Tension Software is happy to announce the release 1.0 of Calcboard, a new application entirely written in Cocoa and Objective-C dedicated to mathematical calculation for technical fields

Calcboard purpose is to provide an application able to offer an ideal platform to solve mathematical models applied to technical problems of various type.

Calcboard is a document based application and its document can be realized and used as calculation models for a specific mathematical technical problems reusable over time.
These documents can also be distributed as pre made solutions for various type of technical problems with all the requested equations inside and all the variables preinserted with acceptable range already set.

A Calcboard document contains a series of equations and a list of variables and constants used by the equations. The user can insert different input and see the output generated by the Calcboard document using the equations solving the problem.

Calcboard includes a calculation engine entirely developed and coded internally by Tension Software in C and Objective-C, able to solve equations with any nested level of parenthesis, variables and a large type of mathematical functions at an impressive speed, almost Instantaneously on modern Mac

Calcboard can assist the user in the building phase of any model to better identify the problem and solve unwanted bugs in the inserted equations and in the using phase of the model to better understand which value to input, wich output the user obtain and to check if they are in the acceptable range from a technical point of view.

We know that this explaination can be too general and a bit confusing, but we are sure that a test road of Calcboard will make it all plain simple.
We made our best to realize an easy to use tool despite the matter it's a bit complex, so please download for free Calcboard and test it using the 'Ballistic Trajectory' test document included to experiment the software and have a first idea of how it works.

Please try also to create a new document with your own calculation for your technical needs, you will realize how flat is the learning curve to use Calcboard after the firsts steps.

In details calcboard uses documents window with 4 different views:

• Calc View
• Equations View
• Variables View
• Constants View

"Calc View" is used to insert input and see resulting output in a view, when in this view the lateral panel drawer can show a custom description of the calculation document, with RTF text and pictures to help the user understand how to use the document and the calculation model in it

"Equations View" is where are located (and created in the building phase of the document) the equation used to solve the mathematical model
The equations are constructed using variables, constants and functions from a list of available inside Calcboard
The application provides facilities to insert, manipulate, refine and fix these equations during creation of the calculation model of the software.
The lateral drawer in this view show the variables and constant used in the selected equation

In case new variable are inserted in the equations, a utility feature allow to insert these variables in an automated way in the "Variables view"

"Variables View" show all the variable inside the document and the lateral drawer shows for any variable where it is used

Constants View show all the constants inside the document and the lateral drawer shows for any constants where it is used

Calcboard with all its view of the Calculation model you build offers an unique detailed approach on solving mathematical problem in applied angineering and many other fields
We invested time to realize it and will continue to investe time on it because we want to further develop it adding features and improving it's capability to offer an unique improved point of view for many different problems

User are upgraded for free to all the successive release.