Best Free Engineering Software

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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WEBICC

AEG COMMISSIONING

Discover the WEBICC SCADA solution for the management and automation of industrial processes, perfectly adapted for the digital age. With a 100% web and multi-platform interface, WEBICC SCADA fits the needs of projects of any size, from the most compact to the most ambitious. Create complex and customized visualizations easily using SVG graphical symbol screens, data logs, alarms, maintenance notifications, emails, real-time and historical graphs, plus detailed reports. Our applications run smoothly in any modern HTML5 compatible browser, be it a touch panel PC, computer, tablet or smartphone. Our server runs on Windows, Linux operating systems and ARM architectures such as Raspberry Pi. The client application requires no installation, requiring only a free web browser. Transform the way you interact with industrial systems with WEBICC SCADA – superlative efficiency, flexibility and control.

Starting Price: Euro 403,9

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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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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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Blender

Blender Foundation

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. Cycles is Blender’s built-in powerful unbiased path-tracer engine that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze. VFX professionals say: “Probably the best tracker in the market”. Blender includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3D scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs. Thanks to the high quality rigging and animation tools, Blender is being used for numerous short films, advertisements, TV series and feature films now.

8 Ratings

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AstroPrint

Keep your 3D models stored neatly in the cloud so you can access them anywhere. Simply upload your own .stl files for cloud based slicing or upload pre-sliced .gcode files. Add and edit your designs with our online STL viewer and print wirelessly through a beautifully simple, intuitive interface. Slice with confidence with manufacturer suggested settings. Everything is accessible from your browser so there is no software to install or keep up to date. Using the AstroPrint mobile app, you can print by enabling WIFI 3D Printer so you can print from any device, remotely controling your 3D printer, and even get push notifications when your prints are finished. Neat! View real-time progress of your prints. Add a camera to stream live video, take snapshots, and timelapses. Whether you are with a 3D Print Farm Business, a major University with 100+ printers, or an Enterprise like Stanley Black and Decker, we have you covered.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $9.90 per month

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g-Viewer

Geomage

Geomage g-Viewer allows visualization and QC of different geophysical and seismic data. g-Viewer allows: - Load and QC Seg-Y files of any size - Load multiple Seg-Y files – 2D and 3D - Selection of active dataset from location map - Graphical representation of trace header(s) above seismogram view - Cross-plot any 3 trace headers (horizontal-vertical-color ) - Load of geometry from trace headers - Editing trace header scheme per each dataset - Selection and representation of CS/CR/CMP gathers picked from location map - Selection and representation of active trace from seismogram/location map - Editing text and bin headers - Auto-update feature allows to get new version whenever its available.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $300/year/user

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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.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $4.9 per month

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OpenPLC Editor

OpenPLC

The OpenPLC Editor is an IEC 61131-3 compliant PLC editor totally free and open source. You can use it to upload PLC code directly to any board or system running OpenPLC Runtime. OpenPLC is an open-source programmable logic controller that is based on easy-to-use software. It is the first fully functional standardized open-source PLC, both in software and hardware. The OpenPLC project was created in accordance with the IEC 61131-3 standard, which defines the basic software architecture and programming languages for PLCs. OpenPLC is mainly used in industrial and home automation, the internet of things, and SCADA research. The Runtime is a portable software designed to run from the smallest of all microcontrollers (Arduino-compatible) to powerful servers in the cloud. It is responsible for executing the PLC programs you create using the Editor. The OpenPLC Editor is the software that runs on your computer and, as mentioned, is used to create your PLC programs.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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Plasticity

With a workflow optimized for creativity, unparalleled fillets, sophisticated surface modeling, and the most advanced direct editing tools, Plasticity is the perfect choice for those who demand the best. Plus, with no subscriptions, you own your software. Try it free for 30 days and see the difference for yourself. Plasticity is the ultimate tool for creative professionals in the video game industry, product design, vehicle design, and beyond. Say goodbye to clunky CAD workflows designed for manufacturability. Plasticity offers all the power of NURBS modeling combined with the best workflow innovations from modern polygonal modeling software. This unique combination gives you the flexibility and creativity you need to bring your ideas to life. Plasticity's advanced geometry and fillet engine are second to none, thanks to Parasolid's best-in-class algorithms. With Plasticity, you can create the absolute best fillets, booleans, and offsets, and change them whenever you want.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $149 per month

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CloudCompare

CloudCompare is an open source 3D point cloud and triangular mesh processing software. Originally developed for comparing dense 3D point clouds, it has evolved into a comprehensive tool for various 3D data processing tasks. The software offers functionalities such as projections, registration (e.g., ICP), distance computation between clouds or meshes, statistical analysis, segmentation, and geometric feature estimation. Users can handle multiple scalar fields per point cloud, apply algorithms like smoothing and gradient evaluation, and visualize data through dynamic color rendering. Interactive tools enable segmentation, rotation, translation, and measurement of 3D entities. CloudCompare supports numerous input/output formats and it is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. The software also features a plugin mechanism for extending its capabilities.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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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.

1 Rating

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Ultimaker Cura

Ultimaker

Trusted by millions of users, Ultimaker Cura is the world’s most popular 3D printing software. Prepare prints with a few clicks, integrate with CAD software for an easier workflow, or dive into custom settings for in-depth control. At the heart of Ultimaker Cura is its powerful, open-source slicing engine, built through years of expert in-house development and user contributions. Intent profiles print specific applications at the click of a button. Recommended profiles tested for thousands of hours ensure reliable results. ‘Custom mode’ gives over 400 settings for granular control. Regular updates constantly improve features and printing experience. If you own a 3D printer, software matters. Get the most from your printer with software designed to suit your workflow. Manufacturing doesn’t need to be complicated. We design our software so anyone can use it – both experienced or rookie 3D printer users.

1 Rating

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Slic3r

The Slic3r project has been under active and massive development. Make sure you get 1.3.0 now or try the development builds! Slic3r is free software, developed by Alessandro Ranellucci with the help of several contributors and a wonderful community. Turn your 3D models into G-code. Visual preview of toolpaths. Advanced configuration management. Custom G-code with conditional logic. Print spool queue (print on multiple machines simultaneously) or send to OctoPrint. FDM/FFF and SLA/DLP. Modifiers (distinct settings on custom regions). Most features are exposed from command line, thus providing a handy tool for batch operations and custom integrations. A C++ library for building custom applications on top of the Slic3r internal algorithms. Handle 3D models (open, repair, transform, convert). Generate G-code in many flavors. Generate infill patterns. Send G-code over serial port. Estimate G-code printing time.

1 Rating

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Coreflux

Coreflux: A next-gen IoT platform emphasizing seamless integration, scalability, and security. At its core: MQTT Broker: The platform's backbone, facilitating real-time data management and communication between diverse devices, irrespective of protocols or manufacturers. Flux DSL: A proprietary domain-specific language enabling users to craft event-driven workflows, orchestrating sophisticated IoT scenarios. Asset Management (Flux Assets): Manages a wide array of IoT assets, from sensors to databases, ensuring optimal configuration and performance. Orchestration: Coreflux's built-in tools ensure precise orchestration of devices and workflows, optimizing operations and automations. Designed for IoT enthusiasts, developers, and enterprises, Coreflux adapts to varied needs, from managing a few devices to networks in the thousands.

1 Rating

Starting Price: €0

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SelfCAD

SelfCAD is a 3D modeling for users of all levels. There is an online as well as downloadable versions for Windows and Mac. Most of the CAD programs available are either expensive or don’t generally provide all the necessary 3D modeling and printing tools. Some take months or years to learn and are meant for specific industries. SelfCAD has bridged this gap as it’s affordable, easy to learn and it targets all the industries. It has a simplified user interface too making it a perfect tool for novice users. SelfCAD is fully-featured including modeling, Sculpting, rendering, simple animations, and 3d print slicer, but the aggregate amount of tools is much less than any compatible software package because of its brilliant UX. The in-built slicer of SelfCAD is handy as it helps prepare the designs for printing without having to switch to another program. SelfCAD is very affordable. There are interactive tutorials available that helps one learn 3D modeling with much ease.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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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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ruffus

Ruffus is a computation pipeline library for python. It is open-sourced, powerful and user-friendly, and widely used in science and bioinformatics. Ruffus is designed to allow scientific and other analyses to be automated with the minimum of fuss and the least effort. Suitable for the simplest of tasks. Handles even fiendishly complicated pipelines which would cause make or scons to go cross-eyed and recursive. No "clever magic", no pre-processing. Unambitious, the lightweight syntax which tries to do this one small thing well. Ruffus is available under the permissive MIT free software license. This permits free use and inclusion even within proprietary software. It is good practice to run your pipeline in a temporary, “working” directory away from your original data. Ruffus is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines. Ruffus requires Python 2.6 or higher or Python 3.0 or higher.

Starting Price: Free

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Wings 3D

Wings 3D is an advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use. Originally inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware, Wings 3D has been developed since 2001, when Björn Gustavsson (bjorng) and Dan Gudmundsson (dgud) first started the project. Richard Jones (optigon) maintained Wings and coded many new features between 2006 and 2012. Wings 3D is currently maintained by Dan with the help of the great community. Wings 3D offers a wide range of modeling tools, a customizable interface, support for lights and materials, and a built-in AutoUV mapping facility. Wings 3D is written in Erlang, an open-source, functional programming language distributed by Ericsson. Wings 3D gets its name from the Winged Edge Data Structure (WEDS). This is the data structure used to store the adjacency relationships between edges, faces, and vertices in a Wings 3D model. Wings 3D is open source and completely free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

Starting Price: Free

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MPCPy

MPCPy is a Python package that facilitates the testing and implementation of occupant-integrated model predictive control (MPC) for building systems. The package focuses on the use of data-driven, simplified physical or statistical models to predict building performance and optimize control. Four main modules contain object classes to import data, interact with real or emulated systems, estimate and validate data-driven models, and optimize control input. While MPCPy provides an integration platform, it relies on free, open-source, third-party software packages for model implementation, simulators, parameter estimation algorithms, and optimization solvers. This includes Python packages for scripting and data manipulation as well as other more comprehensive software packages for specific purposes. In particular, modeling and optimization for physical systems currently rely on the Modelica language specification.

Starting Price: Free

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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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Energy2D

The Concord Consortium

Based on computational physics, Energy2D is an interactive multiphysics simulation program that models all three modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection, and radiation, and their coupling with particle dynamics. Energy2D runs quickly on most computers and eliminates the switches among preprocessors, solvers, and postprocessors typically needed to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations. It allows you to design "computational experiments" to test a scientific hypothesis or solve an engineering problem without resorting to complex mathematics. Work is also underway to incorporate other types of energy transformations and support multiple types of fluids. The conduction part of Energy2D is highly accurate, but the convection and radiation parts are not 100% accurate. Hence, in cases that involve convection and radiation, Energy2D results should be considered qualitative. More than 40 scientific papers have used Energy2D as a research tool.

Starting Price: Free

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NL5 Circuit Simulator

Sidelinesoft

There are plenty of circuit simulators available on the market. Just read their ads: high performance, extremely fast, industry-standard (i.e. SPICE), easy to use, highly intuitive. If you want to see if a tool is worth using, try it yourself. That's what many NL5 users already did. I hope they will share their encouraging stories soon. A few words about what should you expect from NL5. It is not one more SPICE (and not even close), nor is it a SPICE replacement. For some tasks NL5 is far superior, for others simply good, and some tasks are not for NL5 at all.

Starting Price: $500 one-time payment

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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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SuperSplat

PlayCanvas

SuperSplat is the ultimate tool for editing and optimizing 3D Gaussian splats. Clean up your splats with powerful selection tools wrapped up in an easy-to-use interface. SuperSplat is built on the powerful PlayCanvas engine runtime and the PCUI front-end framework. SuperSplat provides a powerful and lightweight visual editing environment that runs in the browser. There is nothing to download and install. SuperSplat operates on the industry standard PLY file format. Use it with any engine you like. Powered by the PlayCanvas engine, SuperSplat can handle even the heaviest 3D Gaussian Splat scenes with ease. Easily select specific splats for deletion. Translate and rotate your scene. Save to PLY, compressed PLY, or SPLAT formats. 3D Gaussian splatting is an exciting new technique to create photorealistic 3D scenes from photogrammetry. However, a captured 3D Gaussian splat may sometimes require some editing.

Starting Price: $15 per month

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Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK)

Broad Institute

Developed in the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute, the toolkit offers a wide variety of tools with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping. Its powerful processing engine and high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size. The GATK is the industry standard for identifying SNPs and indels in germline DNA and RNAseq data. Its scope is now expanding to include somatic short variant calling and to tackle copy number (CNV) and structural variation (SV). In addition to the variant callers themselves, the GATK also includes many utilities to perform related tasks such as processing and quality control of high-throughput sequencing data and bundles the popular Picard toolkit. These tools were primarily designed to process exomes and whole genomes generated with Illumina sequencing technology, but they can be adapted to handle a variety of other technologies and experimental designs.

Starting Price: Free

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BioTuring Browser

Explore hundreds of curated single-cell transcriptome datasets, along with your own data, through interactive visualizations and analytics. The software also supports multimodal omics, CITE-seq, TCR-seq, and spatial transcriptomic. Interactively explore the world's largest single-cell expression database. Access and query insights from a single-cell database of millions of cells, fully annotated with cell type labels and experimental metadata. Not just creating a gateway to published works, BioTuring Browser is an end-to-end solution for your own single-cell data. Import your fastq files, count matrices, Seurat, or Scanpy objects, and reveal the biological stories inside them. Get a rich package of visualizations and analyses in an intuitive interface, making insight mining from any curated or in-house single-cell dataset become such a breeze. Import single-cell CRISPR screening or Perturb-seq data, and query guide RNA sequences.

Starting Price: Free

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GenomeBrowse

Golden Helix

This free tool delivers stunning visualizations of your genomic data that give you the power to see what is occurring at each base pair in your samples. GenomeBrowse runs as a native desktop application on your computer. No longer do you have to sacrifice speed and interface quality to obtain a consistent cross-platform experience. It was developed with performance in mind to deliver a faster and more fluid browsing experience than any other genome browser available. GenomeBrowse is also integrated into the powerful Golden Helix VarSeq variant annotation and interpretation platform. If you love the visualization experience of GenomeBrowse, check out VarSeq for filtering, annotating, and analyzing your data before utilizing the same visualization interface. GB can display all your alignment data. Looking at all your samples in one view can help you spot contextually relevant findings.

Starting Price: Free

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MEGA

MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) is a powerful and user-friendly software suite designed for analyzing DNA and protein sequence data from species and populations. It facilitates both automatic and manual sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree inference, and evolutionary hypothesis testing. MEGA supports a variety of statistical methods including maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, and ordinary least squares, making it an essential tool for comparative sequence analysis and understanding molecular evolution. MEGA offers advanced features such as real-time caption generation to help explain the results and methods used in analysis and the maximum composite likelihood method for estimating evolutionary distances. The software is equipped with robust visual tools like the alignment/trace editor and tree explorer and supports multi-threading for efficient processing. MEGA can be run on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Starting Price: Free

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