Share how YOU use Mathcad Templates!

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PTC is hosting a webinar in early September about using templates in PTC Mathcad Prime. We want to promote how thoughtful template use saves users time and are great for efficiency. We’ll be going into quite a bit more detail than the basics of putting your company logo in the header.

While our internal PTC expert presenters will present great insight, you may also have great use cases or experiences that we haven’t even thought of that all Mathcad users could be inspired by!

In this thread, please share or describe your Mathcad Prime templates and how they help you: be it function libraries that you regularly reuse, or sophisticated set-ups for accelerating the creation of client reports.

(Note: This is a public forum; please don’t share your confidential or critical intellectual property. I may also collate your responses and share them in a PTC.com blog at a later time so everyone can benefit from best practices!)

terryhendicott · Answer

Hi, I will start:I use a Prime template file as a basis for finite element analysis reporting. Finite element analysis is done in C++ for speed and large matrix sizes but use Prime for the reporting.Prime worksheets are a zipped collection of interior XML files. C++ is used to write one of these XML files called worksheet.xml. C++ is used to write the additional XML files to incorporate text regions. Other necessary interior files simply come from the template and are echoed into the new combined Prime file. This is the reason for the template.  /////////////////////////////////////  // File control hard coded for now //  /////////////////////////////////////  ws.SaveUsingTemplate(   L"C:\Temp\uploadedPrime10File.mcdx",   L"C:\Temp\Milestone8_v1b.mcdx"  );CheersTerry

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