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Efried1-Visitor
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March 6, 2013
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workflow mcdx mxcd Mathcad 15 -> PRIME 2.0

  • March 6, 2013
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Helo,

could you give me please some hurdles to expect when moving an worksheet to PRIME?

my first problems were:

- true and false lacking - no global definitions anymore, was converting only units

- lacking *.txt import component- had to convert into xslx

- no trace command in code blocks

deleting lines in programms does work different - also the flickering and blocked worksheet (quite for some time) raised my frustration...

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Werner_E
Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
March 6, 2013

Prime 0.2 (as I use to call it) lacks a lot of features we are used from Mathcad 15. I have great problems in the very slow reaction of the interface and most of the times can't see what part of an expression is selected - kind of trial and error and costs a lot of time. Also many things are only doable by going to the menu continually, sometimes with changes of ribbons - very timeconsuming.

As for the conversion of worksheets you may be interested in that small collection of what others have experienced in doing the job at the end of that website: http://plasma.colorado.edu/mathcad/index.html

RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
March 6, 2013

As for the conversion of worksheets you may be interested in that small collection of what others have experienced in doing the job at the end of that website: http://plasma.colorado.edu/mathcad/index.html

This statement: "Once the 30-day trial period expires, you lose the ability to use the old Mathcad and can only use Prime from that point forward." is not correct. Before you install the 30 day trial make sure you have a backup of your current license file. Even if you don't have a copy, I'm sure PTC would fix the licensing problem if you explained what happened.

Werner_E
Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
March 6, 2013

Richard Jackson schrieb:

As for the conversion of worksheets you may be interested in that small collection of what others have experienced in doing the job at the end of that website: http://plasma.colorado.edu/mathcad/index.html

This statement: "Once the 30-day trial period expires, you lose the ability to use the old Mathcad and can only use Prime from that point forward." is not correct. Before you install the 30 day trial make sure you have a backup of your current license file. Even if you don't have a copy, I'm sure PTC would fix the licensing problem if you explained what happened.

I didn't cought that. While you are right in what you say about backing up the old license file and of course not loosing the right to use your older version of Mathcad.

But the whole procedure shows a big problem I had never thought of, as I have a license for the latest versions. If someone sticked with MC14, does testdrive Prime and wants to see what his old sheets would look like in the new version, he will get his version 14 uninstalled and chances are he would forget to backup his license. And even if he did he would be forced to go through all the hassle of uninstalling MC15 and reinstalling MC14 again. And all that just to look if the new version would be worth while updating to. Horrible - thats PTC terror in its purest form. If I would be in that situation and aware of the procedure, I don't think I would be willing to give the new version a try (and without testing it with older worksheets it wouldn't make much sense for many people).

At least a well placed warning would be appropriate and of coures I would expect Prime3 to be able to read AND write the older format without the help of a separatly installed MC15.

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