Best Engineering Software with a Free Trial

Interfacing Enterprise Process Center (EPC)

Interfacing Technologies

Interfacing’s Digital Twin Organization software provides transparency and Governance to improve Quality, Efficiency, and ensure Regulatory Compliance. Map, analyze, and automate processes, manage regulatory compliance, assess risks within a single platform! Interfacing’s digital twin solution (Enterprise Process Center - EPC) is an enterprise management system that helps companies digitalize processes to streamline operations, increase productivity, and continuously improve. Interfacing’s digital business platform – Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools, with its Low-Code Development methodology will optimize usage of your technical resources and maximize transparency for ongoing improvement. Discover how our Low-Code Rapid Application Development module provides all the tools to create and deploy Custom, Scalable, Secure, and Mobile ready Applications in Days vs. Months!

55 Ratings

Starting Price: $10/month/user

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FactoryTalk Optix

Rockwell Automation

FactoryTalk® Optix™ is a new visualization platform that accelerates value delivery with modern technologies, innovative designs and scalable deployment options. FactoryTalk Optix can help improve your process, efficiency and deliverables – in one easy to access tool. Take advantage of new levels of collaboration, scalability and interoperability to achieve your HMI vision. New SaaS-enabled workflows will enable your team to collaborate any time, from anywhere, thanks to built-in change tracking and versioning that automatically keeps track of who did what and when. Harness the cloud and become more agile by deploying quickly and scaling based on demand. Use the increased efficiency to beat competitors to market, get to profit faster and improve return on investment. Transform the way you collaborate! The cloud makes it easier for suppliers, employees and customers to collaborate from anywhere in the world.

Starting Price: $650

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3SL Cradle

3SL

Manage needs, epics, user stories, features and the product backlog through a series of sprints, each using your choice of requirements management, model based systems engineering (MBSE) and test management with your preferred level of change tracking, configuration management and formal change control. Cradle® is our requirements management and systems engineering software tool that integrates your entire project lifecycle in one, massively scalable, integrated, multi-user product. Whether your projects are small and local, large and distributed, or anywhere in between, Cradle can solve all your agile, requirements management, model driven development, defect tracking and test management needs in one place. With its unrivaled feature set, incredible flexibility, simple configuration and low cost, Cradle is the ideal choice if you are new to agile methods, requirements management or systems engineering.

Starting Price: $449.00/one-time/user

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Rayven

Rayven is an easy-to-use SaaS platform for solving business' interoperability, real-time data + app development challenges without replacing legacy technologies, adding risk, or long development cycles. iPaaS, Data, IoT, Workflow Automation, Analytics, BI, AI, App Development + PaaS all rolled into one; Rayven simplifies the complexity of system integration, real-time data analysis + custom app development - empowering you to tackle any real-world business challenge and solve it, simply. Rayven enables you to: - Integrate Anything-to-Everything - Build Workflows + Applications, Fast - Add custom AI + Automation Anywhere Easy-to-use, universally compatible + infinitely scalable; Rayven streamlines your technology stack, is affordable for every business, and turbocharges your existing technologies to deliver on the full potential of real-time decision-making (via human or AI).

Starting Price: $0

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EMQX

EMQ Technologies

EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.

59 Ratings

Starting Price: $0.18 per hour

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Momentum IoT

Momentum makes service businesses more profitable. Our cloud-based software platform, powered by a connected network of GPS hardware devices, gives you complete financial control and deep operational insight into your business. With Momentum, you never worry about time-consuming data entry or human error. Data collection is always accurate and automatic. That's why Momentum excels where other software fails. Drive more revenue and profit. All you have to do is get connected, Momentum will do the rest. The Connected Network of Momentum Devices: Vehicles, Equipment & Crews - The Eagle One: One GPS device for vehicles, trailers and heavy equipment. It's available with an OBD-II harness or 12V battery harness. - The Momentum Toolie: Bluetooth enabled location and activity tracker for light equipment and tools. - The CrewID: Privacy-first labor cost tracker that automatically captures and calculates all labor costs from the field without data entry.

57 Ratings

Starting Price: $20 per device per month,

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ARES Commander

Graebert

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.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $350.00/year

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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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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

Litmus

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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Tulip

Tulip's flexible, no-code frontline operations platform helps manufacturers create front-end applications that guide operators, collect data from workers, machines, and devices, and track metrics against your KPIs. With Tulip, companies can digitally transform their operations in days, gaining real-time visibility of their operations to increase productivity, reduce errors, and drive continuous improvement.

Starting Price: $1,200 per year

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Beamo

3i Inc.

Beamo is an enterprise-grade digital twin solution for your mission-critical facilities and remote sites. It costs a lot to move experts around today. But, when it comes to visiting physical spaces, there is no effective alternative - you either go there or not. We make it natural for you to capture your most critical assets, augment them with tribal knowledge and collaborate from anywhere. Beamo’s state-of-the-art hardware and software platform simplifies and accelerates this for facility management and construction projects. Beamo App lets you capture any space in 360° and create digital twins in a few minutes, no expertise required. Beamo automates most of the capturing process so that you can focus on the things that matter. Beamo Portal lets you visit the places you cannot go to and collaborate with others, remotely. Beamo provides an immersive, collaborative experience for all your teams, clients, and contractors.

Starting Price: $890 per month

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3DCoat

3DCoat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model. Today 3DCoat is available to learn at 300+ Universities, colleges and schools worldwide. 3DCoat is one of the most advanced software applications for creating detailed 3D models. Where other applications in this market segment tend to specialize in one specific task, such as Digital Sculpting or Texture Painting, 3DCoat provides High-End capability across multiple tasks in an asset creation pipeline. These include Sculpting, Retopology, UV Editing , PBR Texture Painting and Rendering. So it can be called a 3D texturing software and 3D texture painting software and 3D sculpting program and Retopology software and UV mapping software and 3D rendering software all combined. In short, 3DCoat removes the need to purchase (and learn) multiple specialty software titles.

Starting Price: $49 one-time payment

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RenderMan

Pixar

Advanced technology from Pixar Animation Studios for rendering VFX and animation. With a new state-of-the-art framework optimized for physically-based rendering, RenderMan can deliver unmatched flexibility for any production pipeline. Not only is RenderMan used for our own feature films at Pixar, it is also used throughout the industry for rendering Visual Effects and animation, making scalability and versatility one of its core strengths. Now you can get out-of-box production tools straight from Pixar Animation Studios, including materials and light transport, no development required. Physically based shading allows RenderMan to deliver highly realistic lighting with minimal setup, including full support for multi-bounce ray traced global illumination and ray traced subsurface scattering. Much research and development has gone into making these traditionally expensive effects a production reality. Materials come fully loaded with all of the creative options.

Starting Price: $5 per lincense

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ABViewer

CADSoftTools

ABViewer is universal software for PC for working with drawings. It enables you to view, edit, convert, measure and print DWG and other CAD files, as well as 3D models and raster images. You can work with a separate fragment of a drawing or, on the contrary, with a group of files. All this at an attractive price! ABViewer allows converting single files or a group of files. Batch conversion provides a wide range of export settings, for example, black-and-white mode, specifying the output file size, etc. The 3D section panel has controls for setting up visual display of 3D models and section planes. The panel is available in the 3D Viewer mode. The commands and options of the 3D Section panel enable to customize 3D model viewing. To display parts of a model, section and gizmo use the settings located at the top of the form. It is possible to create several planes at the same time.

Starting Price: $48

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XMReality

No matter what industry your company is in - XMReality helps you turn physical visits into virtual interactions. Connect remotely, see what the other person sees, and collaborate using powerful in-call tools. XMReality includes a depth of features that provides your onsite workforce access to a remote expert to collaborate and get help and training. Switch between live video paused image or shared pictures and documents to support joint collaboration. Use the guide tools to highlight information and bridge language barriers. You can also access pre-defined, custom-made step-by-step procedures that guide you through a process and point out what needs to be done and documented. Get an automated PDF report at the end of each call - the perfect way to ensure compliant documentation. You can also record the call, take screenshots and add notes.

Starting Price: $50 per user per month

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Geneious

Geneious Prime makes bioinformatics accessible by transforming raw data into visualizations that make sequence analysis intuitive and user-friendly. Simple sequence assembly and easy editing of contigs. Automatic annotation for gene prediction, motifs, translation, and variant calling. Genotype microsatellite traces with automated ladder fitting and peak calling and generates tables of alleles. Beautiful visualizations of annotated genomes and assemblies are displayed in a highly customizable sequence view. Powerful SNP variants analysis, simple RNA-Seq expression analysis, and amplicon metagenomics. Design and test PCR and sequencing primers and create your own searchable primer database. Geneious Biologics is a flexible, scalable, and secure way to streamline your antibody analysis workflows, create high-quality libraries and select the optimal therapeutic candidates.

Starting Price: $1,280 per year

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IoTFlows

SenseAi uses artificial intelligence to monitor and analyze the performance of a machine based on its vibration and acoustics data. This allows manufacturers to identify issues or inefficiencies in the production process and make data-driven decisions to improve performance. Unlock the full potential of your manufacturing operations with SenseAi's plug-and-play, AI-powered monitoring solution. SenseAi is designed to easily stick to your machines with its magnetic design, allowing you to monitor and analyze their performance with minimal disruption to your operations. Vibration, acoustics, and LIDAR sensors provide comprehensive machine performance analysis. Real-time monitoring and data analysis with 4G cellular connectivity. Real-time notifications of machine downtime. Monitor multiple facilities or production lines. Improve your manufacturing operations with real-time machine utilization monitoring.

Starting Price: $4,812 per year

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Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field.

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Autodesk Flame

Autodesk

3D visual effects (VFX), finishing, and color grading software. Flame® 3D VFX and finishing software provides powerful tools for 3D compositing, visual effects, and editorial finishing. An integrated, creative environment means faster compositing, advanced graphics, color correction, and more. Extract mattes of the human body, head, and face with AI-powered tools for color adjustment, relighting, and digital cosmetic and beauty work. Isolate skies and salient objects quickly for grading and VFX jobs. Edit, composite, and color correct in one environment, without toggling between software. Create and iterate quickly for more productive client sessions. Tools for fast and interactive visual effects finishing and 3D compositing. A timeline-centric, fully compatible assistant station for Flame. A fully compatible creative assistant station for Flame in collaborative VFX workflows. Real-time color grading software for creative look development.

Starting Price: $331.11 per month

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Glartek

Glartek is an Augmented & Connected Worker platform. Combines a customizable, no-code Connected Worker digital platform with Augmented Reality functionalities, helping improve safety and efficiency in the industry. Through digitized processes, digital work instructions, organized workflows, and 2D/AR guidance, frontline workers will be able to better perform their operations, increasing their skills, safety, and productivity. Enhance Team and Task Management, Monitoring, Analytics, Training & Skills Management, and more. Glartek focuses on continuous innovation, offering valuable add-ons to enhance your capabilities and efficiency. Virtual Remote Assistance for real-time collaboration, AI and Machine learning for data-driven insights, IoT support for seamless connectivity, 3D models for immersive visualisation, Connected Glasses to enable wearable technology integration for a hands-free experience, and enterprise features tailored to your specific needs.

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ADOIT

BOC Group

ADOIT Enterprise Architecture suite is users' best-rated tool for deriving data-driven insights and architecture analysis, trusted by SMEs and large corporations worldwide. ADOIT helps you to make smart and fast decisions, manage digital portfolios, discover cross-functional dependencies and drive growth. ADOIT is intuitive, powerful, and flexible. It is the ultimate way to do EA. You can start building your digital twin already today, as the cloud-based ADOIT:Community Edition is available for free.

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Moldex3D

Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastic injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you carry out in-depth simulations of the widest range of injection molding processes and to optimize product designs and manufacturability. In addition, its high compatibility and adaptability have provided users with an instant connection to mainstream CAD systems, generating a flexible simulation-driven design platform. Moldex3D is designed for auto manufacturers and design engineers to simulate and verify complex auto parts/molds based on true 3D technology. With Moldex3D, auto designers or makers are able to manage the life cycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacturing. This also helps component designers or suppliers to get rid of most potential problems in the early stage. Also, visualization of the entire injection molding processes of auto parts allows users to obtain solutions more efficiently.

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HOOPS Exchange

Tech Soft 3D

Import over 30 CAD file formats into your application with the HOOPS Exchange SDK for CAD data translation, featuring fast and accurate read and write support for 2D and 3D CAD file formats including CATIA®, SOLIDWORKS®, Inventor™, Revit™, Creo®, NX™, Solid Edge® and many more, all through a single API. The HOOPS Exchange SDK is a set of C++ software libraries that enables development teams to quickly add reliable 2D and 3D CAD import and export to their applications, accessing a broad range of data including boundary representation (BREP), product manufacturing information (PMI), model tree, views, persistent IDs, styles, construction geometry, visualization and more without depending on any CAD system. Simplify CAD data import into your application and increase your 3D interoperability with fast and accurate access to over 30 CAD formats. The HOOPS Exchange API reads CAD data from popular 2D and 3D file formats and converts that data into the highly compressible file format PRC.

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