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WV_45999521-Visitor
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February 20, 2023
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combo box PRIME 8.0 does not support comined units?

  • February 20, 2023
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I am trying to get a speed unit (m/sec) into a combo box (prime 8.0.0.0), but this somehow does not work. I'm now using a work around first defining mps as m/sec then putting mps in the combo box. Same thing for accelerations (m/sec^2)

 

Is prime still this much troubled by unit issues or is it just me having trouble coming from MC15. It appears to me such work arounds should have been implemented out of sight to the user by now. Celebrating 12 yrs of  PRIME (or mostly avoiding it for me to be just fair)

 

 

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 20, 2023

I guess the problem is not on you side. Given the development speed of Prime, 12 years is just a moment.

You may be interested in https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-Prime-7-0-Combo-Box-doesn-t-support-unit-with-exponents/m-p/718297

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WV_45999521-VisitorAuthor
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February 20, 2023

thanks I think, at least its not me...

Waiting for PRIME to grow up I will not be holding my breath. (and as long as it starts up in the morning I will probably not be deleting MC15 either 🙄)

 

 

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 20, 2023
@WV_4599952 wrote:

thanks I think, at least its not me...

Waiting for PRIME to grow up

It is very optimistic to hope that we will live to see it and still be able to experience this. Good luck!

VladimirN posted this link today

https://www.mathcad.com/en/blogs/whats-new-in-ptc-mathcad-prime-9

Couldn't find anything about better unit support, neither in combo boxes nor in the badly integrated third party plot component (which doesn't support units at all, maybe PTC still has not understood what Mathcad is/should be all about). Also could not find any announcement for scripted components or improvements for the mediocre 3D plot. Development seems to continue with glacier speed ...

OK, to be fair, its nice that symbolic evaluation of solve blocks will be enabled again (it always was in Mathcad 15 and below) and we get a custom color picker which sure would have been a significant achievement 35 years ago. As for a new feature I am curious to see how powerful the symbolic solving of differential equations will be and if this feature will be extended to other types of differential equations later on. Won't hold my breath either, though.

 

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