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PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 now available

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October 2, 2013
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PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is now availble for download - either as a CD Image or as a web installer. Active Global Support customers can download the CD image from this location:

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/auth/it/esd/product.jsp?prodFamily=MCD

You can follow the attached instructions to update your license file.

If you don't have a current license and want to try out PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 free for 30 days and then with a reduced functionality set for as long as you like, you can download Express by clicking this link:

http://free-dl.ptc.com/install/pim_installmgr_mathcad.exe

PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 includes new features sych as Templates, Math Formatting, Math in Text, the Global Definiiton operator, Custom Function support and many more upgrades. We're always inetrested in feedback so please do upgrade your existing installation or try the product for free and let us know what you think!

Andy McGough

Product Manager - Mathcad.

1_Gobal-Support-license-retrieval-instructions.pdf

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

Andrew W McGough, the links in the pdf you posted are broken - please fix that.

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VladimirN

24-Ruby III

Could you specify what links?

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

Look here above 😉

http://communities.ptc.com/message/222775#222775

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ptc-1468177

1-Visitor

Does it support "lockable" areas or any other method to protect the worksheet?

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ValeryOchkov

24-Ruby IV

Vegard Woldsengen wrote:
Does it support "lockable" areas or any other method to protect the worksheet?

No

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VladimirN

24-Ruby III

Online Mathcad Prime 3.0 help center available here: http://www.ptc.com/cs/help/mathcad_hc/prime3_hc/

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ValeryOchkov

24-Ruby IV

Владимир, как я понимаю, вы работаете в РТС. Мы встречались с вами в Бостоне?

Так вот передайте им в РТС, что они задолбали всех своим акаунтом. Я не могу с ним разобраться.

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tietjee

15-Moonstone

I have upgraded to Prime3 and found it to be usless. There no 2D plotting. 2D plotting is used for:

1. Pesentation of data

2. Checking data

3. Looking for tends

4. And More

I have been paying my maintenance for three years now and have not recieved a product that can be used. What we are requesting is basic to engineering. I am going to continue to use MacthCAD15 until I can find another program.

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ptc-4907217

1-Visitor

What PTC MathCAD Prime 4.0 needs:

- plus/minus operation displayed in a simple matrix

- more than one y-axis graphs

- instant saving of MCDX to PDF file instead of saving it as an XPS first

- Graph labels?

- Instantly format long expressions to the next line so that it does not go out of the page limits, which is a major annoyance

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syaacoby

1-Visitor

That's all ???

First - it should be at least... like v15 ...

And second - it should have real and perfect converter from v15.

AS I UNDERATAND IT WILL TAKE SOME YEARS ! WE ARE WAITING TO PRIME 8...

I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED OF PTC.

SHEMY

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ChuYijun

1-Visitor

Shall Prime 2.0 liencese be effective be Prime 3.0

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RogerMansfield

1-Visitor

Andy, I have a node-locked license. I obtained the license file via e-mail and put it on the Windows 7 desktop as instructed by the Global support link that you provided. I was able to configure Mathcad Prime 3.0 Express to use the license, by pointing to the license file on the desktop as instructed. (However, the PTC Mathcad options window shows the Host ID of the primary computer, not the home computer.) The home computer is the computer on which I just installed Mathcad Prime 3.0 Express. When I now tried to activate the license that I had just configured, the wizard allowed me to specify the home computer's Host ID, but it asked for a product code in the window above the Host ID selection. I know my customer number and sales order number, but don't know the product code -- where do I obtain that?

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RogerMansfield

1-Visitor

Thank you, Andy, for having PTC's Kan Pasupathi contact me to assist with my Mathcad Prime 3.0 installation. It turned out that although I had downloaded Mathcad Prime 3.0, I had not actually installed it. I was trying to configure and activate the alpha tester's version from last March. Dumb mistake on my part!

But once my mistake was pointed out to me, I was able to uninstall the Mathcad Prime 3.0 alpha version, install the Mathcad Prime 3.0 release, configure the node-locked license, and activate the license without further assistance.

Despite some of the negative comments posted above, I think we are all committed to seeing Mathcad Prime evolve into a product that will do everything that Mathcad 15.0 can do.

For me personally, Mathcad Prime is almost, but not quite there. In order to convert and continue with my most important Mathcad 15 worksheets, I need Mathcad 15's Math styles feature.

Here is how I think it should work in Mathcad Prime: With the Math tab selected, click on a math variable in the worksheet, then click on Labels. Under Labels, Mathcad shows that my Label type is "Variable." This is where the new (to Mathcad Prime) feature is needed.

Under "Variables," I should see a list containing the default Variable style, but also a list of user-defined math styles, if any. I want to be able to select the user-defined style "Vectors." As the creator of this user-defined Vectors style, I want it to be just like the default style Variables, but I want to make the Vector style boldface, in keeping with the standard notation for vectors in calculus and analytical geometry. Anyone who has used Mathcad 15 to create a user-defined math style will understand completely what I am talking about.

To sum up, Mathcad 15's Math Styles still need to be implemented in Mathcad Prime. To me, this is very, very important. I have been able to work around this, but it takes a lot of extra work. Plus -- and most importantly -- the lack of Math styles in Mathcad Prime means that I must still publish my most important work as Mathcad 15 worksheets rather than Mathcad Prime worksheets.

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BESchmitt

1-Visitor

Andrew,

Right now, I have less than 50% conversion success using PRIME 3.0 (v15 M010 converter) for my existing v12 thru v15 mathcad files. Over 50% of the files I have FAIL to convert (no collapsed or locked regions, no EXCEL interfaces ... just Mathcad!). These would take man-months to rebuid from scratch. At this level, PRIME is of ZERO use to me and I will be forced to stop using PTC products as this negatively impacts the future capabilites of my company. Any thoughts?

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Werner_E

25-Diamond I

Right now, I have less than 50% conversion success using PRIME 3.0 (v15 M010 converter) for my existing v12 thru v15 mathcad files.

Sure, Prime is a highly unfinished and most incomplete product No idea why somebody thinks it could be called version 3.0.

Or, as someone else has formulated so appropriate - Prime is what you get if you replace engineering by marketing.

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BESchmitt

1-Visitor

lol ... I'd laugh even harder if this weren't so serious. I can only hope PTC folks read these. Unfortunately. this also reminds me of when Mathsoft (pre-PTC) released verion 8 and it did not work until they released Service Pack 3.