Beermat for VS Code

Engineering worksheets, beside your code. A .bbm file opens on its page: real fractions, roots, matrices and units, results worked out as you type, plots, the toolbar and the same keys as the Beermat desktop app.

M_max := q*L^2/8 = ? kN*m   →   M_max := q·L²/8 = 54 kN·m

• The file stays text. A worksheet is Markdown, and the page edits that text: saving, undo, git diffs and other extensions (an AI assistant among them) see the same file. A change made in the text shows on the page at once.
• Open as Text (the button at the top right) shows the Markdown beside the page; Open on the Beermat Page goes back.
• Units checked everywhere, results in the unit you ask for, tables, X-Y plots, programs, solve blocks and Export to Word come with it.

Symbolic algebra beyond the basics (integrals, factoring, series, solving, transforms) comes from the desktop app when it is installed: the extension finds its beermat command (or set beermat.command). Data files beside the sheet (READCSV, READPRN, READFILE) and linked pictures are read in a trusted workspace. Python functions (bt := use "beam_tools.py") run through it too, after you say the file may run, as the app asks. Excel files (READEXCEL) are read by it as well, and Beermat: Import .xmcd Worksheet… (or right-click an .xmcd file) converts older worksheets. Printing and PDF are in the desktop app: beermat.pub/download. The manual is at beermat.pub/docs.

AI assistants (Claude Code and any MCP client) work on the sheet open here: Beermat: Connect Claude Code copies the one command to run. They read it with your unsaved changes, and their edits show on the page at once and undo with Ctrl+Z.

Beermat is free and open source (MIT). Issues and ideas: github.com/beermat-pub/beermat.