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WadeLeveille1-Visitor
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September 3, 2010
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How to find and download an E-Book

  • September 3, 2010
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Just installed V15. I was told I could download the E-Books (primarily the Mechanical eng. library. ie: Roark's Hickey etc) I followed the link in the getting started guide but with no success.... Can anyone help? it appears the documents you get are less than helpful..

Wade

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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September 3, 2010

Wade Leveille wrote:

Just installed V15. I was told I could download the E-Books (primarily the Mechanical eng. library. ie: Roark's Hickey etc) I followed the link in the getting started guide but with no success.... Can anyone help? it appears the documents you get are less than helpful..

Wade

There is a list of free downloads which can be found at the link below "Mathcad Resource Center: Books"

http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/products/resource/mathcad/books.jsp

Mike

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
September 3, 2010

The PTC website always has been a nightmare to navigate, but now it's even worse! Here's another URL that gives a different looking version of the Resource Center:

http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/products/resource/list-books.jsp?&rccg=888&nav=5279&sec=&top=0&section=

I have no idea what the difference is.

How to navigate to the Resource Center on the PTC website though? The only link I could find was to go to Products, Mathcad (which is about the last place I would expect to find it - why not under "Support?!), Click on "Additional Resources" (way down on the right in small text, not obvious at all). That opens up a hidden list of links, one of which says "Mathcad Resource Center". I have no idea how they expect anyone to be able to find that! Then, to add insult to injury, when you click on link it takes you to the PlanetPTC community, not the resource center!

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mzeftel1-Visitor
1-Visitor
January 18, 2011

We are no longer distributing the libraries, including the Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering E-books. You can access some of the E-books through the Knovel link under Tools in the menu for Mathcad 15.

As part of your maintenance entitlement you have access to 10 free downloads from Knovel.

I have been moving free E-books and user files from the online Resource Center on the PTC website to this community so everything is in one place and easily searchable.

Mona

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 16, 2011

Also, for a long time, on site MathSoft it was accessible following e-book - "Mechanics of Materials, 4 edition, by Gere and Timoshenko":

Mechanics of Materials e-book.jpg

Contents_of_MM.jpg

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ssywak-21-Visitor
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January 15, 2014

Somewhere at home, I have an ancient copy of the E-Handbook of Roark's Formulas for Stress & Strain. It worked with MathCad 11 (IIRC), but MathCad 11 won't install on these darn new-fangled machines.

The copy I have is an official. legitimate copy, and I got it for free from MathCad! I was talking with one of their tech support guys over 10 years ago, and he said (I paraphrase), "Oh, THAT old thing? I think I have a CD-ROM of it here in the office somewhere; I'll send it to you!" And he did.

My company just installed MC 15 on my machine here, so I'll bring in the disk tomorrow, and see if it works. The formatting never really worked out nicely with the way they formatted things, but I found most of the time I just copied the extensive tables for their multiple-parameter equations into Excel, and went on from there, using HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP.

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ChristopherHard1-Visitor
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March 8, 2016

I'll add one warning if you are new to the Roark's Handbook Mathcad E-Books that were put out more than 10 years ago (The title page says they were adapted from Roark's 6th edition by Warren Young, and published by Mathsoft and McGraw-Hill). There are small errors known to be in those worksheets, particularly in the solutions for flat circular plates. We have found minor deviations from the book in the equations for the numbered constants that are used in those tables, and had to correct our local copies to keep new users from getting tripped-up on the same things. We reported all of the issues to Mathsoft at the time. I would hope that PTC could still come up with a list of known issues with those files, but it's been a few years since they sold that stuff off to Knovel and that could be a challenge.

You also need to look carefully at the range variables - they don't always give you the limiting values (max, min, or local peak). It is a great convenience to use those E-books, but as a rule, we always check the formulas against the printed reference.

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rubenvillarreal14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
March 20, 2016

So, there is no answer for this isn't?

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
March 20, 2016

The answer is that PTC does not provide access to the (older) E-Books for Mathcad 15 and below.

They are pushing their Prime where the feature "E-Books" was not implemented at all-

So unless you are able to find the desired e-books somewhere else, you are out of luck.

Adeptscience (now alfasoft) always was and still is a good source for that kind of downloads and other information about Mathcad.

Go down to "Additional Resources" - maybe you find whatever you may be looking for.

-> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/download/dldcat/33/0/All/Mathcad.html

You may need to register which is free anyway.

You won't find Roark's there as the rights were sold to Knovel and as far as I understood they sell it sliced into small pieces on a sheet by sheet basis.

WE

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