Mathcad Tips

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!

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

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

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.

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

As mentioned by Brent in a previous blog post, we’re committed to maintaining PTC Mathcad 15.0 for the foreseeable future to enable users who can’t yet migrate to the latest version of Mathcad to continue using the product and receiving support for it. We had a few last minute issues

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?

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

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

This is a sample worksheet created by Tom Marshall who we had interviewed for our "Meet the Mathcad Users" series of articles on the Mathcad Blog.We asked him:Can you share a sample worksheet with us?"I am tempted to provide a fancy complex worksheet that would be impressive

Recently, we announced the availability of PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0. It’s the next step in the evolution of your favorite engineering notebook, with even more tools for precise calculations and straightforward documentation.Join us for a live webcast with Luke Westbrook, PTC Mathcad

Labels what you might ask?Labels are a new feature in Mathad Prime 1.0 that allow you to assign different meanings to the same character. A label is a way of designating a math type such as variables, constants and units. A label allows you to format all units, say to a certain look.We

Calculating the trajectory of a baseball, with air resistance.

Please see the attached examples in PTC Mathcad worksheets.

PTC Mathcad is an ideal tool for recording the design knowledge for many different engineering problems. As engineering problems get more complex, the design knowledge grows in length and so does the Mathcad worksheet. The longer the Mathcad worksheet, the more regions it contains

Got a great Mathcad story to share? Interested in showcasing your Mathcad chops? Consider this to be your official invitation to present your expertise to your peers. We have select opportunities for presenters – we’re looking for Mathcad Champions – for a variety of slots. New Mathcad

Are you making the most of your engineering calculation software? Join a free webcast exploring the fundamentals of data analysis. Presented by Anji Seberino, PTC’s leading Mathcad expert, the online event takes place Thursday, June 25 at 10 am PDT and 1 pm EDT.   REGISTER NOW!   Anji will focus the session on the basic principles of analyzing data in Mathcad. You’ll learn about Interpolating data Filtering data Fitting data to a curve   This webcast is part of the weekly education series for engineers who want to learn more about PTC Mathcad as a powerful alternative for engineering calculations. Visit the registration page to view weekly topics and sign up today to join in.  

This video gives a quick demo on how to configure Mathcad Prime with locked / Standalone license after receiving the license file via e-mail.  

Hello everyone,I would like to draw your attention to an article I posted on the Mathcad blog today. It's a short, interview-style case study I did with a Mathcad user. I am looking to do more of these stories, so if you think you have something interesting to share with your

Worksheet corresponding to this week's PTC Mathcad blog post: "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All the WAV Files"This worksheet will generate a WAV file of a simple rendition of "Jingle Bells", as performed by PTC Mathcad.

This is the worksheet used in the blog, Audible Illusions with PTC Mathcad Programming.