Best Electrical Design Software in Canada
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What is Electrical Design Software in Canada?
Electrical design software is a specialized CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tool used to create, visualize, and document electrical systems for buildings, machinery, and industrial equipment. It enables engineers to develop detailed wiring diagrams, circuit layouts, and control panel designs with precision. The software includes features like load analysis, error detection, and compliance checks to ensure systems meet safety and regulatory standards. By automating repetitive tasks and supporting design revisions, it boosts efficiency and reduces the likelihood of costly errors. Electrical design software is essential in industries like construction, manufacturing, and automation, where accurate electrical planning is critical. Compare and read user reviews of the best Electrical Design software in Canada currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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OrCAD X
Cadence Design Systems
OrCAD® X is a unified PCB design software platform that offers significant improvements in ease of use, performance, automation, data management, and collaboration. Our cloud-enabled product suite contains applications for schematic, simulation, and PCB layout. OrCAD X Capture is one of the most widely used schematic design solutions for the creation and documentation of electrical circuits. PSpice® is our virtual SPICE simulation environment integrated within Capture that allows you to prototype your designs using the industry-leading, native analog, mixed-signal, and advanced analysis engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verification solution. Our two PCB layout environments, OrCAD X PCB Editor and OrCAD X Presto, allow designers to easily collaborate between ECAD/MCAD teams and build better PCBs faster. OrCAD X Presto is a new user-friendly option offering a simpler interface for quick-turn PCB design.Starting Price: $107 USD/month -
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BQR
BQR Reliability Engineering
𝗔𝗜-𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗕𝗤𝗥’𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝟱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀: 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗧𝗠: streamlines PCB design with de-rating & MTBF prediction. 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗸𝗧𝗠: verifies multi-PCB systems for errors & overstress. 𝗳𝗶𝗫𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀®: predicts component lifespan with de-rating, thermal & stress analysis. 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘®: assesses reliability, availability, maintainability & safety. 𝗮𝗽𝗺𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿®: optimizes maintenance & logistics. -
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WSCAD
WSCAD
At WSCAD, we have been developing electrical CAD solutions for over 30 years. Customers include small to medium-sized companies, international corporations, and engineering service providers in the machine-building, panel manufacturing, and building automation industries. WSCAD software is used by over 40,000 electrical engineers as their electrical CAD solution. WSCAD ELECTRIX – our most powerful electrical CAD – is our brand-new offering. No matter if you are designing piping & instrumentation diagrams, fluid power or electrical schematics, cabinet engineering, building automation or electrical installation – WSCAD is the right tool for you. The new ELECTRIX comes with a completely new design engine (editor) and embedded compatibility to standard formats like DXF/DWG and uses modern technologies such as augmented reality, multi-threading and automation.Starting Price: $84/month -
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Designcenter Solid Edge
Siemens
Designcenter Solid Edge is a Siemens product development portfolio that provides tools for mechanical design, electrical design, simulation, manufacturing, technical publications, data management, and collaboration. It combines the speed of direct modeling with the control of parametric design through synchronous technology. The software helps teams create 2D drawings, 3D models, electrical systems, simulations, manufacturing outputs, 3D printing workflows, and technical documentation. Designcenter Solid Edge is designed to be affordable, easy to learn, and scalable for different product development needs. It supports faster design changes, reuse of supplier CAD parts, realistic 3D modeling, and collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams. With its complete portfolio of connected tools, Designcenter Solid Edge helps companies bring better products to market more efficiently.Starting Price: $75/month/user -
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KiCad EDA
KiCad EDA
With the schematic editor you can create your design without limit, there are no paywalls to unlock features. An official library for schematic symbols and a built-in schematic symbol editor help you get started quickly with your designs. Make professional PCB layouts with up to 32 copper layers. KiCad now has a push and shove router which is capable of routing differential pairs and interactively tuning trace lengths. KiCad includes a 3D viewer which you can use to inspect your design in an interactive canvas. You can rotate and pan around to inspect details that are difficult to inspect on a 2D view. Multiple rendering options allow you to modify the aesthetic appearance of the board or to hide and show features for easier inspection. KiCad’s schematic capture is efficient, with all the tools you can expect for such a task. The interface focuses on productivity. There are no complexity limits, as large designs can be divided into hierarchical subsheets. -
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ReluxCAD
RELUX Informatik AG
The ReluxCAD for Revit add-on enables lighting design in Revit. Enhance the quality of your specialist planning. Using the ReluxCAD for Revit add-on, the required number of luminaires in interior spaces can be determined in line with standards. Electrical designers are thus equipped with an easy-to-use and comprehensible simulation tool in their familiar working environment. A native interface to the ReluxDesktop application enables loss-free communication with lighting designers. As an electrical designer, you are responsible for ensuring that the positioning of luminaires in buildings complies with standards. On average, only 10% of installed luminaires are checked for compliance with lighting standards at present. Enhance the planning quality of lighting in buildings! This tool allows you to do just that. Clear display of complex products. Simulation of IEC 63180 passive infrared sensors. Interior & exterior measurement areas.Starting Price: CHF 479.- single licence/year -
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Cableizer
Braavos GmbH
Cableizer is a software package for the electrical, mechanical, and thermal design of cable systems. Cableizer is completely web-based: it's inexpensive, widely available, easily customizable, has improved interoperability, and is easier to install and maintain than a desktop application. Properties * Software-based design of cables up to 500 kV! * Cable calculations including mass, heat of combustion, CO2, price, etc. * Calculations of rated current and cable pulls * Environmental calculations including magnetic fields and increase in ground temperature * Web-based without installation or dongle, but with automatic updates * Collaborate with share links directly with customerStarting Price: 333 EUR/month -
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Retrolux
Retrolux
Making Lighting and Energy Retrofits EASY Save time and money with the Retrolux Lighting and Energy audit, design and proposal software. LIGHTING RETROFIT CONTRACTORS, ESCOS AND LED TURNKEY SOLUTION PROVIDERS Wasting Time on Lighting Audits and Proposals? Retrolux is more than a software company, we are a team of energy experts here to support and grow your business. We believe that when you are successful we are successful. It's that simple. Easy To Use Intuitive software designed by a team of energy and lighting experts. Improve Efficiency and Accuracy No more pencil and paper lighting audits to decipher and duplicate data-entry. Lighting retrofit contractors, escos and led turnkey solution providers. Wasting Time on Lighting Audits and Proposals? Retrolux is more than a software company, we are a team of energy experts here to support and grow your business. We believe that when you are successful we are successful. It's that simple.Starting Price: $50/month/user/unit -
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Ansys Cloud Direct
Ansys
Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications -
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Capital X Panel Designer
Siemens
Capital X Panel Designer is a cloud-native electrical CAD solution that simplifies complex electrical design processes. It features a drag-and-drop interface, smart schematic automation tools, and real-time collaboration capabilities, allowing users to create circuits quickly and efficiently. It supports automatic wiring, symbol and wire tagging, circuit reuse, and real-time cross-referencing. Accessible via web browsers on various devices, it offers intelligent numbering for symbols and wires, automatic terminal generation, and seamless integration with cloud services. Designed for ease of use, it requires no downloads or installations, enabling teams to collaborate globally with version control and secure access permissions.Starting Price: $93.45 per month -
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CableCalc BS7671 18-2
CastlineSystems
CableCalc BS7671 is advanced electrical calculation and design software aligned with the latest BS7671:2018+A2:2022 Requirements for Electrical Installations (IET Wiring Regulations 18th Edition Amendment 2) that helps professionals size cables, evaluate circuits, and design distribution board projects with precision. It supports both single- and three-phase calculations for radial, ring, and sub-main circuits, calculating voltage drop, disconnection time, fault current, earth fault information, overload, short-circuit parameters, and correction factors such as temperature and grouping. It offers comprehensive databases of copper cables and protective devices to streamline selection and includes tools to generate detailed calculation documents, schedules, single-line diagrams, and schematic drawings for jobs ranging from simple circuits to multi-distribution board projects.Starting Price: $177.09 per month -
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SmartDesign
EasyPower
SmartDesign radically simplifies the design process: just right-click on an area to design and get automatic calculations of all equipment sizing requirements per the National Electrical Code® (NEC). It’s like having a professional engineer who has memorized the NEC and all the manufacturers’ catalogs, right on your desktop. Comprehensive, integrated reports provide valuable insight and alerts to problem areas. You can also ensure consistent standards with reusable design sheets set to specific parameters. Avoid reinventing the wheel with customizable design sheets. So, the next time you need a system design for another hospital, for example, start from an already-created design sheet—instead of from scratch. Eliminate the frustrating tedium of tracking and complying with countless NEC regulations and documentation requirements. -
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ElectricalOm
Modecsoft
MODECSOFT is a software house specialised in developing high-quality and easy-to-use software tools. We are dedicated to providing specialised software solutions, developing high performance tools for the needs of the building industry and custom applications for the business. Modecsoft ElectricalOM is a Powerful, Fast & Accurate Software for Low Voltage Electrical Design, Modeling and Certification. Calculations and Checks Compliance with BS 7671:2018 , Harmonized with IEC 60364. Our Software is Compliant with BS7671:2018 - 18th Edition. ElectricalOM will continue supporting 17th Edition. The Autodesk Revit ® - ElectricalOM synchronization tool provides Electrical Engineers and Designers the flexibility to synchronize their Revit Electrical Data with ElectricalOM allowing BS7671 Calculations to be applied in the Autodesk Revit Building Information Models and also to Auto-Create Schematic Diagrams.Starting Price: $645 -
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E-Coord
Elite Software Development
E-Coord gets the job done right when it comes to analyzing time-current curves for overcurrent protection devices. With built-in data for over 2,000 individual devices already built-in, all you have to do is select the devices you want from the list and you're ready to go. And if you need to edit the built-in data or add more devices, that's no problem with E-Coord. Download the functional demo version and see why E-Coord is the choice of many professional engineers. The Elite Software E-Coord Program aids in the selective coordination of fuses and circuit breakers by providing an instantaneous review of their time-current curves in a proposed electrical protection system. Besides revealing curve overlaps, E-Coord can also analyze the melting and clearing I²T value of every fuse and determine if any time-current overlaps exist that cannot be seen on a plot. E-Coord is supplied with a library of over 2,000 protection devices from numerous manufacturers.Starting Price: $999 -
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E3.series
Zuken
A comprehensive electrical and fluid planning software environment for advanced requirements. E3.series is a true concurrent electrical engineering environment supporting advanced requirements for electrical documentation, cabinet and wire harness design and manufacturing outputs. E3.series facilitates an efficient and accurate design and manufacturing process for electrical and fluid planning, cable planning, and wire harness and cabinet layout. Its object-oriented architecture provides an integrated and consistent design approach to help eliminate errors, improve quality and reduce design time. Consistency of all design phases through object orientation. Powerful automated operations and electrical checks. Comprehensive outputs for manufacturing and documentation. Native format library and design data management. Circuit diagrams, connection lists, layout plans and reports always up-to-date and synchronized.Starting Price: £80/€90/CHF110 per month -
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Cadison E&I Designer
Neilsoft
CADISON E&I Designer is a brainchild of unparalleled engineering experience and technological expertise of Electrical Engineers & Developers based on Object Oriented Technology. It has been developed with a mission of improving the electrical engineering efficiency and focusing more on project lifecycle challenges like change management, centralized documentation process, real-time updates, and true unification of information & data with graphics. Scalability and customization are two important pillars of CADISON E&I Designer with which its adoption to your business model and system becomes easy and effortless. Our mission is the accomplishment of accuracy, speed and in-time project completion for our Users. How CADISON Team has something different to Offer. -
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Ansys Motor-CAD
Ansys
Ansys Motor-CAD is a dedicated electric machine design tool for fast multiphysics simulation across the full torque-speed operating range. Motor-CAD enables design engineers to evaluate motor topologies and concepts across the full operating range, to produce designs that are optimized for performance, efficiency and size. Motor-CAD software’s four integrated modules—EMag, Therm, Lab, Mech—enable multiphysics calculations to be performed quickly and iteratively, so users can get from concept to final design in less time. Fast calculations and streamlined data input processes leave time for Motor-CAD users to explore more motor topologies and fully assess the impact of advanced loss effects in the initial stages of an electromechanical design. The release includes powerful new features for design optimization, multi-physics analysis and system modelling for electric motors. Fast multiphysics simulation across a full torque-speed operating range. -
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Ansys Exalto
Ansys
Ansys Exalto is a post-LVS RLCk extraction software solution that enables IC designers to accurately capture unknown crosstalk among different blocks in the design hierarchy by extracting lumped-element parasitics and generating an accurate model for electrical, magnetic and substrate coupling. Exalto interfaces with most LVS tools and can complement the RC extraction tool of your choice. Ansys Exalto post-LVS RLCk extraction lets IC designers accurately predict electromagnetic and substrate coupling effects for signoff on circuits that were previously "too big to analyze.” The extracted models are back-annotated to the schematic or netlist, and support all circuit simulators. The proliferation of RF and high-speed circuits in modern silicon systems has raised electromagnetic coupling to a first order effect that must be accurately modeled to reliably achieve silicon success. -
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FloWare
FlowCAD
FloWare is a bunch of useful tool enhancements which increase productivity in CAD Flow and PCB Design with OrCAD and Allegro. These enhancements have been created to meet the specific needs of customers in the fields of Setup, Display, Edit, Draft, Shapes, Check/Review, Documentation, etc. Installation of FloWare modules is a simple process and does not require any expert knowledge. Installation process includes a wizard and guides you through the FloWare installation process. Menu structures are automatically recognized by PCB Editor and shown in the tool bar. Simply choose from the available modules according to your needs and increase PCB design productivity. The license is distributed by e-mail and is valid for the site of your company location. Each module provides a detailed documentation. -
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CADMATIC Electrical
CADMATIC
Unleash the power of a fully integrated, single-software CAD solution to handle every aspect of electrical, automation, and instrumentation design. From basic to detailed projects, CADMATIC Electrical ensures up-to-date, error-free deliverables with its interconnected CAD environment and intelligent data management. Reduce manual inputs and enhance data integrity, allowing engineers to focus on innovation and efficiency with smart, flexible, and customizable workflows. Integrate seamlessly with other design disciplines to accelerate project timelines and improve overall project quality. Wiring, instrumentation loop, key single-line, load diagrams, etc. Lighting, outlets, cable ways, cabling, security, communication, etc. Cable, wiring, device, I/O, instrument, document lists, etc. CADMATIC Electrical automates routine tasks and eliminates the chance of errors, letting you focus on design work.Starting Price: $15,035 per year -
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Capital Harness Designer
Siemens
Capital Wiring Harness Designer enables engineers to create detailed, validated, and manufacturing-ready harness designs. It offers automated part selection routines for components like wires, terminals, seals, and heat-shrink sleeves, facilitating the creation of comprehensive bills of materials. It includes configurable design rule checks to ensure adherence to organizational standards and supports the calculation of manufacturing wire lengths, bundle diameters, and harness weights. Its collaborative design merges functions, allows for the integration of multi-source design inputs, and it manages multiple harness variants from a single design, streamlining the design process. -
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Capital Logic Designer
Siemens
Capital Logic Designer is a powerful graphical and design-management environment for authoring both logical connectivity designs (signals) and physical wiring designs (wires, splices, multicores, etc.). This advanced tool lets engineers quickly and robustly develop logical electrical designs. It supports platform-level electrical design and visualization, simplifying design changes and decision-making through direct navigation between wiring and topology abstractions. The tool automates and controls design tasks using rules-driven device placement and wire routing, with naming conventions, design rule checks, and templates that can be defined and automatically applied. It also provides early indications of wire routing, bundle diameters, and harness complexity, allowing wire lengths to be back-annotated to support accurate voltage-drop, weight, and other types of analyses. -
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CR-8000 Design Force
ZUKEN
Break down the boundaries of your electrical design process with Design Force, a true innovation in system-level IC package and PCB design and analysis. As the process for designing a complete product continues to increase in complexity, it often includes technologies that have become difficult and sometimes impossible for most ECAD tools to manage and address. Design Force provides the ability for design teams to take system-level design information from as early as the conceptual and planning phase and layout each board in the product, simultaneously considering the entire system view. Design Force fully leverages the latest industry hardware and software capabilities, allowing users to design in a native 3D environment, obtaining optimal performance by utilizing native 64-bit, multi-threading, multi-core processors. Design Force supports multiple client-server implementations and includes the ability to work from your corporate cloud. -
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Create instrumentation and electrical drawings, schematics, data sheets. Integrate with ETAP for detailed calculation and 3D for cable routing. AVEVA Electrical and Instrumentation delivers real-time collaboration between the electrical and instrumentation project disciplines. Data and high-quality deliverables are shared delivering accuracy and efficiency from the front-end to the detailed design phases of a project. AVEVA Electrical and instrumentation has been designed to make life easier for your engineers, and ultimately add value to your business. The product shares the same platform as AVEVA Unified Engineering and can be configured with third-party tools, making it flexible and efficient to deliver projects effectively. Providing data accuracy and the assurance your business is fully compliant with the latest standards. Have greater confidence in your engineering data ensuring a right-first-time methodology.
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ProDesign
Trimble
From initial design through to commissioning, right up to final completion, ProDesign's many design options provide total control. As the UK's leading software providing full electrical design and calculations to BS 7671, ProDesign is a powerful, engineer-friendly software that is ideal for projects of all sizes - from houses to airports. ProDesign is available in different versions to suit all business sizes and work types. If things change, no problem, just upgrade to the next level. Verify existing sites to comply with industry standards and access manufacturer's data for over 16,000 protective devices and busbar ranges. Instantly access key data about any network component in your project graphically displayed to suit the way you work. Save time by using calculated result summaries when diagnosing problems in your design. -
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elec calc
Trace Software International
elec calc™ is completely inspired by the Windows standard, with a multi-levels UNDO/REDO button available for all features, making your projects more secure. The products offers contextual menus and a ribbon interface allowing you to smoothly and gradually reach the commands you need as the project grows. The synoptic of the installation is realized very quickly by using the drag/drop feature placed in the object distribution bar. Those objects are natively included to the software but can also be personalized according to the project. The software arranges a positioning grid (that can be deactivated), the objects have intelligent connection points, the keyboard shortcuts help to the duplication of the whole or a part of an installation. Moreover, the new and unique intellisense feature facilitates and accelerates production of the one-line diagram by suggesting the most likely components to be connected to the selected one. -
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ETAP Software
ETAP
ETAP® is a full spectrum analytical engineering software company specializing in the analysis, simulation, monitoring, control, optimization, and automation of electrical power systems. ETAP electrical engineering software offers the best and most comprehensive suite of integrated power system enterprise solution. -
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EPLAN
EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG
Efficient engineering. EPLAN offers software and service for all aspects of engineering in the areas of electrical engineering, automation and mechatronics. We develop one of the world's leading software solutions for machine, plant and control cabinet construction. "Efficient engineering" is our motto: EPLAN is the ideal partner for simplifying challenging engineering processes. Whether small or large companies - we enable our customers to use their expertise more efficiently. EPLAN eBUILD New methodology for your engineering With EPLAN eBUILD, you take the decisive step towards automated engineering. Prefabricated or individually created libraries enable EPLAN users to create circuit diagrams practically at the push of a button in their daily work. eBUILD is available exclusively in the EPLAN ePULSE cloud environment. Reach your destination safely and on time with EPLAN eBUILD Not every new invention is actually an innovation: The Dynasphere may have been an interesting -
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EVOLVE Electrical
EVOLVE
The savviest detailing departments leverage technology to accomplish more work in less time. EVOLVE Electrical software creates an easy-to-use Revit experience for our end user and produces a level of accuracy that is needed to efficiently fabricate and construct your projects. From constructible BIM workflows to automated spooling, EVOLVE Electrical gives companies the tools they need to finish projects on time and within budget.Starting Price: $3,500 -
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Ansys RaptorH
Ansys
Ansys RaptorH is an electromagnetic modeling software with capacity to model power grids, full custom blocks, spiral inductors, and clock trees. Its high-speed distributed processing delivers accurate, silicon-proven S-parameter and RLCk models. RaptorH can analyze partial and unfinished layouts during the design phase and makes it easy to use either the general purpose HFSS engine or the silicon-optimized RaptorX engine for silicon structures. Ansys RaptorH extracts electromagnetic models at the pre-LVS stage for arbitrary routing and layout, including planes (solid or perforated), round shapes, spiral inductors, and MiM/MoM capacitors - with automatic setting of boundary conditions. The GUI allows point-and-click net selection and what-if analyses. RaptorH is supported by all major silicon foundries and can read encrypted technology files to set up analyses with either the HFSS or the Raptor engine.
