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ELSID1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 25, 2014
Question

Sketches in MathCAD

I know it's a long standing issue in MathCAD, but has Prime implemented "drafting" tools? I cannot find them. I need to show a picture of what the calculation is showing. I was sent an excel sheet to use because it has "drafting" tools. I dislike going back to excel when MathCAD is easier to read. Is there an easy way to sketch what the calculation is doin in either Prime 3 or MathCAD15? I remember haveing a 2d tool through bently that would dynamically change with a Calcultaion ... PLEASE, bring that functionality back!

http://communities.ptc.com/message/221352#221352

I don't care if it's Creo (lite), SmartSketch, or a plugin ... this is incredibly important for engineering documentation and should be a part of MathCAD

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VladimirN24-Ruby IV
24-Ruby IV
April 28, 2014

Please bring your idea here: http://communities.ptc.com/community/mathcad?view=idea

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    ELSID1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    April 28, 2014

    Vladimir,

    I'd love to add this, but I cannot. If any of you regulars don't mind putting it in, I'd appreciate it. I'm registered here under my personal account from many years ago. The current versions that I am using fall under corporate, so I do not have a maintenance agreement. Another wonderfull way PTC screws up suggestions from users, by requireing a maintenance agreement/account to input suggestions!

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    Werner_E
    Werner_E25-Diamond I
    25-Diamond I
    April 28, 2014

    It was always my understanding that any user/member of this community would be able to create an idea as all are able to open a discussion or reply to such. Is this not true? When you follow Vladimir's link you find a the right an area "Actions" and below "Create an idea". You can't click there and formulate (and voto for) your idea? I always thought that should be open for all members, being under maintanance or not. Rumour has it, though, that those ideas will be happily ignored. At least you will find much more and also more substantial "ideas" in the various discussion threads than in the idea area - looks like most people don't have any confidence in PTC to act appropriatly on those ideas and consider it a waste of time.

    So what happens when you follow Vladimir's link and click "Create an idea"?

    I am aware that without being under maintanance you won't be able to turn in a case, which effectively means that you would have to pay for the privilege to be allowed to report a bug, too.

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