CompPad - Engineering Calculations in Writer

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Maintainer:
muddybeemer
Rating:
4

Average: 4 (4 votes)

Application:
Writer
Tags:
writer, extension, mathematics, extension, math, extension, engineering, extension, physics, extension, Education, extension, mathcad, extension
Screenshots:
http://comppad.sourceforge.net/example%20-%20fluid%20mechanics.png
Source code:
http://comppad.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/comppad/
Post date:
Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 - 20:46
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Compatible with OpenOffice 4: Unknown
User feedback:
Compatible with OpenOffice 4.x?

CompPad is an OpenOffice / LibreOffice extension for performing units-aware engineering calculations within a Writer document, allowing calculations to be documented using all of the resources of Writer. It has functionality similar to Mathcad®, but is not intended to be a Mathcad® clone. Rather, I hope it might prove more flexible and extensible, and that it might encourage other free / open-source alternatives to a proprietary engineering "Killer App."

For more information, check out the following links:
User Guide
Home Page
CompPad Wiki

The following features are currently supported:

  • Fast formula editing using a tool-bar edit field similar to the formula bar in Calc
  • Real and Complex numbers, booleans, vectors and matrices
  • Units of measure are handled in all quantities and calculations
  • Support for alternate decimal separators - either "." or ","
  • Basic operators including arithmetical, exponential, comparison, rounding, trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential..
  • Vector / matrix operators including transpose, multiply, Min, max, sum, product. Scalar operators can also be applied to vectors.
  • User-defined functions
  • Basic X-Y plotting
  • Unicode characters in variable names.
  • Changing expression color
  • Setting number of displayed significant figures.

If you require a certain feature for CompPad to be useful to you, please
let me know. I may be able to give it priority.

For assistance, email: CompPad-develop.

CompPad - Engineering Calculations in Writer

Version Operating system Compatibility Release date
0.3.04-a System Independent -- 30/04/2011 - 16:12 More information Download
0.3.03-a System Independent -- 05/04/2011 - 22:29 More information Download
0.3.02-a System Independent -- 02/04/2011 - 12:24 More information Download
0.3.01 System Independent -- 25/03/2011 - 01:03 More information Download
0.2.01 System Independent -- 01/05/2010 - 23:21 More information Download
0.1.4 System Independent -- 20/03/2010 - 19:41 More information Download
0.1.3 System Independent -- 08/03/2010 - 21:28 More information Download
0.1.2 System Independent -- 24/02/2010 - 22:16 More information Download
0.1.1 System Independent -- 17/02/2010 - 21:00 More information Download

Comments

Great project.
Perhaps you already thought about it, but what about integration with Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ ? Would it be useful?

Anyway, thanks for your work!