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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 of our Mathcad userbase, so I would like to pass along some additional information on a helpful offer. If you currently have a subscription license and wish to continue using your current version of PTC Mathcad while you evaluate Mathcad Prime 7, we are offering a multi-year renewal option that will give you the ability to use your current version for up to four additional years. If you decide to take advantage of this offer, it is important to place the order prior to December 7, 2021 to ensure no issues in booking the order or the subscription start date. PTC may decline or be unable to process orders received after that date. Please contact your PTC account representative or PTC partner for more information.    Please bear in mind that the use of old versions of software does introduce implicit risk in areas of security, hardware, and software platform support.    PTC will continue to provide technical support access, phone assistance and expert input for versions of Mathcad that have reached end-of-sale. PTC will not be able to issue new licenses or provide access to software downloads for end-of-sale versions.    Our customers in English-speaking countries received the End-of-Sale announcement on February 17, 2021. Our global customers are receiving the localized communication now.    We have put together multiple resources for you to answer your questions. Please refer to our FAQ for more information. We know this is a big change so the Mathcad team will be monitoring this thread for feedback.   Best regards,  Andrew McGough,  Product Manager, PTC 

Hi All – I want to announce a critical bug fix release of PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0. We recently discovered an issue where some password protected areas can become corrupted on save/open. This is an issue we feel important enough to fix in a maintenance release. We’ve investigated the issue, submitted and tested a fix and will be releasing PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0 M010 later today. Anyone using Prime 4.0 F000 should upgrade to Prime 4.0 M010 – we’ll be removing Prime 4.0 F000 from download to make sure only the fixed version is available.   We do our best to avoid situations like this but sometimes bugs happen and when they do, we assess them to understand the impact on users. If they’re critical issues, such as this one, we do our best to fix them as soon as possible.   Many thanks,   Andy.

Full list of worksheets   WriteSTL allows Mathcad users to create 3D models mathematically using PTC Mathcad then save them as STL files, perfectly suited for incorporation to CAD assemblies.   Along with the README, the WriteSTL.zip file contains two worksheets, showing 2 different matrix styles possible to generate 3D models. WriteSTL takes an array of triangle vertices. The included PTC Mathcad worksheets demonstrate inline routines to convert each matrix type to triangle vertices arrays.   Also included is the WriteSTL Custom Function compiled and linked for the Windows 7 64-bit platform. The MS Visual Studio project with source is included for anyone needing to build for different Windows Platforms. Microsoft has a free, Express version of Microsoft Visual Studio customers are using to successfully build PTC Mathcad Custom Functions.

This Mathcad worksheet was submitted by Eva Landsoght (NL) who is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis at Delft University of Technology.The worksheet was created in Mathcad 14.0 and shows a calculation of beam shear and punching shear strength of a concrete slab according to Eurocode

This is the worksheet corresponding to the blog post Curve Fitting Made Easy.

This is the worksheet that corresponds with the blog post Painting Easter Eggs with PTC Mathcad.   Play around with it and paint your own Easter eggs. Be sure to show us what you create!

This video gives a quick demo on how to convert legacy Mathcad files (.mcd, .xmcd) to Mathcad Prime format (.mcdx)

Hello everyone,Me and some of my marketing colleagues have been thinking about new ways of doing marketing – but using the tools we already have at hand and many of you are also using today.We want to do something beyond sending you offers by email and we thought there also should

Let’s say that you want to run a Mathcad Prime worksheet at a specific time of day without user intervention. For example you need to generate Excel reports overnight, do some computations with the extracted data, and have the files ready first thing in the morning. Using Windows

Creo Parametric 2.0 integration with Mathcad Prime 3.0.     (view in My Videos)

This video gives a quick demo on how to configure Mathcad Prime with floating license server.

PTC Mathcad Community Challenge is a bimonthly event where we pose a math problem for you to collaborate and solve using Mathcad Prime.

In Mathcad 15.0, we can use the command "Hide Keywords", "Hide left-hand side" and "View Evaluation As > Default, Right shaft, Equal sign" with RMB.But in Mathcad Prime 2.0 we cannot find them again.

As a product manager, customer feedback is essential in developing our product. What we do well is nice to hear but what we don’t do well is what drives our thinking when determining what to put in each release. On a recent Pragmatic Marketing course I was introduced to the saying

These are the winning worksheets from our "Fly swatting with Mathcad" contest that we had run on the Mathcad blog in March/April 2011.To recap, the problem was:A fly is sitting at a distance of h from a man with a fly swatter. At time t=0 the fly is pursued by the man

The first two challenges were biased towards mechanical engineering. May’s challenge pertains to geometry. Create a worksheet in which you calculate (1) the diameter of a circle and (2) the length of a side of a square that yields the minimum combined area for a combined perimeter of 1 meter. This is an optimization problem. What tools within Mathcad can provide you with a result? Optional: How can you depict the results? Can you use a 2D plot or Chart Component to visualize the answer? Find the Mathcad Community Challenge Guidelines here!  

Mathcad Contest Idea - January 2022 Plane Truss Mechanics Can you use Mathcad to solve this problem?   This comes from page 88 of “An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids,” by Stephen H. Crandall, Norman C. Dahl, and Thomas J. Lardner. This was the text for the first mechanical engineering class (2.01 Mechanics) that I took my sophomore year at MIT way back in 1989. You can find the book for as little as $5 on Amazon. It shows three different solutions for the problem, including: closed-form solutions involving equilibrium of forces and the beam-deflection equation a computer program called IBM STRESS Castigliano’s theorem which solves via elastic energy. Any introductory mechanics text or a Schaum’s Outline should guide you to a solution. As with the other contests that will follow this one, the point is not the answer to the problem, but your execution of the solution. Some ideas you may consider including in your worksheet: Allowing the user to change the material via a Combo Box Input Controls. Depicting the results with a Chart Component, such as the truss in the deformed shape, or the deflection at D due to changing input loads. Making the problem more open-ended, such as using matrices and programming for different geometry and loading. Note that these are just ideas; I have not tried any of these. Maybe you can explore different approaches. The problem is simply a starting point. This is an excellent problem for a team to solve, especially for civil and mechanical engineering students. How would you tackle this problem in Mathcad?   Find the Mathcad Community Challenge Guidelines here!  

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 6.0.0.0 What 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) for that to work, and they can download that currently from the support software download site (Prime 7.0 converter does not need Mathcad 15.0 for the converter to work). -------- Hope this helps! For additional questions, don't hesitate to open a Support ticket!  

Relive the Magic with MathcadUse the attached worksheet to generate your own fireworks display in Mathcad.

Hi Expert,Here is a piecewise continuos function. I can get the two root by root function. But the third root with an error "The function values on the end points must be of opposite signs." How can I set he third and fourth arguments of root function?

These are the winning worksheets from our "Horseback riding with Mathcad" contest that we had run on the Mathcad blog in May/June 2011.To recap, the problem was:An army 40 miles long advances 40 miles while a messenger on horseback rides from the rear of the column to the