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ORS Dragonfly 2025 (also referred to as Dragonfly 3D World 2025) is the latest iteration of Object Research Systems (ORS)’ flagship scientific image processing and analysis software. Designed for researchers, engineers, and scientists, it provides advanced tools for 2D/3D/4D imaging workflows, including segmentation, visualization, and quantitative analysis of data from sources like X-ray CT, SEM, FIB-SEM, confocal microscopy, and hyperspectral imaging. This release emphasizes AI-powered deep learning enhancements, community collaboration, and streamlined workflows to accelerate discoveries in fields such as materials science, biology, and engineering. Key Features Deep Learning Integration: Commercially supported engine for training and executing custom neural networks, enabling rapid segmentation and feature extraction (e.g., porosity analysis, fiber orientation, or object labeling). Image Processing Tools: Supports import of...

Honeywell UniSim Design Suite R500 is a comprehensive process simulation and modeling software platform designed for engineers in industries such as oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals. It enables the creation of both steady-state and dynamic models for plant design, optimization, safety studies, operations monitoring, debottlenecking, digital twins, and business planning—all within a unified environment. This release (R500) builds on the UniSim EvOlution platform, offering improved performance for on- and offline applications, making it easier to capture process experience, enhance plant profitability, and maximize return on simulation investments. Key Features Steady-State and Dynamic Modeling: Supports rigorous simulations for process design and optimization under the same interface, dramatically improving workflow efficiency. Advanced Solvers: Includes the proprietary NOVA solver via UniSim...

Overview of QPS Qimera v2.7.1 Qimera v2.7.1 is a minor maintenance release in the Qimera 2.7 series from QPS (Quality Positioning Services), a leading hydrographic software for processing, editing, and visualizing multibeam sonar and LiDAR data. This version focuses on bug fixes, performance tweaks, and minor enhancements to improve workflow efficiency for surveyors, oceanographers, and marine engineers. It builds on the core strengths of Qimera, such as its dynamic surface generation, variable-resolution gridding, and seamless integration with QPS’s ecosystem (e.g., QINSy for acquisition and Fledermaus for 4D visualization). Released as part of the ongoing 2.7 updates in 2025, it addresses issues from prior patches while maintaining compatibility with large datasets from systems like Kongsberg EM-series. Qimera excels in real-time data...

  Overview of Bladed V4.8 Bladed V4.8 is a major release of DNV’s (formerly DNV GL) Bladed wind turbine design and analysis software, introduced in 2016 as a transformative update to enhance functionality, user experience, and computational efficiency for wind turbine manufacturers, certification agencies, design consultants, and research organizations. This version builds on Bladed’s legacy as the industry-standard tool for onshore and offshore wind turbine modeling, validated against real-world data from diverse turbines. It supports comprehensive aeroelastic simulations, structural dynamics, and certification workflows, enabling users to optimize designs, reduce loads, and ensure compliance with standards like IEC 61400. At the time of release, Bladed was already the primary simulation tool for about half of global utility-scale wind turbines, and V4.8...

Overview of WormLab 2024.1 WormLab 2024.1 is a minor update to the WormLab 2024 software suite from MBF Bioscience, a comprehensive hardware and software solution for imaging, tracking, and quantitative behavioral analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and other nematodes. This version builds on the patented worm-tracking technology to enable fully automated characterization of behaviors like crawling, swimming, thrashing, omega bends, coiling, and self-overlap. It’s designed for neurobiology, genetics, and pharmacology research, allowing researchers to process large datasets efficiently and extract metrics such as speed, direction, distance traveled, posture changes, and sinusoidal movement amplitude. The 2024 release emphasizes improved handling of larger video sequences and enhanced flexibility, particularly for Mac users, making it suitable for high-throughput assays in academic and...

Overview of FARO As-Built 2025 for Revit FARO As-Built for AUTOdesk Revit is a specialized software plugin designed for architects, engineers, and general contractors working with 3D laser scan data in BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflows. It enables quick and precise analysis, modeling, alignment, editing, and extraction of point cloud data directly within the Revit environment, facilitating accurate as-built documentation for building redesign, maintenance, or enhancement projects. This helps reduce rework, cost overruns, and ensures designs align with real-world site conditions. The 2025 version (specifically v2025.0, released on June 27, 2025) integrates seamlessly with the Revit user interface and supports large point cloud datasets, making it ideal for converting scan data into native Revit objects and BIM models. Key Features...

PIX4Dmatic is a desktop photogrammetry software developed by Pix4D, optimized for processing large-scale datasets (e.g., up to 10,000 images at 20 MP each) from drones, terrestrial scanners, or other sources. It enables fast generation of high-quality 3D models, point clouds, orthomosaics, and DSMs for applications in surveying, agriculture, construction, mining, and forensics. Unlike PIX4Dmapper, which is more general-purpose, PIX4Dmatic focuses on efficiency for massive projects with GPU acceleration for key steps like calibration and densification. PiX4Dmatic 1.81 is a minor stable release (likely a patch following 1.8.0, based on the versioning pattern of previous updates like 1.7.3 to 1.8). It includes bug fixes and performance tweaks inherited from recent versions, such as improved DSM speed for corridor projects and better...

LiDAR360 8.2.2 is a comprehensive point cloud post-processing and industry application software developed by GreenValley International, designed for handling large-scale LiDAR data (up to TB-level processing). It includes over 700 tools for visualizing, manipulating, classifying, and analyzing point clouds from various sources like airborne, mobile, terrestrial, and UAV LiDAR systems. The software supports applications in fields such as surveying, forestry, urban planning, mining, powerline inspection, and environmental monitoring. LiDAR360 8.2.2 appears to be a minor update within the LiDAR360 V8 series, building on the foundational framework introduced in V8. This framework provides core functionalities like data management, automatic strip alignment, point cloud classification, and efficient interaction with massive datasets. Minor updates like 8.2.2 are typically free for users with an...

Qimera FMMidwater is a software program designed to rapidly extract relevant water column features from a range of sonar file formats. Raw sonar files are first converted to a Generic Water Column format (GWC) for use in further processing and visualization. A simple graphical user interface is used to perform threshold filtering on a number of key parameters to help with feature extraction. Qimera FMMidwater also provides multiple views of the water column features and finally allows for easy export to a variety of Qimera Fledermaus visualization objects and text files.

FARO As-Built 2025 for AutoCAD software enables efficient conversion of real-world captured data into CAD and BIM parametric models. The As-Built solution streamlines project cost control and quality assurance by significantly reducing model extraction time, minimizing rework, and enhancing delivery standards. This software provides a rapid, user-friendly, and seamlessly integrated pathway for creating as-built CAD and BIM models. Capable of modeling infrastructure designs, 2D architectural plans, industrial and MEP facilities, and mining operations, it processes point cloud data to generate orthophoto imagery. It also supports flexible modeling and documentation of building components, inventory management, piping systems, steel structures, terrain, and civil engineering projects (including tunnels, bridges, or highways). As-Built for Autodesk Revit utilizes laser-scanned data to extract BIM models with...

PressSIGN 12 Printing Quality Control Software is a comprehensive system integrating density and chromaticity detection for printing quality assurance. It accurately measures color performance data, displays color expression metrics, and uses a simplified scoring system to determine compliance with target color standards. Through systematic step-by-step guidance, the software assists printers in precisely adjusting printing press performance, ensuring high-quality prints that meet international printing standards.  

UK-based PDM Analysis launched its SCORG product, which specializes in helical gear profile analysis, thermodynamic calculations, and CFD rotor structure mesh generation. By integrating 3D and 1D simulation software, it enables engineers to efficiently perform fluid dynamics and thermodynamic analyses for screw machinery, facilitating rapid performance optimization. The rotor features a spiral gear configuration with unique contours that allow male and female rotors to mesh, creating a sealed space between rotor and housing. The flow field in twin-screw systems comprises three distinct zones: a stationary low-pressure area, a deformation compression zone, and a stationary high-pressure area. Fluid flows from the suction zone through the compression zone to the discharge zone, with leakage occurring through inter-screw gaps (rotor clearance, radial clearance,...

CONVERGE CFD is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software focused on combustion simulation, internal combustion engines and multiphase flow. Its core strengths are autonomous meshing technology, efficient chemical reaction models and complex geometry processing capabilities. ‌ Core functions ‌ Autonomous grid adjustment ‌: automatically optimize the grid density according to the flow field changes, improve the calculation efficiency and accuracy. ‌ ‌ Combustion model ‌: Built-in combustion mechanism of various fuels, supporting turbulence, flame propagation and other complex phenomena simulation. ‌ Multiphase flow processing ‌: Suitable for gas/liquid/solid mixed flow scenarios, such as fuel mixing optimization in piston bowl design. application scenarios Mainly used in automotive engine design (optimizing combustion chamber shape, injection strategy), aerospace field (engine combustion chamber stability...

Datacolor Match Textile is a specialized color formulation software designed for the textile industry. It enables users to create fast, accurate color matches and generate the lowest-cost dye recipes while accounting for variables like dyestuff compatibility, substrate variations, process differences, color constancy, and metamerism. This helps reduce shade corrections, minimize waste of dyes, chemicals, and water, and streamline production timelines for faster time-to-market. Version 24.1.0.17 appears to be a specific build within the 24.x series, likely a minor update or installer variant (e.g., “BR” may indicate a region-specific or beta release). It is available for download via Datacolor’s official channels for entitled users and requires specific prerequisites for installation. Key Features SmartMatch Technology: Uses patented algorithms to identify discrepancies between...

AVEVA Predictive Analytics 2025 (version updated in May 2025) is an AI-powered predictive maintenance software solution from AVEVA, designed to enhance asset reliability and minimize unplanned downtime in industrial environments. It leverages advanced pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining to analyze near-real-time sensor data against historical equipment profiles, providing early warnings of deviations—days, weeks, or months before failure. Targeted at asset-intensive sectors like oil and gas, power generation, chemicals, mining, and manufacturing, the software supports predictive maintenance (PdM) programs by forecasting time-to-failure, diagnosing faults, and recommending prescriptive actions, ultimately reducing maintenance costs and improving operational efficiency. This release emphasizes scalability for monitoring single assets or thousands across global sites, with seamless integration into the AVEVA PI System for enterprise-wide...

CADlink DTF Direct To Film Edition V11 Digital Factory Direct-to-Film Desktop Edition: One DTF software package to meet all your needs. With an unmatched combination of features, no other DTF printing software offers the same level of file preparation, color management, and production automation tools as Digital Factory Direct-to-Film Edition. The desktop version supports DTF printers up to 17 inches (A2 or smaller) and multiple printer ports.