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, Energy simulation, and HVAC modeling. Common use cases: Daylight analysis and Early design performance studies.

Explore 7 tools

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
OpenStudio - featured BIM software image

OpenStudio

Whole-building energy models still depend on EnergyPlus under the hood, but raw IDF editing scares off many design teams. OpenStudio adds a stable SDK, gr...

SimulationOpen source
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)
SimScale - featured BIM software image

SimScale

Traditional CFD and FEA tools often tie teams to local workstations, long meshing chores, and specialists who guard the setup files. SimScale moves multip...

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)
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)

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 an open-source building energy modeling platform that wraps EnergyPlus and Radiance with a graphical application, SDK, and

  • SimScale

    SimScale is a cloud-native engineering simulation platform that runs CFD, FEA, and thermal analysis in the browser for AEC teams studying

  • 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