Your first worksheet
This page gets a result on the canvas. You will open the app, click to add a math region, type an assignment with units, and save.
Open a worksheet
- Go to /app/. Calculeaf opens your last sheet, or creates a blank one.
- If the getting-started tour appears, step through it or dismiss it. You can replay it later from the Home ribbon, Getting Started.
Click once for math, double-click for text
- Click an empty spot on the page. A math field appears. Type straight into it — you do not need the Insert tab for this.
- Double-click empty paper when you want a text region (a heading or a note) instead.
- You can still use Insert → Math or Insert → Text, then click to place, if you prefer the ribbon.
Type an assignment with units
Click the field and type exactly this, including the spaces around the unit and the trailing equals:
w := 12 kN/m =
:= defines the name w. The number 12
carries the unit kN/m. The final = asks Calculeaf
to show the result after the expression. As you type, the field renders the
math the way it will print.
Add a second region below it and use the name you just defined:
L := 4 m =
R := w * L / 2 =
R is a reaction for a simple span: load times length over two.
Calculeaf multiplies kilonewtons per metre by metres and reports kilonewtons.
If the units cannot combine, the region shows an error instead of a silent
wrong number.
Save
Signed-in sheets save as you work. To keep a named copy, use Save As on the Quick Access bar or Home ribbon, or press Ctrl+S . Guests are prompted to create an account so the sheet can be claimed.
Next, Tour of the workspace names the chrome around this page so later topics can point at it.