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iPhone apps for engineers

iPhone apps for engineers

iPhone apps for engineers

(OP)
Hi guys.

I just recently joined the iPhone club, and now that I've had my fix of cool games, I was wondering if anyone knows of apps that I can use for actual work (Struct design / stress analysis, math, pdf document review...)

Any ideas?

tg

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

I recommend these;

Convert - free, for quick, easy conversions

Google Earth - free

myLanguage - the best free translator app I've found.  You can not only dial in the language, but the dialect as well.  I entertained myself for an hour waiting for someone at the dentists office toggling between French (France) and Haitian Creole.  Do NOT get freetranslator. I don't think it gets anything right

abc speller - free - I like it because it will guess the word you want if you are really off, not just tell you that you are wrong.

My iPhone came with Maps, but when I got a Mobile Me account, they are now combined in a single app called navigation.  Mobile Me costs $99/year.  For me it is worth it's weight in gold.

Your iPhone also comes with a calculator app.  When you turn the phone sideways, the calculator goes from simple arithmetic to scientific.  There's not much in the way of financial functions, but i don't use those that offen.

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Rather get an HP 50g graphing calculator IMO. Then head over to www.hpcalc.org for many many free programs...

Adriaan.
I am an Engineer/part time student (Mechatronics) from South Africa.
Advice from lecturer: "Be warned - when you go into industry your boss will give you a thousand things to do and he wants them done yesterday!" So far he is right...

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

GraphCalc is a pretty nice free graphing calculator.

 

RE: iPhone apps for engineers


Mostly I've been using MobileMe to sync calendars and contacts.  Last night I uploaded a 6 minute video of various stills of my BF's 6 yo daughter that I edited and set to music so that her mother could share it with her rather large family.  In the past I've used YouTube, Break, Photobucket and a couple more forgettable sites.

MobilMe was so much easier and faster than anything I've used before.  And they didn't give me a hard time about not having rights to the music like that PITA YouTube.  I'm liking Mobile Me more and more.  I also like the more private nature of the site.  Although my video is available to view by anyone and downloadable, someone would have to go to extreme measures to find it.

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

If you do a search for "rc beams" in the App Store, two programs come up for reinforced concrete design.  I haven't used them, has anyone else?

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

- Matrin sprocket, pretty good app with formalae, etc.

- mecalQ, calcs, etc.

- ThomasNet, good news, links

- Drawvis Free, cad app

- Measures Lite, interesting app for sending people pics and dimensioning them

- ResistorCC, color code resistor app

- Engineering News, pretty obvious

-Pi Cubed Lite, nice math app

- APOD, astronomy pic of the day

- 5-0 Radio, listen to police, fire, etc around the world

- Wings, fun flight sim

- TapFarm, ohhhhhhhhhh

and Paper Toss if you are really bored at work..
 

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

(OP)
Thanks, all.

Keep 'em coming...

tg

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

and BTW, an iPhone will not help you "Improve Myself to Get Ahead in My Work"... If anything, it has seriously hindered my productivity from 3pm onward.

I then made the dumb choice of forwarding my work cell to my iPhone so I'd have an excuse to keep it on me all day long. One of our salesmen has the same problem. It's like crack for engineers.

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

(OP)
Agree 1000 (quick game of iPhone Real Racing as I take a break from this post...OK I'm back) percent, shawnpeter!

I don't do crack, but I know what you mean...:)

tg

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Kele calculator -- a really nice engineering units converter (free).

Good on ya,

Goober Dave

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

GraphiX48 - it's the HP-48GX calculator.  When mine (HP-48SX) died, a little piece of me died too, until I found this app.

RE: iPhone apps for engineers


trainguy, I just reread your original list and you mention pdf's  I hadn't checked recently but that was one of the problems I had initially.  You couldn't see pdf's on your iPhone.  But there are a few pdf readers, none for free.  There's also something called GetPaid that claims to do pdf invoicing and time sheets.  Could be useful if you do a lot of field work and need to track your time.  I can't imagine doing invoices that way.  Kinda pricey too at $4.99.

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

I open PDF files (via Internet links) all the time on my iPhone 3GS. I had never noticed that you couldn't.

What's new is that you can file them away in the iBooks app.
 

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Search the App Store for "structural", it looks like there's at least several dozen apps for wood, steel and concrete engineering.
 

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Yeah I never have had a problem with PDF's. Check iTunesU (university) for a lot of engineering lectures. Also search for podcasts about engineering in iTunes.

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Yeah, I'd pay cash money for an iTunes that actually worked worth a crap.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

Dropbox:  Free instant cloud computing.

You install it on your phone and on any number of computers, and it creates a subfolder under your 'my documents' folder called 'my dropbox.'  Any document you put in here instantly appears on all your other computers and on your phone.  It's free to a size limit (couple gigs I think)

Soulver:  A better calculator

It calculates in realtime as you type in expressions, and you can do different ones on different lines, and can reference lines back to each other.  Like a cross between a calculator and a simple spreadsheet.




I'm looking for something I can use to do open channel flow calculations with - maybe a spreadsheet or formula manager I can plug Manning's Equation into.  Anybody know of a good one?  I don't want to pay for an app that won't work.

Hydrology, Drainage Analysis, Flood Studies, and Complex Stormwater Litigation for Atlanta and the South East - http://www.campbellcivil.com

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

The GraphiX48 app has been taken down.  I would bet it has to do with copyright issues - the developer must have ported at least some of the code from the original.

Unfortunate - I love my 48, but I don't carry it with me...


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RE: iPhone apps for engineers

For you HP48 fans, I found one that works very well:  do a search for m48.

They get around the copyrighted ROM issue by letting you download the app, then the first time you start the app, it goes and gets the ROM from somewhere and loads it.

It comes with several different skins, including one that emulates the colors and buttons of the 48G/G+/GX.  I've put in a few programs and all functionality seems to be there.


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RE: iPhone apps for engineers

iseismo.  Plots out acceleration versus time in strip chart form for all 3 axes, high pass filter option, spectrum analysis, and ability to email data in csv form.

 

RE: iPhone apps for engineers

For HP calc emulators, I have the following:
i41CX+, 42s, i48, and FIN-12C

For other math related stuff I have:
ProStats, Quick Graph, and Math Ref

I also have Documents to Go, which has prett good Excel-compatible spreadsheet along with its other apps. However, to make the best use of Docs to Go, it would be best to have an external keyboard. I'm currently researching external keyboards. Does anyone have a recommendation?

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