Replacement for the old Mathcad

[Ussuri]

Further to the thread below looking at alternative calculation software, I stumbled across another possible contender call Tech Editor.

0001. Dystlab TechEditor 4.3.3 - Dystlab Store

TechEditor is a development environment for technical documentation and engineering calculations that provides high-quality document formatting combined with advanced calculation capabilities.

dystlab.store

I haven't tried it but the website blurb sounded promising. Unlike SMath, which is Russia based, this one appears Ukraine based.

Blockpad - Structural engineering general discussion

In my quest to find a replacement for Smath, I came across this. Not free but looks promising and not that expensive. Anyone messed with it? Blockpad

www.eng-tips.com

Mathcad Prime
Maple Flow
Smath
Calcpad
Blockpad

Plus things like

Excel
Matlab
Octave
Python/Julia (Jupyter)
wxMaxima

 

[GregLocock]

I have had some success in getting ChatGPT to write Matlab/Octave scripts, and dystr.com is an integrated AI /Python environment. However, neither can be trusted, and in once case they both made the same mistake. They do however produce simple and well commented code. which can then be corrected by hand.

This is typical of the sort of nonsense they throw up. No amount of 'correction' will actually get to a correct script, they just apply bodge after bodge

 

[IRstuff]

Dystlab is primarily a documentation generator, with a math engine. Its operation is all hidden inside "math" objects, so using it as a calculation worksheet seems cumbersome and awkward, to me.

 

[SE2607]

I looked at BlockPad. It appeared promising, but I am too far down the Excel rabbit hole to climb out now.