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Cornel19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
July 18, 2023
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Is PTC Mathcad Prime basically intended in principle only for CIVIL and Mechanical engineering?

  • July 18, 2023
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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?

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DJNewman
DJNewman18-Opal
18-Opal
July 18, 2023

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.)

PTC Marketer Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
DJNewman
DJNewman18-Opal
18-Opal
January 10, 2025

"next year" ended up being early 2025 for Mathcad for Electrical Engineers. But we're finally about to do it, plus the Mathcad Community Challenge January 2025 being EE-themed.

PTC Marketer Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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Cornel19-TanzaniteAuthor
19-Tanzanite
January 10, 2025

Oh, I see that one of the presenters (Marius Pop) which by name is for sure a Romanian guy, as I am too 😁. That's great to see more Romanian guys.

Other than that, I am waiting to see what will be about this webinar, that I am not so attracted to the details. Calculating voltage divider circuits and calculating output voltage of an integrator amplifier I can do them with pen and paper without any tool, and Mathcad Prime is not put in any difficulty by these very, very simple examples in the electrical engineering problems

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Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
July 19, 2023

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.

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DS_103144507-Bedrock
7-Bedrock
July 20, 2023

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)

 

 

 

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