In a world where precision, transparency, and efficiency are paramount, engineers need a tool that goes beyond mere calculation. They need a platform that seamlessly integrates complex problem-solving with clear communication and documentation. Enter PTC Mathcad Prime 10, the latest iteration of Mathcad Prime.
Mathcad Prime 10 will empower engineers to tackle their most challenging tasks with ease. With its intuitive interface and advanced features, Mathcad Prime 10 is a complete solution that enables engineers to perform accurate calculations while also preserving, sharing, and reusing their intellectual property (IP) in a single, organized platform. No more scattered spreadsheets or disjointed documents—Mathcad Prime 10 allows you to present your work in a clear, professional format, complete with math, text, plots, and images.
Mathcad Prime 10 released on April 23, 2024, and delivered numerous productivity and functionality enhancements to enrich how engineers interact with their calculations. Keep reading to learn more about this release’s key enhancements, including Advanced Controls with Scripting, the ability to choose a solving algorithm for functions and definite integrals, and enhanced multithreading for faster, more efficient mathematical calculations.
Advanced Controls with Scripting: PTC Mathcad Prime 10 introduces advanced controls, offering users the ability to enhance their worksheets with controls including list boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, buttons, sliders, and text boxes. These empower users to precisely define the behavior of each control within the worksheet. This feature provides a configurable and detailed approach to manipulating variable values, using scripting language like VBScript and JScript. The primary advantage of this new feature lies in automation, enabling users to streamline worksheet functionality and significantly increase productivity.
Choice of solving algorithms: With Mathcad Prime 10 you can now choose a solving algorithm for functions and definite integrals. These include the functions pdesolve, odesolve, numol, genfit, polyroots, find, minimize, maximize, minerr, and algorithms for calculating definite integrals. In the worksheet, each instance of these functions will include a right-mouse button menu of algorithm options so you can decide to keep the default algorithm or choose one of the other options provided. This gives you a higher degree of flexibility and control, enabling you to explore different algorithms if the default algorithm doesn't provide a satisfactory solution.
Subscript and superscript in text: You can now apply subscript and superscript formatting in your text regions, such as for documenting variable identifiers or parameters with exponents.
Expanded use of the keyword "fully": Mathcad Prime 10 has expanded the use of the keyword "fully" with additional use cases. Support for the modifiers "fact" and "max" for this keyword have also been added.
New "standard" keyword: A new keyword, "standard," which allows for Big-O notation with series expansion, as well as showing the constant of integration in indefinite integrals, has been added.
Improved support for "undefined": This release improves support for "undefined" results in the symbolic engine. This provides greater compatibility and equivalency with the numeric engine’s "NaN," allowing for symbolic support of the NaN class of functions.
General keyword improvements: Mathcad Prime 10 has general improvements for the keywords rewrite, solve, and simplify. Rewrite is expanded with five new modifiers: arg, atan2, fact, sign, and Φ, allowing rewriting expressions in their respective terms. Solve and simplify also have more supported use cases than ever before.
Multithreading: Improvements to multithreading in Mathcad Prime 10 give users the full power of its functionality. Users can enjoy the capability to execute numerous independent calculations simultaneously. This feature enhances the efficiency of worksheet calculations, specifically those with multiple independent threads of computations, by using your multi-core processors. This results in faster processing times in situations where your worksheet is structured to have independent, non-sequential calculations.
Improved calculus operators: This includes improvements in pdesolve and general engine improvements. Building off the previous release of pdesolve, users can now set mixed boundary conditions, along with implicit and explicit boundary conditions. Units support has also been added. The numeric engine also has improved behavior of inline assignment evaluation in a matrix and handling unitless zero in a matrix.
Usability enhancements in Mathcad Prime 10 include:
These are just the major updates coming in Mathcad Prime 10. Learn more about each, watch demos, and get your questions answered by watching the replay on-demand of the product preview webinar originally aired on April 9. You can also read PTC Mathcad product manager Andrew McGough's thoughts on what sets Mathcad Prime 10 apart in our launch interview.
Register now to get a front-row seat to all of Mathcad Prime 10’s new features. Learn how key product enhancements will enrich your engineering calculations with usability and user-driven improvements.
