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Mathcad Prime 5.0 Release date

  • June 21, 2018
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Has a date been set for the release of version 5.0 of Mathcad prime?

On the calendar, it says June 2018, but a day does not show announced.

Are these dates set in stone, or ice?

    Best answer by rgunwaldsen

    Seems like mid-July. This webinar has already been pushed back from June date(s). OK with me -- been waiting 15 months already, so can wait a bit longer (for bug-free release).

     

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    LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    June 22, 2018

    Neither stone nor ice.

    My guess is its rather mathematically. A statistical analysis is shown here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad-Questions/Mathcad-Prime-5-0-some-new-updates/m-p/489877#M174257

     

    Recent information is here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad-Questions/Printing-issue-with-protected-areas-in-Mathcad-Prime-v4/m-p/550940#M180808

     

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    rgunwaldsen15-MoonstoneAnswer
    15-Moonstone
    June 22, 2018

    Seems like mid-July. This webinar has already been pushed back from June date(s). OK with me -- been waiting 15 months already, so can wait a bit longer (for bug-free release).

     

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      LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
      23-Emerald IV
      June 22, 2018
      There's no such thing as bug-free software ( unless it's also free of functionalty).
      A more than 25 year old quote says: "How many bugs you may have found and solved in a piece of software, there's always one more bug!".

      Luc
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      rgunwaldsen15-Moonstone
      15-Moonstone
      June 22, 2018

      I agree with you -- software bug frequency versus time typically has a weibull distribution. I just want to be far enough out on the curve to avoid most of the stupid stuff.

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      DJF16-Pearl
      16-Pearl
      July 12, 2018

      In the plotting webinar this week they said July 24th (2018) is the new target day.  The 2D plotting update seems to pretty much include all the plotting options you'd get in Excel.   The old 2D plots will also remain available.  It's a bit concerning that the axis labels now become like Excel - i.e. typed.  So if you change units, the graph will update but the labels will not.  Not exactly sticking with Mathcad's excellent unit handling heritage, imho.

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      Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
      23-Emerald I
      July 12, 2018
      @DJF wrote:

      In the plotting webinar this week they said July 24th (2018) is the new target day.  The 2D plotting update seems to pretty much include all the plotting options you'd get in Excel.   The old 2D plots will also remain available.  It's a bit concerning that the axis labels now become like Excel - i.e. typed.  So if you change units, the graph will update but the labels will not.  Not exactly sticking with Mathcad's excellent unit handling heritage, imho.

      Axis labels in Mathcad 15 are typed too.  If we shut off the arguments (dividing by units) to get a clean 2D graph for displays you had to type units into the labels there too.  The history is littered with complaints about plotting capability--long before Prime.  Still, getting back what we had in 15 would be an improvement; a disappointing improvement but an improvement over Prime 4.0. 

       

      But what happened to the fabulous plotting improvements we were promised (originally for 4.0, then 5.0)??

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      tietjee15-Moonstone
      15-Moonstone
      July 12, 2018

      I watched a presentation of the plotting feature.  The plotting is done using an embedded feature.  The plotting functionality is better that 15.0.  I am looking forward to trying it out myself.  The old plotting method is still available in Prime 4.0 for those that need it.

       

      A release date of July 17 was given during the presentation.

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