Open-Source Engineering Calculations & Knowledge

Open-source software refers to software whose source code is made publicly available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Unlike proprietary software, open-source projects allow collaboration from a global community of developers, making it easier to innovate and improve the software over time.

In the context of engineering, open-source web software can offer specific benefits, such as flexibility, transparency, and reduced development costs. Engineers can modify the software to meet unique project needs, integrate it with other tools, or enhance its performance for specialized tasks. Additionally, open-source engineering tools often evolve through contributions from both individual developers and large communities, ensuring that they remain up-to-date and responsive to industry needs.

Building open-source engineering software allows you to contribute to this growing ecosystem, enabling others to use, learn from, and build on your work, while also benefiting from community feedback and collaboration.

Yes you are welcome to access our code via the Github Repository and create your own calculators. Once you have made your modifications you can send back a pull request to see if we would like to include it in the main branch.

Join our Discord server and introduce yourself here. Suggest new calculators you'd like to work on and find others to callaborate with.

During the course of building our parent company Civils.ai. We build lots of useful Engineering tools for calculation automation. We saw that there are not many open-source initiatives for sharing these tools in the Engineering and especially in the construction industry.

We built CalcForge to help set a standard for and open-source future where you own the tools you use!