software for writing exercises of university mechanics

[max_tonetto@hotmail.it]

hi to everyone, I think it's the best online forum to ask my question.
I am a student of architecture, and for the course of mechanics I should rewrite to the pc of static and cinematic exercises, but also other things in the future (travi reticolari, deformabili etc.).
I give you an example of what I should rewrite to the pc (see photo), including drawing of structures and text of the exercises, which I should faithfully represent with all the constraints and letters of the Greek alphabet.
my question is: is there a software, perhaps free, that allows me to represent both the structures and the text faithfully, that maybe it is also easy to use?

thank you and place the photo

 

[max_tonetto@hotmail.it]

Can't anyone help me?

 

[Tristan]

autocad or autocad lt

 

[Fulvio Romano]

powerpoint.
if you want free, etched libreoffice (which is identical to powerpoint).

 

[riccardot5765]

I think you could use latex. once you make the designs as you want, open them with gimp (free and use as photoshop) and save them in eps with transparent background. At that point you create a folder, for example exercise1, and you put all the drawings that interest you. then create your nice latex file, always in the same folder, and then once you compiled the file you get a nice perfect pdf.
If you just don't want to learn latex (simple but at first a little particular) you can use one of the many latex formatters, type lyx. the difference between latex and office in general is that with the first write the text all below and then with data commands at first he will imagine it; with office instead see video what you print.
I find it better latex, because it allows a perfect layout, a numbering of tables and figures with possibility of recall in every part of the text and above all it is extremely flexible. especially it is very simple to use.

 

[Onda]

microsoft word for texts.
equation editor emded in word for acad equations for charts then with and wrap images.
If you do not want to use word you can use the equivalent libre office.
if you want equations to be resolved try to use smath then copy and paste the page in word

 

[riccardot5765]

for an exercise to the single use word and equation editor. I didn't find myself well, especially because the imagination was not done as it should be. I do not know now new versions as they behave, but for example the problem was with characters that in equations did not respect the written text. Moreover, I find that the calls (label) in word are something backward and unfunctional, as well as the notes and counting of the cpaitols

 

[Onda]

for an exercise to the single use word and equation editor. I didn't find myself well, especially because the imagination was not done as it should be. I do not know now new versions as they behave, but for example the problem was with characters that in equations did not respect the written text. Moreover, I find that the calls (label) in word are something backward and unfunctional, as well as the notes and counting of the cpaitols

I with word work well, as they say, de gustobus. I use it to write the reports, I insert tables, images, manages the indexes, cross references.
Obviously it is a paid program, I think that libre office can be used well in the same way.
I, as I need excel of which I didn't want to do without, eventually I took the office package.

 

[riccardot5765]

definitely with word you work well, but I don't think here you can talk about tastes. latex is a totally free software created for use in science. at the moment is the best text editor for formulas and what else. may be that the appearance is very similar between a pdf in word and latex, but behind there are a thousand differences. If for example you want to change the layout or other things like that, with word you have to do different operations and even a lot of puzzles while with latex you change one line in the editor. I also find that the writing of bibliography and indexes of various kinds with latex is infinitely higher.
not surprisingly latex is also used by those who write texts for university use of analysis, thermodynamics, thermotechnical, mechanical physics and so on. In addition there are a myriad of packages, from mathematics to industrial chemistry, which allow use in a thousand different fields.
the point is to give us some practice, that is to have a good preamble of the document. then you can also write with the notes block and you will have pdfs of the highest level and at zero cost.