Lately I have been struggling with some of the software we use in our office which seems to not live up to the licensing price tag, ex. RAM not designing slender concrete columns per the latest codes, Enercalc using the wrong 'd' for shear calculations, etc. A few of us at our office have taken to developing our own applications some in python some in vba, think excel spreadsheets with more power, or supplemental excel spreadsheets to handle aspects outside the scope of the software.
I am wondering if an open source alternative existed would the engineering community embrace it or write it off. Seems to be a stigma of if the software wasn't paid for it must not be adequate or maybe not calculate things properly.
If the community here is up for it I am open to creating and maintaining a git hub or similar account to host community created applications for structural analysis and design.
My goal is for this to be geared to Structural Engineering which is why I have posted here and not one of the eng. software pages.
I am wondering if an open source alternative existed would the engineering community embrace it or write it off. Seems to be a stigma of if the software wasn't paid for it must not be adequate or maybe not calculate things properly.
If the community here is up for it I am open to creating and maintaining a git hub or similar account to host community created applications for structural analysis and design.
My goal is for this to be geared to Structural Engineering which is why I have posted here and not one of the eng. software pages.
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