Amazing program. I am a Mathcad user for more than 25 years. This is the first program that I see can give serious challenge to Mathcad. Just get the units incorporated. The rest can come later. Wonderful.

>>Please, come back soon<<

I am stuck. Not leaving any time soon. My small contribution is on the way as saying thanks.

SM

Hi Radovan,

I just discovered this site yesterday (I think you already know how). Let's support him in whatever ways we can. Spread the word. He is doing a great job. Forget the fact that this is one man's crusade; this is a serious challenge to big timer.

SM

Hello SM


Yes, it is. Let me consider its advantages and disadvantages as a software product (I am speaking here not as a user, but as marketer).
Advantages mostly are the following:
- It is industrial quality product with tuned GUI and just minor bugs;
- It is free, you need not to pay for it;
- It can be used as for smartphones as for desktop PC;
- It is compatible (not completely, but it does not very important in this case) with its main competitor and inspirer - MathCAD;
- and many others ...

There is only one disadvatage - it is not new; most of the features and even the main idea were just copied from MathCAD. SMath need to invent a "new idea" to become a commercial product. In other case, SMath will stay free forever (MathCAD can easily beat you, reducing its price to corresponding "student" edition).

What I am going to say, that SMath should start its investigations to be different. It should be possible suggest something amazing, not just lower prices (in the coming future).

Best regards,
Alexey

I started with MathCad at version 1.5 - a very useful, but often infuriating program. I used it for system modelling, electronic circuit analysis, and image processing. Since retiring, I have looked for something to do mathematical modelling (I'm not yet brain-dead!), and some personal financial, etc. calculations & graphing.

I'd given up looking, and found Smath yesterday. Congratulations, I'm still getting used to the interface, but all the basics are there. I shall be using this quite a lot, and look forward to the program developing, and to more & more worksheets being published. I'll dig up some of my more general MathCad worksheets, and see if I can modify them, if they're suitable for publishing.

As a suggestion, some image display capability would be really good in Smath.

Keep up the good work!

Mick

Hello Mick,

I also remember the version Mathcad v1.5. I think I even have it also on an old floppy (coverred with dust).

Please look at this post about Inserting pictures. If you need some more help you can visit SMath Wiki (nice tutorials and examples), or contribute to it with your comments or your SMath examples.

Regards,
Radovan

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Hello Greg,

It was really long time ago . I just remember that the first versions of Mathcad could not insert and represent vectors and matrices in a usual notation. I do not remember from which version it started. For me, that was a revelation at that time.

Regards,
Radovan

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I disagree.
Mathcad had for my use become bloated and over complicated of me. Avast array of functions I pay circa £600 to never use.

I personally just want to replace engineering hand calcs but done on a computer. To me that is the beauty of this program. I think units should be implemented though.

So, if the main intention of SMath was to be extendable, why SMath is still closed? Why SMath hides such benefits from its potential users? Why, the feature which were recognized as the primary reason for SMath invention was simple forget? From the marketing viewpoint, SMath developers should deliver such "differences" first, to make a strong distinction between the existing and old, in his ignorance, MathCAD and the new bright solution - SMath. I would assure SMath developers, that in this case, their users will gladly forget about missed MathCAD features (like "units", for example), they would not even dare to compare it with such ancient and clumsy application as MathCAD, they will recognize and appreciate SMath for its own non-MathCAD features, they will even like it because of its incompatibility, because it is not the same (remember Apple with his Mighty mouse)!

"To make long story short", SMath developers are making the very first mistake from the product promotion point of view - they are focused on the reproducing of the features that are already exist on the market instead of pushing on their own innovations.

Dear SMath developers, I sincerely wish you become the best. So, do not smash yourself because of your ignorance in marketing, do not be so clumsy as MathCAD is. It will be really sorry if this project will fail just because it was so technically perfect that allowed himself forget about simple marketing rules. I do not like to be a Nostradamus, but if SMath will not change their strategy, the better what they will get - be bought by MathCAD Inc (hate it ... :censored

Hello Radovan,

The main point is that I am not scolding SMath at all and SMath need not to be defensed in front of me (I am a supporter of SMath, might be more efficient then anyone, by criticizing it). I just see the regretful mistakes from marketing viewpoint and like SMath guys to understand the main rules to attract the people. Just reflect, that most of the forum participants look at SMath as a future substitution of MathCAD (might be more powerful, might be more open and customizable, but the key message is the same - substitution). And this is where from my objections come, substitution strategy is no longer works in the modern world.

I perfectly understand, that, as a user, you need not no more; just the same staff with some additional features and improvements. But SMath developers should think further (it is their responsibility)! To be successful, they should be ahead of users, they should invent something that users do not expect, they should introduce new demands (as the chocolate at the Middle Ages). Just recall appearance of MathCAD 20 years ago, why it was so popular, why it get almost immediate success on the market? Answere is very simple - because it was different!!!

This is just my opinion. What I could really do for SMath, it is organize some kind of brainstorming, perform a marketing analysis for them (we could do it at the forum as well; they are welcome) ...

Sorry, but this feature already exist in MathCAD, users could write plugins by their own (so, it is also - not new)

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