Simulation BIM software

Overview

This hub lists 7 published Simulation tools. 3 listings include a free or freemium option; 4 listings are paid-only or quote-based (no free tier listed). Common platforms: Windows, Web, and Linux. Common tasks: Daylight analysis. Common use cases: Daylight analysis.

Explore 7 tools

DesignBuilder - featured BIM software image

DesignBuilder

Energy modelers often bounce between a geometry tool, a simulation front end, and separate daylight or CFD packages. DesignBuilder bundles those workflows...

SimulationPaid (trial)
IES Virtual Environment - featured BIM software image

IES Virtual Environment

When a façade tweak changes solar gains or a plant schematic shifts peak loads, teams need one modeling spine instead of three disconnected spreadsheets. ...

SimulationPaid (trial)
OpenStudio - featured BIM software image

OpenStudio

Whole-building energy models still end up in EnergyPlus, and many teams do not want to hand-edit that input file. OpenStudio puts a versioned API in front...

SimulationOpen source
SimScale - featured BIM software image

SimScale

Desktop CFD still means a workstation, a mesh, and a queue. SimScale runs those studies in the browser, so a mechanical or building team can test flow, st...

SimulationFreemium
NVIDIA Omniverse - featured BIM software image

NVIDIA Omniverse

When architects, owners, and factory teams need a shared 3D scene that updates live across DCC tools, game engines, and IoT feeds, file drops stop scaling...

SimulationPaid
Spacio - featured BIM software image

Spacio

Spacio targets architects and developers who need defendable early schemes without standing up a full authoring environment first. You pick a location, wo...

SimulationFreemium
Treble Web Application - featured BIM software image

Treble Web Application

Room acoustic work often stalls where geometry hand-offs begin: consultants receive a shell model, spend days cleaning meshes, then wait again while a bat...

SimulationPaid (trial)

All 7 Simulation tools

  • DesignBuilder

    DesignBuilder is a Windows-based building performance simulation suite that wraps EnergyPlus, Radiance, and CFD engines in a modular GUI for

  • IES Virtual Environment

    IES Virtual Environment is an integrated desktop suite for whole-building performance simulation that ties energy, loads, daylighting, and

  • NVIDIA Omniverse

    NVIDIA Omniverse is a development platform built on OpenUSD for real-time 3D collaboration, simulation, and digital twins, with Omniverse

  • OpenStudio

    OpenStudio is a free, open-source energy modeling toolkit for Windows, Mac, and Linux that drives EnergyPlus and Radiance through a

  • SimScale

    SimScale is browser-based simulation software for CFD, FEA, and thermal studies, with a free Community plan capped at 10 quantitative

  • Spacio

    Spacio is a browser-based early-phase design platform for residential feasibility work that combines parametric massing, live code-oriented

  • Treble Web Application

    Treble Web Application is browser-based acoustic simulation software that couples wave-based and geometrical solvers so architects and