Open different windows mathcad 15

[nchater]

Hello everyone,

I need your help to know if there is any way to open different Mathcad files in different windows to have the ability to work on more than one Mathcad file in 2 screens. I don't have the ability to drag files in another screen if multiple ones are opened.

Thank you a lot for your help

Best regards,

Nadia

[LucMeekes]

This shows two instances of Mathcad, each with two files open, at the same time.

Does this meet your requirements?

Success!
Luc

[nchater]

Hello Luc,

Yes, I think that this corresponds perfectly to my requirements. Could you, please, explain to me the way to do it?

Thanks a lot

Nadia

[LucMeekes]

As Werner says, below: just start the Mathcad application twice, and open in each instance the file(s) you want to edit. Do not open the same file in multiple instances of Mathcad, because you risk losing the edits you made in one instance, by saving the other; if you're allowed to save at all.

My experiment worked with apparently the same files ( 'untitled1' and -2) in both instances of Mathcad, but they were new, essentially unnamed files, they weren't (yet) saved.

Luc

[Werner_E]

There is no option for this which you could turn on, but you can start Mathcad multiple times and open your files  from within the various instances using the "File-Open" dialog. The second instance you start probably will ask you if you want to recover from the autosaved file (if you have turned on that feature). As you will say "no", you will lose the autosave feature, I guess.

Otherwise it should work without problems to have more instances of the program open at the same time.

Werner

[StuartBruff]

Nadia Chater wrote:

Hello everyone,

I need your help to know if there is any way to open different Mathcad files in different windows to have the ability to work on more than one Mathcad file in 2 screens. I don't have the ability to drag files in another screen if multiple ones are opened.

Is there a reason why you do not want to use tiled windows in a single instance of Mathcad?  Eg,

Stuart

[nchater]

Hello Stuart, It is just to use expanded screen option.

Thank you

Nadia

[StuartBruff]

Nadia Chater wrote:

Hello Stuart, It is just to use expanded screen option.

Expanded Screen?

Do you mean across multiple monitors?  If so, I often use Excel and Mathcad in this way by dragging the side bar out fill both monitors (or, more usually, extend part way into the 2nd monitor so I can something else permanently up) and then adjust the windows to lie next to the "monitor gap").

Another way is to open up the Quicksheets / Tutorial / Handbook window and open a Mathcad file in that.

Stuart

[VladimirN]

Stuart,

And for what you use Excel (except for the data view/read/write)?

[StuartBruff]

VladimirN. wrote:

Stuart,

And for what you use Excel (except for the data view/read/write)?

Hah!  Generally, things Excel should not be used for ... just the same as most people who use Excel!

At the moment, I'm doing stuff that should really be done in a relational database, but everybody's got Excel and few people have Access, so ...

Still, at least I get to do some programming in VBA to break the monotony, and make Excel do things it either can't inherently do, or can only do at snail's pace on a network.

Stuart

As a complete aside, my ear for Russian must be improving as I listened to a "BBC Prom" recording last night of Symphony No 3 by Гали́на Ива́новна Уство́льская, with Алексей Васильевич Петренко narrating, and actually understood most of it! BBC - Proms 2016 Prom 4 - event - BBC Proms

[AlvaroDíaz]

Hi Nadia.

Yes, it's true: when you have two monitors, and use the expanded screen option, you can't open files dragging them into Mathcad 15 from any file explorer. Must to open them with the Ctrl-O, or clicking in the open item from the Mathcad menu.

Best regards.

Alvaro.

[nchater]

Thank you everyone for your help.

Best regards,

Nadia

[nchater]

Another question please,

Just concerning the license, why when I am using a floating license and open the files in this way (expanded screen option)  it consumes 2 floating licenses otherwise when I use a fixed license, I have no problem. Isn't a fixed license counted as one license also?

Best regards

Nadia

[Werner_E]

A floating license is bound per instance of Mathacd, no matter if on the same machine or another.

A fixed license is bound to a single machine (usually to the MAC of the NIC), so you can open as many instances of Mathcad as you like.

There is one limitation, though, I experienced. One day I tried to use Mathcad on my desktop machine by connecting to this machine via remote desktop from a notebook with no MC installed. Mathcad refuses to work as of license limitations. This was silly, as I have no server windows on my desktop, so by connecting via RDP it would not have been possible to use the program multiple times.

The license on my desktop was a fixed one. One day I have to try to do the very same when I switch the license on my desktop machine to use a floating flex license. But I guess the security mechanism is dumb enough and the result would be the very same.

WE

[VladimirN]

Werner Exinger wrote:

...I tried to use Mathcad on my desktop machine by connecting to this machine via remote desktop from a notebook with no MC installed. Mathcad refuses to work as of license limitations. This was silly, as I have no server windows on my desktop, so by connecting via RDP it would not have been possible to use the program multiple times.

The license on my desktop was a fixed one. One day I have to try to do the very same when I switch the license on my desktop machine to use a floating flex license. But I guess the security mechanism is dumb enough and the result would be the very same...

Have you tried to use TeamViewer program for remote access?

[Werner_E]

Have you tried to use TeamViewer program for remote access?

No, I don't know TeamViewer. So far I was quite happy with Micro$ofts built in Remote Desktop. Readily available because its part of every Windows (at least the client) and quite reliable, so far I can tell.

Looking at the TeamViewer website I see that its free for home use but I guess it will also use the RDP and I would expect the same restrictions when trying to work with Mathcad.