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Check out the replay for the Mathcad Advanced Controls Crash Course!     Presented by Vipul Trivedi ( @VipulT ) of the Mathcad Application Engineer team and PTC's internal expert on Advanced Controls, he walks you through... What Advanced Controls are and why they're so powerful and interesting How to use them in Mathcad Prime 10 Common use cases and examples for each of the six control types (List Boxes, Checkboxes, Text Boxes, Radio Buttons, Sliders, and Buttons) You'll walk away much more confident in your ability to implement these scripted objects, and you'll also have access to not only the replay, but the worksheet examples with the pre-built scripts that you can copy-paste for your own projects. This webcast is intended for people who are already familiar with Mathcad Prime, but are not already familiar with scripting.   The worksheet .zip attached to this Community post are Mathcad Prime 11 worksheets. Certain changes made to Prime 11 changed how script

PTC is pleased to announce the Mathcad Community Challenge, a bimonthly event where we’ll post an open-ended challenge for you to solve using PTC Mathcad Prime. Feel free to collaborate with other users and their worksheets by attaching your worksheet to your posts here. Participants will also earn PTC Community Badges! In general, at the start of every other month, we’ll post a new thread with the challenge. You can post in that thread throughout the month with contributions. Around the middle of the next month, PTC and our affiliates will go through the contributions and create a resolution to it in the form of a Mathcad.com blog article discussing your interesting approaches to the problem. Then, we’ll post a new challenge at the start of the next month.We hope you enjoy this challenge! Some rules and guidelines: Your contributions will be monitored by PTC and PTC-affiliated parties. We may use them in marketing material, including in post-challenge discussions hosted on PTC proper

If you now go to Mathcad's website, you'll be redirected to the Mathcad page on PTC.com. You'll also notice there are suddenly a bunch of new Mathcad pages on PTC.com that weren't there before. And you'll notice that Mathcad is a "Featured Product" and Engineering Calculations is a "Technology" on the PTC top navigation!   Yes, this is all intentional. If it seems like I've been quiet for the past several months, that's because it took a lot of work to return Mathcad back where it belongs! (And if you were wondering why new Mathcad blogs and webinars were being published to PTC.com and not mathcad.com for the past half a year, or why old Mathcad webinars are being uploaded to the YouTube channel, this is why.)   PTC.com, in terms of available technology, security, and usability, is vastly superior to what mathcad.com can offer. I hope you all see a lot of benefits to this move.   If you have any questions or found any glitches, please let me know!

Happy Holidays from the Mathcad Team!     Download the worksheet to see how our holiday snowman worksheet was made, with how the slider, checkbox, and plot work together.

Editor's note: This blog article has a companion PTC Mathcad Prime 8 worksheet that can be read in Prime 8 or versions released afterward. You can find it in this post's sidebar. Calculus is a branch of mathematics quantifying the change of a function. Calculus can be broken down into two main areas: derivative calculus and integral calculus. Derivatives measure the rate of change of a function. Integrals measure the area under the curve of a function. A partial derivative involves a function that is driven by multiple variables, and we find the rate of change of one variable while assuming all the other variables are held constant. If you have ever driven a car, then you can understand the basic concepts of derivatives and partial derivatives. Let’s look at a simple example. Derivatives and Your Car Let’s say you are going to drive your car from your home to work. It takes time to get from point A to point B. You can use a watch to measure time and an odometer to measure distance. Yo

We recorded Andrew McGough (Mathcad Product Management Director)'s one-hour demo and Q&A session about PTC Mathcad Prime 12, set to release in April 2026. Andy discusses: A summary of Mathcad Prime’s newest features, including the recent Mathcad Prime 11.0.1.0 maintenance release The current Mathcad Prime roadmap Demos of some of Mathcad Prime 12's upcoming features I also posed over a dozen questions to him asked by Mathcad users, including some from PTC Community! Watch the recording here. (No form required this time!)

Solution:Mathcad Single User and Student Licenses can be transferred by using the link.  Select the version and enter the product code Enter the new HOST ID onto which the license needs to be transferred- To correctly identify the Host ID on new machine, go to Windows Start > Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt > type ipconfig/all (ENTER) and with the Physical Address below the Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection there stands the Host ID-  Click on #Submit RequestBelow is the sample email triggered with new HOST ID license file (attachment)  Please save this license file to a secure location on your computer. 

PTC Mathcad Prime 11 should be available for download for subscribers starting April 2, 2025. At the same time, it should become available for download for the Mathcad Trial.   Click here for a blog article on what is new in PTC Mathcad Prime 11.   Click here to read an interview we had with PTC Mathcad product manager Andy McGough on why you should upgrade to PTC Mathcad Prime 11, or why you should be trying it if you aren't already a customer.   Click here to watch our webinar replay-on-demand to hear The Latest in PTC Mathcad Prime 11, narrated by Andy McGough, the Mathcad product manager.

Are you frustrated with limited functionality when you use PTC Mathcad Express? Watch this on-demand 60-minute in-depth session made just for Mathcad Express users on how to get the maximum benefit from the PTC Mathcad experience.   Also, we have a new Mathcad worksheet available for download that gives an in-depth comparison between Express's capabilities and Mathcad Prime's capabilities. It was ghost-written by popular Mathcad author Brent Maxfield, so Mathcad Express users will learn a lot about what they're missing by not upgrading to Prime.

Join Team Mathcad plus guest presenter Marius Pop from AAC Clyde Space in Mathcad for Electrical Engineers! Originally aired February 12 2025, but available now on-demand.   This is the long-awaited EE flavour of our "Mathcad for ___ Engineers" series (we previously had Civil and Mechanical). Like the others, Anji gives a brief introduction on what Mathcad is and why electrical engineers use it, and then Marius showed examples with two Mathcad worksheets on classic problems that engineers may use Mathcad for; he solves these in several interesting methods. The remaining time was be used for live Q&A, moderated by yours truly.   The replay is available now at this link, as well as all presentation materials.

Hi Mathcad community members,   For those of you who don't know me (some do), my name is Andrew McGough and I'm the product manager for Mathcad here at PTC. I have talked to some of you in the past individually, but I don't get to participate as much as I'd like on the community. I hope this announcement is the start of me being able to be more active here.   I would like to share with you that PTC is announcing the end-of-sale for the following versions of PTC Mathcad, effective December 31, 2021:   Mathcad 15  Mathcad Prime 1.0 – Prime 6.0     Effective January 1, 2022, the only version of PTC Mathcad available for subscription will be PTC Mathcad Prime 7 and future versions of PTC Mathcad Prime. After December 31, 2021, PTC will no longer have the right to sell or distribute software versions moving to end of sale due to a third-party component contained in those versions.    I appreciate the passion o

Join PTC Mathcad’s Director of Product Management Andrew McGough as he reveals the first-ever footage of the upcoming PTC Mathcad Prime 11, out for release in the first half of 2025. Andy covers: A quick recap of Mathcad Prime’s new features up to this point What is Mathcad Prime 10.0.1.0? The Mathcad Prime roadmap as it stands today In-development demos of new and improved features for Mathcad Prime 11 There was also a half-hour live question and answer session covering 13 questions across a variety of topics. Click here to watch the replay, complete with labelled "chapters" that lets you skip around the presentation at your leisure.

What? PTC Mathcad Prime 10 has a MAINTENANCE RELEASE? And it fixes some bugs (including ones previously pointed out by PTC Community members)?!   Learn more about Mathcad Prime 10.0.1.0 here and go download it if you're entitled to it: https://www.mathcad.com/en/blogs/mathcad-prime-10010-what-you-need-to-know

On April 9, 2024, 11:30 Eastern Time, PTC presented "The Latest in PTC Mathcad Prime 10". During the 28-minute webinar, PTC Mathcad product manager Andy McGough shows the new enhancements coming to Mathcad Prime 10, including Advanced Controls with scripting & choice of solving algorithms. There were also some brief bullet points at what's to come for future Mathcad Prime releases. Mathcad Prime 10 will be available for release and download later by April 23, 2024. Watch the webinar on-demand here!

It's a new, 2024 version of our "Happy Easter!" Easter Egg!What's different from the previous years' eggs is that this one is in Mathcad Prime 9, which allows us to use the "More Colors..." custom colour picker, for a far wider range of designs than before. The attached worksheet predominantly uses PTC's colour palette, which requires use of the custom colour picker... but there are some extra fun (non-PTC), previously unusable colours too, like pure green (0,255,0) and pink.   Happy Easter 2024!

Join Anji Seberino of PTC plus guest speaker Dave Martin (of the Creo Parametric YouTube channel) in Mathcad for Mechanical Engineers, the second of our industry-focused webinar series.In this one-hour webinar, you'll learn what mechanical engineers use PTC Mathcad for, and why engineering calculation software is a perfect fit for mechanical engineering workflows. You'll watch examples (and be able to download the files involved) of real-life problems solved using Mathcad Prime, and you will also see the awesome integration Mathcad has with 3D CAD software Creo, which will increase your efficiency, reduce errors, and help document your design intent. We capped off the webinar with a live Q&A session. You can watch the webinar replay at your leisure!

You can now watch the Mathcad Virtual Conference 2023 on-demand! This year, our virtual conference took place on August 30, 2023 at 10:00 Eastern Time. We had four main sessions, as well as an introductory speech by Brian Thompson, the Mathcad business general manager.   The sessions consisted of... A Mathcad Prime roadmap presentation, featuring early-build demos of Mathcad Prime 10's scripted controls and algorithm choosing features, presented by Andrew McGough, Mathcad product manager How to use Solve Blocks and Programming to power-up your Mathcad worksheets, presented by Anji Seberino and Ioana Cernat of the PTC Mathcad application engineering team There was also a merchandise raffle that used a Mathcad program to pick the winners Anji's and Ioana's demo worksheets are available for download on the replay page An in-depth look at how the numeric and symbolic engines were enhanced in Mathcad Prime 9, presented by Oleg Reznychenko His worksheet is available for download o

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On June 27, 2023 (10:00 Eastern), PTC held a Mathcad for Civil Engineers webinar. Check out the now-recorded (formerly live) webinar for opportunities to: Learn what Mathcad is Learn Mathcad use cases for civil and structural engineers Watch Mathcad demos by a guest presenter (Dr. Pat Heffernan, professor of civil engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada) Listen to the Q&A with the presenters and the then-live audience It was a fun time!Here was an excerpt:

PTC Mathcad Prime 9 is available for download right now (March 7 to 14).   PTC has provided a by-the-facts blog of the major new and enhanced areas of functionality at this blog post.   In addition, you can watch the replay of our April 4, 2023 webinar featuring PTC Mathcad product manager Andy McGough. Andy provided demos and commentary on the new functionality, a brief update on the PTC Mathcad Prime development roadmap, and he took your questions! (Moderated by yours truly.)   If you want to hear a portion of what Andy McGough has to say about PTC Mathcad Prime 9, we published his reasons why you should upgrade to the new version in a quick chat. Whether you're a legacy Mathcad user, already a Mathcad Prime user, or new to Mathcad altogether, PTC Mathcad Prime 9 has exciting features you'll love.

We received an email inquiry which I had forwarded to a Mathcad product manager. I thought it may be useful for others, too, so instead of just emailing the response to the customer, I am posting it here as well.   ------- We need to convert .mcd to .mcdx...We have Prime 6.0.0.0What do we need and how much does the program cost to do this conversion. ------- The .mcdx file format is Mathcad Prime. The .mcd file format is for earlier versions of the legacy software, later versions of the legacy software use the .xmcd file format.   If this customer uses Mathcad Prime 6.0 there is a converter that comes with the software they can use to convert all .xmcd and most .mcd files to .mcdx - ‘most’ .mcd as we only go back as far as something like legacy Mathcad 7, which was late 90’s I think.   From the Input/Output tab in Mathcad Prime 6.0 they can find an ‘xmcd/mcd converter’ button - clicking that will open the converter. They will need the latest version of Mathcad 15.0 (M050

PTC Mathcad Prime 8 has now released! @CatMcchad a quick interview with PTC Mathcad's product manager, @amcgough, for this blog article about what's new and exciting in Mathcad Prime 8, what new functionality users and veterans will look forward to using, and how the Mathcad team decides what new functionality to put into each release. Much of that is customer-driven, and Andy cited several delivered requests from the Mathcad Ideas board on this very community.Read the interview here:https://www.mathcad.com/en/blogs/why-prime8-andy-mcgough  Andy will also be available next week (March 22 at 10:00 Eastern) for a webinar about what's new in Mathcad Prime 8, featuring demos of the new functionality, plus a live Q&A portion with Andy that yours truly will be moderating. Register for that here (or catch the replay-on-demand after the fact):https://www.mathcad.com/en/resources/webcast/whats-new-mathcad-8 Happy calculating~

Professor Tetsuro Tokoro (@ttokoro) is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ), and he has dedicated much of his time to teaching and studying electric circuit design for his college students at Japan’s National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Gifu College.   A true man of math, ttokoro finds helping community members solve their problems to be very fun. He seeks out math-based brain teasers and shares them with the Mathcad community to gain the insights of his kind and very intelligent fellow Mathcad users. These include resistor meshes (including in 3D), perfect squared squares, and a puzzle where you must identify the minimum radius on a circle with n number of points where all distances between points must be an integer. Sometimes, he looks for problems on rosettacode.org to solve.   According to ttokoro, many of these problems are unique and won’t be found in a textbook (and many math textbooks in use were written before math software came to

Today, PTC Mathcad product manager Andrew McGough announced the Mathcad Scripted Control design Working Group: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad-Scripted-Control-design/gh-p/mathcadscriptedcontroldesign   Space is very limited, and active participation and attendance in discussion is required to join.   PTC aims to implement scripted controls in PTC Mathcad Prime 10, based on the feedback we receive from this Working Group.Even if we don't have room for you in the Working Group, you may still contribute your ideas for scripted controls in Mathcad Prime via the Mathcad Ideas board: https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad-Ideas/idb-p/PTCMathcadIdeas

Registration has opened for the Mathcad Virtual Conference 2022! Happening September 13, 2022, 10:00 Eastern time.   This will be our third annual Mathcad conference, and this year we're promising to talk only about information with demos that you will find valuable and interesting. You'll hear from... Brian Thompson, Mathcad general manager, introducing the show and discussing the current state of Mathcad Andrew McGough, Mathcad product manager, presenting an updated Mathcad Prime roadmap, along with world-premiere demos of some of the new functionality coming to next year's Mathcad Prime 9 Anji Seberino, Mathcad application engineer, showcasing Mathcad Prime's powerful design of experiments functionality Anna Novikova, Mathcad software engineer, deeply detailing the improvements made to Mathcad Prime 8's numeric and symbolic engines (including some enhancements that were not documented in Mathcad Help) A Mathcad customer and how Mathcad Prime powers his innovative structural en