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Arcon Evo
Eleco Software
Arcon Evo 3 combines visual design, professional CAD capabilities and clear project execution in a single program. Produce detailed floor plans, automated 3D models, elevations, section details and working drawings to meet your client’s brief quickly and easily and exchange project-related data with partners via multiple export options. Produce architect quality construction drawings, elevations, sections and 3D visualisations suitable for planning permission applications. Fully customisable items including walls, windows, doors, skylights, roofs, furnishing objects. DXF/DWG import assistant and powerful drawings tools for creating working and building control drawings. Compatible with Building Regs 4 Plans (add-on pack containing 240 editable CAD detail blocks for building regulations).Starting Price: $500.05 one-time payment -
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FASTTAC
FASTTAC
Quickly find your current facility and project information, by drawing location, using our patented GridLink technology. Empower your team to instantly find up-to-date information, view documents, and work from any location. You don’t have time to go digging through drawings and documents; give your team the information they need to make a decision. Instantly increase your speed, accuracy, and quality by giving your team the most up to date information and drawings at their fingertips. Fasttac reduces the time it takes to find information by 25%, increasing your efficiency and decreasing the number of mistakes made on the job. Our patented grid organizes and stores information in an intuitive way, providing faster access to drawings, documents, and more. Upload any drawing or any document, ensuring that you have all of your information in a single repository. FastLink allows you to link points on your drawings to locations on other drawings, PDFs, Videos, notes, and more.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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ArchAdministrator
PS Software Solutions
ArchAdministrator has harnessed the power of the multi-layered relational database to simplify the task of recording, organizing, and analyzing the wide variety of data generated by your architectural or engineering practice. With more than eighty releases since its introduction in 1997, ArchAdministrator continues to establish itself as the standard against which all office and project management software will be measured and offers one of the most comprehensive ERP solutions for architects and engineers currently on the market. ArchAdministrator has garnered praise from the A/E community and maintains a competitive lead in its technical innovation, seamless integration, and user-friendly design. ArchAdministrator’s Accounting module simplifies the task of recording, organizing and analyzing accounts and accounting transactions. Predesigned charts, graphs, tables and summary reports will organize accounting data into meaningful information.Starting Price: $395 one-time payment -
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Vectorworks Architect
Vectorworks
With more support for common file formats than any other BIM solution, Vectorworks Architect can pull together all necessary information to start your project, providing everything you need for conceptual design, site planning, and analysis all in one interface. Quickly confirm design intent while transitioning from massing models to concept models. BIM software isn’t exactly known for promoting creative expression. But Vectorworks is different. We allow you to freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. So you’re not limited by presets and strict parameters — you have the flexibility you need to design anything you can imagine. Getting the most out of the “I” in Building Information Modeling is essential for optimizing your designs. -
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Arris
Sigma Design
The ARRIS is the single most comprehensive AEC software solution available in the industry. The core of the ARRIS application contains all the basic architectural design, 3D modeling and drafting tools. In addition, elements such as walls, roofs, doors, furniture, etc. are included. You can create 3D designs, dynamic viewing, perspective walk-thrus, specific location shadow studies and textures. Also, there are automated routines for creating detail drawings for architectural elements such as masonry, steel, concrete and timber. ARRIS also comes with its own programming language called SIGMAC which allows you to easily customize ARRIS to your specific needs.Starting Price: $995 one-time payment -
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DataCAD
DATACAD LLC
DataCAD is a professional-level Architectural CADD program for design, presentation, and documentation. DataCAD is one of the few software applications that are developed specifically for Architects, and it is the only CADD software ever to be endorsed by the American Institute of Architects (ca. 1987). Originally developed by an architectural firm more than 30 years ago, DataCAD is one of the stalwarts of the CAD industry.Starting Price: $1295 -
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Trezi
Trezi
Trezi is a Virtual Reality platform for the Architect, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry. Trezi Lens is a software that dramatically transforms Revit, SketchUp, Rhino and FBX design models into Virtual Reality. It also offers a seamless way of design presentation and collaboration with its hero feature Trezi Teleport. Trezi showcase offers building product manufacturers a completely fresh platform to showcase their products with the power of digit twins, a centralized cataloging system and many more exciting features. Trezi offers immersive collaboration without any boundation of the number of people in the meeting or the size of the design model. Trezi's third offering Trezi Academy trains the students of architecture and Interior design with VR skills to upskill them and help them start their digital journey. -
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12d Synergy
12d Solutions
12d Synergy is efficiency for those who’ve had enough of collaboration chaos and stressful, slow networks. 12d Synergy is freedom to be unchained from your desk, to work flexibly anywhere, anytime. 12d Synergy is productivity for the pioneers who know there’s a smarter, faster, better way to work. Transform email clutter into dependable documentation with simple and easy email filing, management and retrieval. Step up to centralised, rock-solid document management, built specifically for busy AEC offices. Superior folder-based geospatial data management that speeds up data transfers, reduces data storage and streamlines worksharing. Conquer CAD chaos with a smarter, more automated way to manage your CAD data, maximising your productivity and efficiency. -
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Architect 3D Ultimate 20
Avanquest Software
Architect 3D is a Home Design application that allows you to design, equip and decorate your home and garden in 3D. Design your creative project step by step and room by room, from the basement to the loft space. Draw up plans of your house, equip your interior and exterior areas and add your own personal touch to your living space. A virtual tour and extremely realistic 3D allow you to review the results. Architect 3D Ultimate 20 brings you all the professional tools you need to design your home and garden.Starting Price: £159.99 one-time payment -
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Virtual Architect
Virtual Architect Home Design Software
Take a fresh approach to the way you live with Virtual Architect. This innovative home design software delivers the powerful tools and inspiration needed to transform your living space, plus expert help to get the job done right. It’s the ideal software for updating any room in your home, exploring your design style or redecorating using your existing furnishings. From a green kitchen to a dream home to living rooms, bathrooms and more, you’ll find all the tools you need to easily plan, create and experience your new living space – all before spending a dime. Update, Redecorate, Remodel and More! With Virtual Architect Home & Landscape Platinum Suite 10, you can plan room additions and other home improvement projects with ease, make your home energy efficient with new lighting and appliances, breathe new life into an outdated kitchen, bathroom or bedroom and so much more. You can even design your dream home.Starting Price: $39.99 -
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Bento
EvolveLAB
Bento is a suite of free Revit add-ins developed by EvolveLAB to enhance productivity for architects, engineers, and contractors. It supports Revit versions 2019 through 2024 and offers tools that automate tasks such as generating model elements, controlling point cloud visibility, numbering views on sheets, and more. This tool allows users to quickly and easily customize the detail numbers of Revit views, simplifying the process of adjusting view detail numbers. Enables users to toggle the visibility of point cloud files on and off from a Revit ribbon button, which can be tied to a keyboard shortcut for maximum efficiency. Bento enables users to select multiple views from the project browser and open them all at once, with options to close all other views, as well as tile and group the newly opened views by view type. See the size of their local or cloud model, work shared or non-work shared, with a single click, eliminating the need to navigate through folders. -
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ArchitectGPT
ArchitectGPT
ArchitectGPT is an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes home and interior design by enabling users to transform their spaces effortlessly. By simply uploading a photo of any room and selecting a preferred style, the AI generates photorealistic previews in seconds, allowing for instant visualization of design ideas. The platform offers a diverse library of over 80 design themes and 40 room/outdoor types, catering to various aesthetic preferences. Features such as the magic editor allow users to modify specific areas within an image by painting over them and describing the desired change, facilitating seamless customization. Additionally, ArchitectGPT provides tools like Enhance + Upscale, which improve image quality and resolution up to 4K, ensuring professional-grade visuals suitable for client presentations or marketing materials. The platform supports integration with architectural design software, allowing users to upload exports from AutoCAD, Revit, or SketchUp.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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PC Draft
Microspot
PC Draft Professional is a powerful and easy-to-use 2D CAD application for Windows, designed to simplify floor and garden plan design, architectural drawing, and technical illustration. It offers precise vector tools, smart units, and a fully-featured scaled environment, enabling users to create professional 2D CAD drawings efficiently without extensive learning curves. The latest version, PC Draft 6.0, introduces several enhancements, including improved MacDraft file sharing and compatibility, an updated interface, custom scales for greater control, increased drawing size, linear and circular gradient creation, expanded color and pattern options, increased undo and redo limits, opacity settings for fills and strokes, a star tool for complex shapes, a centered drawing area, a symbol library catalog palette, and a custom layers palette. These features streamline the design process, making it accessible for both novices and seasoned draftsmen.Starting Price: $349 one-time payment -
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Altair SimSolid
Altair
By performing structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes, SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise-extensive and error-prone tasks performed in a conventional structural simulation. Multiple design scenarios can be simulated quickly under real-life conditions. Early CAD models, in any common format, can be used. SimSolid tolerance of imprecise geometry means that, unlike CAD-embedded simulation tools, there is no need to simplify complex geometries before analyzing designs. SimSolid supports all typical connections (bolt/nut, bonded, welds, rivets, sliding) and analysis of linear static, modal, thermal properties, along with more complex coupled, nonlinear, transient dynamic effects. -
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ElectricalDesign
TiSoft
TiSoft ElectricalDesign helps you design any building's electrical installation, make all the necessary calculations ensuring code compliance, and produce a variety of drawings, floorplans, schematics and reports. It will also provide a wealth of information that will assist you in making design decisions early on, avoid oversizing materials and equipment and visualize the installation prior to construction. For the acceleration of distribution modeling, default values have been given by the program to all the new elements that the user can then change. The electrical distribution is depicted in the form of a hierarchical tree and the electrical panels are placed as nodes of the tree. You can easily add distribution boards to the delivery tables. In each table add its loads and for each load enter its power in kW, length and type of cable. For each point on the network, the program calculates in detail and shows you the short-circuit level in kA. -
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Metacom
VanMeijel
With Metacom you have all the functionality in-house to optimally support projects, finances, logistics and maintenance. Fully geared to infrastructure, construction and specialized service providers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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Layout-iQ
Rapid Modeling Corporation
Layout-iQ™ includes a database that represents flow through a layout and also includes the quantity of flow of people, product, equipment and other resources. The software also includes a mathematical engine that calculates the number of trips between locations and between equipment in the workspace. A graphical environment is included that is compatible with all CAD software and that provides the distance between locations. With theses toolsets, Layout-iQ™ is able to dynamically calculate travel distance as equipment is placed and moved in the layout. Actual paths of travel and straight-line paths can be modeled to evaluate aisle effectiveness. -
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VisionREZ
Ameri-CAD
Revit is the most common BIM platform in the market today. In Revit, elements - such as doors, windows, and walls - are designed in 3D and incorporate data attributes. Because elements in Revit are intelligent, parametric and related to each other within the 3D model, changes made to one element automatically update all related model elements, schedules, views, and sheets. For a residential designer using Vision REZ for Revit, this means their changes are made all at once, and are automatically pushed through to CD’s, renderings, and quantity takeoffs, saving them valuable time. VisionREZ allows you to model designs with precision, optimize performance, and collaborate more effectively. VisionREZ is a residential Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology that allows for the sharing of all information related to a project to be contained in a single and accessible model. VisionREZ automates design tasks and integrates information so it can be utilized across functions.Starting Price: $1495 one-time payment -
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Chief Architect
Chief Architect
Chief Architect software brings home design projects to life. Automated building tools for home design, interior design, and kitchen & bath design make it easy to create construction drawings, elevations, CAD details, and 3D models. Download a trial and see why Chief Architect is the best residential home design software for architects, home builders, and remodeling professionals. Chief Architect software is the professional tool of choice for architects, home builders, remodelers, and interior designers. Smart building technology makes it easy to create construction drawings, floor plans, elevations, 3D renderings, and 360 panoramic renderings. Chief Architect's software is purpose‑built for residential design with building tools that can automatically generate roofs, foundations, framing, and dimensions. As you draw walls, windows, and doors, the program simultaneously creates a 3D model. -
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PIMARC
PRL Info Systems
Pimarc Project Management Systems offers a project management software that's custom designed to your architecture or construction business needs. It also features a Survey Record Index (SRI) to give you real-time data on every project you undertake. This ensures you keep costs down, minimum project delays and save valuble time. If your architect firm needs to spend more time on managing projects and less on managing paper, Pimarc Project Management Systems if exactly what you need. Our revolutionary software allows you to plan, schedule and execute every project you undertake with greater efficiency so that you can take on new clients and gain more business. The Pimarc project management software suite integrates with your existing business and accounting systems without any interruption. With an easy-to-use web-based interface, you'll see gains in productivity almost immediately - both in the office and on your bottom line. -
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Carlson Takeoff
Carlson Software
Carlson Takeoff is a cut/fill volumes and data prep (for layout or machine control) program that can estimate jobs using paper plan digitizing, PDFs, or electronic CAD files. Carlson Takeoff is available in two configurations: Takeoff OEM and Takeoff Suite. Takeoff OEM includes an AutoCAD® engine built-in and has all of the same ingredients as the Takeoff Suite, which works on AutoCAD® sold separately, or with IntelliCAD® built-in. The Takeoff Suite is comprised of the modules Carlson CADnet, Carlson Trench, and Carlson GeoTech combined with Carlson Construction. All are fully integrated with Carlson Civil and Hydrology to meet the variety of customers’ needs. Carlson Takeoff is the only estimating software built on either the AutoCAD or IntelliCAD engine. Working in the DWG environment natively gives Carlson Takeoff users a distinct “CAD Advantage” when estimating from an Engineer’s electronic files.Starting Price: $9000 -
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Domus.Cad
Interstudio
Domus.Cad is a BIM program for architectural 3D design which allows you to face 3D design with the same simplicity as a traditional 2D design, and with the same simplicity allows you not only to design but to plan an entire project directly on your computer. It is a program with exclusive characteristics that has nothing to fear from any other 3D architectural design program on the market. Domus.Cad is the right CAD for architects and civil engineers. You can immediately begin to create three-dimensional elements without needing to start from a two-dimensional plan. Elements such as walls, floors, roofs, and stairs are created from the onset in their full three-dimensional form. Watch the 3D model change in real time as you design in plan. Domus.Cad’s strong 3D capabilities are matched by its equally impressive array of 2D CAD tools. This makes it just as easy to produce a full set of presentation and construction documents as it is to create the architectural model itself.Starting Price: $169.00/user -
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AutoDCR
SoftTech Engineers
AutoDCR® is an innovative online building plan scrutiny and approval system for construction permits. It reads the CAD drawings and check them for compliance with the relevant regulations to facilitate approval by competent authorities. It is being used in 500+ local government bodies in India. Seamlessly integrated to online approval workflow to track the proposals with associated documents verification and site visits, it can also be accessed through mobile devices. Reads CAD drawings and produces scrutiny reports in a few minutes. Maps all development control rules of the Authority to the drawing entities. Automates the cumbersome manual process of checking the development regulations. Offers single window for acquiring building permits, NOCs and clearances from multiple agencies. Architects submit the plan online along with the application form to all relevant departments through a single-window system. -
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Fohlio
Fohlio
Fohlio is a powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use FF&E specification software for interior designers and architects. Our interior design software, construction management software, construction estimating software — design-build all-in-one — is best in class, drastically cuts down on construction errors, and saves thousands of dollars’ worth of man hours. Instantly extract product information from any website using our lightweight web clipper: no dragging and dropping, just a few clicks and your information is saved to your FF&E schedule. Build your product library every time you specify an item, and make it easily available to your entire firm. Standardization becomes easier, and so is staying on-brand and building knowledge. Besides organizing FFE schedules, you can also create a mood board (or two, or however many you want), ask vendors for quotes, and compare prices, all in one dashboard. Switch views to organize your products by floor, room, item type, or supplier.Starting Price: $99/month/user -
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Qbiq
qbiq AI
qbiq is a first-of-its-kind AI planning and visualization solution that instantly creates customized layout alternatives and 3D virtual tours, reducing space planning turnaround time from weeks to minutes. Traditionally, finding the perfect space required manual validation by architects, a time-consuming and restrictive process. qbiq changes this by providing instant clarity and efficiency in space planning. With qbiq, anyone can plan, visualize, and optimize spaces in minutes. The platform eliminates the delays and limitations of manual processes, enabling faster decision-making and easy customization. qbiq democratizes space planning, empowering businesses and designers to turn their visions into reality quickly and effortlessly. -
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Caddie
Caddie Limited
2D draughting and 3D modelling software for the construction and engineering industries. Caddie combines accurate drawing with GIS information (SG Diagrams, Satellite Imagery, ArcGIS content, Open Streetmap information etc.) in many different projections allowing users to create working drawings, 3D models and photo-realistic renders of their schemes. Caddie uses the industry standard .DWG format for storing drawings and can be licenced for single user, multiple user or cloud licenced. Caddie includes vertical applications for Architecture (2D and 3D), Civils, Digital Terrain Modelling, GIS, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Photo-realistic rendering, Steelwork, Surveying, and Town Planning. Caddie outputs to printers and plotters, PDF, 3D printers and many other formats. In addition to normal image formats Caddie also supports MrSID and ECW formats for imagery. A 14 Day trial version with full functionality allows potential users to evaluate the software at no cost.Starting Price: $30 per month per licence -
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CADopia
CADopia
CADopia is a powerful Computer-Aided-Design software for engineers, architects, designers and drafters — virtually anyone who creates, edits, or views professional drawings. CADopia 19 is available in 12 languages – Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. CADopia Professional Services can help you maximize the returns on your investment in CAD technology. CADopia provides upfront consulting services, custom application development, staff training,technical support, and project outsourcing solutions. Productivity enhancing drafting tools such as custom construction plane, entity snaps, grids, entity and polar tracking allowsyou to complete your drawings precisely and efficiently. -
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Easy Blue Print
EZblueprint.com
Easy Blue Print is a software program used to quickly create floor plans for office and home layouts with precise measurements. Easy Blue Print is an easy-to-use software program that makes creating floor plans for office and home layouts a snap. Used by hundreds of professionals, from real estate agents to professional designers (and many other fields), it offers all of the features necessary for getting the job done just without all of the complications. Export floor plan drawings to JPEG/BITMAP images with ability to set custom resolution for better image quality. Option to cut and paste floor plan drawings into Microsoft Word or other applications to create accurate real estate brochures or post on the website. View all drawings, all sizes, including Pro detail drawings. The custom wall list editor allows you to effortlessly add, update, or delete different types of walls, and specify their attributes (thickness, fill, color). -
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GTXRaster CAD PLUS - With software licensing from Flexera the user has more flexibility in licensing, choosing either standalone or network installations! Now with Package and Borrow facilities for the network versions, users can easily access multiple versions or Borrow a license from the network - great for consulting engineers! From hybrid raster/vector editing to full automatic CAD conversion, the series provides total flexibility to suit any drawing requirements. All commands, menus and toolbars are consistent with the CAD application, providing a productive and very easy-to-learn user interface. See the NEW Ribbon user interface in the GTXRaster CAD 2021 Series! New functionality with the GIMPORT command to rapidly import and convert to TIF a wide-range of raster file formats not supported by most CAD and imaging applications. PDF support allowing the user to open a PDF file, extract the image and optionaly, save the image back to PDF.
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SmartDraw
SmartDraw
Make network diagrams, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams and more. SmartDraw is the easiest and most powerful diagram maker on the market. To start, choose from one of the many included diagram templates (there are literally thousands) and SmartDraw will walk you through the rest with intuitive tools and lots of included symbols at your fingertips. In many cases, diagrams will feel like they make themselves as Smartdraw automatically aligns shapes and objects in just a few clicks. Hundreds of professionally designed diagram templates and examples make you instantly productive. Simply choose the template that is most similar to your project, and customize it to suit your needs. Drag and drop symbols from the thousands included. With many diagram types like flowcharts and org charts, SmartDraw comes with powerful automation that builds your diagram for you, automatically.Starting Price: $9.95 per user per month