Alternatives to ProtaBIM

Compare ProtaBIM alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to ProtaBIM in 2025. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from ProtaBIM competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.

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    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Structural 3D

    SkyCiv Engineering

    SkyCiv Structural 3D is a cloud-based Structural Analysis software that allows users to model, analyze and design complex 3D structures. It is completely online; requiring no installation to use. SkyCiv Structural 3D offers the very best in online structural analysis. It includes the following: - Powerful Analysis: Linear, P-Delta, Cables, Buckling, Plates, Frequency, RS - Integrated Design checks for steel, wood, connections, foundations, wind (AISC, NSD, AISI, EN, AS, CSA, BS plus more...)
    Starting Price: $79/month/user
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    AutoCAD Plant 3D
    The 2022 Plant 3D toolset is included with AutoCAD. Create and edit P&ID’s, 3D models, and extract piping orthographics and isometrics with industry-specific toolset for plant design. Collaborate on plant design models across project teams and maintain compliance requirements, all in a cloud-based common data environment. The Plant 3D toolset is delivered with standard symbol libraries in the tool palettes. They include PIP, ISA, ISO/DIN, and JIS. Quickly identify possible errors by scanning P&IDs for data consistency according to user-definable rules. Quickly create 3D plant models using parametric equipment modeling, structural steel libraries, and project-specific piping specifications using industry standard piping catalogs. Extract piping orthographic drawings directly from the 3D model and update them as the 3D model is being updated. Work with other industry disciplines to create BIM models for the plant.
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    ProtaStructure

    ProtaStructure

    Prota Software

    ProtaStructure is an innovative structural BIM solution for structural engineers to model, analyze and design buildings quickly and accurately. From one central model easily compare different schemes and automate your steel and concrete design, reducing design time and increasing project profitability. Use advanced integrated features including grouped member design, 3D FE Analysis, staged construction and seismic design, foundations and punching shear checks to quickly produce results. Handle changes with ease and seamlessly coordinate projects with architects, owners and other stakeholders with intelligent BIM integration. Save time and increase project profits with ProtaStructure.
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    VisualAnalysis

    VisualAnalysis

    Integrated Engineering Software

    Thousands of professionals leverage VisualAnalysis (VA) to meet deadlines. Customers say it is "a great value" and "so easy to learn". You need practical tools; easy on your budget. 3D models of complete buildings, tanks, towers, etc. Static and dynamic response analysis. Design code checks for steel, wood, concrete, cold-formed steel, and aluminum. Complete analysis and design features including automatic plate meshing, command window, nonlinear elements, and dynamic time history analysis. 3D static and dynamic FEA for civil, mechanical, aerospace or any other structural analysis. Optional support of building code load combinations. Easily apply loads. Distribute area loads to members. Gravity and lateral loading in the same project. Create frame, truss, or FEA models of just about any structure. Sketch, generate, and import CAD, or BIM (Revit). Fast static, P-delta, AISC Direct, dynamic, and nonlinear. Proven and validated results.
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    ProtaSteel

    ProtaSteel

    Prota Software

    ProtaSteel allows structural engineers and detailers to perform automated steel connection design and produce high quality steel detail drawings in minutes. Take models designed in ProtaStructure directly into ProtaSteel and save hours with automated design of a comprehensive range of bolted and welded steel connections of your choice. Visualize and coordinate your models in 3D, add ancillary steelwork, and fully quantify and value engineer your projects. Significantly reduce design and detailing time by automatically producing high quality engineering drawings for all steelwork and connection details. Increase your design teams productivity and business project profitability. Save valuable project management time by coordinating your projects with other leading BIM platforms including Tekla Structures and Revit.
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    ProtaDetails

    ProtaDetails

    Prota Software

    ProtaDetails is revolutionary system for automatically creating and organising all your structural concrete detail drawings in one go. Save hours of drafting time by seamlessly extracting design details from ProtaStructure and automatically arranging them onto your company drawing sheets. Use focused CAD editing and detailing capabilities tailored to structural engineering to fine tune your drawing production. Make informed design choices with full quantities extraction to value engineer projects and offer improved design services to clients. Handle changes efficiently by seamlessly updating project design changes from ProtaStructure. Use ProtaDetails growing library of component macros to instantly design and detail common project elements including retaining walls, stairs, piles and foundations. Save hours of drafting time, deliver projects faster, be more productive and profitable with ProtaDetails.
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    ideCAD One AEC
    ideCAD One AEC is an Integrated multidisciplinary BIM Software for Architecture, Structural Engineering, and Detailing with Building Information Modeling (BIM). The Integrated Package provides Structural Engineers, Architects, and detailers with Integrated BIM, AEC, and CAD tools that support projects from early-stage design to construction. Create high-quality, high-performing Architectural and structural design with integrated design tools. Optimize projects with integrated Structural analysis, Steel design, Concrete design, Connection design, visualization, and simulation tools. Improve predictability in the field with integrated tools that maximize constructability and project coordination. Accelerate design processes and improve quality with integrated workflows for integrated design, modeling, multidiscipline coordination, and construction documentation.
    Starting Price: $3,800 per year
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    Vertex BD

    Vertex BD

    Argos Systems

    Vertex BD is a BIM software for medium to large sized residential builders. Architectural and structural drawing sets, fabrication drawings, material reports, manufacturing data, and marketing renderings are generated all from one building model. Vertex BD automates the process of generating lot specific drawing sets, saving production home builders countless hours of having to recreate drawings for each customer's choice of house options. Vertex BD is primarily used as panel prefab software by component manufacturers and panelizers to automate the process of generating wall and floor panel fabrication drawings, structural layouts, cut lists, and other material reports. By automating these processes, manufacturers are saving a considerable amount of design, drafting and estimation time while minimizing errors at the construction site. Available for wood and cold-formed steel construction.
    Starting Price: $380 per month
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    OpenBuildings Designer

    OpenBuildings Designer

    Bentley Systems

    OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer), Bentley’s multi-discipline building information modeling (BIM). Explore, design, and deliver innovative buildings faster. Design, analyze, document, and visualize buildings of any size, form, and complexity. Effectively communicate design intent and bridge barriers between building disciplines and geographically distributed teams. OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer) provides building information modeling (BIM) advancements so you can deliver buildings faster and with greater confidence – confidence in your design, workflow, capabilities, and deliverables. Increase collaboration among architects, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared set of tools and workflows. Integrate information you have from multiple formats and easily work on projects of any size. Clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize.
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    GT STRUDL

    GT STRUDL

    Hexagon PPM

    GT STRUDL® is structural engineering software offering a complete design solution, including 3D CAD modeling and 64-bit high-performance computation solvers into all versions. GT STRUDL includes all the tools necessary to analyze a broad range of structural engineering and finite element analysis problems, including linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, and can do so accurately in a fraction of the time of most other structural design software. Structural design software helps structural engineers create safe and effective designs, while managing the complexity of many different scenarios across a range of industries, including power, civil engineering, marine and infrastructure. Quality software includes many features, such as interoperability, structural analysis, database-driven design and quality assurance - all of which are included in GT STRUDL.
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    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries

    MasterSeries is the UK's leading range of integrated structural analysis, design, drafting, and detailing software with over 10,000 users worldwide. From the industry-leading multi-material BIM-enabled modeling and design environment to a collection of powerful stand-alone modules, MasterSeries features the most extensive range of technically advanced structural engineering software you'll find under one roof. For you, this means you get more done in one package, avoiding the need to swap between different incompatible software and enter the same data multiple times. No two businesses are the same, so why should their software be? That's why the MasterSeries product range is modular in nature, providing an extremely flexible and scalable software solution. In this way you aren't forced to buy a costly single large product, perhaps with many features you don't need. You simply combine the modules you need to create the ideal software solution to meet the demands of your business.
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    Revit MEP

    Revit MEP

    Autodesk

    Revit Building Information Modelling software helps engineers, designers and contractors across the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) disciplines model to a high level of detail and co-ordinate with building project contributors. Streamline the engineering design process with Revit. Use a single model to enhance the communication of design intent, before construction begins. Conduct simulations and interference detection earlier in the design process. Use conceptual energy analysis data for engineering-driven calculations. Design, model and document building systems in the context of a full building information model, including architectural and structural components. Model for MEP fabrication with tools that automate the fabrication model layout. Prepare a model for detailed co-ordination of fabrication and installation. Revit helps team improve accuracy, and speed delivery.
    Starting Price: $1,503 per year
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    CTC Software BIM Project Suite
    The CTC Software BIM Project Suite for Autodesk Revit contains over 30 of the best Revit addins available. This collection helps users automate routine tasks, analyze complex modeling scenarios, extract model data and much more in a lot less time, all within the Revit environment. BIM Project Suite is meant for everyday users of all skill levels, and is used by firms of all sizes. Create sheets in projects quickly and correctly. Update parametric data in Revit models as easily as editing a spreadsheet. Create schedules and tables just like Microsoft Excel. Manage rooms and spaces more easily and effectively. Find and select Revit project elements quickly. Manage project revisions more efficiently. Quickly and accurately apply standards to all Revit project models. Analyze Revit project models for occupant safety and efficiency. Renumber doors, rooms and other elements.
    Starting Price: $550 one-time payment
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    SysQue

    SysQue

    Trimble

    Trimble SysQue. Trimble® SysQue® empowers detailers, engineers, and fabricators to work in tandem to build constructible, real-world, digitized models in Autodesk Revit. Trimble SysQue Design real-world constructible MEP models in Revit. Overview. Trimble® SysQue® empowers detailers, engineers, and fabricators to work in tandem to build constructible, real-world, digitized models in Autodesk Revit. One Seamless Constructible Workflow. Trimble SysQue - Duct Construct. Stay Current With Managed Content Work from a continually evolving database of over eight million parts, and request additional content. Enhance Your Model. Use materials and sizes based on actual manufacturer products. Easily Collaborate With Project Stakeholders Work from one constructible model, from design through to construction. Improve Your Workflows. Feature-richness to accelerate LOD 400 detailing. Real-Time Accuracy, Real-World Applicability. Detail on Top of a Generic Revit Model. Leverage SysQue
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    BIM 360

    BIM 360

    Autodesk

    Experience deeper connected construction. BIM 360 is part of the Autodesk Construction Cloud, connecting workflows, teams, and data to help you build better. Predict safety hazards, proactively manage quality, automate tasks, and reduce rework so that you can control costs and stay on schedule. Centralize your project data and access the information you need in real-time, anywhere, so you can track your project and make decisions in the field. Controlled work sharing enables multidisciplinary teams to co-author shared Revit models, visualize every update, and manage design data throughout the project lifecycle. Build a digital strategy that connects and structures data from individual projects, creating actionable information that drives innovation and better business decision-making. Save time, avoid data duplication, explore new workflows and access all your information in one place. Explore our 70+ software integrations to connect with BIM 360.
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    Scia Engineer
    SCIA Engineer is an integrated, multi-material structural analysis software and design tool for all kinds of structures. Its wide range of functionality makes it the ideal partner for the design of office buildings, industrial plants, bridges or any other project, all within the same easy-to-use environment. Powerful CAD-like modeling, advanced types of calculation, code-compliant multi-material design and customizable reports. Typical situations can be automated with built-in or user-defined parametric templates for various geometries and powerful load generation tools. SCIA Engineer provides the most comprehensive implementation of Eurocodes, including National Annexes, U.S. codes and other international standards. Seamless exchange of models with other project stakeholders, through the powerful bi-directional links with Allplan, Revit and Tekla Structures, Open BIM's IFC or third-party plug-ins.
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    ProSteel

    ProSteel

    Bentley

    With ProSteel software you can efficiently create accurate 3D models for structural steel, metal work, and steel assemblies. You can then quickly generate design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever the 3D model changes. Additionally, detailed output to CNC machines automates the steel fabrication process. ProSteel fully supports your construction and planning tasks for structural steel and metal work in a 3D modeling environment. Working with AutoCAD or MicroStation, you get an intuitive and integrated multi-material modeler perfectly suited to layout complex structures, produce shop drawings, assemble all your connections, and manage your bills of materials. Quickly extract 2D drawings that automatically update when the 3D model changes. Easily exchange information with other disciplines thanks to interoperability with other Bentley and third-party applications.
    Starting Price: $4,193 per year
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    Home Designer

    Home Designer

    Chief Architect

    Home Designer Software is the top-rated 3D interior design, remodeling and home design software. Based on technology from Chief Architect's professional architectural software, Home Designer is made easy for DIY. Discover why Home Designer is the best home design app to visualize and design your next house project. 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. These 3D models can be shared with homeowners, structural engineers or subcontractors using the 3D Viewer app.
    Starting Price: $79 one-time payment
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    FrameWorks Plus

    FrameWorks Plus

    Hexagon PPM

    FrameWorks® Plus is a powerful structural modeling and drawing tool that supports your total workflow: drawing, modeling, analysis and reporting. Add value to your modeling process by integrating structural tasks with the plant creation process. Because it integrates with third-party analytical and steel detailing software, as well as with other Hexagon plant design software, FrameWorks Plus supports all parts of the structural engineering workflow to keep your data accurate and current. FrameWorks Plus fully supports PDS. You can create structural models of plants and, through an interface to PDS, share the most recent project data across your workplace and around the world. FrameWorks Plus integrates with the engineering and construction workflow. More than just a CAD program, FrameWorks Plus provides intelligent graphics that support easy modeling, analysis and reporting.
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    AutoPIPE

    AutoPIPE

    Bentley

    AutoPIPE provides you with a comprehensive and advanced software tool specializing in pipe stress analysis. Increase your productivity and improve quality control with an intuitive modeling environment and advanced analysis capabilities. Ensure efficient workflows between pipe stress engineers, structural engineers, and CAD designers through interoperability with leading plant design applications. AutoPIPE includes special features for advanced buried pipeline analysis, operational (hot) clash detection, wave loading, fluid transients, and FRP/GRP or plastic pipe, as well as time-saving integration with other Bentley and third-party applications such as OpenPlant, AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Hexagon PDS and SmartPlant, Autodesk Plant 3D, and Aveva E3D Design. AutoPIPE automatically determines the optimal pipe support locations to satisfy your design requirements with the most cost-effective solution, without sacrificing quality or safety.
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    GAMMA AR

    GAMMA AR

    GAMMA Technologies S.à r.l

    GAMMA AR is a construction management software that uses augmented reality to place BIM models on the construction site. It helps to prevent errors and rework, improve communication between various stakeholders, facilitate the building handover, track progress and manage issues easily. Features: - Create issues on the BIM models' building components - Access all properties directly from BIM models' building components - Possible online and offline usage - Combine and visualize multiple federated models - Measure - Manage tasks & RFIs on the GAMMA BIM PORTAL - Synchronize models and issues with Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, Autodesk BIM 360®, and Autodesk Build® - Supports IFC, Autodesk Revit, and Autodesk Navisworks
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    ClearEdge3D Verity
    Verity empowers AEC teams to generate accurate quality assessments at scale. Automatically identify deviations between your Autodesk Navisworks or Revit model and as-built point cloud data to verify the placement of installed work or validate the quality of your models. Streamline QA/QC processes, enhance your clash detection workflows, and ensure final construction matches the intended design so that you can reduce rework, schedule overruns, and overall project risk. Easily compare as-built point cloud data with your design & coordination models to identify installation or modeling errors on anything from individual elements to entire scopes of work quickly and accurately. Gain a more detailed and actionable analysis in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods. Customizable heat maps and color-coded reports intuitively display deviation, bending, and deflection. Precise measuring tools provide you with quantitative data on how installed elements deviate from your model.
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    Snaptrude

    Snaptrude

    Snaptrude

    The collaborative building design for‍ architects. Snaptrude helps design better buildings faster, by bringing project teams together. Snaptrude is used by designers from some of the world’s leading companies. Planned, designed, and visualize with the entire project team from concept to construction. Share models and document communication in real time. Whether you're designing a house or a city, get it done faster with intelligent automation and parametric modeling. Being fast doesn't have to mean sacrificing creativity or quality. Leverage BIM data to control costs & design sustainably. Gather real-time insights from automated BoQs, site topography, daylight simulation, and more. Import from AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, or Revit & Export directly into Revit, with complete parametric family information, without any data loss. Create flawless architecture that satisfies the client's brief. Brainstorm ideas with your team & rapidly turn them into detailed BIM models.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Tekla Structures

    Tekla Structures

    Tekla Software

    Optimize workflows with truly constructible design, detailing and information management. Tekla Structures, the most advanced structural BIM software, lets you create, combine, manage and share multi-material 3D models packed with valuable construction information. You can use Tekla Structures throughout the project, from buildings and infrastructure conceptual planning to fabrication, construction and maintenance, for design, detailing and information management. With Tekla Structures, you can create accurate, information-rich 3D models that have all the structural data you need to build and maintain any type of structure. Tekla models can deliver LOD 500-the highest level of development possible-making them truly constructible. High LOD, as-built models minimize costly surprises, RFI's (requests for information) and result for more profitable projects. You can also import, export, and link your data with other software solutions, digital construction tools, and fabrication machinery.
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    ProStructures
    ProStructures is a comprehensive steel and concrete design application used to increase your productivity and profitability. With ProStructures, you can create and automatically update 3D models that include structural steel and reinforced concrete structures. ProSteel is a comprehensive application that allows you to model and detail steel structures for a variety of industries. Develop models and documentation for steel structures efficiently. Confidently deliver an accurate 3D model for steel structures and extract engineering, fabrication, and erection drawings. Leverage automatic updates whenever the 3D model is changed. Produce drawings for every steel shape, connection, and plate work from the 3D model. Generate and update in-drawing, external reports, and bills of material. Create 3D models and design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever you change the 3D model.
    Starting Price: $7,162 per year
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    Revit LT

    Revit LT

    Autodesk

    With Revit LT™ software, our most cost-effective BIM (Building Information Modeling) solution, you can produce high-quality 3D architectural designs and documentation. Simplify project processes by standardizing on BIM workflows. Automate workflows to improve design quality and help reduce risk. Stay on track more easily with comprehensive planning and project scheduling. Qualify for projects requiring BIM deliverables. Offer your clients insight into your designs with 3D modeling and visualization tools. Exchange designs with other Revit and AutoCAD software users. Revit LT software is available with a subscription only. We no longer sell perpetual licenses. Share files easily with export and batch export of Revit LT views and sheets to 2D PDF files with user-defined naming rules. Connect form making to documentation with improved Revit interoperability with Rhino. Model and modify wall profiles more quickly and with greater control for sloped and tapered walls.
    Starting Price: $60 per month
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    Stabicad

    Stabicad

    Trimble MEP

    Create 3D MEP models in Revit that are truly constructible. From concept to installation, Stabicad supports your design workflows with time-saving productivity tools, comprehensive UK compliant integrated calculations and always up-to-date manufacturer content. With Stabicad go beyond default Revit functionality and dramatically increase your design efficiency while creating usable mechanical and electrical outputs. Easily design pipe systems, configure switch ranges and place manufacturer-specific Revit families within a single BIM model. With the digital evolution of seamless end-to-end building design and construction workflows, the need for precision is now greater than ever. Which is why Trimble MEP has chosen to engage with CIBSE’s pioneering Software Verification Assessment program to verify the accuracy and efficacy of Stabicad’s powerful calculation engines.
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    SwiftComp

    SwiftComp

    AnalySwift

    SwiftComp is a revolutionary multiscale, multiphysics composite simulation code that quickly and easily delivers the accuracy of 3D FEA at the efficiency of simple engineering models. In doing so, SwiftComp reduces barriers for engineers by enabling them to model composites as easily as metals using conventional structural elements in their FEA codes (without losing accuracy while capturing all the microstructural details). SwiftComp provides unified modeling for 1D (beams), 2D (plates/shells), or 3D structures, calculating all the effective properties. Use SwiftComp either independently for virtual testing of composites or as a plug-in to power your conventional structural tools with high-fidelity composites modeling. SwiftComp can compute the best structural model for use in macroscopic structural analysis, as well as perform dehomogenization to compute the pointwise stresses in the microstructure. SwiftComp directly interfaces with ABAQUS, ANSYS.
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    BIM Collaborate Pro
    Design collaboration and coordination for smarter project delivery. BIM Collaborate is cloud-based design collaboration and coordination software that connects AEC teams, helping you execute on design intent and deliver high-quality constructible models on a single platform. Stay up to date with design progress. Make smarter decisions with project insights. Assess constructability with automatic clash detection. For design teams, BIM Collaborate Pro, formerly known as BIM 360 Design (read the FAQ), adds cloud collaboration capabilities for model co-authoring (includes Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D, and Collaboration for Plant 3D). Autodesk® BIM Collaborate and Autodesk® BIM Collaborate Pro connects architecture, engineering, and construction teams on a single platform for improved project outcomes. Improve communication with easy feedback tools. Accelerate timelines with live design co-creation (BIM Collaborate Pro only).
    Starting Price: $70.83 per month
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    BIM Assure

    BIM Assure

    Invicara

    Unleash the power of BIM with BIM Assure, collaborative, cloud-based software to create complete, reliable model data. Designed for non-modelers to easily access models and data through their web browser. Decouple data management from modeling to enable non-BIM users like engineers or project managers can enter and update data. BIM Assure helps verify and validate data deliverables at each milestone. Dashboards show data quality at a glance. Easily export building data to Excel for analysis, to share with other stakeholders or import into other systems. Once you know your built asset data is complete and reliable with BIM Assure, you can use your model as the foundation for your digital twin solutions and services. BIM Assure is designed to be simple to set up and use. From setting up projects to configuring rules, to managing BIM content and team members, you’ll be ready to roll in no time.
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    StreamBIM
    Stream 3D BIM models to any device via wifi or cellular without the hassle of downloading. Available for all disciplines for everyone on the project. Quick access to all project drawings, installation instructions, warranties, and inspection reports for all project users across platforms. BIM is the new platform for collaboration. Bookmark an object or a room and share questions and give advice using our chat feature. Include colleagues from the job site, the site office, or the design studio using @ mentions to gather information quickly and easily. A reporting and workflow module which enables you to coordinate reporting information for the project, which allows users to track and assign tasks to any user on the project from the job site no matter where they work. Capture photos, add due dates, and assign tasks to the appropriate team. Make templates to support project workflows; document your work onsite; create RFIs, report issues, and more.
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    OpenBridge Designer

    OpenBridge Designer

    Bentley Systems

    Better bridges beginning to end. OpenBridge Designer features advanced interoperability, allowing access to Bentley’s civil application data, as well as a seamless connection to Bentley’s bridge design and analysis applications. Project team members can take the conceptual model from OpenBridge Modeler into the design stage and move through the workflow by performing analysis and design including evaluation of construction work stages using Bentley’s LEAP applications and RM Bridge, OpenRoads Designer, ProStructures, ProjectWise, and other applications. With all these capabilities in one application, you’ll accelerate performance, produce intelligent models through intuitive capabilities for 3D parametric bridge modeling, and improve project deliverables with intelligent data management and automated drawing production that revolutionizes the bridge delivery process. OpenBridge Modeler is a 3D parametric modeling software for bridges.
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    STAAD

    STAAD

    Bentley

    You can design, analyze, and document structural projects, anywhere in the world, with any material using STAAD. It offers you a flexible solution to cover all your structural engineering needs from the foundation up. STAAD is a comprehensive structural finite element analysis and design application that allows users to perform analysis on any structure exposed to static, dynamic, wind, earthquake, thermal, and moving loads. STAAD comes in different variations so you can choose what’s best for you. STAAD is a popular structural analysis application known for analysis, diverse applications of use, interoperability, and time-saving capabilities. STAAD helps structural engineers perform 3D structural analysis and design for both steel and concrete structures. A physical model created in the structural design software can be transformed into an analytical model for structural analysis. Many design code standards are incorporated into STAAD.
    Starting Price: $3,000 per year
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    Altair S-FRAME
    With S-FRAME, users can model, analyze, and design any structure regardless of its geometric complexity, material type, loading conditions, nonlinear effects, or design code requirements. S-FRAME’s automated framework generators build models quickly and import models with BIM and DXF import links, and users can maximize productivity with integrated concrete and steel design tools for design, optimization, code compliance, and report generation. With S-FRAME, users can quickly define structures using modeling automation to generate regular framework structures, and standard or custom trusses, and use clone tools to replicate all or part of the model. Additionally, users can save modeling time by importing existing BIM and DXF models. S-FRAME’s advanced meshing tools create the finite element mesh, giving users the power to generate detailed analysis results in their specific areas of interest. Users can explore those areas of interest by easily converting members to multi-shell models.
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    TeamSystem

    TeamSystem

    TeamSystem

    Access your projects in real-time, increasing efficiency and winning more projects and tenders. It is the ideal solution to share your project's information with employees, suppliers, and clients. You can manage your projects, generate estimates and keep track of public and private accountings in real-time in the cloud. TeamSystem Construction Project Management supports your business in the process of creating and submitting a construction proposal, which requires lists & price management, cost estimation, and quantity takeoffs. It includes also 4D for scheduling and planning and 5D for project and cost control. Completely in the cloud, Estimation in Cloud was specially designed for those who need to manage projects, estimates, price lists, and contracts in collaboration with a team of professionals providing multiple access anytime and everywhere. Through the BIM plugin provided it is possible to connect the estimate measures to the model easily with precision.
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    CADMATIC 3D Plant
    Speed up, improve, and simplify your design work with Cadmatic’s intelligent design software. Easily manage work sharing between design teams around the globe. Optimize performance with 3D models of any size or complexity. Use laser-scanned point clouds in the 3D design area. Easily modify and reuse your assets in multiple projects. Save time and minimize errors with automated data handling. Publish designs for review in CADMATIC eShare platform for digital twins. At Cadmatic, we understand the specific engineering needs of the plant industry. Our 3D plant design tools are created to meet the needs of your teams in projects of any size or complexity. With CADMATIC 3D Plant you can generate automatically annotated project documentation and lightweight 3D models, giving you up-to-date project information whenever you need it. Native Cadmatic 3D objects can easily be exported to other file formats and vice versa.
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    MiTek Structure
    Built exclusively for component manufacturers. Built for power. Built exclusively for component manufacturers, MiTek® Structure delivers the most powerful structural modeling, editing, and estimating functionality available anywhere. Formula builder feature enables designers to create or store customized formulas, group formulas into sets, scheme and apply to jobs or individual objects. Create estimates by applying formulas to modeled objects. Create and customize plan options directly from within a job file. You can include all member types in your options, from accessories to walls, and utilize option customization, such as special junction considerations for site-specific creation. Users can model a unit once and place it multiple times. Placed units maintain a link back to original units, so you can make changes in one model and selectively update the references to units.
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    Skanect

    Skanect

    Skanect

    With Skanect, capturing a full color 3D model of an object, a person or a room has never been so easy and affordable. Skanect transforms your Structure Sensor or Structure Core depth sensor into a low-cost 3D scanner able to create 3D meshes out of real scenes in a few minutes. Enter the world of 3D scanning now! Unlike existing technologies, Skanect can acquire dense 3D information about a scene at up to 30 frames per second. Just move around your Structure Sensor or Structure Core to capture a full set of viewpoints, and you will get a 3D mesh in real time. Skanect makes it easy to 3D scan different kinds of scenes by providing a set of predefined scenarios, suitable for most use cases. You can then share your models online in a few clicks, there’s no need to be a trained professional to start 3D scanning! Skanect leverages consumer-grade 3D cameras like the Structure Sensor and Structure Core, limiting the hardware cost to a fraction of previous 3D scanning solutions.
    Starting Price: $129 one-time payment
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    Ideate BIMLink

    Ideate BIMLink

    Ideate Software

    Autodesk Revit users can easily import/export Revit data to/from Microsoft Excel with Ideate BIMLink. It pulls data from Revit for editing in Excel and then pushes volumes of precise, consequential BIM data back into the Revit model. Linking Revit and Excel with Ideate BIMLink enables you to export data from Revit to Excel, streamlining data management tasks and dramatically reducing the time they take to perform. Importing data from Excel to Revit means that your models will be instantly updated with all changes, making them clean and correct. Ideate BIMLINK is a powerful and progressive tool that enables you to leverage the parametric database within your Revit models by exporting data from Revit to Excel for easy review/editing, and then pushing the edited data back into the Revit model with speed and accuracy. Avoid manual errors, prevent on-site delays, and remove error-based rework by exporting Revit data to Excel for easy editing and then importing the updated data.
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    RISA-3D
    Our user interface was created to be as easy to use as possible. Whether you’re creating geometry graphically in multiple views using advanced modeling tools or using spreadsheets to input data directly, RISA-3D has you covered. RISA-3D’s analysis and design features allow you to rapidly design structures of all types using a wide range of materials. Design buildings, bridges, tanks, culverts, and everything in between. Create reports with both graphical and numerical results including robust detailed output, giving you and your colleagues full confidence in your design. The latest user interface of RISA-3D was created with a structural engineers' workflow in mind. The familiar left-to-right, tab-by-tab ribbon approach, makes it effortless to progress through a model from conception to final design optimization by simply following the icon sequencing. Additionally, users have the ability to customize the interface so that their most used tools are available at all times.
    Starting Price: $1,970 per year
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    progeBILLD MEP
    progeBILLD, professional MEP Building Services design software, includes modules for Electrical, Mechanical/Structural, and HVAC/Piping, including export of Bill of Materials information, and representation of manufacturer libraries for each industry application. progeBILLD Building Services software is very user-friendly. The program contains an intuitive, clear user interface, allowing you to begin designing without intensive software training. ProgeBILLD Mechanical/Structural is a powerful application to create mechanical and structural projects. It contains numerous libraries of standardized elements, steel profiles and other elements conforming to DIN, EN, ISO and other standards. Ready-to-use objects and commands automate the creation of details, schematics, and multi-view drawings. Thousands of industry standard bolts, screws, nuts, pins and other elements.
    Starting Price: $499 one-time payment
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    Revit

    Revit

    Autodesk

    Multidisciplinary BIM software for higher-quality, coordinated designs. Use Revit® BIM (Building Information Modeling) software to drive efficiency and accuracy across the project lifecycle, from conceptual design, visualization, and analysis to fabrication and construction. Begin modeling in 3D with accuracy and precision. Automatically update floor plans, elevations, and sections as your model develops. Let Revit handle routine and repetitive tasks with automation so you can focus on higher-value work. Revit is BIM software that brings all architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines into a unified modeling environment, driving more efficient and cost-effective projects. Project teams can work together anytime, anywhere using Revit with BIM Collaborate Pro, a powerful and secure cloud-based collaboration and data management solution
    Starting Price: $2,545 per year
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    GRAITEC Advance Design
    Advance Design is a mature and easy to use FEM Structural Analysis solution dedicated to structural engineers operating in a BIM environment. It fully designs any type of structure, with any kind of loads, mixing concrete, timber and steel members. It includes major code standards (Eurocodes / North American). Advance Design provides an outstanding BIM experience. It enables intelligent model-based workflows for Engineers and construction professionals. Advance Design acts as a BIM platform and guarantees the continuity of geometric and analytical data through model transfers all along the design cycle. Analysis results are also stored in the Digital Model and are part of the BIM process. For instance, they can be used to start a rebar design or a steel connection process directly from Revit. These options open new disruptive opportunities. Powerful, Easy to use and operate, fully compliant with Revit®. Supported by a strong team of experts. Flexible licensing model.
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    BIMobject

    BIMobject

    BIMobject

    We provide you with the information and inspiration you need to design buildings faster, smarter and greener. A world of architects and engineers rely on bimobject.com to find the right products for their designs. The transition to Building Information Modelling began to spread via “early adopters” more than ten years ago. Fast-forward to today and there are millions of active BIM users across the globe. Architects and construction engineers use BIM to create 3D models of a complete and furnished building – using software such as Revit (Autodesk) and MicroStation (Benley), as well as Graphisoft Archicad, Allplan, and Vectorworks (Nemetschek Group).
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    BIMx

    BIMx

    Graphisoft

    Bridge the gap between the design studio and the construction site with award-winning BIMx, the most popular presentation and coordination app for all project stakeholders. BIMx features the ‘BIM Hyper-model’ – a game-like navigation tool that helps even non-professionals easily explore the building model and understand project deliverables. Real-time model cut-throughs, in-context measuring and project markups in the model context make BIMx your best on-site BIM companion. Simple, game-like navigation makes BIMx the best on-site design and presentation tool on the market. Drive the design narrative on the building site for fast, specific client feedback. A digital model means no more paper on the building site or at client meetings. All the relevant model data is at your fingertips for easy access and sharing. Boost your sales! Promote your design in a unique way by embedding your design on your own website with BIMx Web Viewer.
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    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD

    MagiCAD is the number one BIM solution for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design used by thousands of companies in over 80 countries worldwide. MagiCAD makes the design of BIM models easier, faster and more accurate. Fully integrated within Autodesk’s Revit and AutoCAD platforms, MagiCAD offers a set of powerful modelling functions for each MEP discipline and enables integrated system calculations. With MagiCAD, you design with over 1,000,000 intelligent manufacturer-verified BIM objects from leading MEP manufacturers. Additionally, MagiCAD supports many local standards and symbols making it a unique and truly international solution. MagiCAD enables real-time and on-demand Clash Detection. Builderswork can be generated automatically based on space requirements around and between ducts, pipes, cable trays, fire dampers, etc., including insulation.
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    IrisVR Prospect
    IrisVR Prospect is the leading VR software for immersive design review and collaboration. It is used by BIM and VDC teams, design firms, and engineers to coordinate models and implement design and construction processes in true, 1:1 scale. IrisVR Prospect integrates with Revit, Rhino, Navisworks, SketchUp, and other 3D tools out of the box, so you can instantly create immersive VR meetings for client presentations, design reviews, coordination, and more.
    Starting Price: $150 per user per month
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    Assemble

    Assemble

    Autodesk

    Keep teams connected with cloud-based collaboration tools that allow stakeholders to access BIM data whenever and wherever needed. Access, organize and edit model data to add custom intelligence and conditioning into actionable information throughout the project lifecycle. Ensure all stakeholders can digest model data in a user-friendly environment, requiring no knowledge of complex design tools. Assemble allows BIM experts to turn a design model into a construction-ready model that can be easily broken down into relevant scopes for downstream activities. Using model conditioning workflows, teams can add construction data to the model and assist with classifying and organizing project data. User-defined properties can be added to the model without the need to create parameters in Revit. Reduce manual tasks and conduct efficient design review sessions – anytime, anywhere. Work collaboratively with the project team to evaluate the impact of design iterations to avoid budget overruns.
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    Trimble Field Points
    Ensure field layout points in BIM-coordinated models are accurately located in the field. Watch how easy it is to use Trimble's Total Robotic Station to import 3D models and accurately layout all points to be marked. Point creation and point layout software designed for contractors who need to create layout points to use with Trimble FieldLink. Ensure model points are accurately translated in the field. Integrate your SketchUp, Revit or AutoCAD files directly with FieldLink and RTS, RPT or GNSS units. Easily export points to Trimble FieldLink, bridging any gaps between design and work in the field. Automatic point insertion process on AutoCAD blocks and Revit family insertion. Streamline roundtrip workflows when importing staked points into the model. Generate reports to document the status of specific or all points within a drawing. Control points, insert manual points or generate automatic point locations to streamline the creation of layout data.
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    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRA-SAPR

    LIRALAND Group

    LIRA-SAPR is comprehensive software package that benefits from BIM technology. The software is intended for analysis and design of building and mechanical engineering structures of different purposes. - Static (forces and displacements) and dynamic analyses - Selection and check for sections of steel and/or reinforced concrete (RC) structures - Preliminary drawings of steel structures as well as separate RC elements
    Starting Price: €280/month