PTC Mathcad Ideas

I like the file tab functionality that Mathcad Prime adopted a few versions ago, in keeping with several other mainstream software's. However, for expedience it would be good to have the close button/cross on the file tab rather than on the opposite side of the screen. It becomes a pain when going back and fore to close several tabs. ... View more

When changing between Fine and Standard Grid Size, the document becomes compressed or spread out and unreadable.  Change anchoring of Mathcad elements to page locaton Inelegant but simple work around: <Ctrl-A>  Select All <Ctrl-X> Cut Change Grid Size <Ctrl-V> Paste When pasting, it seems to past at page coordinate location rather than grid location. ... View more

It's that simple.  The improvements in Prime are great but it MUST do everything that v15 does correctly or I cannot use it. ... View more

I am posting this request from several users who would like to be able to break long equations at operators, such as +, -, *, /, and =. Mona ... View more

It will be good to get a second axis Y with different units in Graph X-Y like in Mathcad V15. In Mathcad Prime 4.0, I can only have one axis Y Mathcad V15 Mathcad Prime 4.0 ... View more

Many Mathcad documents become official reports, so the formatting available in Mathcad Prime must be greatly improved.  Here is a list of requested formatting options. Bring back customizable Styles.  Manually formatting every text block is tedious and just plain mean. Allow complete font customization of variables, constants, units, system, keywords, and the like. Bring back the Ruler and customizable tabs Bring back the align feature. Allow customizable page margins. Add layers: "Send to back", "Send backwards", "Send forward", and "Send to front" Add table of content tools.  Ideally based on Styles Add spell checker Allow internal and external hyperlinks. ... View more

Prime quite often has features (i.e. tick mark values, subscripts, superscripts) that have tiny fonts. It would be helpful to be able to quickly zoom in and out of the worksheet. Ctrl-0 to reset to 100%. Analog to MS office programs. ... View more

Add the ability to spell check Mathcad Prime worksheets using the same dictionary as for MS Office when one exists for the MathCad Prime user.  Allow creation of a separate, MathCad Prime only distionary when an MS office dictionary does not exist.  A single dictionary where items only need to be added once is strongly preferred over a proliferattion of dictionaries; it also saves space on the user drives.  A spell check feature is essential for users that tned to type dyslexically among other typing errors. ... View more

Please make a spell checker in Mathcad!! ... View more

Please allow for custom header and footer sizes.  To have the header and footer size limited by, and immutably tied to, the document margin size selection is unecessarily restrictive.  I would use your product more extensively if I could format the output header and footer to match all of my other company documents, but I cannot due to your restriction on the header and footer sizes. Please free the header and footer to be whatever size the user wishes. Thank you. ... View more

Ability to auto-generate a table of contents for long documents (e.g. Microsoft Word). Internal hyperlinking of TOC tags would be a benefit, too, to be able to jump to the right place in the document with 1 click. ... View more

It would be useful to be able to individually format pages so that, for example, graphs and figures could be larger and easier to read.  Calculations and text could be portrait and graphs and figures in landscape.  In Word this is done by making a section break rather than a page break. ... View more

We need the possibility to insert graphics from the clipboard as metafiles (e.g. from AutoCAD) In Mathcad 15 it was "Paste special..." -> "Picture (Metafile)" Generally a "Paste special..." feature would be great! ... View more

Mathcad 15 has long provided the ability to embed hyperlinks to other Mathcad worksheets and opening up external web links in the default browser.  However, it does not allow secure links to pages starting with https:  Some corporate networks (intranets) run entirely on https:, this renders Mathcad 15 external hyperlinks useless.  Enhancements would include: Allow links to https: pages from Mathcad 15 in the next (last?) maintenance release (M050). Include links to https: pages when hyperlinks are introduced into Mathcad Prime (5.0 hopefully). Thank you. ... View more

Bring back text styles from V15 Mathcad Prime 2.0 text blocks / text boxes are like a regression to Mathcad V6 from 1994 where you had to apply manual text formatting to every text region.  Different fonts are an easy way to provide visual cues to important parts of the document, particularly with long documents.  Manual formatting is not productive. ... View more

Mathcad Prime is significantly hampered by not being able to display a matrix as a picture.  The PICTURE operator in Mathcad 15 enabled this and would be an important improvement to Prime. ... View more

Provide equation numbering for mathcad expressions, whether numeric evaluations, symbolic evaluations, or simple expressions such as booleans within a Given-Find block. The numbering should allow auto numbering for at least two levels and an alpha, e.g. 10.1a. And allow standard prefix/suffixes such as "Eqn (" and ")" so the result would be "Eqn (10.1a)". The equation numbering would be in a placeholder subsequent to the current units/dimension. Probably enable by a properties tick box, wich would also cover the "restart numbering" for the sub levels, (and separator characters if needed) Should the Table of Contents ideas be implemented then obviously the equations list should also be available. ... View more

disabling the scriptable objects needs at least a warning to confirm and inform of the consequences (which are not being able to reactivate them when reopening the worksheet with disabled objects. Suggestion is : to add a warning message before disabling all the scriptable objects and add a feature to activate/deactivate the scriptable objects within the session only. ... View more

The compatibility matrix and the administrator guide of Mathcad (prime) do not contain information about what versions of Microsoft Excel are supported. ... View more