Relevant software in egpet (views stat)

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this only reflects egpet users interest and the results are being highly influenced by users area (i think many if not most are from arabic countries). i doubt the real global usage/interest looks even closely related to this (could be that ETAP is at 95% there/lol/i hope not). also many software packages cannot be really compared (PSCAD with ETAP or CDEGS with PLS-CADD for eg) so it's not really a market analysis but more one to reflect the biased interest egpet users have. some other very good (imo) electrical software is basically neglected here (PSS Sincal is just one of them). at my place for eg ETAP is not even in top 3 and in many other european countries is the same.

Egpet should be called Iranpet as that's where most of the contribution is coming from I thinks. (Iran has always had the best forums; even I know that and I'm not from an Arabic Nation) ETAP is popular because it was promoted as being able to be used by any one with no prior electrical or engineering knowledge and from what I've seen it's pretty well true. It has dumbed down consultancies completely and those users that operate it have no idea of the theory behind it or why or how it works and that's what ETAP was designed to be for; so the real engineers with the real knowledge can be working elsewhere on other parts of the project that require their full comprehension. ETAP also has so many integrated modules and that's why PSCAD and PSS-Sincal have withered away. ETAP is Digsilent PF for dummies; but you pay for that usability in its price. None the less ETAP is one super smart program even if its users aren't.

I love going through the old 1940's; 50's; 60's and 70's pre-computer engineering designs; back when engineers really had to know what they were doing and when they worked out the calculations with their trusty slide rule. They had to understand every concept and worked often from first principles. Now we think we're so smart with our smart SW but the reality is the SW is smart and not us. No matter how smart we are we can't match the SW speed; iterations and accuracy. So AI wins. (I do love those iterations though) We instead become facilitators and not Engineers. At best we've become technicians.

I know Surveyors who walked away from the profession because in minutes a drone* with radar GPS and SW can do the calculations and triangulation that would have taken a surveyor years to do. Surveyors have become obsolete. Engineers are next.




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