Mathcad Ideas

ImproveMathcad · ‎May 30, 2023

Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. 1. What version of the software are you running? Mathcad Prime 9.0.0.0 2. What is the problem? In the find function it is not possible to search for a variable name in combination with a subscript. Additionally it would be good to include copy and paste in the find function. Additionally it would be good to include Greek letters in the find function. 3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it. I don’t know any. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation. It would reduce the possibility of errors in big Mathcad sheets. It is “very” important for long calculations. 5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.) If an error occurs, the impact can be enormous.

TL_10729359 · ‎Jul 05, 2023

Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. 1. What version of the software are you running? Mathcad Prime 9.0.0.0 2. What is the problem? Can not add captions to figures and tables. Neither can these figures and tables be numbered and refered to in text. 3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it. No not at the moment. Figures and tables are not numbered 4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation. Inserting tables and figures and automatically caption them with an automatic numbering scheme would be very helpful. On top of that the ability to automatically refer to them would be perfect, just like as can be done in Microsoft Word. 5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.) Limits the number of users since the functionality is not sufficient for the type of document they are willing to write. Furthermore there is a lost of productivity since now figures must be referred to as, the figure underneath or the figure above, or the figure in section .... (although that section may contain multiple figures).

ME_10406535 · ‎Feb 28, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am an analysis engineer working in the nuclear industry. I create calculations that need to be easy to read by my colleagues and the clients that my company serves. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Mathcad Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. The Mathcad 15 (xmcd) to Prime (mcdx) converter produces documents that are unreadable and can take several days work just to adjust the formatting such that the converted document is readable. The main issue is that the spacing between regions is not consistent so that every single converted page needs attention just to get the original content back onto the same page. The time saved if the converter could be improved such that the converted page looks like the original would be enormous. - Margins from the original document should be maintained - Spacing between regions should be maintained 4. What is the use case for your organization? The team that I work in produce analysis reports for our clients. Every time a report needs to be updated we have to convert to Prime and we spend a lot of time just producing something that resembles the original. Our reports can run into hundreds of pages and can take several days to adjust the formatting. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? The time saved if the converted file was representative of the original would allow resource to work on producing new work which we can charge our clients for instead of the current massive overhead of time wasted reformatting converting reports. As an example it has taken me nearly 3 hours this afternoon just to reformat a 50 page report. The screenshots I have attached compare an example original pdf from Mathcad 15 with the unedited converted file which has added 130 pages of whitespace (323 pages vs 194 pages originally). I hope you can appreciate it is a massive job to make the converted file readable.

SR_1698445 · ‎Nov 20, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Analaysis team within aerospace. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 7 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Pleaes add word-style tools to align blocks / formula / pictures to LH edge, top edge, centre of page etc. Basically, copy what microsoft does in Word and Powerpoint 4. What is the use case for your organization? Improving efficiency. Improving standard of final result. Enhances credability of Mathcad Prime as a genuine doumentation tool. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Improving efficiency. Improving standard of final result. Easier adoption of Mathcad as a tool for final documentation.

ME_10406535 · ‎Sep 08, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am an analysis engineer working in the nuclear industry. I create calculations that need to be easy to read by my colleagues and the clients that my company serves. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Mathcad Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Mathcad Prime does not allow superscript or subscript text in a text box or text block. This means that if attempting to refer to common SI units in free text, for example m2 or N/mm2, it is not possible to display the units correctly using superscript. Similarly it is not possible to use subscripts for referring to chemical elements or compounds, for example, U235. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Allowing superscripts and subscripts will make display of any subscripts or superscripts required in free text much easier as it was in Mathcad 15. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Inclusion of subscripts and superscripts in free text will make the calculations that we produce look more professional and easier to read for our clients.

TomR · ‎Mar 23, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Heavy Civil Construction Chief Engineer Internal Engineering Department 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 9.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. The use of internal links in Prime 9.0 is a welcomed addition. It would be more beneficial if clicking the link would take the user to a point in the document where the tag is placed at the top of the page. Currently, clicking the link places the tag at the bottom of the page. It would seem that the typical use case would be to use the link to navigate to a portion of the worksheet where the information following the tag would be most of interest. For example, as currently programmed, the clicking the external link for "6. Design" navigates to a place in the worksheet where the tag (6. Design) is at the bottom of the viewable area: The preferred location would be to place the tag (6. Design) at the top of the viewable area (as shown below): 4. What is the use case for your organization? Please see above. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? More efficient navigation inside worksheets using the new internal links feature.

SR_1698445 · ‎Nov 20, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Analysis Team in Aerospace, 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 7. 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I frequently want to look at two or three worksheets simultaneously, in order to compare, copy, etc. I realise that I can have multiple instaces of Mathcad open, but each has a big ribbon bar, which makes vertical tiling too clumbsy. 4. What is the use case for your organization? All users would benefit from efficiency gain. Would improve credability of Mathcad as a tool. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? All users would benefit from efficiency gain. Would improve acceptance of Mathcad as a tool, as it would have more of those Word-style features we all know.

LJ_10477198 · ‎Mar 09, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Electronics. R&D. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Mathcad Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Our worksheets can span many pages and reference the same variable multiple times. I would like a 'find variable' feature that will allow me to navigate to a particular reference of that variable. 4. What is the use case for your organization? We need to review worksheets that can be lengthy. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Review efficiency and accuracy.

ME_10406535 · ‎Sep 12, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am an analysis engineer working in the nuclear industry. I create calculations that need to be easy to read by my colleagues and the clients that my company serves. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Mathcad Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Spell checking in Mathcad Prime is difficult compared to Mathcad 15 and other common packages such as Microsoft Word. It is much easier to find mis-spelled words if the spell checker cycles through the spelling errors as in Mathcad 15 compared to scrolling through potentially hundreds of pages manually. 4. What is the use case for your organization? This affects all reports written by my team which can run into several hundred pages. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? This will save a lot of time scrolling through documents and reduce user error if a highlighted word is missed.

PS_10550108 · ‎May 10, 2023

Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. 1. What version of the software are you running? Prime 8 2. What is the problem? Tab spacing keeps changing within a text box 3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it. Add spaces and hope for the best 4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation. Add a ruler and customisable tab spacing that displays when working in a text box 5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.) Misaligned text in a report looks unprofessional

ME_10406535 · ‎Sep 09, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. I am an analysis engineer working in the nuclear industry. I create calculations that need to be easy to read by my colleagues and the clients that my company serves. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Mathcad Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. In Mathcad 15 it was possible to use the search and replace functions with variable names that contained subscripts. For example to search for the variable M with a subscript of say box, I would type M.box into the search box. However in Mathcad Prime 8, to the best of my knowledge, it is not possible to search for variables containing subscripts in the same way. If I copy and paste the same variable name into the search box I get “(@LABEL VARIABLE (@ID M (@SUB box)))” which cannot be found. 4. What is the use case for your organization? This affects all reports written by my team which often run into several hundred pages. Variable names in calculations are often given subscripts based on the load case or material of the component being assessed. Therefore material changes or additional load cases etc as the design evolves often necessitate variable names to be changed for consistency. It also often saves time to copy and paste existing standard calculations (often from another document for which tiled windows would be beneficial) into our reports and then change the variable names as appropriate. This would be much easier if find and replace was capable of handling the variable names. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Implementing this change would save my team a lot of time when writing reports and would also help significantly with preventing errors as currently finding all instances of a variable containing a subscript is difficult.

mbennett-2 · ‎Oct 27, 2022

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Nuclear and defence sectors. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. In Mathcad 15 you could view a ruler at the top of the sheet and then set up gridlines which by pressing the tab key would cause the cursor to jump to these lines. This made it easy to layout calculation reports consistently throughout the document in terms of alignment. Now there is no ruler option and the tab key just cycles through the variables or jumps the cursor to the first sheet. 4. What is the use case for your organization? N/A 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? N/A

Tomm1 · ‎Jan 18, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Construction and engineering 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Hi, we would like to have the date in header automatic and therefore we want to use the Saved date feature under Document. But there is only MM-DD-YYYY, MM-DD-YY, DD-MM-YYYY and DD-MM-YY. We would like to be able to add a format for "Saved date" according to standard ISO 8601, that is YYYY-MM-DD. Is it possible or are there any workarounds for this? 4. What is the use case for your organization? This is what our country and many other country uses as a Date format. And it would be nice to use this automatic feature instead of writing it manually in our Header. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? It would be a neat feature and would be greatly appreaciated.

RM_9613811 · ‎Apr 09, 2023

Can we please get a tab completion feature such as is found in IDE's, excel, smath studio etc.? Being able to type the first character of a variable/unit/function and select from a list of suggestions would make users much more productive. 1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Power generation 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 8 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. Make users more productive and reduce mistakes by using an autocomplete feature. 4. What is the use case for your organization? As above 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Assist to make users more productive and encourage us to keep paying licensing fees instead of looking for other options!!

DavidMacL · ‎Apr 19, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Engineering Design / Senior Structural Designer / Government and Private sector clients 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 9 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. I reuse / recycle a lot of worksheets I have previously created, sometimes cobbling together 2 or more existing worksheets into a larger worksheet on a new project. Legacy Mathcad had Select All features, for text and math regions. This made it easy to select an entire existing worksheet, then copy and paste it into a new worksheet and then select another entire different existing worksheet, then copy and paste it into this new worksheet. Without Select All, regions must be selected manually by dragging with the mouse. Easy to miss a region and difficult to drag and scroll through a multi-page worksheet. I guess you could say it's a drag. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Efficiency and accuracy. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Time and cost efficiency.

SAW_161173 · ‎Dec 06, 2022

We use Mathcad Prime 8 for documentation of structural analysis of penstocks for hydropower plants and other pressuer bearing devices, trash rakes, and gates. The ability to retrace the calculation is obligatory. Values of defined variables have to be inserted in equations. We are doing this using <implicit,ALL> command. Not only, that this is a very long evaluation key word, it does not look very nice in documentation. When using Mathcad 15, it is possible to hide the evaluation key word and replace the rigth arrow sign by an equal sign. Please bring back this Mathcad15 feature to Mathcad Prime

LJ_10477198 · ‎Mar 10, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Electronics. R&D. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 9 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. When I installed Prime 9, with Prime 8 already installed, the installer did not pull application options from the existing installation. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Upgrade version 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Improved ease of use

GeoffD · ‎Mar 09, 2023

Prime 9 has improved the colour highlighting options for text - but the highlighting of maths regions is a bit clunky as you have to choose precisely the same colour code from an analogue slider selection every time you want to highlight some maths. Ideally, there should be some quick way of using exactly the same colour as last used - maybe a copy format ability, or better still, (if it's not in the standard palette) extending what is newly available for text to maths?

SPauliszyn · ‎Jun 09, 2023

Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. 1. What version of the software are you running? The freshest!! Prime 9 2. What is the problem? The fixed width allocated for the recent file names is too small. Sorry to offend those who keep their file name size to 22 or less. Adding a dates in the filenames is my particular quirk 😉 But it's leaving frustrated because I have to hover over file name to wait for the full name to show. But then it's also the full path so I have to change gears just to find the keywords or version of the right file. 2a. What is your "Mathcad idea"? Simply either have Mathcad automatically increase the width of the menu or have a grip that we can drag to change the default with of the menu. Extra bonus: Maybe a combination of both so that when all the recent files are short, the current minimum with is used. But then it will automatically increase to a maximum that the user can then adjust (dragging a grip) to their utmost desire. Also, you could squeeze in some extra characters if the actual on-screen width was used instead of just by character count. 3. Are you using a workaround? If yes, please describe it. "Patience" (i.e., wait for the full name to pop-up) 4. What is the use case for your organization? Describe how your idea would work in context or how it would apply to a practical situation. I will go out on a limb and speak for the entire world (even my competitors), for those who use substantially more than 22 characters and also have long path names. It would just help us to quickly find the right file when we use the 'recent files' list to jump between job/calculation files. 5. What impact does this problem currently have on your organization? (Number of users affected, hours of lost productivity, etc.) Hard to objectify—we are talking about a potentially large group of awesome Mathcad users. Especially us 'awesomers' who use longer descriptive file names.

JM_10452409 · ‎Mar 10, 2023

1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. - I am a bridge engineer for a provincial transportation department. 2. What version of Mathcad are you currently running? Prime 8.0.0.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. The explicit function is un-usable for most of my work as you have very little to no control over how many decimal places will appear and the units that will be used. The current function results in eqns that extend off the sheet because several variables go to 10 decimal places. Making the font size smaller doesn't work because it is so long. As well, many eqns we use are long, so restating them prior to the explicit function uses up a great deal of space. If the input eqn and the explicit function itself could be hidden, that would be helpful on cutting down space. I have attached our bending resistance calculation with the explicit function as well as our current practice or restating the variables. Even breaking the eqn down into smaller terms the explicit function cannot function. 4. What is the use case for your organization? Whenever we complete engineering calculations and they are pdf/printed and reviewed by another engineer line by line. It would make the review process much more efficient if the reviewer could see the values of the inputs into eqns, similar to how one would complete hand calculations. Once reviewed, the work is stored, as a paper copy, in our file room for future use. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Reduced time reviewing calculations as you can quickly verify the inputs are correct and so that someone referring to the paper copy 50 years from now (our structures have a life of 100 years) can easily follow them long after MathCAD has moved onto version 50. Time would also be reduced as currently we have to restate all the variables that were used under the eqn. Right now we only have a couple mathcad licenses, being able to do this would help get some of the more hesitant engineers on board so we can expand mathcad's use in our department.

Mathcad Ideas

Make variable inclusive subscript available in find function

Captions for Table and Figures and referencing to them

Improve Mathcad 15 to Prime Converter

Mathcad Prime : Please add alignment tools

Make Subscript and Superscript Text Possible as in Mathcad 15

Target Location in Document for Internal Links

Mathcad Prime : Please add a tiled or cascaded worksheets view option

Add feature to find all references to a variable and corresponding navigation feature.

Add replace all option to find and replace

Tabs in text boxes

Improve search to include variable names containing subscripts

Bring back Mathcad 15 ruler and tab functions

Can you add a format for "Saved date" according to standard ISO 8601, that is YYYY-MM-DD?

tab completion

Editing - Select All

Hide evaluation keywords and replace evaluation sign by equal sign

New edition installer pulls license and application options from previous installation

Prime 9 Improve Colour Palette for Maths Formatting

Extra width for "recent files" on file menu

Improvements to Explicit Function