This listing is intended to be a compilation of all the applications that are available for AEC — for the design, construction, and operation of buildings and infrastructure — grouped into categories. While there are many applications that do not fit neatly into one single category, an application is listed in the primary category it can be best identified with. This is in order to keep the list compact and make applications easier to find. (Editor's Note: The ordering of the solutions is based entirely upon my knowledge of them rather than by market share, alphabetically, chronologically, etc..)
It should also be noted that this is an evolving list and will be continuously updated. (The current count is 116.) Feedback on applications that are missing or miscategorized is welcome. Please send the name of the application and the category you think it should be listed in to lachmi@aecbytes.com.
| Conceptual Design | SketchUp |
| Rhino | |
| form•Z | |
| FormIt | |
| Generative Design/Scripting | Grasshopper |
| Dynamo | |
| GenerativeComponents | |
| Marionette | |
| BIM (All Disciplines: Architecture, Structure, MEP) | Revit |
| OpenBuildings | |
| ARCHICAD | |
| Tekla Structures | |
| Allplan | |
| Vectorworks | |
| 4M BIM: IDEA, Fine | |
| Renga BIM | |
| BricsCAD BIM | |
| CYPE | |
| DDS CAD | |
| Autodesk Advance Steel | |
| Infrastructure | Infraworks |
| Civil 3D | |
| Bentley OpenSite | |
| Allplan Engineering Civil | |
| ArcGIS | |
| Cityzenith | |
| IES ICL | |
| Analysis (Structure, Energy, Lighting, etc.) | IESVE |
| SCIA | |
| eLumTools | |
| ETABS | |
| STAAD.Pro | |
| Robot Structural Analysis | |
| ProStructures | |
| Legion | |
| Autodesk Insight | |
| RISA | |
| Visualization | Artlantis |
| Twinmotion | |
| Enscape | |
| The Wild | |
| IrisVR | |
| LumenRT | |
| 3ds Max | |
| Dimension10 | |
| Design Collaboration | ProjectWise |
| Allplan BIMplus | |
| Autodesk BIM 360 | |
| BIMcloud | |
| Asite | |
| Revizto | |
| dRofus | |
| Plannerly | |
| PIM (Project Information Management) | Newforma Project Center |
| Deltek PIM | |
| TonicDM | |
| Laser Scanning | ContextCapture |
| Autodesk ReCap | |
| ClearEdge 3D | |
| Pointfuse | |
| Misc | BIMx |
| Ideate Software | |
| Mail Manager | |
| Bluebeam Revu | |
| Ajera | |
| Emerging Technologies | Layer |
| Speckle | |
| Hypar | |
| Kinship | |
| Bricks | |
| Simergy | |
| Monograph | |
| Aditazz | |
| Infurnia |
| Model Review, Coordination, and Clash Detection | Solibri |
| Navisworks | |
| Bentley Navigator | |
| Visicon | |
| BIMAssure | |
| Verifi3D | |
| BEXEL Engineer | |
| BIM Track | |
| Construction Planning and Scheduling | STR Vision |
| BEXEL Manager | |
| Primavera | |
| Touchplan | |
| Synchro | |
| vPlanner | |
| RIB iTWO | |
| Construction Management | Assemble |
| Aconex | |
| Trimble Connect | |
| CMiC | |
| BIMcollab | |
| Corecon | |
| 3D Repo | |
| PlanGrid | |
| Procore | |
| SKYSITE | |
| InEight | |
| Preconstruction | BuildingConnected |
| Join | |
| Emerging Technologies | Manufacton |
| OpenSpace AI | |
| Briq | |
| RIB MTWO |
| CAFM (Computerized Aided Facility Managament) | EcoDomus |
| BIM 360 Ops | |
| Archibus | |
| FM:Systems | |
| BEXEL FM | |
| CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) | Maximo |
| Tririga | |
| Emerging Technologies | VueOps |
| BIM Handover | |
| TWINUP |
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