What version of Mathcad does your user have? Is it Prime or Prime Express (lacks many features of Prime, such as programming)?
Can you give some specific examples of the problems your user is having (with screenshots and worksheets)?
I'll assume that you are dealing with Mathcad Prime 11 for the following:
@NareshJ wrote:
Hi
I would like to understand the solutions for the below queries raised by a user. Appreciate your help.
Thanks
Naresh
- Aligning of text boxes and formula boxes.
Manual, I'm afraid. This is a long requested feature.
- Array for various values for same function.
You can find many examples of this within the Mathcad Help. Here are two methods (see image).
One uses application of a function to a vector. The vec function is new to Mathcad Prime 11 (but easily replicated in earlier versions). It is intended to convert range variables to vectors, but can also generate vectors directly using the same arguments as one would use in a range variable.
The second uses the built-in function to generate an mxn (16x16, in this instance) matrix of values for a 2-argument function.
- How to use if command to state design is safe or not. Usually, we need to green highlight if the design is safe and red if not safe.
Use one of the advanced controls. Pass the "safe" value to the control, and use control scripting to set the control colour. A Button or EditBox are probably the better controls to use. I think there have been a couple of recent examples posted on the Community.
- To add graph for considering various values and array and another function. Like SFD, BMD etc.
See the previous image. In Mathcad Prime, look under the Plots tab in the Ribbon.
- Setting company standard template for page format
Create a worksheet that accords with the company standards and save it as a Mathcad Template. Note that you can add images to the header and footer, as well as other information, such as worksheet name, date saved. See Mathcad Help for more details.
- Add calculation template for similar repeated calculation.
See above.
- Drop down menu similar to Excel
What kind of menu are you referring to? Do you mean in the Mathcad application interface? Or within a Mathcad worksheet?
Use a control within a worksheet. The ComboBox provides a drop down menu. Other controls use sliders, such as the ListBox (although I've probably forgotten something here!). The user has to set up the ComboBox manually, but can programmatically populate the other controls.
- We are finding difficulty in adding unit as %
Type a value then immediately type "%". If this doesn't solve your user's problem, please explain what they are trying to do?
- Can we import more symbols such as “therefore”; “similarly”;
If they are available in Unicode, then there is a good chance that you can copy & paste them from elsewhere.
"therefore" already exists in Mathcad Prime. Look under the "Symbols" tab in the Math Ribbon.
- Aligning of text boxes and formula boxes.
See comment about alignment.
- How to add border for text box or important formula box.
See my first image. This is a new feature in Mathcad Prime 11.
- Adding table for various values for one function & how to Vlook-up from it?
See the earlier reply about creating arrays.
Then look up (!) the examples in Mathcad Prime Help.
Stuart
Just a small addition to Stuart's comprehensive explanations.
If you want to add percentage 'unit' when you define a variable, you can use the % symbol as suggested by Stuart.
But if you want to display a variable or calculation result as percentage this will not work. Unlike the old Mathcad, Prime does not allow the percent sign as a unit symbol (unfortunately). Instead, you have to set the number format to 'Percent' in the menu.
BTW, you could type 1% at the unit place holder, but that really looks ugly and confusing!
I suppose a bit of cheating might not go astray, provided one doesn't mind pasting the % symbol into the units holder ...
I created "f%" in the Find edit box, pasted that into the left-hand side of a definition, deleted the "f", and set the % variable to label Constant (formatted to be bold brown).
More readable but requires a bit more effort than just typing "%".
Stuart
@StuartBruff wrote:
I suppose a bit of cheating might not go astray, provided one doesn't mind pasting the % symbol into the units holder ...
I created "f%" in the Find edit box, pasted that into the left-hand side of a definition, deleted the "f", and set the % variable to label Constant (formatted to be bold brown).
More readable but requires a bit more effort than just typing "%".
Stuart
Shouldn't % equal 0.01 rather than 100?
When I read x=0.3 % I would assume that x has the value 0.003, not 30.
BTW, I created the % variable name in the first line by typing "% and then the DEL key.
Unfortunately this does not work when placing that variable name in the unit placeholder - so we have to use inconvenient copy&paste.
@Werner_E wrote:
@StuartBruff wrote:
I suppose a bit of cheating might not go astray, provided one doesn't mind pasting the % symbol into the units holder ...
I created "f%" in the Find edit box, pasted that into the left-hand side of a definition, deleted the "f", and set the % variable to label Constant (formatted to be bold brown).
More readable but requires a bit more effort than just typing "%".
Stuart
Shouldn't % rather equal 0.01 than 100?
Yes, but no, but yes. However, not when you want it to have the effect of percent.
I'm not actually sure what type of beast % is in Mathcad Prime. It acts like a postfix function but doesn't appear to be one. Prime Help says it is an operator but it doesn't behave like other Mathcad operators (which often act like functions) by being too attached to its argument, and it can't be used directly as a function.
Stuart
Yes, but no, but yes. However, not when you want it to have the effect of percent.
??? Seems that I don't get your point.
For me it would be irritating (in fact looking wrong) to see 30 = 0.3 % instead of 30 = 3000 % .
And for me % looks like a function which only can used in postfix notation, too.
at least the error message for symbolic evaluation is talking about an "argument":
The error message for numeric evaluation is different and just talks about "this value":
It also could be that the % we see when we use the corresponding "number format" has nothing to do with this function, not sure. On the other hand we can copy and paste a percent-formatted number and it works OK. It's a strange beast, indeed.
Actually I don't understand why % is not simply implemented in Prime as a constant (value 0.01) or unit, as it seems to be the case in Mathcad. After all its just a simple multiplier when you define a percentage value or a divider when you display a value in percent.
It could be so easy to just type % in the unit placeholder rather than to having to change the number format in an awkward way from the menu.
It may not be needed that often but how about very tiny or very large values which need to be expressed in percent? There seems no way to chose Scientific or Engineering format if you want it to be displayed in percent, let alone in 'per mille' or 'per myriad'.
