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LidarView
Kitware
LidarView is an open source platform developed by Kitware for real-time visualization, recording, and processing of 3D LiDAR data. Built atop ParaView, it efficiently renders large point clouds and offers features such as 3D visualization of time-stamped LiDAR returns, a spreadsheet inspector for attributes like timestamp and azimuth, and the ability to display multiple data frames simultaneously. Users can input data from live sensor streams or recorded .pcap files, apply 3D transformations to point clouds and manage subsets of laser data. LidarView supports various sensors, including models from Velodyne, Hesai, Robosense, Livox, and Leishen, enabling visualization of live streams and replaying of recorded data. The platform integrates advanced algorithms for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), facilitating accurate environmental reconstruction and sensor localization. It also incorporates AI and machine learning capabilities for scene classification.Starting Price: Free -
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ParaView
Kitware
ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that enables users to build visualizations for analyzing data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. It supports interactive 3D exploration and programmatic data processing through batch processing capabilities. ParaView is designed to handle extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources, making it suitable for supercomputers analyzing terascale datasets as well as laptops for smaller data. The application features a client-server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets and generates level-of-detail models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. ParaView's extensible architecture is based on open standards, allowing for customization and integration with existing tools and workflows. It includes readers for various well-known file formats and offers more than 200 filters and tools for data processing and visualization.Starting Price: Free -
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Tomviz
Kitware
Tomviz is an open source, cross-platform application designed for the processing, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomographic data, with a particular focus on electron tomography. It provides a robust graphical interface that allows users to render objects as shaded contours or volumetric projections, facilitating the manipulation and analysis of large 3D tomograms. Users can work with multiple datasets simultaneously, applying various colormaps and visualization settings to rotate, slice, animate, and save visualizations as images or video files. The platform supports advanced data analysis through histograms, multicorrelative statistics, multiple filters, and user-customized Python scripts. Additionally, Tomviz enables tomographic reconstructions of experimental data, offering a comprehensive suite of Python tools for 3D analysis to accommodate custom algorithms. It is compatible with 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.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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QElectroTech
QElectroTech
QElectroTech is a free, open source software designed for creating complex industrial electrical diagrams. It supports a wide range of diagram types, including electrical, plumbing, geothermal, air-conditioning, hydraulics, pneumatics, domotic, and photovoltaic systems, among others. With over 8,000 symbols available in the latest version, it allows users to create detailed technical diagrams across various fields. The software is licensed under the GNU/GPL license and is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux platforms. Its features include a flexible symbol library and user-friendly tools for creating professional-grade schematics. The software is supported by contributions from industrial companies and engineers, including Soliton Controles Industriais and C-Born Engineering, which assist in development and translation. Additionally, QElectroTech supports DXF export for easier integration with other software.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenModelica
OpenModelica
OpenModelica is an open source modeling and simulation environment based on the Modelica language, intended for industrial and academic use. Its development is supported by the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC), a non-profit organization. The platform aims to provide a comprehensive Modelica modeling, compilation, and simulation environment distributed in both binary and source code forms for research, teaching, and industrial applications. OpenModelica supports the Modelica Standard Library and is compatible with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is designed to facilitate the development and execution of both low-level and high-level numerical algorithms, making it suitable for control system design, solving nonlinear equation systems, and developing optimization algorithms applied to complex applications. The platform also offers tools for debugging, visualization, and animation, enhancing the user experience in modeling and simulation tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Robot Operating System (ROS)
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source set of software libraries and tools designed to aid in building robot applications. It provides services expected from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. ROS offers tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers. At its core, ROS provides a message-passing system, often called "middleware" or "plumbing," which manages communication between distributed nodes via an anonymous publish/subscribe pattern. This system is crucial for implementing new robot applications or any software system that interacts with hardware. ROS is a meta-operating system for robots, offering hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. It is licensed under an open source, BSD license.Starting Price: Free -
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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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Gazebo
Gazebo
Gazebo is an open source robotics simulator that provides high-fidelity physics, rendering, and sensor models for developing and testing robot applications. It supports multiple physics engines, including ODE, Bullet, and Simbody, enabling accurate dynamics simulation. Gazebo offers advanced 3D graphics through rendering engines like OGRE v2, delivering realistic environments with high-quality lighting, shadows, and textures. It includes a wide array of sensors, such as laser range finders, 2D/3D cameras, IMUs, GPS, and more, with the ability to simulate sensor noise. Users can develop custom plugins for robot, sensor, and environment control, and interact with simulations via a plugin-based graphical interface powered by Gazebo GUI. Gazebo provides access to numerous robot models, including PR2, Pioneer2 DX, iRobot Create, and TurtleBot, and allows users to build new models using SDF.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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WELSIM
WelSimulation LLC
WELSIM finite element analysis software helps engineers and researchers conduct simulation studies and prototype virtual products.Starting Price: $45 per user per month -
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Total Phase Data Center Software
Total Phase
Total Phase is a leading provider of embedded systems solutions for engineers all over the world. The Data Center Software is a free bus monitoring software* that captures and displays USB, USB Type-C Power Delivery, I2C, SPI, eSPI and CAN bus data. Data Center is the only protocol analysis software in the industry with true, real-time performance and cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Data Center Software features LiveDisplay, LiveFilter, and LiveSearch technologies that allow developers to easily see, filter, and search bus data as it is being captured in real time. *This software is used in conjunction with Total Phase hardware tools for debugging and developing I2C, SPI, CAN, USB, eSPI, and A2B systems.Starting Price: $0 -
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AMICOS
Cimber Air Data
30 years of successful design, development and implementation makes Amicos A/S one of the most seasoned players in the business. Our staff averages over 15 years of experience in Aviation MRO. Close contact with our customers assure that we are constantly up to date with the latest developments and business requirements. When you talk to AMICOS A/S staff, you are talking to a proficient Aviation Professional. The AMICOS MRO system is an affordable “Enterprise” solution exclusively developed for aviation. Our focus is on in-depth functionality and total process control. The diversity of our customers and their business processes ensures that AMICOS covers almost any possible variation of MRO data management. We also collect and process comprehensive financial data for management reporting.Starting Price: $175000.00/one-time/user -
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TSM
The Service Manager
TSM Evolution is our Cloud-based operations and field service management solution fully hosted within the Australian based Amazon Web Service (AWS) Environment. This includes current best in class security and backup protocols. TSM Evolution is a comprehensive yet fully configurable business management solution, providing the required flexibility to properly manage your field service operational workflow requirements. Access your data anywhere, anytime to manage your business effectively.Starting Price: $45 per user/month -
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MediaLab Document Control
MediaLab
MediaLab’s Document Control is a powerful way to manage your laboratory’s policies, procedures, and documentation. Our twenty years of expertise in clinical laboratories have created a document control solution that guides you to full compliance with all laboratory standards, regulations, and best practices. Document Control provides an automated, centralized platform for all of your document approvals, workflows, edits, sign-offs, audits, and more—with flexibility and customization features to match your laboratory’s unique needs. MediaLab's Document Control supports: • Digital records and version control of all documents, • Standardization across all documents from all sites, • Electronic signatures that meet 21 CFR Part 11 standards, • Customized approval workflows and processes, • Robust searching to easily locate specific documents, and more! -
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Repetier-Host
Repetier
Import one or more 3D models and place, scale, rotate or duplicate them on your virtual bed. Slice your plate with different slicers and optimal settings for perfect results. Check the result completely, in regions or layer for layer. Print directly from the host via USB or TCP/IP connection, via SD card or via Repetier-Server. Repetier-Host works with almost all popular 3D FDM printers! Repetier-Host is your ALL-IN-ONE software solution, which gives you countless benefits. Repetier-Host can handle up to 16 extruders with different filament types and colors simultaneously and visualize the result with individual filament colors, so you can see your result before printing. Repetier-Host includes directly 4 different slicers: Slic3r, Slic3r Prusa Edition, CuraEngine and Skeinforge. If that is not enough, you can use any other slicer you want with Repetier-Host. -
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ADONIS BPM Suite
The BOC Group
ADONIS BPM suite is users' best-rated tool for process management, analysis and optimization, trusted by SMEs and large corporations worldwide. It helps you transform your business and create competitive advantage by streamlining processes, enhancing operational efficiency, boosting transparency and creating a customer-centric organization. You can start creating your digital twin with ADONIS already today, as the cloud-based ADONIS:Community Edition is available for free. ADONIS Business Process Management suite is perfectly equipped to accommodate all your business needs. ADONIS offers: - Process Management - Quality Management & Operational Excellence - Digitalization & Automation - Journey Management & Ideation - Audit & Compliance - SAP/ERP Integration -
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Augmentir
Augmentir
Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field. -
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Adams
Hexagon
Adams helps engineers to study the dynamics of moving parts, and how loads and forces are distributed throughout mechanical systems. Product manufacturers often struggle to understand true system performance until very late in the design process. Mechanical, electrical, and other subsystems are validated against their specific requirements within the systems engineering process, but full-system testing and validation comes late, leading to rework and design changes that are riskier and more costly than those made early on. As the world's most famous and widely used Multibody Dynamics (MBD) software, Adams improves engineering efficiency and reduces product development costs by enabling early system-level design validation. Engineers can evaluate and manage the complex interactions between disciplines including motion, structures, actuation, and controls to better optimize product designs for performance, safety, and comfort. -
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Tecplot 360
Tecplot
Make Better Decisions with Tecplot 360, the most complete CFD Post processor. More CFD simulations are being run, grid sizes are getting larger, and data sets are being stored remotely. It’s essential that you have the right tools to handle large data sets, automate workflows, and visualize parametric results. Tecplot 360 helps you spend less time waiting and more time discovering. Integrate XY, 2D & 3D plots and get them looking exactly the way you want. Communicate your results with brilliant images and animations. Automate the boring stuff with PyTecplot Python scripting. Never miss a result when analyzing parametric data with Chorus. Securely access large, remote data with SZL-Server client-server. Load Tecplot, FLUENT, PLot3D, CGNS, OpenFOAM, FVCOM, VTU data and 22 other CFD, FEA, structural analysis, and industry-standard data formats. Report and compare solutions in a multi-frame environment with multiple pages. -
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Autodesk Arnold
Autodesk
Global illumination rendering software. Render high-quality 3D images faster with Arnold–so you can focus on the art. Arnold software is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer that helps you work more efficiently. Interactivity produces immediate results, leaving more time for iterations. The controls and UI are simple and intuitive. Switch seamlessly between CPU and GPU rendering to suit your production needs. Arnold thrives on heavy datasets and complex scene files. Production-ready tools reliably manage complex characters, scenery, and lighting challenges. Compute performance is optimized when creating elements such as hair, fur, skin. Easily integrate with all of the top 3D digital content creation (DCC) tools. Get the scalability of an open and extensible architecture. Arnold GPU allows users to switch seamlessly between CPU and GPU rendering. High-performance ray traced subsurface scattering eliminates the need to tune point clouds.Starting Price: $27 per month -
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Fujiyama
Fujiyama
Fujiyama is free and open source, distribution oriented ray-tracing renderer designed to handle production image rendering. Multi-threaded rendering - dynamic assignement of tile rendering per theread. Rendering preview - fbview shows rendering progress. Region rendering - accelerates distribution rendering pipeline. Tile based rendering. Volume Filling Procedure - Pyroclastic clouds procedure provided. Volume Filling Procedure - Spline wisps procedure provided. Volume Filling Procedure - Surface wisps procedure provided. On demand reading of mipmap - unlimited number of texture images. Pluggable shader DSO - shaders can be written in C/C++. Subsurface scattering - implemented in shader. Bump mapping - perturb normals based on mipmap images. Primitive groups - multiple shader assignment on triangle mesh. Gaussian and Box pixel filters - supports filter width bigger than 1 pixel. Adaptive grid pixel sampling - subdivides pixels based on color threshold. -
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LuxCoreRender
LuxCoreRender
LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality. LuxCoreRender is built on physically based equations that model the transportation of light. LuxCoreRender uses OpenCL to run on any number of CPUs and/or GPUs available. LuxCoreRender is and will always be free software, both for private and commercial use. LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine based on state of the art algorithms. A showcase of what LuxCoreRender users have been able to achieve. LuxCoreRender features a variety of material types. Apart from generic materials such as matte and glossy, physically accurate representations of metal, glass, and car paint are present. LuxCoreRender supports dynamic and interactive scene editing. -
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Redshift
Maxon
Redshift is a powerful GPU-accelerated renderer, built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering. Tailored to support creative individuals and studios of every size, Redshift offers a suite of powerful features and integrates with industry standard CG applications. Redshift has the features and uncompromising quality of a CPU renderer, but at GPU rendering speeds. Unlike other GPU renderers out there, Redshift is a biased renderer that allows the user to adjust the quality of individual techniques in order to get the best performance/quality balance for their production. Redshift supports complex, advanced shading networks and texturing capabilities as required for production-quality rendering. Flexible, production-ready shader, compatible with PBR workflows of Allegorithmic Substance and Unreal Engine. Control how materials behave for certain ray types. Useful for customizing GI or double-sided polygon shading.Starting Price: $500 -
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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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AIR
SiTex Graphics
AIR is an advanced 3D graphics renderer with a unique architecture and extensive features designed for the rapid production of high-quality images. AIR is a hybrid renderer, combining the advantages of scanline rendering - fast rendering of complex scenes, motion blur, and depth of field - with the flexibility of on-demand ray tracing for accurate reflections, soft shadows, global illumination, and caustics. AIR supports a broad range of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes, trimmed NURBs, subdivision meshes, curves, particles, and implicit surfaces. All primitives are supported in their natural form; no pre-meshing is required. AIR also provides true (sub-pixel) displacement and high-dynamic range (HDR) input and output. AIR offers the flexibility of fully programmable shading and procedural modeling. Users can extend the shading language by writing new functions in any programming language.Starting Price: $375 per license -
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Arc+
Space Tech International
ARC+ a software created by architects, for architects. For over 30 years ARC+ develops software solutions serving architects, designers and building professionals. ARC + offers architects and other building professionals a simple and ergonomic way to move from idea to reality while respecting everyone creative spirit, "The Freedom of Design." With an interactive and efficient 2D / 3D modeller it is possible to model any geometry or to use the existing architectural modules for creating stairs, walls, windows etc. ARC + does not stop there as it offers a range of fully integrated add-ons. A 3D rendering engine allows you to sell your project by generating, among others, photorealistic images. An editing and project’s structure management module allows you to display areas, perimeters and other quantitative data in order to communicate them to the client directly from your production documents.The construction industry is changing, ARC + too.