Analysis BIM software
Overview
This hub lists 24 published Analysis tools. 5 listings include a free or freemium option; 19 listings are paid-only or quote-based (no free tier listed). Common platforms: Web, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Common tasks: Finite element analysis, BIM coordination, BIM model exchange, Daylight analysis, and Daylight simulation. Common use cases: 3D structural analysis, Construction documentation, and Early design performance studies.
Explore 24 tools
All 24 Analysis tools
- Adaptis
Adaptis is an AI-assisted capital and lifecycle planning platform for building portfolios that simulates design and retrofit scenarios to
- Autodesk Forma Site Design
Autodesk Forma Site Design is a cloud planning and schematic design environment for AEC teams that combines site context, fast massing
- Converge
Converge is a concrete intelligence platform that pairs wireless jobsite sensors with web and mobile apps to monitor strength and
- cove.tool
cove.tool is a cloud building-performance platform centered on analysis.tool that combines early energy, daylight, carbon, and cost studies
- DesignBuilder
DesignBuilder is a Windows-based building performance simulation suite that wraps EnergyPlus, Radiance, and CFD engines in a modular GUI for
- Dlubal RFEM 6
Dlubal RFEM 6 is a Windows-based 3D finite element analysis program for structural engineers that links member, plate, shell, and solid
- Giraffe
Giraffe is a browser-based spatial platform for real estate development that layers GIS data, editable 3D massing, and spreadsheet-style
- IDEA StatiCa
IDEA StatiCa is structural design and code-check software for steel connections, concrete details, and anchoring that links to CAD and FEA
- ideCAD One AEC
ideCAD One AEC is a Windows-based integrated BIM suite for architects and structural engineers that keeps architectural modeling, structural
- IES Virtual Environment
IES Virtual Environment is an integrated desktop suite for whole-building performance simulation that ties energy, loads, daylighting, and
- Infraspace
Infraspace is a browser-based generative design platform for linear infrastructure that optimizes alignments for roads, rail, power lines,
- Ladybug Tools
Ladybug Tools is a free, open-source plugin suite for Grasshopper and Rhino that wires climate files, daylight engines such as Radiance, and
- LightStanza
LightStanza is a cloud-based daylight and lighting analysis platform that uses the validated Radiance engine to deliver fast, accurate
- MIDAS Gen
MIDAS Gen is MIDAS IT's integrated structural analysis and design software for buildings and general structures, covering linear and
- One Click LCA
One Click LCA is cloud sustainability software for building and manufacturing teams that need life-cycle assessment, embodied carbon
- OpenBuildings Designer
OpenBuildings Designer is Bentley Systems multidiscipline BIM authoring software that combines architectural, mechanical, electrical, and
- SCIA Engineer
SCIA Engineer is a Windows based structural analysis and multi material design platform that keeps modeling, finite element analysis, code
- SimScale
SimScale is a cloud-native engineering simulation platform that runs CFD, FEA, and thermal analysis in the browser for AEC teams studying
- SkySpark by SkyFoundry
SkySpark by SkyFoundry is an analytics and visualization platform for smart buildings and equipment systems that ingests automation and
- StruSoft
StruSoft is a Swedish structural software house whose flagship FEM-Design package delivers 3D finite element analysis and member design for
- Transcend Design Generator
Transcend Design Generator is generative infrastructure design software for water, wastewater, and power projects that produces optioned
- Treble Web Application
Treble Web Application is browser-based acoustic simulation software that couples wave-based and geometrical solvers so architects and
- TwinMaster
TwinMaster is an AI-guided digital twin platform for AEC that uses the Arch-e multi-agent copilot so teams can prompt 3D BIM models in
- Wallacei
Wallacei is a Grasshopper plugin for Rhinoceros that adds evolutionary multi-objective optimization, simulation coupling, and analytic











