Hello MathCAD Comunity!
The company I work for are having serious issues when combining MathCAD 15 with Excel 2013.
We use excel components for various tasks throughout our MathCAD files as follows:
- Section Titles, (excel components used to display title headings, allowing the numbering to be automatically updated)
- Figure Labelling, (excel components used to display figure labels)
- Excel components used to display ‘Utilisation Ratio’ (calculation that shows calculated values versus allowable values, ratio is then displayed as a value, less than 1 = pass, more than 1 = fail.)
- Excel Tables used to allow numerous Utilisation ratios to be displayed together for comparison.
We have numerous problems which I will list below however on the whole they can be described as making mathCAD at best unresponsive and at worst unstable to the extent that doing any work become nearly impossible. The most frustrating point is that PCs with previous versions of excel installed work absolutely fine.
The specific issues are as follows:
- MathCAD is very slow to react with many basic functions (copy / past, save, open, performing calculations etc.)
- Often when opening a MathCAD file, excel automatically opens up then tries to open each of the individual excel components as individual files.
- Upon closing MathCAD, the user is prompted with a warning ‘Excel has had a fatal error and must close’, saving is not possible and all work is lost.
- On occasion the computer behaves very slowly, then entire screen blacks out!
These issues are causing serious problems with our ability to complete projects on time, any advice or possible solutions to these problems would be VERY MUCH appreciated.
Andy Bilsborrow
