General Calculation Software
General Calculation Software
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We are looking at switching from Mathcad to some other software for calculations. A plus would be enhanced matrix manipulation capabilities, visualization capabilities etc. But, the first requirement is to have similar capabilities to mathCAD in presenting simple calculations (and handling unit conversions).
I am looking at Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. Are there any other softwares I should be considering? Any comments on these softwares?
Thanks,
Mason
I am looking at Maple, Matlab, and Mathematica. Are there any other softwares I should be considering? Any comments on these softwares?
Thanks,
Mason






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But you should try it, you may like it too. There is a trial version available (I think for 14 days.) I used to do all my programming in Visual Basic but but now use CalcCenter for almost all my calcs. Usually it's faster with CalcCenter but for long programs or for output that I want to look good, I would still like VB. Note that CalcCenter is considerably cheaper than the others you mentioned. I find it very complete for my needs even though it contains only about half of the commands in Mathematica.
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-Mike
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As an added advantage, Python is a much more general language than Matlab, so you may find it useful for many other things. For instance, I have scripts that collect data from our network, generate plots, find interesting trends, and generate a PDF report, all automatically.
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See http://www.cscworld.com/
If you are in Australia contact robert.danis@cscworld.com
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How about using MS Office Suite to do some of the calculations and plotting -- for example, MS Excel and MS Access ...
Thnaks,
Gordan Feric, PE
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If you can stand Matlab style scripts then there are several free alternatives - Octave is the closest to Matlab syntax, whereas Scilab is the most powerful and has a large and active community. There are also others such as Maxima.
My problem with matlab and similar languages is that they are too clever for their own good, reading other people's scripts is murder.
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Most of the things we would be doing are one offs –shafts levers etc can it do this. Also on the web site there is no mention of cost.