11-Garnet

Question

where is the simulink for mathcad?

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
November 22, 2012
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I notice the following:

Mathcad had ten years ago Mathconnex. Great idea, but it was discontinued.

The M competitors:

Matlab had Simulink, and it keeps growing.
Maple had nothing and few years ago came up with Maplesim.
Mathematica started to develop its own Modelica simulation add-on with v.8.

Comment:

I tried Vissim, but the integration with Mathcad is good in theory and bad in practice. It is done through OLE objects, which drives to errors, problems and idiosyncrasies of all sorts: and file corruption is always behind the corner, as I experienced. Not the most reliable technology, to put it blindly.

Question:

If one needs a front end workspace to put blocks of calculation (standard dynamic models with matrix, no specialized engineering fields) in visual form (wires, plots, "meters" display, etc.) what is the best solution that works with mathcad. If it is Vissim, what combination of versions work best? Any alternative or good practice to show the connection of main variables and key results dynamically?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Fred_Kohlhepp

23-Emerald I

There used to be a link between Mathcad and LabView. While what you're asking would be a total waste of what LabView is intended for, they do have a huge selection of wires, meters, etc.

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anthonyQueen

Author

11-Garnet

Hi Fred, thanks for the comment.

I do not have specialized needs, or I/O peripherals to monitor. I tried Labview more than 10 years ago on the mac. We were both in our early youth: and I liked it. Since then though it moved as a software to collect and organize external data, which is not what I am doing. In Mathcad I miss a way to visualize in a summary way, inputs and results using a page or so, with displayed the main connections of the math model.

I saw that in Mathcad there is insert/reference. It could be used to exploit modular work and then organize a summary page. But a program like Vissim if it was working nicely with a reference to .mcd files (and not with OLE embeddings) would be really great with nested blocks, and similar amenities.

But probably I am alone to be annoyed in going up and down a worksheet in search of relevant inputs and outputs. For this reason I think it has been a pity the stop given to Mathconnex. Never tried it. Is this info true?

There even is an adapted MathConnex version, regarding Mathcad11.

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