{"id":2470,"date":"2010-04-03T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2010-04-03T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T07:48:16","slug":"free-mathcad-alternative-smath-studio-updated-now-with-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"Free mathcad alternative, SMath Studio, updated.   Now with Units!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Ivashov&#8217;s free Mathcad alternative for Windows, Linux and Windows Mobile has recently been<a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/default.aspx?g=posts&amp;t=398\"> updated to version 0.87.3728 beta<\/a>.  This is a significant new release for SMath studio since this beta version adds support for units &#8211; possibly one of the most requested features on Andrey&#8217;s user forums.<\/p>\n<p>I last looked at SMath Studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1676\">back in September 2009<\/a> and Andrey has made a lot of progress since then.  As well as adding support for units and fixing some bugs he has added a whole host of user interface improvements including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic assistance &#8211; SMath Studio can now be set to give you syntax hints and tips as you type your code.<\/li>\n<li>Support for plugins &#8211; Now we can all write something for SMath Studio<\/li>\n<li>A much smoother looking user interface &#8211; SMath Studio now looks much more professional than before<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/images\/pocket\/smath_linux.png\" alt=\"Smath studio on Linux\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This fantastic free alternative to Mathcad is going from strength to strength and I am really enjoying watching its progress.\u00a0 Andrey has produced something that is genuinely useful, multiplatform, fun to use and, most importantly of all, he listens to his users.\u00a0 Well worth a download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Ivashov&#8217;s free Mathcad alternative for Windows, Linux and Windows Mobile has recently been updated to version 0.87.3728 beta. This is a significant new release for SMath studio since this beta version adds support for units &#8211; possibly one of the most requested features on Andrey&#8217;s user forums. I last looked at SMath Studio back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-math-software","category-mathcad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-DQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}