Best Engineering Software for Windows

Compare the Top Engineering Software for Windows as of April 2025

What is Engineering Software for Windows?

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 Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Interfacing Enterprise Process Center (EPC)
    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!
    Starting Price: $10/month/user
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    Epicor Connected Process Control
    Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC), formerly eFlex Systems, provides manufacturers a flexible, no-code/low-code MES solution. No programming or special skills required. Digital work instructions, with multi-media capabilities, along with the ability to integrate virtually any device with communication capabilities, provides 100% historical record of the product and the process. Providing data insight, from production reports, to part history, quality summary and more — address issues quickly, minimize waste and disruptions. Whether you start small in subassembly areas, an entire line, or apply enterprise wide - we work with manufacturers of all sizes and needs. Hosted on prem or in the cloud, you decide what's best for your operations.
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    TRACTIAN

    TRACTIAN

    Tractian

    Tractian is the Industrial Copilot for maintenance and reliability, providing a cutting-edge platform designed to prevent unplanned downtime, boost operational efficiency, and enhance maintenance capacity. Trusted by global brands such as Bosch, Kraft Heinz, Carrier, Hyundai, Johnson Controls, and P&G, Tractian combines condition monitoring, energy efficiency, and a CMMS into a comprehensive, mobile-first solution. With Tractian, you can: Monitor real-time vibration, temperature, runtime, and RPM across critical assets Get real-time alerts and detailed diagnostics to address potential issues before they lead to failures Digitize workflows for streamlined work order management, planning & scheduling, and materials management Optimize energy consumption for improved sustainability and cost savings
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    Plexxis Software

    Plexxis Software

    Plexxis Software

    Plexxis serves subcontractors who seek tight team cohesion and high performance backed and fully supported by knowledgeable in-house services. Coupling cloud construction management software, on-premise and hosted solutions, we unite operations, estimating, accounting and field apps on a single technology stack that enables live feedback between bidding, field and finance. With more than 30 years of experience, our solutions have been uniquely shaped to serve subcontractors ONLY. As a result, we have a first-hand understanding that the communications between your systems, spreadsheets, and apps MUST be transparent... and that means moving PAST integration to create a seamless and efficient environment for projects management, accounting, estimating and production. With Plexxis, there are NO “bolt-ons” and no requirement to purchase outside systems. We simply deliver a high-efficiency workflow across all specialty subcontractors’ functions - simply.
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    Shoplogix Smart Factory Platform
    Shoplogix is a smart, scalable platform trusted by manufacturers worldwide for over 20 years. It transforms real-time machine and production data into actionable insights, helping teams uncover hidden losses and drive rapid ROI. Features include intuitive visual dashboards, integrated analytics, and real-time alerts for fast, informed decisions. Shoplogix connects to any machine type, tracking downtime, scrap, throughput, and setup stages. Operators and managers can quickly spot issues, launch action plans, and improve efficiency on the fly. With built-in continuous improvement tools and seamless scaling from one line to multi-plant operations, Shoplogix empowers your team to eliminate bottlenecks, boost OEE, and achieve lasting operational excellence.
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    FactoryTalk Optix

    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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    Rayven

    Rayven

    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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    3SL Cradle
    Manage needs, epics, user stories, features and the product backlog through a series of sprints, each using your choice of requirements management, model based systems engineering (MBSE) and test management with your preferred level of change tracking, configuration management and formal change control. Cradle® is our requirements management and systems engineering software tool that integrates your entire project lifecycle in one, massively scalable, integrated, multi-user product. Whether your projects are small and local, large and distributed, or anywhere in between, Cradle can solve all your agile, requirements management, model driven development, defect tracking and test management needs in one place. With its unrivaled feature set, incredible flexibility, simple configuration and low cost, Cradle is the ideal choice if you are new to agile methods, requirements management or systems engineering.
    Starting Price: $449.00/one-time/user
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    EMQX

    EMQX

    EMQ Technologies

    EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.
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    Starting Price: $0.18 per hour
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    Momentum IoT

    Momentum IoT

    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.
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    Starting Price: $20 per device per month,
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    CiRROX

    CiRROX

    Airline Cloud Services

    CiRROX is a leading provider of cloud services for airlines, specializing in facilitating and hosting software for flight operations (opts), flight planning, and maintenance systems at independent data centers in Europe. Our platform interfaces seamlessly with software from other suppliers to provide a comprehensive and integrated solution for our customers. CiRROX distinguishes itself from other cloud platforms by having 10 years of operational aviation experience, which allows us to offer greater agility when atomizing data and integrating aviation solutions. We are proud to serve the diverse needs of flag carriers, low-cost and start-up airlines, as well as midsized airlines, including Airbus, Lauda Air, MistralAir and many more. At CiRROX, we are committed to delivering reliable and efficient services that help airlines operate at their best. For an unsolicited Consultation, contact us Tel: +372 668 244 2 | +49 511 450 318 21
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    ARES Commander
    2D & 3D CAD software to create & modify technical drawings in DWG format with choice between Perpetual, Network or Annual licenses. Experience the agility of the n°1 alternative to AutoCAD. Cost-effective, ARES Commander offers a full replacement and an easy switch, at a fraction of the cost. With Graebert's ARES CAD software you will enjoy a 3-in-1 license, including ARES Commander (for Windows, macOS and Linux computers) + ARES Kudo (Cloud) + ARES Touch (iOS + Android). These 3 products work in synergy to synchronize the work across users and devices. Create and modify DWG drawings locally, with files stored on your computer, or in sync with Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, Onshape, Trimble Connect. Alternatively, you can also store files in a private Cloud server (via WebDAV). Some our advanced CAD features include the support for Dynamic blocks, PDF to DWG conversion, Drawing comparison, IFC & Revit import, 3D solid modeling, satellite images and street maps.
    Starting Price: $350.00/year
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    EasyEDA

    EasyEDA

    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.
    Starting Price: $4.9 per month
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    FEATool Multiphysics

    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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    Masterplan ERP

    Masterplan ERP

    Masterplan ERP Inc.

    Masterplan helps you run efficiently by integrating every facet of your business. Dig deep into your data and find the secrets to your company’s successes and discover ways to drive growth.
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    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD

    FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. It reads and writes to many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others, making it possible to seamlessly integrate it into your workflow. FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD.
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    PDF Conversion SDK

    PDF Conversion SDK

    Visual Integrity Technologies

    Add PDF Features with 2 API Calls Open, Edit, and View PDF. All that's needed is two API calls and a configuration file. Within a day, you can add, open, import, edit and view PDF features in your app. When formats don't match one-to-one, the SDK neutralizes the differences. This includes adding cropping, fills, color management and fonts. The PDF Conversion SDK processes all PDF versions including ISO Standard PDF 2.0. Any PDF from file or print-ready memory is valid input. Conversions flow straight through without intermediate steps or compromised quality. No printer driver. The PDF Conversion SDK runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It supports .NET. Example code included. Removes redundant information & compresses data. This ensures great performance for fast web and application viewing. Search for objects and text strings. Convert PDF to your native file format. Change the contents of a PDF page. Extract images from PDF. Retrieve metadata from PDF (layers, geospecification, etc).
    Starting Price: $199 per year
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    Litmus Edge
    A hardware agnostic, Industrial Data Platform that allows manufacturing companies to do more with their data. Industrial data infrastructure can be complex – and legacy systems and daisy-chained solutions don’t make it any easier. Putting data to work at scale is an added challenge. Doing it securely is even harder. So, here's a full-stack platform to solve industrial connectivity, data collection and processing, edge analytics, application marketplace, data integration, and beyond. Now try our product for free. 15 days of free trial to check all the features, free access to our documentation, how to guides, along with access to our experts. Wanted a fully loaded hosted instance for a starter node? Just let us know.
    Starting Price: 15000/5k data points/site
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    FlytBase

    FlytBase

    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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    Tulip

    Tulip

    Tulip

    Tulip's flexible, no-code frontline operations platform helps manufacturers create front-end applications that guide operators, collect data from workers, machines, and devices, and track metrics against your KPIs. With Tulip, companies can digitally transform their operations in days, gaining real-time visibility of their operations to increase productivity, reduce errors, and drive continuous improvement.
    Starting Price: $1,200 per year
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    Beamo

    Beamo

    3i Inc.

    Beamo is an enterprise-grade digital twin solution for your mission-critical facilities and remote sites. It costs a lot to move experts around today. But, when it comes to visiting physical spaces, there is no effective alternative - you either go there or not. We make it natural for you to capture your most critical assets, augment them with tribal knowledge and collaborate from anywhere. Beamo’s state-of-the-art hardware and software platform simplifies and accelerates this for facility management and construction projects. Beamo App lets you capture any space in 360° and create digital twins in a few minutes, no expertise required. Beamo automates most of the capturing process so that you can focus on the things that matter. Beamo Portal lets you visit the places you cannot go to and collaborate with others, remotely. Beamo provides an immersive, collaborative experience for all your teams, clients, and contractors.
    Starting Price: $890 per month
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    RenderMan
    Advanced technology from Pixar Animation Studios for rendering VFX and animation. With a new state-of-the-art framework optimized for physically-based rendering, RenderMan can deliver unmatched flexibility for any production pipeline. Not only is RenderMan used for our own feature films at Pixar, it is also used throughout the industry for rendering Visual Effects and animation, making scalability and versatility one of its core strengths. Now you can get out-of-box production tools straight from Pixar Animation Studios, including materials and light transport, no development required. Physically based shading allows RenderMan to deliver highly realistic lighting with minimal setup, including full support for multi-bounce ray traced global illumination and ray traced subsurface scattering. Much research and development has gone into making these traditionally expensive effects a production reality. Materials come fully loaded with all of the creative options.
    Starting Price: $5 per lincense
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    AVISAV QSMS
    AVISAV QSMS is an ICAO / EASA /FAA compliant, user friendly, easily navigable Aviation Quality and Safety Management (QSMS) Software with quality graphics. AVISAV QSMS is a Centralized platform for: - Occurrences Reporting, and Investigation Management Tool. - Quality Audits Management tool. - ONE OF A KIND: SMS IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT TOOL: Assess your current SMS implementation inside your organization. Assign tasks of SMS Implementation to your team members. Be 24/7 prepared for any internal and external audits. - Customizable Quality and Safety metrics analytics dashboard. - log, track, and asses all quality and safety issues. - Manage SPIs/SPTs. - Hazard Register: Complete and calculate hazards and risks assessments. - Documents management: The application provides a central location to store files. - Communications Management: Post company news, safety alerts, updates. - Surveys Management Tool: create, edit, distribute surveys to assess quality and safety levels.
    Starting Price: £1.25/User/Month
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    XMReality

    XMReality

    XMReality

    No matter what industry your company is in - XMReality helps you turn physical visits into virtual interactions. Connect remotely, see what the other person sees, and collaborate using powerful in-call tools. XMReality includes a depth of features that provides your onsite workforce access to a remote expert to collaborate and get help and training. Switch between live video paused image or shared pictures and documents to support joint collaboration. Use the guide tools to highlight information and bridge language barriers. You can also access pre-defined, custom-made step-by-step procedures that guide you through a process and point out what needs to be done and documented. Get an automated PDF report at the end of each call - the perfect way to ensure compliant documentation. You can also record the call, take screenshots and add notes.
    Starting Price: $50 per user per month
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    Geneious

    Geneious

    Geneious

    Geneious Prime makes bioinformatics accessible by transforming raw data into visualizations that make sequence analysis intuitive and user-friendly. Simple sequence assembly and easy editing of contigs. Automatic annotation for gene prediction, motifs, translation, and variant calling. Genotype microsatellite traces with automated ladder fitting and peak calling and generates tables of alleles. Beautiful visualizations of annotated genomes and assemblies are displayed in a highly customizable sequence view. Powerful SNP variants analysis, simple RNA-Seq expression analysis, and amplicon metagenomics. Design and test PCR and sequencing primers and create your own searchable primer database. Geneious Biologics is a flexible, scalable, and secure way to streamline your antibody analysis workflows, create high-quality libraries and select the optimal therapeutic candidates.
    Starting Price: $1,280 per year
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    SuperSplat

    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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    BioTuring Browser

    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

    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 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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    Universal Scene Description

    Universal Scene Description

    Universal Scene Description

    Universal Scene Description (USD) is an open source framework developed by Pixar Animation Studios for the interchange of 3D graphics data across various digital content creation tools. USD provides a rich and powerful toolset for reading, writing, editing, and rapidly previewing 3D scene data. With many of its features geared towards performance and large-scale collaboration among many artists, USD is ideal for the complexities of the modern pipeline. One such feature is Hydra, a high-performance preview renderer capable of interactively displaying large data sets. USD supports a variety of file formats, including usda, usdc, and usdz (a zero-compression, unencrypted zip archive), facilitating flexibility in data representation and exchange. The framework also includes tools like usdedit, a script that converts any single USD-readable file into its .usda text equivalent for easy editing.
    Starting Price: Free
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