I just had a look at unanswered posts, and this was at the top of my list:
https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Prime-9-Chart-Components-Can-Become-Corrupt/td-p/956950
I have been struggling through a file I created originally in Prime 9 that has 3 chart components. The first is a simple chart component with absolutely no modifications made to it, containing 24 curves. The second chart has 6 curves with customized legend, line styles, title, etc. The 3rd chart has 10 curves and all elements of the chart are customized heavily (chart title, legend, trace names, line type/color/thickness, axes names and tick mark font sizing on all elements, etc.). This 3rd chart continues to become corrupt after saving it - of course this is the one that needs to be published!
NOTE - Prime 10 seems to be "behaving" so far - hopefully this has been addressed in this latest version. Stay on the lookout for this issue with your chart components using Prime 9!
I thought I'd play with Charts in Mathcad Prime 10 to see if anything interesting popped out of the woodwork, but I hit a few problems when I tried to use a Chart in a "Mathcad intuitive" way (for values of intuitive).
As an adherent of the School of Maximal Laziness and a fully paid-up member of the "Buy a Dog and Get it to Bark" Association, I wasn't going to type in 24 traces. I wasn't even going to type in 12 traces. So, I tried to use a range variable to assign the traces to the Y vectors. Didn't work. I even tried using an integer variable to do the indexing - that didn't work, either. Further attempts to calculate the individual Y vectors or assign a nested vector directly to Y didn't work.
Then I tried adding some documentation to the Chart using Text Boxes and strings. While I can embed the strings in the Chart, they throw up errors, which doesn't look good. I couldn't create or paste a Text Box into a Chart, so I resorted to the old Mathcadder's mind trick of overlaying Text Boxes to make viewers think this was the documentation method they were looking for.
Indeed, doing pretty much any Mathcad operation seems fraught with difficulties.
Are there ways of doing mathematical operations inside a Chart, other than assigning values to an arbitrary X or Y variable? What is the form in which the Chart stores X and Y? Are they (potentially nested) arrays or something else?
On a semi-related matter, I have very vague memories of being able to plot nested vectors in Mathsoft Mathcad 11..15 using expressions of the form given in the last plot below. Was this possible, or is it just my memory playing Jedi Mind Tricks with me?
Stuart
