Storing frequently used equations

In mathcad 15, constants, formulas and programs,  often used, can be stored in a worksheet that can be used as a reference in other worksheets.  You can call, from the new worksheet  constants, formulas and programs defined in the reference. Such a function is not included in Mathcad Prime.

When importing in PRIME worksheets created with mathcad 15 and earlier, containing references, the latter are transformed into operator <<include>>,  but  it does not exist among the PRIME commands and I have doubts its functioning.

One option is to use  "Include Worksheet" from the "Input/Output" ribbon menu. Its very similar to the "reference worksheet" we have in Mathcad 15 with added caching,

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I don't use Prime a lot but I once tried that feature and it looked that it works OK. Not sure why FM thinks its broken. But I must admit that I haven't tested heavily.

One other option might be to put the equations and definitions you need frequently at the top of a worksheet in an Area (menu ribbon "Document") and collapse that area. You will just see a plus sign and a horizontal line (in Mathcad 15 and below we could format this an were able to completely hide it).

Add some header an footer to reflect your corporate design and now you could create a corporate template based on this worksheet and set Prime so that every time a user creates a new worksheet, this template is used and all the necessary definitions are available as that area on top will also be part of every worksheet created. The template could be hosted on a network share for easier maintenance,

In Mathcad 15 and below we could also password lock an area so the definitions in there could be used, but not modified by the user. This is a feature which is promised for one of the coming versions of Prime, as far as I know.

Regards

Werner

Another option is to use a feature called an "Area".   This allows you to group functions, variables together into a bounded (optionally Named)) part of the worksheet that you may then "collapse" to hide them from the user.   I believe, but not having access to Prime at the moment can't confirm, that you can create Areas on a template that you can use as your default (you can certainly do this in Mathcad 15 - I have a set of utility functions defined on my Normal template).

As with most Mathcad features, you can only use an Area-defined function/variable further down the page from the Area.  This usually dictates collapsing the Area so as not to force the reader to wade through pages of definitions before getting to the worksheet proper!

Stuart

And of course you could build your own library of 'standard' functions equations and other definitions, assembled in a separate Mathcad Prime worksheet. Then, whenever you need something from your library, you simply open the sheet and copy whatever you need over to your present sheet.

Regarding interpolation: that is possible too. Apart from linear interpolation, Mathcad also has several functions for e.g. spline interpolation.

Success!

Luc

Another options would be to build an eBook.  I use the feature to document large projects.  The worksheet with the equation could be included as a reference at the beginning.  There is also the option to cut and paste from the eBook.  This is Mathcad v15.

Good luck