Mathcad alternative
Mathcad alternative
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Does anybody know of an inexpensive alternative to Mathcad. I am looking for graphical display of very basic calculations that are higher level than a text editor.
I do pages of similar hand calcs (job after job) and want to put the equations into a standardized editor that will allow me to put in angle and square feet, then reshuffle the results via my equations and generate my force results. The most advanced feature I need is a working 'e'.
In the end, I need to print out a tidy sheet of equations and values as I've seen Mathcad output from other engineers.
Seems everything out there costs $1000. Any suggestions?
Thanks
I do pages of similar hand calcs (job after job) and want to put the equations into a standardized editor that will allow me to put in angle and square feet, then reshuffle the results via my equations and generate my force results. The most advanced feature I need is a working 'e'.
In the end, I need to print out a tidy sheet of equations and values as I've seen Mathcad output from other engineers.
Seems everything out there costs $1000. Any suggestions?
Thanks





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Note that some are free and may be useful depending on your needs.
If you find something to be interesting don't forget to search the eng-tips site for comments, I know many of these have been discussed.
I use CalcCenter which is very powerful but probably not the easiest to learn. My biggest complaint is that the output is not very attractive when compared to Mathcad, but then very few CAS programs are. While $595 is not cheap it is much better that the $1200 to $1800 range of Mathcad, Maple, and Mathematica.
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