On 11/17/2009 7:15:17 AM, Ted Diehl wrote:
>Mona, et. al.,
>
>
>2.) Make it so an array of
>text strings can be fed into
>the legend so legends can be made
>automatically from the
>worksheet. Similar ability for
>X, Y, and graph titles. This
>significantly automates
>graphing, improves clarity
>of the document, increases
>accuracy of the graph (for
>those that forget to
>change the legends manually,
>like everyone does).
Indeed, this would be a very helpful feature.
>4.) Any existing 2-D and 3-D
>graphs from MC 14 and before
>MUST work in Prime. Telling the user to
>recreate the graph is a
>NON-STARTER and it will
>be viewed by users and
>professionals as "Mathcad
>development cannot even
>convert a graph - uh???" -
>This will be as bad as the
>Mathcad 12 disaster.
I agree with this 100% More if that were mathematically possible. I have a huge base
of MC14 and earlier legacy code-- some quite sophisticated-- and recreating it all puts an enormous barrier against moving to MathCad Prime.
>5. Graphs need to copy to
>PowerPoint and Word in a meta
>format (plus >bitmap, and the other current
>choices) - the lines need to
>look better and >smoother (they currently MC 14
>look choppy and low res). In >Powerpoint, the
>graphs copied as meta can be
>ungrouped and manipulated in
>PowerPoint - very powerful for presentations and
>other purposes. This has long
>been an ability in Mathcad that is very
>helpful.
I agree. I always assumed that this was a bug that woudl be cleaned up.
>6.) Animation - IT has NEVER
>worked robustly in Mathcad -
>constant problems with codec, etc. It would be a
>great feature if it worked!
Agree.
>7) Allow user to lock (and
>control by drag as well as
>entering x and y size)
>the size of the graph box
>(this is the X and Y axis box,
>not the entire
>region). Now in Mathcad 14 and
>older, this constantly changes
>depending on
>what is placed on the axes -
>very frustrating when making a
>bunch of graphs.
>That you desire to have the
>same size.
In addition, more control over position of 3D plots within the 3D box would allow larger (hence better resolution) plots to be transferred to reports and presentations.
>8) The New Prime graphing tool
>was not good (I am being
>kind). We lost
>almost everything and got the
>ability to move the X and Y
>axis (which I
>really do NOT care to do
>often). The only good thing I
>saw was the ability
>to place units in a place
>holder.
In essence, the MCPrime graphing capability was extremely rudimentary. I assumed massive improvements would be made before we saw it again.
Joel S. Davis
Chief Scientist, Systems Engineering solutions
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
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