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Enrique
Verified reviewer
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
Use this software in my studies of Computer Engineering with free software
It has many benefits but the most outstanding is its potential in terms of what we can develop with it and the fact that it is free
PROSThis software allows to make scientific and mathematical calculations of physics and engineering, it serves for the simulation of industrial control processes and it is also free
CONSIt can be said that there are few disadvantages we can mention the language in which it was made English and French must only have a previous instruction to handle it is not very instuitive
AHMAD
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2023
A Free and Open-Source Alternative to MATLAB
Scilab proves to be a tool, due to its extensive collection of functions that cater to projects of any scale. Moreover the fact that Scilab is freely available as an open source software makes it accessible, to a range of users.
CONSScilab may not be the user friendly, at first. Might require a bit of prior instruction to navigate. However this is a concern that can easily be overcome with some practice.
Reasons for switching to Scilab
The student edition of MATLAB typically has a price around 100 Euros.
Anonymous
5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed December 2019
Scilab performance
Scilab is good to solve mathematical problems. If you get used to Scilab, you can perform various engineering work.
PROSGood performance for open source program as mathematical solver. Scialab has various toolbox options to use specific area.
CONSPrecision of solver can be improved. Autosave functionality is not dependable. Signal operations like attaching two signals is hard to implement. It has its own style with xcos, so it is not easy to get used to it.
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Perfect software to solve complex problems
It is very useful for engineering students to solve critical mathematical problems. Also it is very helpful to plot a graphs of various equations. So overall it is perfect open source tool.
PROS1. It is open source free hence any one can use Scilab. 2. User can able to perform complex calculations of maths very easily and quickly using programming. 3. User can able to plot a graph or simulate a complex equation to analyse it's nature. 4. It is very useful in designing various types control systems and analyze it's behaviour under different conditions. 5. It is used to solve mathematical, scientific, engineering, geometrical problems very efficiently. 6. It is very light weight so it can also run on low end pc's.
CONSNo any cons experienced while using but sometimes it takes time to fully load software.
Linos
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
Lightweight, powerful, but not compatible with MATLAB
Scilab is a great tool for statistics, communications, satellite orbits, networking, algorithm complexity, and virtually all fields of academics and engineering. Both Scilab itself and its plugins (called modules) are cross-platform, with ready-made packages for Windows, macOS, the most popular Linux distros, and BSD. It is free and open-source, distributed under GPLv2 and previously CeCILL. The main application is well-written, using as little resources as possible, but stays as powerful as any alternative. The community is not large, but it is a serious one, users and programmers constantly working in making Scilab the optimal application of its kind.
CONSLet's not lie; scientist and engineers use MATLAB a lot. Scilab, unfortunately, is not remotely compatible with MATLAB. As long as Scilab is not the most popular of its kind, compatibility will always be an issue. That being said, skill transfer is not a problem. Apart from that, some new modules might be heavier on your computer than they should, but a serious community makes sure they are improved with a rapid pace.
Arshad
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2021
Scilab
Scilab is a good tool to carryout evaluation and simple code development.
PROSScilab offers a lot of fucntions to evaluate and simulate data in the programmed manner. It data visualization is good.
CONSIt do not have as many features as Matlab or wolfarm mathematica have. Also its a bit hard to use.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
Amazing product!
trying to run my simulations for my current research project
PROSI can use this free of cost since its opensource and it delivers all the features in matlab for free! it runs fast and the parallel processing is amazing
CONSthe fact that its sometimes slow and it consumes a lot of memory. It hangs at times which is bad as well but for short codes its ok
Daniel
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2019
Great software
Scilab has a very clean interface and many functionalities. The best thing about it is that you can have it in your home for free and do a lot of work on it.
CONSThe support however is not even close when compared to the rival, it is quite harder to find more intrinsic features and helps.
Ibraheem
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Scilab for easy Analysis
Optimization feature is one of the best and it ability to import files from Matlab and other softwares
CONSIt's inability to perform some optimization analysis like goal programming problem
Reasons for switching to Scilab
Because it's more affordable than Matlab
Ebert
Verified reviewer
Higher Education
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2018
Scilab is a powerful tools for maths calculating. It is very easy to use.
This software allow one to do very complicated maths calculate.
PROSI do most like to Scilab its environment for editing maths problems. Another excellent feature is that Scilab is an open and free source software, what allow one to customise to a huge amount of problems.
CONSI do like least is that Scilab is not easy to learn, because it works by commands, and some people do not like to use commands. However, Scilab has a set of icons for modelling systems, which help one to model systems.
Mounaim
Verified reviewer
Construction, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2023
Scilab es un software de código abierto para computación numérica y análisis científico
En general, estoy muy impresionado con Scilab y lo recomiendo a cualquier persona que trabaje en campos técnicos que necesite una herramienta potente y versátil para el análisis numérico y científico.
PROSEs una herramienta muy útil para la investigación, la educación y el desarrollo de proyectos técnicos, ya que ofrece una gran cantidad de herramientas y algoritmos para el análisis numérico, la simulación y la visualización de datos.Como ingeniero, he utilizado Scilab para análisis de datos y simulaciones, y he encontrado que es una herramienta muy poderosa y fácil de usar. Me encanta la gran cantidad de funciones matemáticas y herramientas disponibles que me permiten resolver problemas complejos y generar gráficos detallados.Otra de las ventajas de Scilab es que es completamente gratuito y de código abierto, lo que significa que cualquier persona puede descargarlo y utilizarlo sin costo alguno. Además, tiene una gran comunidad de usuarios y desarrolladores que proporcionan soporte y actualizaciones regulares.Por último, Scilab es compatible con varios sistemas operativos, lo que significa que puedes usarlo en cualquier plataforma, desde Windows hasta Mac y Linux.
CONSUna de las desventajas de Scilab es que, al ser una herramienta de código abierto, puede ser menos conocida y utilizada que otros programas comerciales de análisis numérico. Esto significa que puede haber menos recursos y documentación disponible en línea para los usuarios de Scilab.Otra desventaja es que, aunque Scilab es muy potente, su interfaz puede ser menos intuitiva que la de otros programas de análisis numérico, lo que puede dificultar su uso para los usuarios que no están familiarizados con él.Por último, otra desventaja de Scilab es que, aunque ofrece una amplia variedad de herramientas y funciones matemáticas, algunos usuarios pueden encontrar que carece de características específicas que necesitan para sus proyectos. En estos casos, puede ser necesario buscar soluciones adicionales o complementarias para satisfacer las necesidades específicas del usuario.
Jure
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2021
Scilab instructions
Good programs for People who like to study modulations or solving mathematical problems. Identicals to some non free software. Easy to use. I need about less than 1 week to know everything about program. Really good
PROSFree software, open-SOURCE, good metod for calculatuons, system dynamics
CONSLess functions than familiar programs like matlab. Inactive users on forums.
Srinath
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2019
Why i using Scilab ..........
Good alternative for other commercial software packages.
PROSAs a open source software, it gives many facilities in the commercial software.
CONSIt interface is a command line interface not a graphical one.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2022
Not a Matlab alternative
It was my first lab software ever, even before MATLAB. For educational purpose, Scilab served really well in helping me to get the first sense of scientific coding. Some might say that Scilab is a diluted version of MATLAB but in my opinion, each software has its own specificity. Thank you a lot for being a part of my youth.
PROSFree access and open source program for everyone. A fantastic open source tool for beginners academic researches. You have a large variety of tool boxes to use and to develop, beside learning basic scientific and programming notion such as arrays, matrixes, etc.
CONSLack of help from the community and customer services. Poor graphical design.
Saurav
Verified reviewer
Environmental Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2020
Good for statistical and data analysis
I used Scilab to perform a bunch of statistical analysis for the geographical data I was working with
PROSScilab is very similar to Matlab but it does not have a lot of in built functions that Matlab has. It gives me the flexibility to create functions and if you prefer to build your own functions you will like Scilab over Matlab
CONSI did Like the figures that I was able to create with Matlab compared to the figures created in Scotland.
GnimWazou Gaston
Education Management, 1 employee
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2022
Mon avis
Scilab est le meilleur logiciel pour débuter la résolution des problèmes mathématiques par méthodes numérique. Très facile à utiliser, je vous le recommande.
CONSJe le trouve plutôt complet, rien d'autre à suggérer
Anonymous
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2018
Scilab is the ideal tool for numerical modelling and custom scripting!
I like that it's open-source since this means you have a ton of tech-geeks working out solutions for troubleshooting online and you can always find the answers to a question you might have or post a question and receive help from a great support base of users!
CONSSometimes the graphics are temperamental, depending on your computer's operating system. Linux users seem to run into trouble more often.
Leonardo
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2019
Great tool to simulate and plot graphs of control systems
My experience is positive. It helped me a lot during the module of control and servo mechanism at university.
PROSI was capable of creating a control system and plot the graphs of the step response with the tools offered.
CONSSometimes it was very difficult to learn how to use the proper tools and it could be a bit easier if there were more tips to help the users.
Anonymous
1 employee
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2019
Perfect for your advanced calculations
It is a perfect alternative to softwares like Matlab, it allows you to practically do the same and for free
CONSNothing bad to add, it seems just great.