Is PTC Mathcad Prime basically intended in principle only for CIVIL and Mechanical engineering?

[Cornel]

Hello,

Why does PTC Mathcad Prime seem more oriented towards CIVIL and MECHANICAL Engineering, and much less towards Electrical Engineering, and Physics, and more in depth Mathematics? Will this be the case in the future?

[terryhendicott]

No,

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Mathcad-Community-Challenge-March-2023-Electrical-Engineering/m-p/859290#M205358

[DJNewman]

My marketing plan is to go through different engineering domains one at a time (because we don't have resources to do several simultaneously).

Civil engineering happened to go first.

Mechanical engineering will be later this year.

Electrical engineering gets its time in the sun next year. (I don't have a speaker lined up for the future "Mathcad for Electrical Engineers" webinar yet, by the way, if you know anyone who'd be interested and proficient at presenting such a thing.)

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

In my opinion (only):

PTC's original intent when they bought Mathcad was to wrap it into their modeling programs as a "built-in" calculator.  As such, your impression that they were marketing for civil and mechanical engineers was basically correct.  They were however surprised by the range of the existing users they inherited.  The progression of Prime's development illustrates the result.

[DS_10314450]

As a data point for this thread, I have used MCAD and Prime for several large projects, none of which is CE-derived:

1. General purpose orbit analysis tool
2. Monte Carlo simulation for antenna pointing
3. General purpose thermal analysis tool (currently working in P)