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March 25, 2016
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PTC Mathcad Prime Roadmap (2015/2016 update)

  • March 25, 2016
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At the last event "PTC LiveWorx Europe 2015" in November of 2015 it was presented a roadmap for the development of Mathcad Prime 4.0 and some future steps (themes) for Prime direction. PDF "PTC Mathcad Roadmap_2015" can be found in attachment. You can see what updates are planned for version 4.0 (now the release of version 4.0 is scheduled for the 4th quarter of 2016 year) and is scheduled for subsequent releases after 4.0.


Update_June 2016: New timeline (at time of June 2016) for Mathcad/Mathcad Prime product:


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Update_Jule 2016: In June of 2016 year within an annual meeting conference "PTC LiveWorx 2016" the new program of development for Mathcad Prime was submitted. For future release of Mathcad Prime 4.0 the same new planned features were shown in the program about which I wrote earlier here (except for expanded options of creation of 2D plots - this feature is transferred it for 5.0 version😞 Mathcad Prime 4.0: some new updates

PDF "PTC Mathcad Roadmap_2016" can be found in attachment.


Update_February 2017: Added the presentation about Mathcad Prime 4.0 from the PTC Forum Europe which was in November 2016.


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    SeanYing4-Participant
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    December 24, 2016

    It's almost the end of 2016, according to the roadmap Mathcad Prime 4.0 will be released soon.

    Is there any news about this version?

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    VladimirN24-Ruby IIIAuthor
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    December 27, 2016

    According to the latest issue of "PTC Support Advisor" release of Mathcad Prime 4.0 is scheduled for February 2017.

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    SeanYing4-Participant
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    February 12, 2017

    It's middle of Feb 2017 now, any update about Mathcad Prime 4.0?

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    VladimirN24-Ruby IIIAuthor
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    February 13, 2017

    According to a calendar - only month is specified February there (updated as of February 10, 2017😞

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    In the "Software Download" section so far nothing.

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    VladimirN24-Ruby IIIAuthor
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    February 23, 2017

    According to the latest issue of "PTC Support Advisor" release of Mathcad Prime 4.0 is scheduled for the end of February 2017.

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    SeanYing4-Participant
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    March 1, 2017

    It's March 2017, is v4.0 available now?

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    AndrewDenningto1-Visitor
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    March 1, 2017

    Looking at the list of features they are going to put in Prime 4.0 it is obvious that PTC have lost all the mathematical expertise from their development team.  How can they claim this is a major release when there are no additional mathematical functions and no plotting improvements?  They haven't even got the level of functionality in areas like scripting that Mathcad 15 has some 8 years after they purchased Mathsoft. This update should really called be Prime 3.2.

    It is a shame that Mathcad has been relegated to just a jotting pad for engineers who just want their calculation of a simple bending moment to look good in a report when Mathcad's original promise when owned by Mathsoft was to be a class leading tool for solving serious mathematical problems in the quickest and simplest way possible.  If PTC had any vision they would hire someone to head up Mathcad development who is a mathematician first and a programmer second.  Someone who really knows what the competition like Mathematica can do and has the vision to take Mathcad forward and develop it to compete in it's own special way like the original developers did .

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    RickMason1-Visitor
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    March 2, 2017

    I agree with you entirely Andrew.  But this line of thinking has been ignored by PTC for quite a long time now.  On top of it, they still have the gall to charge a maintenance fee for v15 while that version is not being advanced either other than the same simpleton fluff features that I'm willing to bet few users actually care about.

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    VladimirN24-Ruby IIIAuthor
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    March 2, 2017

    According to this post Re: Using Prime 3.0, the determinant function does not handle a matrix with complex numbers. Don't how to fix it. is March 6th next week.

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    VladimirN24-Ruby IIIAuthor
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    November 3, 2017

    The new timeline (dated by February 2017).

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