This app as I see is just the beginning of a revolution. First time an structural engineering app is designed human-centric.
When I showed it to few colleagues, got negative response that they were smarter and did not need such an app for daily tasks. Whatever this app can do simplistically, they could pull it out of their mental acumen. Anything that involved multiple load cases or redundant structures, they will use more reliable and time tested software. Or setup a excel spreadsheet or mathcad if the calculation is repetitive.
I love the app for its ability of the app to generate the reactions instantly, generate a formal but consist report that can be tagged along with other calculations.
My argument is if it takes 10 minutes to solve something manually or 20 minutes to properly input and solve in other major software, this app can be used to solve it in about a minute. I have been using it since i discovered it and has saved the hassle of both setting up simple models, or spreadsheets and or cleanup a auto-generated exhaustive reports.
I maintain software agnostic mindset, but this app is great for me. This is from Autodesk, do we need to question their reliability?
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