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Helpful Engineering tools?

Helpful Engineering tools?

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Does anyone know of any free/shareware software for engineers.I'm looking for tools that I could load on my desktop and have easy access to everyday calculations, convertors, threads, o-rings, material etc.

Thanks in advance~

-Art

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

I've always found search engines quite helpful.

Use of one might have taken you to thread404-128331

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RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

There's already a thread somewhere here on this subject, but I can't remember which forum.

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RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

cam721,

The most useful bit of freeware I ever found for engineering is a small program called "Convert" by Josh Madison.  Go to http://www.joshmadison.com/software/ and get a copy.

Timelord  

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

Try here for one of many websites with a free and extremely handy convertor tool. Download the "Convert.exe" program.


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RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

www.matweb.com provides an extensive list of material's properties.

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

Just a suggestion, instead of looking for stuff that will fit your calculation application, you can put together excel spread sheets that can do your everyday calculations and also you can tabulate the material specs as needed.  

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Tobalcane

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

Suggest you invest in Mathcad and develop some of your own. There is a Mathcad lookalike freeware program out there. But of course it doesnt have software support etc.

A google search for engineering freeware will give you many sites. You can choose from the discipline that iterests you. Asking this forum is a little lazy.

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

www.engineersedge.com has lots of built in calculators.  They may have some that will assist you.

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

RE: Helpful Engineering tools?

Other free mathematical packages include R, for stats, and Octave, which is a Matlab clone like Scilab (it is a better clone but is not as actively supported, and less powerful).


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