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AkmarulSalleh5-Regular Member
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Improvement Proposal1: To make MP10 faster and Nicer

  • January 13, 2025
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Hello Mathcadeers,

Been using MP10 for the last few days/weeks, and these are the thing that I hope Mathcad can improve to make prime faster. Hopefully MATHCAD designer/project lead/project manager is in this PTC Community.

 

1. Let say I want to add + in the equation below. In M15, I just need to hit SPACEbar once, and I can add +. In MP10, I have to hit SPACEbar twice. I could use RIGHT arrow button in MP10, but it is not quite ergonomic and RIGHT arrow button is far away. 

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2. Zoom in and Zoom out is laggy. There is about 1s delay. If the delay can be set to 0s, that would be awesome. 

 

3. There is no option to UNDOCK the menu in MP10. In M15, you can undock the function so that it is always open. In M15, say I do Programming, I can Add Line, do if, assign value <-, do for, with just 4 mouse click. With MP10, it will take 8 mouse clicks. Would be good if Mathcad Prime can have the option to UNDOCK menu. 

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4. Not many options with Right Click. For example, when plotting, in M15, with right click, it will bring up lots of menu. You can configure the plot a lot, simply by right click. Another example, in M15, I can highlight the equation below, through RIGHT clik. In MP10, nothing comes up, when I right click. 

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5. To move selected item, you have to place the mouse cursor slightly outside the selected item, and the region is narrow. This is for MP10. It is slow, since you have to move your mouse, and then place it accurately. In M15, you can place the mouse cursor anywhere on the selected items, and drag it. In MP10, if I place my cursor on the BLUE selected region, then I could not drag the block. 

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5. Not sure if can add vertical lines and horizontal lines on the plots, and add box around the plot. Let me know if can. 

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Regards,

Ak

 

 

 

Best answer by Werner_E

To add grid lines you have two options:

1) Use the Chart component (a badly integrated third party module) instead of Primes native plot. You will get grid lines, labels, a secondary y axis, .... But be aware that this component also has severe drawbacks. It does not support units, does not scale with the Windows zoom factor set and is VERY slow and awkward to use.

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2) Use a user defined function which creates an additional plot trace which draws grid lines. LucMeekes and also I have posted such functions here in in the forum in the past - you should be able to search for the appropriate threads here and hopefully also find 'em.

I posted my version here   Solved: Re: In MCD Prime 4.0 is there any way to add grid

Luc posted a version which also works in Prime Express. Think it was here: Solved: Graph how this derive ?

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ttokoro
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January 13, 2025

Prime can add vertical lines and horizontal lines on the plots by plot menu, but can not add box around the plot.

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    AkmarulSalleh5-Regular MemberAuthor
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    January 13, 2025

    Thanks @ttokoro . What I meant is the lines shown below. this is plot from M15.

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    Werner_E25-Diamond IAnswer
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    January 13, 2025

    To add grid lines you have two options:

    1) Use the Chart component (a badly integrated third party module) instead of Primes native plot. You will get grid lines, labels, a secondary y axis, .... But be aware that this component also has severe drawbacks. It does not support units, does not scale with the Windows zoom factor set and is VERY slow and awkward to use.

    Werner_E_0-1736765515814.png

     

    2) Use a user defined function which creates an additional plot trace which draws grid lines. LucMeekes and also I have posted such functions here in in the forum in the past - you should be able to search for the appropriate threads here and hopefully also find 'em.

    I posted my version here   Solved: Re: In MCD Prime 4.0 is there any way to add grid

    Luc posted a version which also works in Prime Express. Think it was here: Solved: Graph how this derive ?

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