offers a full replacement and an easy switch, at a fraction of the cost. With Graebert's ARES CAD software you will enjoy a 3-in-1 license, including ARES Commander (for Windows, macOS and Linux computers) + ARES Kudo (Cloud) + ARES Touch (iOS + Android). These 3 products work in synergy to synchronize the work across users and devices. Create and modify DWG drawings locally, with files stored on your computer, or in sync with Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, Onshape, Trimble Connect. Alternatively, you can also store files in a private Cloud server (via WebDAV). Some our advanced CAD features include the support for Dynamic blocks, PDF to DWG conversion, Drawing comparison, IFC & Revit import, 3D solid modeling, satellite images and street maps.
    Starting Price: $350.00/year
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    akenza

    akenza

    Akenza AG

    Akenza is the IoT platform, allowing you to build smart solutions with value. It connects, controls, and manages IoT devices, all in one place. With simple and secure management of smart devices, connectivity, and data, the akenza IoT platform enables the rapid market introduction of innovative, digital technologies. Thanks to our self-service solution, you can start creating your IoT case right away, even without coding skills. We offer you the best connectivity and device management for low-power connectivity technologies (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE cat. M1).
    Starting Price: 0
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    AiHouse

    AiHouse

    AiHouse

    Discover the game-changing potential of our cloud-based, AI-infused 3D design software. From crafting 2D/3D floor plans to automating home furnishing, and effortlessly managing your entire project. You'll have access to a vast library of over 80 million 3D models and templates, along with a robust rendering engine. Elevate your presentations with breathtaking visuals, and simplify your workflow by generating CAD drawings, material lists and quotations in a single click.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Aerotrac

    Aerotrac

    Tracware Ltd.

    Aerotrac is the premier Aircraft Management & MRO software in the market. The software provides a comprehensive solution for any business operation and eliminates the need to have multiple programs. Aerotrac is designed around key principles of discipline, regimentation and control. The software helps to maximize business success by providing tools to control business processes, create efficiencies, and enhance the disciplines required to stay in compliance with regulating agencies.
    Starting Price: $25000.00/one-time
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    Canvas

    Canvas

    Occipital

    The new power tool for home improvement. Fast, easy, mobile 3D scanning for home service pros and DIY warriors. Powered by the world’s first mobile depth sensor, the Structure Sensor, Canvas makes capturing a 3D model of a room delightfully easy. Simply tap scan, walk around the room, and watch as a scale-accurate model is built in real-time, right on your iPad. No more busting out the measuring tape and converting scribbles into floor plans later – Canvas captures tens of thousands of measurements all at once, and then pieces it together into an interactive 3D model. Your 3D model is saved on your iPad, so you can go back and revisit any space, at any time. Whether you just need to refresh your memory of a given viewpoint or capture a forgotten measurement, you're never more than a few taps away. Save hours with professional-grade CAD output. With our Scan To CAD service, we’ll convert your scan into an editable, professional-grade, CAD file.
    Starting Price: $10
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    EasyEDA

    EasyEDA

    EasyEDA

    More than 1 million real-time updated components have been created, letting you focus on the design, and you can create or import your own common libraries. Benefit from China’s leading electronic components distributor - LCSC , EasyEDA supports direct links to more than 200,000 real-time, in-stock components at LCSC . Designers can refer to stocks, prices, and order at any time during design. It has the same features as the online version, and has more design areas, we have made a lot of improvements, recommended. Easy to use. If you have used other PCB tools then you can use it even more quickly. Light weight, less resource hungry, smoother experience, speed up your design. No activation, just register and login to use, no licensing required. Local backup automatically with document recovery at any time. Your files will also be saved on the cloud server, giving you double backup for you data security.
    Starting Price: $4.9 per month
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    Interactive SPares

    Interactive SPares

    Interactive SPares

    Interactive SPares offers you simpler and smarter ways to sell spare parts on the internet through the creation and publishing of interactive spare parts catalogs. One single application to do all you need, creating, administering and publishing spares catalogs on the web, analyzing sales statistics of the most sold parts, managing orders and stocks. We have totally rewritten our software keeping the user experience of purchasers and administrators in mind. Today you can also use the cloud-hosted version of Interactive Spares by avoiding the complexity of managing and configuring your IT infrastructure and, last but not least, all our cloud plans enable you to generate a limitless number of users and spare parts catalogs. Discover the simplicity of the new catalog creation environment. The new tree menu lets you move more quickly between the catalog levels, create new groups and automatically import drawings and itemized code lists.
    Starting Price: €99 per month
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    Kenesto

    Kenesto

    Kenesto Corporation

    Kenesto is a cloud-based storage solution for managing engineering, design, and construction documents. Kenesto is much less expensive than enterprise PDM solutions but provides automatic file locking, versioning, vaulting, 2D/3D viewing, and web-based design review tools not found in consumer-grade cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive. The solution behaves like a mounted disk in the customer's office but the with a single source of truth in the cloud. File locking prevents users from overwriting each other's data. All versions of all files are stored in perpetuity. Using the familiar user interface of Windows Explorer, files and folders are arranged in the same way as one would expect for a C Drive. Kenesto includes tasks and workflows. A plugin for SolidWorks is available for no charge. All file transfers from the user’s local computer to the cloud are encrypted. All files are stored in secure AWS S3 and are encrypted.
    Starting Price: $27/user/month (single user)
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    FEATool Multiphysics

    FEATool Multiphysics

    Precise Simulation

    FEATool Multiphysics - "Physics Simulation Made Easy" - a fully integrated physics, FEA, and CFD simulation toolbox. FEATool Multiphysics is a fully integrated simulation platform with a unified interface for several Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) multi-physics solvers, such as OpenFOAM, SU2 Code, and FEniCS. This uniquely allows for modeling coupled physics phenomena such as found in fluid flow, heat transfer, structural, electromagnetics, acoustics, and chemical engineering applications, within a single user-friendly interface. With these capabilities, FEATool Multiphysics has become trusted tool by engineers and researchers worldwide to accelerate innovation and quickly achieve results in the energy, automotive, semi-conductor, and process industries.
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    CalAmp

    CalAmp

    CalAmp

    From UX to platform to edge devices, we take care of everything, so you can keep things moving efficiently! The CalAmp Telematics Cloud is a dependable secure platform that is a solid foundation for your telematics needs. We provide telematics capabilities and best practices that adapt to your processes and integrate into your systems. Whether using one of our purpose-built applications or leveraging the underlying power of the CalAmp Telematics Platform, we provide flexibility to fit into your organization’s needs. From applications to platforms to edge devices, CalAmp’s solutions are built so you can trust them to always support your business. Fully redundant with built-in autoscaling capabilities you can ”dial-up” the level of availability that meets your business’ needs. Your telematics information is critical to your systems and how you do business. CalAmp’s enterprise-grade solutions are used worldwide and can scale to meet your needs, both today and tomorrow.
    Starting Price: N/A
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    OpsTrakker

    OpsTrakker

    Enhanced Information Solutions

    Kickstart your digital transformation with OpsTrakker. OpsTrakker replaces paper forms, use-logs, and spreadsheets with mobile apps to leverage real-time electronic data for improved manufacturing operations. Current digital solutions include equipment use logs (logbooks), forms, checklists, and equipment tracking tools for the biotech, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries. OpsTrakker bridges the the gap between full feature MES solutions and paper-based systems to eliminate all paper from your shop-floor. OpsTrakker's suite of mobile apps focus on specific use cases to provide high value manufacturing operations management functionality in a cost-effective manner. With OpsTrakker, you achieve the benefits of rapid deployment, on any device and any system. The user-friendly interface, paired with the ability to configure site specific features, create a seamless digital experience to meet your production needs.
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    TraceParts

    TraceParts

    TraceParts

    TraceParts is a leading 3D digital content provider for engineering, design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes & operations. TraceParts offers digital marketing services to help part vendors, 3D printing suppliers, software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads. Publish your products on the TraceParts CAD-content platform and the TraceParts Publishing Network, its affiliated network of partners’ sites and applications. Seamlessly integrate 3D content hosted and managed by TraceParts into your own website, using very rich and fully documented TraceParts API. Create your own user experience to browse, configure, view in 3D and download CAD models in 60+ different formats, using TraceParts Web Services. Create your custom mobile application for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones.
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    Masterplan ERP

    Masterplan ERP

    Masterplan ERP Inc.

    Masterplan helps you run efficiently by integrating every facet of your business. Dig deep into your data and find the secrets to your company’s successes and discover ways to drive growth.
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    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. It reads and writes to many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others, making it possible to seamlessly integrate it into your workflow. FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD.
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    Alibre Design
    Alibre Design is a 3D modeling, analysis, manufacturing documentation, rendering, and publishing platform. It is used in every industry to take products from idea to revision to production. It can help your business to design everything from consumer products to wind turbines. An efficient and customizable user interface that lets you work like you want with helpful hints. A fast and precise sketching environment that captures design intent and makes changes easy. Robust and fully parametric 3D modeling tools and easy workflows speed up part creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. A dedicated sheet metal environment with tools just for sheet good design and easy flat pattern creation. An automatically generated bill of materials that supports design data, physical properties, and dimensions.
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    Cimatron

    Cimatron

    Cimatron

    Cimatron develops and distributes CAD/CAM software for the manufacturing industry. Cimatron caters to all manufacturing sectors, offering specialized solutions for mold and die makers, as well as solutions for 2.5-5-Axis production milling and turning. Ranked among the top six CAD/CAM suppliers in every global region, Cimatron has subsidiaries in Asia, North America and Europe, and works with certified independent service providers in over 40 countries worldwide. Cimatron service providers offer responsive and effective sales and technical support, helping businesses use Cimatron software to maximize their potential. Cimatron's full solutions use the most advanced technology available to speed up productivity and shorten delivery times. Designed and developed by manufacturers and toolmakers with a wealth of experience on the shop floor, both of Cimatron's product lines are easy to learn and intuitive for the manufacturing professionals who use them.
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    JTS IntelliCAD

    JTS IntelliCAD

    JYTRA TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

    JTS IntelliCAD 11.1 is an economical 2D Drafting and 3D Wireframe Modeling CAD software meant for Engineers, Architects, and other technical consultants. JTS IntelliCAD 11.1 works in native DWG & DXF CAD software to create and edit drawings.TrueCAD works in native DWG & DXF CAD software to create and edit drawings. JTS IntelliCAD 11.1 uses IntelliCAD 11.1 Engine. If you need only the 32bit version you need to choose TrueCAD 2021 Premium. JTS IntelliCAD 11.1 offers all CAD features needed for Professional designers with native DWG & DXF support. Directly edit existing drawings. Suitable to create Professional drawings easily just like other expensive CAD software available in the market. No learning is needed for existing CAD users. Interface, commands, icons, and shortcuts are similar to other CAD. Complete help and user guide available.
    Starting Price: $149 per license
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    Drawboard Projects
    Collaborative design review software with all markups, live synced, tracked and coordinated. Your team's new live and intuitive workspace for drawing and document review. Drawboard Projects (formerly Bullclip) is the only collaborative workspace where you and your team can mark up, discuss and track changes across PDF drawings and documents. Refined by architects and engineers, made for any team. - In Drawboard Projects, all internal contributors and those with limited-access guests mark up the same drawings or documents. - Drawboard Projects instantly syncs all markups and communication on every revision, speeding up your process and giving you your coordination time back. - Pin issues to particular places on drawings and assign responsibility for closeout to team members. - Keep discussion right on the drawing so that anyone can see full context of decisions that were made. -Organization management with an easy-to-use Admin Portal for better governance.
    Starting Price: $19 per user per month
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    Simul8

    Simul8

    Simul8 Corporation

    Decision making happens every day, at every level, in every business. Make your best decisions, every time - and deliver serious impact fast - with Simul8. Simulation software so intuitive, fast and effective youll use it every day. Base decisions on truth, not hunches. Understand and maximize flow. Reveal and inspire new ways to operate. Forecast and plan with confidence. Challenge the status quo. It's all possible with Simul8. Whatever your priorities and ambitions, Simul8 is designed to rapidly unlock significant value and drive a serious, positive impact across your organization from day one. From decisions that save millions, to saving lives, organizations in every industry are driving transformative changes with Simul8. We’re proud to support and celebrate world-changers — people and organizations who are using simulation to make a real impact on social, health and environmental issues.
    Starting Price: $250 per user per month
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    Archicad

    Archicad

    Graphisoft

    Graphisoft Archicad - Design and deliver great buildings. Design: Unleash your creativity with the leading BIM software developed by architects like you. Focus on what you do best — designing great architecture — thanks to powerful algorithmic design tools and large model support. Visualize: Archicad’s professional architectural visualization tools translate your conceptual designs into compelling imagery of future buildings. Bring your models to life, inspire the audience, and invite stakeholders to engage with your designs. Collaborate: Work with your team and other disciplines around the corner or around the world on projects of any size and complexity. Open standards and workflows mean collaboration is guaranteed — regardless of what software other team members are using. Document: Complete, out-of-the-box documentation tools combined with a powerful publishing workflow that complies with local BIM requirements means you can focus on your designs, not the paperwork.
    Starting Price: $225/month
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    Merlin Project

    Merlin Project

    ProjectWizards GmbH

    Merlin Project is the standard for project management in industries such as Architecture & Construction, Media & Agencies, Research & Development, Education and others. For more than 18 years customers in over 160 countries have been using our flexible app to plan, manage & control their small and large projects – no matter whether you're on a Mac or an iPad! Merlin Project is project management with a bit of magic!
    Starting Price: $19.99
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    PDF Conversion SDK

    PDF Conversion SDK

    Visual Integrity Technologies

    Add PDF Features with 2 API Calls Open, Edit, and View PDF. All that's needed is two API calls and a configuration file. Within a day, you can add, open, import, edit and view PDF features in your app. When formats don't match one-to-one, the SDK neutralizes the differences. This includes adding cropping, fills, color management and fonts. The PDF Conversion SDK processes all PDF versions including ISO Standard PDF 2.0. Any PDF from file or print-ready memory is valid input. Conversions flow straight through without intermediate steps or compromised quality. No printer driver. The PDF Conversion SDK runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It supports .NET. Example code included. Removes redundant information & compresses data. This ensures great performance for fast web and application viewing. Search for objects and text strings. Convert PDF to your native file format. Change the contents of a PDF page. Extract images from PDF. Retrieve metadata from PDF (layers, geospecification, etc).
    Starting Price: $199 per year
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    Litmus Edge
    A hardware agnostic, Industrial Data Platform that allows manufacturing companies to do more with their data. Industrial data infrastructure can be complex – and legacy systems and daisy-chained solutions don’t make it any easier. Putting data to work at scale is an added challenge. Doing it securely is even harder. So, here's a full-stack platform to solve industrial connectivity, data collection and processing, edge analytics, application marketplace, data integration, and beyond. Now try our product for free. 15 days of free trial to check all the features, free access to our documentation, how to guides, along with access to our experts. Wanted a fully loaded hosted instance for a starter node? Just let us know.
    Starting Price: 15000/5k data points/site
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    VisualARQ
    VisualARQ is a Flexible BIM solution powered by McNeel’s Rhinoceros 3D. VisualARQ enhances Rhino by adding powerful associative object styling and dynamic documentation tools which adapt to fit the professional’s workflow. VisualARQ allows you to with parametric architectural objects, produce 2D drawings from the 3D model, generate dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper, automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper, add custom data to geometry and list in schedules and finally deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities.
    Starting Price: $95-795 one-time payment
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    FlytBase

    FlytBase

    FlytBase

    FlytBase is an enterprise-grade drone autonomy platform to fully automate aerial data collection workflows. With little to no human intervention, users can conduct scheduled and repeatable BVLOS drone flights using docking stations, all controlled from their remote command centers. By enabling apps and integrations and ensuring the highest data security standards, reliability, and scalability, the FlytBase platform lets users seamlessly integrate autonomous drones into enterprise workflows.
    Starting Price: $0/user
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    RFEM

    RFEM

    Dlubal Software

    The FEA program RFEM allows for quick and easy modeling, structural and dynamic calculation, as well as the design of models with member, plate, wall, folded plate, shell, and solid elements. Due to the modular software concept, you can connect the main program RFEM with the corresponding add‑ons in order to meet your individual requirements. The structural analysis program RFEM provides structural engineers with a 3D FEA program that meets all requirements in modern civil engineering. Efficient data input and intuitive handling facilitate the modeling of simple and complex structures. The structural analysis program RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. The basic program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.
    Starting Price: €697.50 rent 1 month
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    Mapware

    Mapware

    Mapware

    Mapware is the future of drone mapping software. Generate bigger, better 3D maps in the cloud. With Mapware’s easy-to-use interface, anyone can turn 2D drone photos into photorealistic 3D environments using a process called photogrammetry. Powerful enough for the biggest challenges. Simple enough for any project. Whether you want to map one building, a dozen cell towers, a whole oil field, or even an entire city, Mapware is the best tool for the job. Our browser-based software is easy to access from any device.
    Starting Price: $99
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    Virto.CAD

    Virto.CAD

    Virto Solar

    Virto.CAD is a powerful PV design plugin for AutoCAD and BricsCAD. It allows EPC, engineering firms and developers in the solar industry to crate detailed drawings and calculations for commercial rooftop and ground mounted projects. Virto.CAD is an all-in-one platform that optimizes your workflow and productivity. Using our software will save you more than 85% on engineering time and costs by automating module layouts, ballast calculations, bill of materials, irradiations simulations, yield simulations, string mapping, cable trays, trenches and routing management...
    Starting Price: 3.000$ - 4.500$
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    ReluxDesktop

    ReluxDesktop

    RELUX Informatik AG

    ReluxDesktop is a high-performance, intuitively-operated application for simulating artificial light and daylight. It provides you with rapid and efficient support on all the different aspects of big and small projects, without taking any unnecessary roundabout routes. Simulation of lighting and sensors in real-time! Calculation of absolute values, national and international standards, compatible with CAD and BIM systems, plus a great deal more. The application is available to you free of charge thanks to the support of our partners in the industry. Make ReluxDesktop your day-to-day tool, you'll be surprised how much time you save with it! Add-on for other programs. Useful functions for Autodesk Revit. Add-on for ReluxDesktop. Real tunnel calculation based on the current standards.
    Starting Price: free of charge
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    RWIND

    RWIND

    Dlubal Software

    The wind simulation program RWIND, like the other Dlubal Software programs, is easy to use and reliably provides the required result. If using RWIND, the wind will certainly not be taken out of the sails of your project. RWIND allows you to analyze wind flows (digital wind tunnel) around buildings or any other objects. For this, RWIND uses a CFD simulation (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and shows you how the wind flows affect the generated structures. Run a wind simulation for simple or complex structures – the result will always speak for itself. You can then simply import the wind loads calculated with RWIND into RFEM or RSTAB.
    Starting Price: €2,950 one-time payment