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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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January 21, 2011
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Mathcad Prime - Positive Comment (for a change)

  • January 21, 2011
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I have heard so many members complain about the lack of functions included in Prime 1.0, so just for a second I want to look at one of the positive's of the new product.


Dynamic unit checking


I only used Mathcad 11 for a very short period before my employer upgraded to Mathcad 14, where I understand, static unit checking was implemented. If possible I would like forum members who have experienced the change over to provide a few examples to clear things up and give an indication of what's to come.


Simple or complex examples welcome.


Mike

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MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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January 27, 2011

Maybe someone from PTC would like to provide a few comparisons, as it directly promoting a benefit of their new product.

Mike

http://communities.ptc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-149416-2532/bar_anim.gif

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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January 27, 2011

OK. Here's one. This is a perfectly valid reason to want to return different units from a function.

http://communities.ptc.com/message/127288#127288

Of course, the worksheets never made it over from the Collab, so I've attached the most important one. It works in MC11, and does not work in later versions. There is not even any realistic way to make to work (it could be made to work by using a scripted component to rewrite the XML of a region, but I don't classify that as "realistic").

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nas0k1-Visitor
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January 27, 2011

It appears to work when converted to Prime.

nas

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MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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January 27, 2011

That's good news cheers for trying.


Mike

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ptc-11768911-Visitor
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January 27, 2011

If/when my company converts to using PRIME, I'll probably return to writing short programs that return multiple values (ie moment, shear and distance) each with their own units. I do miss that ability from the MC11 days.

Preston

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MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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January 27, 2011

If/when my company converts to using PRIME, I'll probably return to writing short programs that return multiple values (ie moment, shear and distance) each with their own units. I do miss that ability from the MC11 days.

That's a good example Preston. I assume you'll also like the new feature Prime has which allows multi unit tables.


Mike

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MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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January 27, 2011

A good improvemnt in Prime shown below as Preston indicated.

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The problem is that the second column can't be changed from base IS units , but still I would consider this a massive improvemnt from M15.


Mike

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nelsonjavier1-Visitor
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May 29, 2011

Hola soy un estudiante universitario de chile ,y quiero dar mi opinion sobre Mathcad prime 1.0 :

Mathcad Prime 1.0 es realmente una idea de software brillante ,permite a los ingenieros realizar los calculos de manera visual muy amigable.

claramente mathcad prime 1.0 va ha superar a excel ,debido a que permite entender los modelos de forma clara y rapida no asi en excel.

Pueden crear Videotutoriales en español para los muchos estudiante universitarios que estan inquietos por ocupar Mathcad Prime 1.0,

actualmente ocupo Mathematica 8 de wolfram Alpha ,pero mathcad prime 1.0 es una gran idea .

¿Existe algun manual en español para Mathcad prime 1.0 ?

Muchas Gracias por crear Mathcad Prime 1.0 es realmente genial.

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mzeftel1-Visitor
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May 31, 2011

Hola Nelson,

Si, es algun manual en español para Mathcad prime 1.0.

Mathcad Prime 1.0 comes in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

Mona

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PhilipOakley1-Visitor
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June 2, 2011

I thought that this blog http://www.eetimes.com/discussion/programmer-s-toolbox/4216405/The-changing-face-of-Mathcad on The changing face of Mathcad by Jack Renshaw, was a pretty good summary of some of the history of why Mathcad is what it is, and has some praise for the efforts in creating Prime.

Philip

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MikeArmstrong1-VisitorAuthor
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June 15, 2011

Nice blog, but he's wrong about the quadratic formula part. It doesn't need to be wrote out as he indicated.

Mike

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PhilipOakley1-Visitor
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June 15, 2011

Mike Armstrong wrote:

Nice blog, but he's wrong about the quadratic formula part. It doesn't need to be wrote out as he indicated.

Mike

Not quite sure why you felt his point was 'wrong'. I thought it was a reasonable example of the benefit of seeing 'proper maths' expressions, though perhaps not that complex. For some it may feel even simple as many people are drilled at school to remember the quadratic solution formula, buit for a more complex expression it becomes more useful.

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