Comments on: StruCalc Announces New Ownership http://www.strucalc.com/latest-news/strucalc-announces-new-ownership/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Adam Wilson http://www.strucalc.com/latest-news/strucalc-announces-new-ownership/comment-page-1/#comment-1330 Adam Wilson Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:14:14 +0000 http://www.strucalc.com/?p=1057#comment-1330 Thank you for your comments. User feedback is always greatly appreciated. StruCalc's core business has always been staying low priced and affordable so that any one man design shop or large engineering firm can both benefit from use of our program. StruCalc will always remain committed to supplying these users and rewarding our long time small users with access to more efficient and expanded design options without being forced to pay any exorbitant fees. Thank you for your comments. User feedback is always greatly appreciated. StruCalc’s core business has always been staying low priced and affordable so that any one man design shop or large engineering firm can both benefit from use of our program. StruCalc will always remain committed to supplying these users and rewarding our long time small users with access to more efficient and expanded design options without being forced to pay any exorbitant fees.

]]> By: Dennis Wish http://www.strucalc.com/latest-news/strucalc-announces-new-ownership/comment-page-1/#comment-1327 Dennis Wish Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:45:52 +0000 http://www.strucalc.com/?p=1057#comment-1327 while I congraulate you on your new partnership, my concern is how you plan to accomodate the depressed engineering field (especially in the small office / home office accomodations). StruCalc has been an exceptional software for the cost, but for my office it was a choice between Enercalc, Freeware products including iLevel Forte that will include sawn lumber and GLB in the next versions, TJBeam or TEDDS Lite. Our workload has reduced to less than 20% of what it was 2 years ago and while it is not ecconomical or easy to create our own spreadsheet software, it may become a necessitity in the future unless cost of licensing remains low. StruCalc has been the most affordable and accurate software but we have had to make exceptions to its use. For example, we have had to reduce the number of loads applied to a beam - certainly less than that allowed by the other products mentioned. Please don't misunderstand - we don't expect to license something for nothing, but these are tough times and whatever choices we need to make to stay in practice, we are not willing to compete against large offices who are able to afford more costly software licensing and in the process, drive the small office out of busness. I hope this does not happen, but until the amount of work improves, the cost of software licensing, reference manuals, renewal of licensing etc. have become a very real consideration. I have always felt that StruCalc supported the small office sole proprietorship who I believe makes up a large percentage of offices currently using your product. Quantity of subscriptions seems to be a much better choice for any business seeking growth than increased cost of subscriptions to satisfy a smaller number of businesses will pay off in the long run by the loyalty of users. I hope we mean that much to StruCalc so as to accomodate the market you have currently lost to Enercalc and TEDDS (not to mention free-ware software from proprietary products with reliable software such as Weyerhauser's iLevel software. Thank you for our history together. I hope that are future remains bright. while I congraulate you on your new partnership, my concern is how you plan to accomodate the depressed engineering field (especially in the small office / home office accomodations). StruCalc has been an exceptional software for the cost, but for my office it was a choice between Enercalc, Freeware products including iLevel Forte that will include sawn lumber and GLB in the next versions, TJBeam or TEDDS Lite. Our workload has reduced to less than 20% of what it was 2 years ago and while it is not ecconomical or easy to create our own spreadsheet software, it may become a necessitity in the future unless cost of licensing remains low. StruCalc has been the most affordable and accurate software but we have had to make exceptions to its use. For example, we have had to reduce the number of loads applied to a beam – certainly less than that allowed by the other products mentioned.
Please don’t misunderstand – we don’t expect to license something for nothing, but these are tough times and whatever choices we need to make to stay in practice, we are not willing to compete against large offices who are able to afford more costly software licensing and in the process, drive the small office out of busness. I hope this does not happen, but until the amount of work improves, the cost of software licensing, reference manuals, renewal of licensing etc. have become a very real consideration. I have always felt that StruCalc supported the small office sole proprietorship who I believe makes up a large percentage of offices currently using your product. Quantity of subscriptions seems to be a much better choice for any business seeking growth than increased cost of subscriptions to satisfy a smaller number of businesses will pay off in the long run by the loyalty of users. I hope we mean that much to StruCalc so as to accomodate the market you have currently lost to Enercalc and TEDDS (not to mention free-ware software from proprietary products with reliable software such as Weyerhauser’s iLevel software.
Thank you for our history together. I hope that are future remains bright.

]]> By: Jonathan Coxwell http://www.strucalc.com/latest-news/strucalc-announces-new-ownership/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Jonathan Coxwell Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:32:37 +0000 http://www.strucalc.com/?p=1057#comment-1302 Congratulations on the expansion of your ownership. I have come to rely on StruCalc heavily in my architectural business and look forward to your expansion and improvements to the product. As a residential architect I do all of my own structural. StruCalc has proven to be the right tool for my kind of work allowing me to utilize flexibility in my design and depend that my engineering is adequate. Thanks Congratulations on the expansion of your ownership. I have come to rely on StruCalc heavily in my architectural business and look forward to your expansion and improvements to the product. As a residential architect I do all of my own structural. StruCalc has proven to be the right tool for my kind of work allowing me to utilize flexibility in my design and depend that my engineering is adequate.

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