How Maple Flow Compares to Mathcad

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June 9, 2021
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Derbigdog

15-Moonstone

I tried to give it an honest evaluation, but found it extremely slow on my PC. I have an i7 8CPU @3.6 MHz, with 16 GB of ram and a SSD hard drive. Maybe they have done something in the last couple of months to speed it up.

If I am not mistaken you have to buy both Maple and Maple Flow.

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idahoan

12-Amethyst

From the Maple Flow purchase site, it appears that a copy of Maple is included with the price of Maple Flow:

May try the trial version, but initial reaction is the price could well be prohibitive, even if was better than MathCad.

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Fred_Kohlhepp

23-Emerald I

Okay, I downloaded it; evaluation until 6/25.

Opened the tutorial to learn the basics. It's going to be a steep learning curve!

In the tutorial (which I would think had been worked to perfection), typed a variable, followed by a colon (for colon/equal) then a number--got a red box "unhandled exception." Typed the variable name in free space, below that typed name = , got "name = name. (Great!) Typed "name:6---got "unhandled exception!" (If I double underline (to create a subscripted name the assignment works, but a simple variable name will not permit a numeric assignment. And this is the tutorial page!

Not impressed so far. And it's slow.

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mvenich

14-Alexandrite

I'm also evaluating Maple Flow

A name with no subscript: you need to type colon and equals (not just colon) to create a definition (the tutorials is in correct according to their tech support)

A name with a subscript: you need to type colon to create a definition

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AlanStevens

19-Tanzanite

I thought it would be interesting to do a side by side comparison of a relatively simple calculation, so I've compared my response to Fred's question about a weir - see below.

I didn't use units in Maple flow as I couldn't get the plot to work properly with them, though the individual calculations worked ok with them (it's likely that a more experienced Maple flow user would be able to get the plot done with units). There are some syntax differences as might be expected - the above shows a difference in the way functions are defined.

At present I find Mathcad easier to use - but I've been using Mathcad for over 20 years, while I've been using Maple flow for one day!

Maple flow as above, but with symbolics and units:

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Derbigdog

15-Moonstone

Thanks for the test. I had trouble getting even that far. Even a few simple calculations took forever.

I also am biased as I have used Mathcad for at least 25 years. But I did want to see if there was a viable alternative. Pricing is a problem with me as well.