Best Engineering Software for Linux
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This a list of Engineering software for Linux. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Linux. View the products that work with Linux in the table below.
What is Engineering Software for Linux?
Engineering software is software used by engineers to design, analyze and manufacture various products. It includes a wide range of applications such as CAD/CAE software, analysis tools, optimization tools, and programming tools. Engineering software can be used for a variety of tasks such as designing mechanical parts, analyzing structural stability, simulating system performance, and optimizing product designs. These applications enable engineers to optimize their designs for cost reduction and increased efficiency. Compare and read user reviews of the best Engineering software for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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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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Simcenter Amesim
Siemens
Simcenter Amesim is a leading integrated, scalable mechatronic system simulation platform that allows design engineers to virtually assess and optimize the systems’ performance. This will boost overall systems engineering productivity from the early development stages until the final performance validation and controls calibration. It allows its users to focus on engineering, deliver accurate and actionable results, develop scalable models supporting the entire development cycle, improve collaboration and integrate system performance with other engineering disciplines. Simcenter Amesim is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software. -
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ruffus
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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MPCPy
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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BioTuring Browser
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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Webots
Cyberbotics
Cyberbotics' Webots is an open source, multi-platform desktop application designed for modeling, programming, and simulating robots. It offers a comprehensive development environment that includes a vast asset library with robots, sensors, actuators, objects, and materials, facilitating rapid prototyping and efficient robotics project development. Users can import existing CAD models from tools like Blender or URDF and integrate OpenStreetMap data to create detailed simulations. Webots supports programming in multiple languages, including C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, and ROS, providing flexibility for diverse development needs. Its modern GUI, combined with a physics engine and OpenGL rendering, enables realistic simulation of various robotic systems, such as wheeled robots, industrial arms, legged robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. The platform is widely utilized in industry, education, and research for tasks like robot prototyping, and AI algorithm development.Starting Price: Free -
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GRASS GIS
GRASS
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a free and open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) software suite utilized for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and map production, spatial modeling, and visualization. It supports raster, vector, and geospatial processing, enabling advanced modeling, data management, imagery processing, and time series analysis with a Python API, optimized for large-scale analysis. GRASS GIS is compatible with multiple operating systems, including OS X, Windows, and Linux, and can be accessed through a graphical user interface or integrated with other software such as QGIS. The software includes over 350 modules for rendering maps and images, manipulating raster and vector data, processing multispectral image data, and creating, managing, and storing spatial data. GRASS GIS is widely used in academic and commercial settings, as well as by governmental agencies.Starting Price: Free -
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Whitebox
Whitebox
Whitebox Geospatial Inc. offers innovative geospatial software built on open-source platforms, providing a suite of tools for advanced geospatial data analysis. Their flagship product, WhiteboxTools Open Core (WbT), contains over 475 tools for processing various types of geospatial data, including raster, vector, and LiDAR datasets. WbT is designed for seamless integration with other GIS software, such as QGIS and ArcGIS, enhancing their analytical capabilities. It features extensive use of parallel computing, operates without the need for additional libraries like GDAL, and can be utilized from scripting environments, making it a versatile choice for geospatial professionals. For users seeking advanced functionalities, Whitebox offers the Whitebox Toolset Extension (WTE), a paid extension that adds more than 75 tools for sophisticated geospatial data processing. Additionally, Whitebox Workflows for Python (WbW) provides geospatial professionals with next-level geoprocessing.Starting Price: $500 one-time payment -
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SCAPE CoCreator
SCAPE Technologies
SCAPE CoCreator is a no-code robotic automation platform that empowers users to build, simulate, and deploy robotic workflows without programming expertise. It seamlessly integrates hardware and software within a user-friendly environment, enabling the creation of robotic applications powered by 3D vision and AI. Users can test and validate solutions in a digital twin environment and on actual hardware, significantly reducing development time and costs, up to 95% compared to traditional methods. It supports effortless integration with 3D scanners conforming to the GenICam standard, ensuring smooth communication and operation. With support for Python and C++, CoCreator allows for the development of custom solutions tailored to specific tasks. Its intuitive interface enables users to create robotic applications without any coding, making it accessible to users of all skill levels.Starting Price: Free -
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CrowdRender
CrowdRender
CrowdRender is an alternative to render farms and render farm software (like deadline). Our software is licensed under the GPL V3, and primarily supports Blender's render pipeline, it supports Windows, MacOS and linux. The goal of the addon is to provide a simple, single install package that turns a laptop, desktop, workstation or server into a worker that can collaboratively render an animation or single image. We aim to make this as simple as possible so the plugin can be used by a single freelancer, without a deep knowledge of networking, right up to a technical director/software dev working at a large studio.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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CoppeliaSim
Coppelia Robotics
CoppeliaSim, developed by Coppelia Robotics, is a versatile and powerful robot simulation platform utilized for rapid algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and digital twin creation. It features a distributed control architecture, allowing each object or model to be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients (Python, Lua, Java, MATLAB, Octave, C, C++, Rust), or custom solutions. The simulator supports five physics engines, MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, and Vortex Dynamics, for fast and customizable dynamics calculations, enabling realistic simulation of real-world physics and object interactions, including collision response, grasping, soft bodies, strings, ropes, and cloths. CoppeliaSim provides forward and inverse kinematics calculations for any type of mechanism.Starting Price: $2,380 per year -
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DWSIM
DWSIM
DWSIM is a free and open source CAPE-OPEN compliant chemical process simulator that operates across multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features an intuitive graphical user interface and offers capabilities previously exclusive to commercial simulators. DWSIM supports both steady-state and dynamic simulations, utilizing a parallel modular solver for efficient modeling. It includes advanced property packages. The simulator provides a comprehensive suite of unit operations, including mixers, splitters, separators, pumps, compressors, expanders, heaters, coolers, valves, pipe segments, shortcut columns, heat exchangers, various reactors, distillation and absorption columns, solids separators, cake filters, spreadsheets, Python scripts, and flowsheet unit operations. It also provides an Excel Add-In for performing thermodynamic calculations within spreadsheets and an automation API for creating, loading, modifying, running, and saving flowsheets.Starting Price: Free -
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L-Edit Photonics
Siemens
Design your photonic integrated circuit in a layout-centric flow. The designer can implement their design using either a drag-and-drop or a script-driven methodology. Both of those are in the same full custom IC design layout editor that drives the physical verification and tape-out processes. L-Edit Photonics enables the fast creation of a photonic design using a drag-and-drop methodology in an IC layout editor, without having to write a single line of code. Once the design is completed, a netlist can be extracted for photonic simulation. PIC design in a complete IC layout editor, Create a layout without writing a line of code. Supports a layout-centric design flow where a schematic is not needed. Schematic flow optional with S-Edit. A simulation netlist can be created as input into a photonic simulator. Photonic simulation is supported through integration with our partners. Photonic PDKs are available from multiple foundries. -
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PyBullet
PyBullet
PyBullet is a Python module for physics simulation, robotics, and deep reinforcement learning, built on the Bullet Physics SDK. It supports loading articulated bodies from URDF, SDF, and other formats, providing forward dynamics simulation, inverse dynamics computation, kinematics, collision detection, and ray intersection queries. PyBullet offers rendering capabilities, including a CPU renderer and OpenGL visualization, with support for virtual reality headsets. It is utilized in various research projects, such as Assistive Gym, which leverages PyBullet for physical human-robot interaction and assistive robotics, supporting collaborative robots and physically assistive tasks. Another project, Kubric, is an open source Python framework interfacing with PyBullet and Blender to generate photo-realistic scenes with rich annotations, scaling to large jobs distributed over thousands of machines. -
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CarMaker
IPG Automotive
CarMaker is a simulation solution specifically designed for the development and seamless testing of cars and light-duty vehicles across all development stages (MIL, SIL, HIL, VIL). It offers a high-performance, real-time capable vehicle model to build virtual prototypes early in the development process. All components can be replaced with customer-specific models or hardware. By combining the virtual prototype with an adaptive driver model, a complex traffic model, and a detailed road and environment model, automated and reproducible tests are possible at any time. The well-structured user interface guarantees easy parameterization. CarMaker's new visualization tool, Movie NX, enables photorealistic simulation of scenarios. Thanks to light and weather effects, real scenarios in the virtual world may take place at any time of day and during any season. Built-in camera models with HDR capability allow for realistic testing of camera systems. -
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CZ CELLxGENE Discover
CZ CELLxGENE
Select two custom cell groups based on metadata to find their top differentially expressed genes. Leverage millions of cells from the integrated CZ CELLxGENE corpus for powerful analysis. Execute interactive analyses on a dataset to explore how patterns of gene expression are determined by spatial, environmental, and genetic factors using an interactive speed no-code UI. Understand published datasets or use them as a launchpad to identify new cell sub-types and states. Census provides access to any custom slice of standardized cell data available on CZ CELLxGENE Discover in R and Python. Explore an interactive encyclopedia of 700+ cell types that provides detailed definitions, marker genes, lineage, and relevant datasets in one place. Browse and download hundreds of standardized data collections and 1,000+ datasets characterizing the functionality of healthy mouse and human tissues.
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