|
Brian Christiano wrote:
Developers, supposedly smarter than I, should have been able to anticipate this in the process before Rev 4.0. It took 4 revisions to figure this out?
|
You (and many of us) were laboring under the impression that PTC intended to continue Mathcad as a stand-alone product, competing with the other solver packages.
It's pretty clear that that was never their intent, although they may be swaying a bit in that direction; they plan to bundle Mathcad as an in-application calculator for Creo, their 3D graphics modeling package. With version 4 they have started to do that.
Those of us who have used Mathcad for years as a good mathematical tool that did not require a degree in computer science to use have been "wailing into the wind," and clinging to version 15. If you jumped directly to Prime (2.0) when it first came out then there are two observations I'd like to make:
- You haven't been following this forum very closely, or you would have noticed the many, many deficiencies of Prime noted in comparison to version 15, and
- You would have noticed that, poor as it is, Prime is improving. Slowly, but it's improving.
I sympathize (please don't misunderstand this post.) I have always struggled with doing a calculation in a live Mathcad document then having to be careful about how I translate that to Word for dissemination. (Then, months later the design and calculation changes but the Word Document . . .)
I have yet to see how someone interfaces MatLab with Word so that things update. (I'd love it if Mathcad could plot to *.jpg files like MatLab does!) Heck, I'd like Prime (I'm up to 3.0) could put legends and titles on graphs.
I understand, brother. When you find your solution, come back and lead us out of the wilderness!
