About Hammsoft Inc
Science Teacher Helper is published by Hammsoft Inc, a small software team that has been drawing science figures for teachers since 2001. The product has changed platform twice in that time; what has not changed is who answers the support email.
- Drawing science figures since 2001
- 889 figures in the library
- One-time licence, no subscription
- Support answered by the team
Why one payment instead of a subscription
A teacher uses a lens diagram for years. Charging for it every month - or locking it away when somebody forgets to renew - would be a worse product for the same work. So the licence is a one-time purchase, the version you buy keeps working, and a major upgrade is the only thing that costs again.
Why the library is ours, not a scraped image pack
Every figure was drawn for this product, in the proportions the apparatus actually has, and each one carries a name and keywords a teacher would type. That is why the search box works, and why the same drawing can be labelled in textbook style or technician style.
Why offline still matters
School networks have proxies, filters and rooms the wi-fi does not reach. The classic template exists so a lesson never depends on a connection, and its licence key is checked on your own computer.
What we are honest about
A product has limits, and we would rather name them. We teach diagrams, not Word itself; support runs by email; the figures are line drawings rather than photographs; and where a build of Word refuses a picture format, that limit is written down here. If something is wrong, tell us and the fix goes into the next release.
The people behind the drawings
This is not a catalogue assembled from other people's clip art. The figures come from the same library that shipped with the 2001 original, redrawn and re-exported for modern Word, plus the generated figures and calculators built with the current product.
Support is answered by the people who make it: if you report that a resistor is mislabelled, or that a titration diagram has the tap the wrong way round, the reply comes from someone who can fix it.
Questions about the licence, or the library?
Write to myhama@hotmail.com - a person reads it, usually the same day.