Page 4 | Best Engineering Software for Mac - April 2025 Reviews & Comparison

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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Realsoft 3D

Realsoft Graphics

Open design combined with a rich set of features has been the main strength of Realsoft 3D. Feature wise, Realsoft 3D challenges the most famous competitors and offers a better price/performance ratio. In some areas (e.g. SDS modelling, ray tracing), the product is the best on the market. Another major advantage is that the intelligent, context sensitive user interface is suitable for both novice users and skilled professionals. The program grows with and adapts to the skill level of the user. The program is used in different applications, for example by artists working in the advertising industry, architects, product designers, educational institutions, game industry and hobby users. As a versatile yet affordable product ($700), Realsoft 3D has quite a large group of potential users. Realsoft 3D is a powerful tool for making best quality photorealistic images, and there is a huge number of people who need images every day.

Starting Price: $700

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Visual Vertex Muster

Virtual Vertex

Muster 9 is our software to provide a clean and powerfull system to manage CGI Renderfarms and distributed computing. It has a wide range of incredible features, a clean interface and an huge amount of customizations facilities. Easy for wranglers, powerfull for pipeline’s developers. Muster includes an integrated web server engine that’s the core of our HTTP/Rest APIs but also exposes a minimal, clean, and intuitive web based interface to its core features. Based on the Bootstrap framework, Muster is mobile ready right from the start. Its responsive, mobile fluid system let you take control of the dispatcher service using your phone, your tablet or your web browser. Take total control of your farm hosts with a clean report that lets you manage any aspect of your devices. You can even take remote control over them or shutdown and wakeup hosts, manually or automatically!

Starting Price: $85 per license

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Horde3D

The Horde3D Team

Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It is written in an effort to create a graphics engine that offers the stunning visual effects expected in next-generation games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible. Horde3D has a simple and intuitive interface accessible from virtually any programming language and is particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters in next-generation quality. The complete scene graph and animation systems are designed with this requirement in mind. For example, Horde3D tries to keep node hierarchies small to reduce call overhead and to use cached data for faster animations. The geometry is optimized for efficient cache usage and you can use several levels of detail for a model. Furthermore, it is possible to use vertex skinning and apply deferred shading to reduce the number of draw calls for scenes with many lights.

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OctoPrint

Control and monitor every aspect of your 3D printer and your printing jobs right from within your browser. OctoPrint's powerful plugin system allows extending its functionality with awesome plugins from the community. Free and open source software released under the Affero General Public License (AGPL). Control and monitor every aspect of your 3D printer and your printing jobs right from within your browser: Access the embedded webcam feed and watch remotely how your printer is creating your newest thing, get constant feedback regarding the current progress of your print job, take a look at the integrated GCODE visualizer to see a rendition of the GCODE you are currently printing, keep an eye on the temperatures of your hotends and print bed and adapt them on the fly, move the print head along all axes, extrude, retract or just define your own custom controls, start, stop or just pause your current print job, you are in full control at any time.

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OpenSCAD

It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike most free software for creating 3D models (such as Blender) it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modelling but instead on the CAD aspects. Thus it might be the application you are looking for when you are planning to create 3D models of machine parts but pretty sure is not what you are looking for when you are more interested in creating computer-animated movies. OpenSCAD is not an interactive modeller. Instead it is something like a 3D-compiler that reads in a script file that describes the object and renders the 3D model from this script file. This gives you (the designer) full control over the modelling process and enables you to easily change any step in the modelling process or make designs that are defined by configurable parameters.

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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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CAD Assistant

Open Cascade

Open Cascade CAD Assistant is a powerful offline 3D CAD viewer and converter with simple and intuitive interface, free for both personal and commercial use. Originally developed as a testbed and showcase for the Open CASCADE Technology on mobile platforms, the solution has been appreciated as fast and handy 3D viewer by thousands of end-users on mobiles and desktops worldwide. CAD Assistant brings the power of open technologies to the hands of engineers working with 3D data. CAD Assistant is based on open source libraries (Open CASCADE Technology, Qt, FreeType, FreeImage, etc.) and employs open formats for CAD and mesh data (STEP, IFC, IGES, BREP, glTF, JT, PLY, STL, OBJ, 3DM). It also supports a set of other file formats like DXF, SAT (ACIS), XT (Parasolid). Viewing mesh models with associated data is an additional functionality included in CAD Assistant. Mesh can be read from files in PLY format.

Starting Price: Free

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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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SolveSpace

SOLVESPACE is a free (GPLv3) parametric 3d CAD tool. Modeling 3d parts, drawing with extrudes, revolves, helixes and Boolean (union/difference/intersection) operations. Modeling 2d parts, draw the part as a single section, and export DXF, PDF, SVG; use 3d assembly to verify fit. 3D-printed parts, export the STL or other triangle mesh expected by most 3d printers. Preparing CAM data, export 2d vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter; or generate STEP or STL, for import into third-party CAM software for machining. Mechanism design, use the constraint solver to simulate planar or spatial linkages, with pin, ball, or slide joints. Plane and solid geometry, replace hand-solved trigonometry and spreadsheets with a live dimensioned drawing. Sketch sections using lines, rectangles, datum lines and points. Sketch circles, arcs of a circle, datum circles, cubic Bezier segments, C2 interpolating splines, and more.

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OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is the free, open-source CFD software developed primarily by OpenCFD Ltd since 2004. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organizations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics. OpenFOAM is professionally released every six months to include customer-sponsored developments and contributions from the community. It is independently tested by ESI-OpenCFD's application specialists, development partners and selected customers, and supported by ESI's worldwide infrastructure, values and commitment. Quality assurance is based on rigorous testing. The process of code evaluation, verification and validation includes several hundred daily unit tests, a medium-sized test battery run on a weekly basis, and a large industry-based test battery-run.

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QGIS

Create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and mobile devices. For your desktop, server, in your web browser and as developer libraries. QGIS is a user-friendly open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities. QGIS provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyze data, and compose printable maps. We also collect case studies of how people all over the world use QGIS for their GIS work. You can view combinations of vector and raster data (in 2D or 3D) in different formats and projections without conversion to an internal or common format.

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Fogwing IIoT Platform

Factana Computing

Fogwing is the next generation Industrial IoT platform engineered with features to build IoT Solutions for various industrial use cases; from industrial equipment monitoring, asset tracking, equipment condition monitoring to predictive maintenance. Users can build and deploy IoT based automation solutions without deep information technology expertise. The extended data analytics provides data driven analytical processes to predict operational risks and actions at lower TCO!

Starting Price: $12

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Aviation Edge

Aviation Edge is a global aviation database and API provider based in Europe. Services include real-time flight tracking data, historical, real-time and future airport timetable data, historical delay and cancellation data, city and airport autocomplete services, nearby airport data, static aviation databases (cities, countries, airlines, airports, airplanes, taxes, time zones, plane-types and more) and real-time satellite tracking data. All APIs are compatible with any SDKs and programming languages that come to mind for optimal development experience. The data is provided via JSON REST APIs which are accessible with API keys provided in the form of monthly renewed API subscriptions. Static data is also available as standalone databases as one-time purchases. All APIs are active, supported, and subject to an extensive SLA. We also provide 24/7 e-mail support for any questions our clients may have.

Starting Price: $7 per month

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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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hIOTron

hIOTron's machine monitoring product is a comprehensive solution that enables you to monitor and analyze your industrial machines in real-time. With this product, you can track machine performance, detect anomalies, predict failures, and schedule maintenance activities to improve uptime and reduce downtime. The machine monitoring product consists of a range of sensors and devices that collect data from your machines, such as temperature, pressure, vibration, and other operational parameters. This data is then transmitted to a central hub where it is analyzed using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify patterns and trends. hIOTron platform provides a user-friendly dashboard that displays real-time machine data, key performance indicators, and alerts. It also provides reports and analytics to help you understand your machine performance and identify areas for improvement.

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OpendTect

dGB Earth Sciences

OpendTect software consists of two parts: a free, open-source part and a commercial, closed-source part that is protected by FlexNet license managing software. The open-source part is OpendTect, a seismic interpretation software system for 2D and 3D seismic data, and for fast-track development of innovative interpretation tools. OpendTect can be extended with free plugins. The closed source part is OpendTect Pro, an extended version with extra functionality for professionals. OpendTect Pro can be further extended with commercial plugins that enable unique seismic interpretation workflows.

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EVOLVE Shop

EVOLVE

EVOLVE understands the challenges that a SHOP Foreman faces as they manage large teams, scattered communications, and visibility into the FIELD. Our modules all sync seamlessly on one platform, which streamlines communications between Design, Shop, and Field – leading to less rework and more efficient workflows. -Effective collaboration between your shop, BIM dept. and the field, reducing the time spent on back-and-forth discussions and distractions. -Clear view of what needs to be done, when, and by whom in real-time for your work requests. This enables you to focus on the most critical tasks and deliver results on time. -Easy to learn and flexible to your operational needs and can grow with your business!

Starting Price: $50/month/user

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Tecplot Focus

Tecplot

Tecplot Focus Gets You Answers Faster and enables you to quickly plot all your engineering and test data exactly the way you want. Analyze and explore complex datasets, arrange multiple XY, 2D and 3D plots, and then communicate your results to colleagues and management with brilliant, high-quality images and animations. Save even more time and effort by automating routine data analyses and plotting tasks. Available on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms, Tecplot Focus meets the needs of your multi-platform engineering group.

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MxCAD

Chengdu Dream Kaide Technology Co.

Online CAD private cloud SDK, with rich web-side editing CAD functions, provides a large number of development interfaces, can be very quickly integrated into the enterprise's OA, ERP, PLM, PDM, drawing management system. End users do not need to install any plug-ins, according to the enterprise business scenarios and management processes, to achieve the exclusive drawing cloud services, corporate branding services and genuine authorization, private deployment to meet the security needs of the drawings, to help enterprises to achieve low-cost web-side browsing and editing of CAD drawings.

Starting Price: $2800 per year

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inSCADA

ProMIS Proses Control

inSCADA is a web-based SCADA software development platform developed using current technologies. Development activities are carried out not through a desktop IDE, but with the tools offered to developers via the web interface. There is no need for compilation and deployment actions. You can carry out all your development activities uninterruptedly during runtime. Key Features: * Real-Time Application Development, * Working on Multiple Projects at the same time on one platform, * Creating very fast and practical reports, * Web access and services, * RESTful SPA Application, * Projects Maps (GIS with Weather Layers), * Teamwork and Chat, * Intelligent Data Collection, * Data transfer with QR Code, * Device library, * Notification Services (SMS,E-Mail), * IP Camera, * Vectorel Visualization, * Communication Procols (Modbus, Siemens S7, DNP3) Master/Slave, MQTT, Ethernet I/P, OPC DA/UA Client), * Faceplates

Starting Price: €400

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CircuitLab

Easy-wire mode lets you connect elements with fewer clicks and less frustration. Unit-aware expression evaluation lets you plot arbitrary signals of interest, such as differential signals or power dissipation. In-browser simulation and plotting lets you design and analyze faster, making sure your circuit works before ever picking up a soldering iron. Advanced simulation capabilities include frequency-domain (small signal) simulation, stepping circuit parameters through a range, arbitrary Laplace transfer function blocks, and more. Work with multiple signals easily with configurable plotting windows, vertical and horizontal markers, and calculations on signals. Draw generic rectangular symbols for IC or system-level wiring diagrams with just a few clicks.

Starting Price: $24 per year

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Fritzing

Fritzing is an open source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as creative material for anyone. We offer a software tool, a community website, and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, fostering a creative ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional PCBs. Fritzing is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. With Fritzing Fab you can easily and inexpensively turn your circuit into a real, custom-made PCB. Fritzing can only act as a creative platform if many people are using it as a means of sharing and learning. Let us know how it fits your needs and how it doesn't show it to your friends, and share your projects. Fritzing offers several ways to easily create the part that you need. Fritzing, parts are organized into "bins" which can be accessed from the parts palette.

Starting Price: €8 one-time payment

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Cufflinks

Cole Trapnell

Cufflinks assemble transcripts, estimate their abundances and test for differential expression and regulation in RNA-Seq samples. It accepts aligned RNA-Seq reads and assembles the alignments into a parsimonious set of transcripts. Cufflinks then estimates the relative abundances of these transcripts based on how many reads support each one, taking into account biases in library preparation protocols. Cufflinks was originally developed as part of a collaborative effort between the Laboratory for Mathematical and Computational Biology. In order to make it easy to install Cufflinks, we provide a few binary packages to save users from the occasionally frustrating process of building Cufflinks, which requires that you install the libraries. Cufflinks includes a number of tools for analyzing RNA-Seq experiments. Some of these tools can be run on their own, while others are pieces of a larger workflow.

Starting Price: Free

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Bioconductor

The Bioconductor project aims to develop and share open source software for precise and repeatable analysis of biological data. We foster an inclusive and collaborative community of developers and data scientists. Resources to maximize the potential of Bioconductor. From basic functionalities to advanced features, our tutorials, guides, and documentation have you covered. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language and is open source and open development. It has two releases each year and an active user community. Bioconductor provides Docker images for every release and provides support for Bioconductor use in AnVIL. Founded in 2001, Bioconductor is an open-source software project widely used in bioinformatics and biomedical research. It hosts over 2,000 R packages contributed by over 1,000 developers, with over 40 million downloads per year. Bioconductor has been cited in more than 60,000 scientific publications.

Starting Price: Free

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picoCAD

Johan Peitz

picoCAD is a program to build and texture low-poly 3D models. Where many programs for modeling and texturing are bloated and overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. It is built on the PICO-8 platform and comes rich with constraints. Experiment to find your own workflow and anything is possible. picoCAD is a standalone application and you don't need PICO-8 to run it. Features include a streamlined and easy-to-use editor, the ability to place and modify meshes to create amazing things, live manipulation of textures and UV coordinates, a unique look with picoCAD's dithered shading, rendering in wireframe, solid fill, or textured modes, and it ships with a manual that is worth reading. You can save files in an easy-to-read text format, export Twitter-friendly GIFs, and export to OBJ/MTL for import into Blender, Unity, etc. A Steam key is included with every purchase.

Starting Price: $5.95 one-time payment

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MoveIt Pro

PickNik Robotics

Develop advanced robotics applications with production-ready AI. MoveIt Pro is an open platform designed to expedite the development of advanced robotic manipulation applications. MoveIt Pro offers features such as real-time object recognition, dynamic path planning, and force-compliant controllers, enabling robots to adapt to unexpected obstacles and handle objects of varying sizes and weights. The platform is hardware-agnostic, supporting a wide array of robot brands and types, which allows for flexible integration with existing systems. PickNik's expertise extends across various industries, including construction, oil and gas, agriculture, and space exploration, providing tailored solutions that reduce R&D costs and accelerate time-to-market. Their collaborative approach involves co-developing with clients' engineering teams to deliver groundbreaking robotic arm applications.

Starting Price: $19,800 per year

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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 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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C.A.L.M. Airline Suite

C.A.L.M. Systems

C.A.L.M. (Computerized Aircraft Log Manager) Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of aviation maintenance management software solution. The company's Airline Suite offers a robust set of modules, including Computerized Aircraft Reliability Tracking System (C.A.R.T.S) and Continuous Aircraft Surveillance (C.A.S), that ensure fleet readiness and enhance the aviation maintenance community's productivity, efficiency, and safety. Key features of the Airline Suite include electronic log books, flight log tracking, bulletin tracking, maintenance forecasting, budget forecasting, temples for common component lists, and more. This software monitors discrepancies and reports mechanical reliability and corrective actions or deferrals. It is integrated with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed. Features and reports.

Starting Price: $1000 per month

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Best Engineering Software for Mac - Page 4

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Mac as of April 2025 - Page 4

3DCoat

Realsoft 3D

Visual Vertex Muster

Horde3D

OctoPrint

OpenSCAD

ABViewer

CAD Assistant

Glartek

SolveSpace

OpenFOAM

QGIS

Fogwing IIoT Platform

Aviation Edge

Moldex3D

hIOTron

OpendTect

EVOLVE Shop

Tecplot Focus

MxCAD

inSCADA

CircuitLab

Fritzing

Cufflinks

Bioconductor

picoCAD

MoveIt Pro

CoppeliaSim

DWSIM

C.A.L.M. Airline Suite

Best Engineering Software for Mac - Page 4

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Mac as of April 2025 - Page 4

3DCoat

Realsoft 3D

Visual Vertex Muster

Horde3D

OctoPrint

OpenSCAD

ABViewer

CAD Assistant

Glartek

SolveSpace

OpenFOAM

QGIS

Fogwing IIoT Platform

Aviation Edge

Moldex3D

hIOTron

OpendTect

EVOLVE Shop

Tecplot Focus

MxCAD

inSCADA

CircuitLab

Fritzing

Cufflinks

Bioconductor

picoCAD

MoveIt Pro

CoppeliaSim

DWSIM

C.A.L.M. Airline Suite

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