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Use of MathCAD
Morning all,
I have just sat through a seminar on MathCAD. Admittedly by a specific MathCAD training company.
The software appears to be able to do all that excell can but with a simpler interface and transparency that allows easy checking.
I struck me that a knowledge of and access the program may have saved many hours of student time during design exercises, and probably lecturer time in marking. I understand that Excel has it place as a readily available and flexible tool that is relatively inexpensive, but wonder if for STRE design work MathCAD may have a place (or whether it is used already?).
I am interested to know what your experience of the program in industry is:
- Have you heard of it?
- Do you use it and to what extent?
- What do you think of it as a design tool?
- Do you think it would be suitable for use on PET course/STRE’s?
Thanks all.
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Nik
Not heard of, must see if I can get an educational copy. We must not use it for the design exercises otherwise what will the students have to do!!
Kind Regards
Neil
I used it while at uni and may have a few of the old textbooks somewhere, but that wont help anyone in the near future. I found once you got to grips with it it was useful, but that took quite some time. I don’t think there would be enough time to teach people during the course. It was really useful for matrix based equations and FEM calculations (if my sketchy memory is correct).