Advice on upgrading?

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November 14, 2013
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I have been a long time MC user and have been happily going along using MC14. From the comments I have read, there is no incentive to move up to the Primes (can one even upgrade - I could not find any info on PTC site about upgrading from MC 14). I have read good comments about MC15 but ones about running with Windows 7. Advice? Suggestions?

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

I am not a friend of Prime and IMHO Mathcad 15 is the best version since version 11. In fact MC15 is a simple advancement of MC14 - MC15 F000 was first meant being MC14 M040 but then marketing changed its mind.

There is a problem with Win7 regarding 3D-plots (its the same with MC14 I think) which can be solved using different methods (uncheck border, reduce colordepth, ...). The problem (its is that the 3Dplot won't show at all) seems to be harder to deal with under Win8.

I don't know if there is an upgrade path from MC14 to MC15 (without Prime).

If you buy (or upgrade to?) Prime you get a copy of MC15 for free (they will share the same license file).

You may have a look what bugs were fixed and what changes were made after MC14 M020 by looking at the release notes of MC14 M035 here

http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/98347/en/Mathcad_14_M035_RELNOTES.HTM

and at the ReadMeFirst of Mathcad15 M020 which I attach here.

1_MC15_ReleaseNotes.pdf

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VladimirN

24-Ruby III

Hi,

You can try Mathcas Prime Express for testing any time: http://www.ptc.com/product/mathcad/free-trial/

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

I am not sure but for a long term user reuseability of older sheets is usually a big issue.

He won't be able to test which of his older sheets still a re working without a full installation of the current MC15. Of course he could install the 15day trial of MC15. He must save his MC14 license file first, install MC15 and after the 30days he would have to uninstall MC15, install MC14, put in place the saved license file and hope that all is still working as it should. What a hassle!