How to find and download an E-Book

[WadeLeveille]

Just installed V15. I was told I could download the E-Books (primarily the Mechanical eng. library. ie: Roark's Hickey etc) I followed the link in the getting started guide but with no success.... Can anyone help? it appears the documents you get are less than helpful..

Wade

[MikeArmstrong]

Wade Leveille wrote:

Just installed V15. I was told I could download the E-Books (primarily the Mechanical eng. library. ie: Roark's Hickey etc) I followed the link in the getting started guide but with no success.... Can anyone help? it appears the documents you get are less than helpful..

Wade

There is a list of free downloads which can be found at the link below "Mathcad Resource Center: Books"

http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/products/resource/mathcad/books.jsp

Mike

[RichardJ]

The PTC website always has been a nightmare to navigate, but now it's even worse! Here's another URL that gives a different looking version of the Resource Center:

http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/products/resource/list-books.jsp?&rccg=888&nav=5279&sec=&top=0&section=

I have no idea what the difference is.

How to navigate to the Resource Center on the PTC website though? The only link I could find was to go to Products, Mathcad (which is about the last place I would expect to find it - why not under "Support?!), Click on "Additional Resources" (way down on the right in small text, not obvious at all). That opens up a hidden list of links, one of which says "Mathcad Resource Center". I have no idea how they expect anyone to be able to find that! Then, to add insult to injury, when you click on link it takes you to the PlanetPTC community, not the resource center!

[mzeftel]

We are no longer distributing the libraries, including the Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering E-books. You can access some of the E-books through the Knovel link under Tools in the menu for Mathcad 15.

As part of your maintenance entitlement you have access to 10 free downloads from Knovel.

I have been moving free E-books and user files from the online Resource Center on the PTC website to this community so everything is in one place and easily searchable.

Mona

[LucMeekes]

Hi Mona,

If I (try to) follow the link of your post, it gives me:

"The item does not exist. It may have been deleted."

....

The link of Richard's post, of last year still works....Fortunately.

Luc

[mzeftel]

That link came from the website not me. I had to delete it 3 times, but now it's gone.

Sorry for the confusion.

Mona

[JamesJudd]

I tried Richard's link and found the "Books" section but it is really nothing...there was three items under Mechancial and Civil Engineering and they were just one page each. What is the story? I was expected to find Roark's etc. with lots of examples. In particular I am trying to find a shrink fit example for cylinders.

Thanks,

James

[mzeftel]

James,

Knovel has made an updated version of Roarks based on the 7th edition. You can go to www.knovel.com and search for Roarks, and you'll find the Mathcad enabled version of it.

If you have Mathcad 15, you are entitled to 10 free downloads.
Maintenance customers of Mathcad 14 and Mathcad 15 can subscribe at a discount rate.

Mona

[RichardJ]

Knovel has made an updated version of Roarks based on the 7th edition. You can go to www.knovel.com and search for Roarks, and you'll find the Mathcad enabled version of it.

If you have Mathcad 15, you are entitled to 10 free downloads.

All I found was pieces of the book. It's all split into separate tables, etc. So 10 free downloads will get you almost nothing worth having, and certainly not the e-book.

Also from the Knovel web site:

"Knovel does not sell individual e-book titles or offer subscriptions to individuals. Pricing for Knovel's enterprise subscription packages begin at $10,000. Individuals can sign up for Knovel's Free Titles Package."

This is what the Free Titles Package is:

Knovel does not sell individual eBooks or offer subscriptions plans for individuals. However, individuals may register to access Knovel’s Free Titles Package which consists of the following titles:

• Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
• Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective
• Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
• Knovel Critical Tables
• Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)
• Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition)
• Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
• Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1 -2
• Teaching Engineering

So if you are an individual and you want the Roaks e-book you are SOL!

Perhaps it was not such a good idea to give the rights to something that was free to a company that then wants to charge you $10000 for it. Except for the company in question of course. For them it was an excellent idea!

[MikeArmstrong]

Great point Richard. I noticed that the whole book cannot be downloaded in one go. Seems a bit pointless to be honest.

$10,000 - would rather get a hardcopy.

Mike

[RichardJ]

$10,000 - would rather get a hardcopy.

If you pay me $10000, I'll buy the hardcopy and put all the tables, figures, etc in Mathcad for you

[MikeArmstrong]

If you pay me $10000, I'll buy the hardcopy and put all the tables, figures, etc in Mathcad for you

hahahaha,

I'll check my piggy bank.

Mike

[VladimirN]

Richard, thanks for the detailed information by resource Knovel Math.

[pdoherty-bigara]

I believe that this is an old story, After I purchased mathcad 15 and prime 2  ,three years ago I was told that I could download 3 Ebooks from Novel.

after contacting PTC they say sorry it been discontinued.

Because I am a sole operator it is too expensive to join Novel.

Now you say that we can download 10 ebooks free.

Fantastic are you able to send me a like to back up your claim, because i cannot find it.

Basically Novel just want you to join or get lost really..

Until to day I am still trying to find out where I can purchase those ebooks

Note that I have the Mark engineering with live math that is the only one I could find and it was given to me by a colleague.

I appreciate very much if you could help me.

[pdoherty-bigara]

Does any one have a link to download that ebook !! Mechanics of Materials, 4 edition, by Gere and Timoshenko.  Thanks

[DenisJaunin]

Hello

There would be a new edition.

Kind regards.

Denis

http://www.hljp.edu.cn/attachment/20120820084627006.pdf

[DenisJaunin]

Hello

There would still be a new edition.

Kind regards.

Denis

http://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjUvIjhwLPLAhWE9g4KHVe3BlwQFggkMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbank.engzenon.com%2Fdownload%2F54f8d3fe-7680-4b84-b40c-20d6c0feb99b%2FMechanics_of_Materials_8th_Edition.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGgBWCiZQLYBAjyHgt7MHIM_i-v4w

[VladimirN]

It seems that the link does not work.

[MikeArmstrong]

I have a copy of the E-book, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to publish it.

Mona can you confirm?

Mike

[VladimirN]

Yes, I too have this E-book ("Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, 6th Edition").

[mzeftel]

Mike,

Are you asking if you can publish the PTC (Mathsoft) copy of Roarks? No, that was a for-sale item for your use and not be reposted on a website for others.

If you are talking about the printed copy of Roarks, that is a McGraw-Hill book, and they own the copyright. Mathsoft and presumably Knovel had to pay McGraw-Hill to use portions of the printed book in the electronic book.

PTC is not in the content business, which is why Knovel picked up our old content, and developed updated Mathcad worksheets as well as Mathcad worksheets for other books on their website.

Sorry,

Mona

[RichardJ]

Are you asking if you can publish the PTC (Mathsoft) copy of Roarks? No, that was a for-sale item

Yes, you are right. My bad. I thought it was one for the free ones.

It cost a lot less than $10000 though.

[MikeArmstrong]

Cheers for clearing that up Mona.

Mike

[VladimirN]

Also, for a long time, on site MathSoft it was accessible following e-book - "Mechanics of Materials, 4 edition, by Gere and Timoshenko":

[ssywak-2]

Somewhere at home, I have an ancient copy of the E-Handbook of Roark's Formulas for Stress & Strain. It worked with MathCad 11 (IIRC), but MathCad 11 won't install on these darn new-fangled machines.

The copy I have is an official. legitimate copy, and I got it for free from MathCad! I was talking with one of their tech support guys over 10 years ago, and he said (I paraphrase), "Oh, THAT old thing? I think I have a CD-ROM of it here in the office somewhere; I'll send it to you!" And he did.

My company just installed MC 15 on my machine here, so I'll bring in the disk tomorrow, and see if it works. The formatting never really worked out nicely with the way they formatted things, but I found most of the time I just copied the extensive tables for their multiple-parameter equations into Excel, and went on from there, using HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP.

[ChristopherHard]

I'll add one warning if you are new to the Roark's Handbook Mathcad E-Books that were put out more than 10 years ago (The title page says they were adapted from Roark's 6th edition by Warren Young, and published by Mathsoft and McGraw-Hill). There are small errors known to be in those worksheets, particularly in the solutions for flat circular plates. We have found minor deviations from the book in the equations for the numbered constants that are used in those tables, and had to correct our local copies to keep new users from getting tripped-up on the same things. We reported all of the issues to Mathsoft at the time. I would hope that PTC could still come up with a list of known issues with those files, but it's been a few years since they sold that stuff off to Knovel and that could be a challenge.

You also need to look carefully at the range variables - they don't always give you the limiting values (max, min, or local peak). It is a great convenience to use those E-books, but as a rule, we always check the formulas against the printed reference.

[rubenvillarreal]

So, there is no answer for this isn't?

[Werner_E]

The answer is that PTC does not provide access to the (older) E-Books for Mathcad 15 and below.

They are pushing their Prime where the feature "E-Books" was not implemented at all-

So unless you are able to find the desired e-books somewhere else, you are out of luck.

Adeptscience (now alfasoft) always was and still is a good source for that kind of downloads and other information about Mathcad.

Go down to "Additional Resources" - maybe you find whatever you may be looking for.

-> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/download/dldcat/33/0/All/Mathcad.html

You may need to register which is free anyway.

You won't find Roark's there as the rights were sold to Knovel and as far as I understood they sell it sliced into small pieces on a sheet by sheet basis.

WE