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4-Participant
May 30, 2025
Question

Not compatible units

  • May 30, 2025
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I use MathCad Prime. I have N/mm^2 *m*m. The result should be kN but it just doesn't work. I tried kN/m^2 for the f thing, but still doedn't work.

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25-Diamond I
May 31, 2025

Prime usually is right when it moans about incompatible units.

But your picture does not show enough information. Whenever possible you should attach the worksheet itself and also state which version of Prime you are using (especially if you are not using the latest version).

 

You have a sum with three summands and to able to add all of them, they all must be of the same dimension. The error message indicates that this is not the case. The second summand clearly is of dimension force, but we don't see the unit of gamma and the unit of N.ed.

The actual unit does not matter, its the dimension that matters. gamma must have 1/force and N.ed must be force.

Whether the force unit used is N, kN, lbf, or ... does not matter.

Chances are that gamma is not of dimension 1/force and so Prime refuses to add 1/gamma and a force (the second summand).

10-Marble
May 31, 2025

As Werner_E says, the units are not compatible with each other, given that all terms in the equation must be expressed in N. Likewise, 2 arguments are unknown, so reverse engineering was performed, where the remaining values could be tentatively determined.

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18-Opal
June 2, 2025

A picture is not always equal to a 1000 words - therein lies your problem

10-Marble
June 7, 2025

Dear @ppal_205706  let's focus on finding solutions, not criticizing. If we don't have one, let's let someone else resolve it. I've tried to provide an answer without having all the variables. I might be wrong, but I haven't had any evaluation elements since @BV_12977118 hasn't attached anything

Best regards

18-Opal
June 10, 2025

It is such genius as yourself that guarantees the survival of this forum. Much appreciated.

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June 6, 2025

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