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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Innoslate

SPEC Innovations

SPEC Innovations’ flagship model-based systems engineering solution can help your team reduce time-to-market, cost, and risk on even some of the most complex systems. This cloud or on-premise application uses a modern web browser, with an intuitive graphical user interface. Innoslate’s full lifecycle capabilities include: • Requirements Management • Documents Management • Modeling • Discrete Event Simulator • Monte Carlo Simulator • DoDAF Models and Views • Database Management • Test Management with full reports, status updates, results, and more. • Real Time Collaboration

73 Ratings

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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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The Asset Guardian EAM (TAG)

Verosoft Design Inc

Meet The Asset Guardian (TAG) Mobi – Tackle Downtime Now TAG Mobi is the solution for preventive maintenance and asset management (EAM) within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It helps manufacturing teams reduce risk and minimize downtime by offering dependable, integrated asset management tools. • Asset Lifecycle Management: Maximize asset performance and extend operational life • Preventive & Predictive Maintenance: Prevent costly failures and reduce unplanned downtime • Work Order Management: Easily dispatch, track, and complete maintenance tasks • Advanced Analytics & Reporting: Monitor KPIs with intuitive dashboards and real-time data • IoT & Real-Time Monitoring: Get proactive insights and alerts before issues impact operations With AI-driven features and user-friendly dashboards, TAG Mobi boosts asset performance, prevents unexpected breakdowns, and speeds up both onboarding and training.

21 Ratings

Starting Price: Free (2 power users)

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AvPro Software

Decision Software Systems

AvPro Software is comprehensive and easy-to-use. It's perfect for Aircraft MRO, Certified Repair Station (CRS), Aircraft Operators, and parts brokers. You can track Aircraft Parts I(nventory, Work Orders, and much more. Modular in nature and specifically designed for aircraft maintenance professionals and all types of repair stations. Key modules include barcoded inventory, component maintenance/inspection/SB/AD tracking, parts sales and flexible customer invoicing, work orders, and full GAAP accounting. AvPro allows for custom forms to match your forms manual and also features popular FAA/EASA forms (8130/377, etc.).

16 Ratings

Starting Price: $89/month/user

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CADhobby

CAD-MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS INC.

CADhobby Student - free version for Academic use only. CADhobby IntelliCAD is a powerful and affordable computer-aided design (CAD) software application that is perfect for both hobbyists and professionals. It offers a wide range of features, including 2D and 3D modeling, rendering, and animation. CADhobby IntelliCAD is also compatible with a variety of file formats, including DWG, DXF, DGN, and STL. CADhobby IntelliCAD is a great choice for anyone who wants to create high-quality CAD designs without breaking the bank. It is easy to learn and use, and it has a large and active community of users who can provide support and help.

44 Ratings

Starting Price: $0.00/one-time/user

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BigTime

BigTime Software

BigTime is a top-rated online time and billing software for professional service firms. With BigTime, firms can take advantage of time and expense tracking tools, WIP management, billing and invoicing, task and workflow management tools, and more, in a single platform. Cloud-based with an intuitive interface, BigTime bundles industry best practices and operational know-how in a user-friendly application that runs on all desktop and mobile devices. From project creation to client payments, BigTime streamlines firm operations with intuitive budgeting, project management, and invoicing solutions that can be configured to automate even the most complex scenarios. BigTime also integrates with leading productivity apps such as QuickBooks, Lacerte, Slack, Salesforce, and Zapier.

24 Ratings

Starting Price: $10.00/month/user

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SkyCiv Structural 3D

SkyCiv Engineering

SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following: - Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS - Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)

4 Ratings

Starting Price: $79/month/user

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3D House Planner

3D House Planner is the professional home design web application that allows you to design houses and apartments. No installation required. It is accessible through your browser. 3D House Planner is absolutely free for all. You can import or export 3d models for personal or commercial purposes. There are countless possibilities. Browse our catalog and select from thousands of objects to furnish and decorate the interior and exterior of your home with furnitures, decorative accessories, electric devices, and household appliances. We have also a texture Library with a wide range of high quality textures. Most textures contain albedo, normal, ambient occlusion, metalness and roughness maps. Apart from home design, you can import your own 3d object, change appearance, position of objects, make videos, take snapshots, etc.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free

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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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PlantFCE Model Builder

Storm Consulting

Customize models, refine designs, and export with precision. PlantFCE Model Builder offers intuitive 3D modeling for process plants. Model Builder is useful when estimating costs for an engineering project. View real-time updates in the rendering window as you edit the scene. Low lock-in with PlantFCE Model Builder* Model Builder allows you to import and export 3D models from and to industry-standard 3D model formats like GLB, OBJ, and STL. With an automatic clash check, reduce errors and save time.** PlantFCE Model Builder's automatic clash check** reduces time spent on clash check sessions and gives you more time to work on your project. Download for Windows and Mac on the PlantFCE website. *Exporting through Model Builder does not include Model Builder specific functionality like properties set on objects or features specific to Model Builder. **Clash check will be released in version 2.

Starting Price: $49/month/user

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AeroDataBox

Cost-effective aviation and flight API tailored for small and medium businesses, individual developers, researchers, and students. API offers a wide range of data, including flight status, schedules, aircraft information, airport details, statistics, historical data, and more. Designed for seamless integration using REST and webhooks and available through major API marketplaces, it enables users to incorporate aviation information effortlessly into their projects, enhancing functionality and user experience. Available APIs: - Flight API. FIDS, Schedules, Flight Status, History, Search by number, tail number, Mode-S 24-bit ICAO address, callsign. - Airport API. Airports DB, Search by Location, Auto-Complete Search - Aircraft API. Aircraft, Registration History, Airline Fleet. - Industry API. FAA LADD Aircraft Status . - Miscellaneous API. Weather, Realistic Flight Times, Time-zones. - Statistical API. Airport Delays, Global Delays, Flight Delays, Route

Starting Price: $5 per month

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DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering

Sentient Science Corporation

DigitalClone® for Engineering is the world's only gearbox reliability prediction solution integrating multiple scales of analysis in a single software package. In addition to modeling and analysis capabilities at the gearbox and gear/bearing levels, DC-E is the only solution available that models fatigue life based on detailed, physics-based models of the material microstructure (US Patent 10474772B2). DC-E enables construction of a gearbox digital twin with high value across all stages of the lifecycle of the physical asset - from design and manufacturing optimization to component supplier selection to failure root cause analysis to condition-based maintenance and to prognostics. This computational environment drives down the time and cost to bring new designs to the market and to sustain them over time.

Starting Price: Upon request

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PloViewMini

Isoplotec Corporation

PloViewMini is a freeware (license fee free) viewer for viewing HP-GL file drawings, and has the following features: (1) High-speed display of vector drawings and many display-related commands (2) Line color, width change, black and white/color switching of the entire drawing, background color switching, pen ON/OFF (3) Rotation, mirror, grid display (4) Character font (TrueType) font switching, character size change (5) Coordinate display (6) Multi-page support (7) Input file format is HP-GL (not compatible with HP-GL/2 or HP RTL) PloViewMini is a limited-function version of the paid version of PloView.

Starting Price: 0.00 US$ / license

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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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Houzz Pro

Houzz

Houzz Pro is the #1 construction management solution for residential contractors and designers. Get an all-in-one solution that spans the full customer lifecycle, including marketing, CRM, estimates, takeoffs, 3D floor plans, project management, selections, online invoicing & payments, QuickBooks integration, and a client portal. Start a free trial today to see why thousands of Pros trust Houzz Pro to grow & manage their business. Plans are available for all business sizes starting at $149/month.

41 Ratings

Starting Price: $149 per month

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BQE CORE

BQE Software

Effortlessly provide principals, project managers, and entire staff with the information they need. Monitor KPIs like project performance, time and expense, and profitability on BQE CORE's powerful dashboard. Watch real-time status of tasks by phase, track progress, and compare budgeted hours and costs vs. actual so nothing falls through the cracks. Efficiently allocate resources with interactive Gantt charts and accurately forecast every time. Manage your new sales opportunities, activities, and performance through Core CRM, specifically built to address the needs of professional services. Discover how BQE CORE helps you focus on the essential parts of your practice while effectively managing client projects. Book your own personalized demo today!

35 Ratings

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Coohom

Coohom is a leading global cloud-based, 3D design platform that provides all-in-one software and services to empower designers and businesses to design a professional project in minutes, and get photo-realistic 3D visualizations in seconds. With a presence spanning the United States, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, Coohom's innovative solutions have garnered the trust of over 10 million customers from 200 countries. With the aim of facilitating the digital transformation of customers in the interior design, furniture & home decor, and Kitchen & Bath industry, Coohom provides a comprehensive suit of software encompassing design, rendering, marketing, production, and construction, helping to streamline their workflows and achieve success.

20 Ratings

Starting Price: $0 per month

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Lucidchart

Lucid Software

Lucidchart is an online diagram application that makes it easy to create and share professional diagrams. From system design, to brainstorming, to project management, we support all of your communication and collaboration needs. Thats why millions of users choose Lucidchart.

10 Ratings

Starting Price: $7.95/month/user

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Sweet Home 3D

eTeks

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. Insert doors and windows in walls by dragging them in the plan, and let Sweet Home 3D compute their holes in walls. Add furniture to the plan from a searchable and extensible catalog organized by categories such as kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom. Change color, texture, size, thickness, location and orientation of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings. While designing the home in 2D, simultaneously view it in 3D from an aerial point of view, or navigate into it from a virtual visitor point of view. Create photorealistic images and videos with the ability to customize lights and control sunlight effect according to the time of day and geographic location. Extend the features of Sweet Home 3D with plug-ins programmed in Java, or by developing a derived version based on its Model View Controller architecture.

5 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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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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EdrawMax

Wondershare

Creating flow chart, mind map, org charts, network diagrams and floor plans with rich gallery of examples and templates. Edraw Max is an extremely powerful all-in-one diagramming tool that can serve all of your purposes. Whether you need to draw flowcharts, fishbone diagrams, UML diagrams or design floor plans, office layouts, you can find what you want in Edraw Max. Importantly, it is quite affordable. Templates let you go fast. Get inspired and start your design quickly by choosing from thousands of our professionally designed templates. Excellent file compatibility allows you to import Visio files or export your drawings to a variety of familiar file formats, such as Visio, PDF, Word, PPT, JPEG, Html, etc. Edraw Max allows you to create more than 280 sorts of diagrams effortlessly, from the technical diagrams to the attractive infographics, which leaves Visio far behind.

5 Ratings

Starting Price: $99 per user per year

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Cedreo

The only 3D home design software to create conceptual designs in just 2 hours. Cedreo is a 3D home design software for home builders, contractors, remodelers, real estate agents and interior designers. It allows you to create a complete conceptual design presentation in just 2 hours including 2D and 3D floor plans and interior and exterior photorealistic 3D renderings. With Cedreo, you streamline your sales process, reduce the cost of the pre-sale phase and improve your client's buying experience. You can easily and quickly handle the design in-house to stay ahead of your competitors and save external design costs. You will create stunning photorealistic 3D renderings to help your clients envision the project before it is built, facilitate communication and sell faster.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $119

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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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IrfanView

IrfanView is a fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10. It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer worldwide with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers worldwide with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer worldwide with Multiple ICO support. Lossless JPG rotation, crop and EXIF date change (also in batch mode). Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD). Batch conversion (with advanced image processing of all files). Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF files. No registry changes without user action/permission!

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $12

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CircuitMaker

Altium

CircuitMaker is not just a free EDA software tool from Altium, it’s also a community of creative people and design content, working together to invent circuits and electronics products for a better future. For turning great ideas into real products, you need design tools that won’t limit your imagination or hold you back. CircuitMaker has all the power you need to design high quality schematics and Printed Circuit Boards, with no artificial limits on layer counts or board area. Best of all it’s free. The CircuitMaker community is where you will find great reference designs, and be able to promote and rate other projects in the community. You can even set up teams for collaborative design efforts. We think you deserve better design tools, made specifically for you, to turn great ideas into reality. That’s why we’ve created CircuitMaker. Besides being a collaborative community for electronic design content, CircuitMaker is Schematic & PCB design software.

2 Ratings

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Thangs Sync

Thangs

Thangs Sync is a desktop application, that when mapped to a folder will back up 3D assets to the Thangs free, unlimited, and secure, 3D-native cloud. Thangs + Sync supports more than 30 3D file formats. When a new model or 3D file is saved to the synced folder, the file is securely saved in the user's Thangs Workspace and 3D-native cloud. When a newer version is saved to the folder, overriding the prior version, the new version is synced to Thangs Workspace. All models and all versions are securely backed up in Workspace where there is a 3D-native viewer, visual revision control, and non-linear collaborative workflow tools.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $0

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SimScale

SimScale is a cloud-based web application that plays a key part in simulation software for many kinds of industries. The platform allows the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and Thermal Simulation. It also offers 3D simulation, continuous modeling, and motion & dynamic modeling.

2 Ratings

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D5 Render

Import models, and enjoy an instant sense of reality throughout the creation process. Outdated rendering tricks are now replaced by common sense. With a gentle learning curve and effortless reach for assets, with D5, it's never been easier or more intuitive to visualize a story. Slow 3D rendering has always been the bottleneck that slowed your workflow. You made an adjustment and then waited for the progress bar to drain your inspiration. Bursts of creativity had to be squeezed into the spaces between renderings. But now, You have D5. With each burst of inspiration, D5 keeps up with every thought and modification to keep you immersed in a seamless workflow. You can fully dive yourself into the creative moment, sculpting with light and truly playing in the worlds you create. D5 GI with Smoothness experience brings you real-time interactivity and near offline rendering quality. No need to compromise, you have the world at your fingertips.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $38 per month

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