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Mathcad enables professionals worldwide to perform, document, manage and share calculation and design work. Mathcads easy-to-use whiteboard interface combines live, natural mathematical notation, text and graphs into a single worksheetmaking Mathcad ideal for knowledge capture, calculation, sharing and reuse. 

Mathcad Prime 2.0 is the latest release of Mathcad, the industry standard software for engineering calculations. Completely re-designed, Mathcad Prime provides a task-based interface for enhanced usability. Plus it delivers powerful capabilities within a document-centric calculations environment for users to create complex, professional engineering design documents quickly and easily.

Other features of Mathcad Prime

• Improved usability and discoverability – Experienced users can complete more tasks with less effort, and new users will spend less time learning to use Mathcad Prime

• Document-centric calculation environment – Reduce the time it takes to develop a design worksheet, by combining math, text and images on one document. That means less time editing and formatting your worksheet

• Advanced Math Exploration – Quickly and easily create calculations for testing – before committing them to a design, and reducing re-work in the design process

• Numeric functions library – With ready-to-use numeric functions, you’ll be able to tackle any computational problem, saving time and effort

• Dynamic Units Checking – Now you have full support for units throughout all calculations created in Mathcad Prime, resulting in reduced errors and higher accuracy, while improving process efficiency in product development

• Reverse compatibility – Quickly convert most engineering worksheets saved in previous versions back to Mathcad 7.0, while summarizing any specific compatibility issues, minimising any work to recreate calculations and worksheets

• WYSIWYG equation editor – Express problem constraints and solutions in natural math notation – focusing on the calculations, while spending less time manipulating the document

• Design of Experiments (DoE) – Save time, effort and expense by creating fewer, yet more intelligent experiments

• Maximise productivity with full Windows 7 support

Mathcad 15 and Prime 2.0 comparison

Mathcad is the industry standard software for engineering calculations. Its easy-to-use, live mathematical notation, powerful capabilities, and open architecture enable engineers and organizations to streamline critical design processes.

Both Mathcad 15.0 and the latest Mathcad release, Mathcad Prime 2.0, present calculations, text and images in an understandable format, enabling knowledge capture, reuse and design verification, which results in improved product quality with faster time-to-market.

Mathcad Prime 2.0 required significant re-development for optimization with current operating systems, as a result there are some feature differences between Mathcad v15 and Mathcad Prime 2.0. Please view the following document to help you decide which version of Mathcad is right for you (keep in mind that when you purchase a Mathcad license you receive a copy of both Mathcad Prime 2.0 and Mathcad 15).

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What is new in Mathcad 15

Highlights of the enhancements in Mathcad 15.0 include:

• Design of Experiments (DoE) – Over 25 new functions to reduce the time and expense of conducting experiments thru DoE by understanding the variable interactions that will influence the experiment. DoE helps identify critical factors and optimal settings for complex processes. It provides templates for a fewer number of experiments which are indispensable when having multiple variables and levels.

• Integration to Knovel® Math content – Quickly access the full list of Knovel’s fully documented Mathcad worksheets from Roark’s and Hick’s reference works reducing the time it takes to solve complex math problems.

• Integration with Kornucopia® software – Kornucopia by Bodie Technology, is designed to reduce time and effort spent on analysis by providing functions and templates using Mathcad-based documented workflows, that improves interpretations and value of experimental data and simulation results

• Integration to Truenumbers® – Truenumbers by True Engineering Technology enables the ability to easily communicate values across applications and the organization without loss of quantity or unit integrity. Results and values can be moved outside of Mathcad onto different document types – enabling easy sharing of the data

• Support for Microsoft Excel® 2007 – Leverage the following functions and features with Excel: READEXCEL(), WRITEEXCEL(), READFILE, the data import wizard, and the Excel Add-in

• Windows 7 support

Computational Capabilities

• High-end numerics - Perform summations, products, derivatives, integrals, and Boolean operations; apply trigonometric, exponential, hyperbolic, and other functions and transforms.

• Live symbolics - Simplify, differentiate, integrate and transform expressions algebraically; Mathcad’s patented live symbolics technology automatically recalculates algebraic solutions and allows you to use them in subsequent calculations.

• Vector and matrix handling - Manipulate arrays and performs various linear algebra operations, such as finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

• Statistical and data analysis - Generate random numbers or histograms, fit data to built-in and general functions, interpolate data, and build probability distribution models.

• Differential equation solving - Solve linear and non-linear systems of equations and boundary value problems; use solve blocks and natural notation to specify sets of constraints.

• Design of Experiments functions - Over 25 new DoE functions can be used for constructing experimental design matrices, developing statistical models,
  and performing Monte Carlo simulations.

• Units support - Include units in calculations, perform unit conversions,and automatically check dimensions. Add domain-specific units.Convert results to any unit system or custom values. Currency units effectively document engineering cost and economic evaluations.

Key Benefits of Using Mathcad

• Calculate, model and visualize your technical ideas while reducing errors

• Document your calculations using unit-aware math notation

• Graph and plot your work instantly with built-in 2D and 3D graphing tools

• Update interactive designs for instant results

• Verify, visualize and annotate your solutions for all engineering disciplines

• Integrate your data across applications and systems

• Publish your results using a wide variety of output formats

• Reduce errors in your work with automatic unit checking

• Set your own default unit system and create your own units

• Automate your operations with templates and style sheets

• Import and export data easily

• Design of Experiments (DoE) - Reduce the time and expense of conducting experiments through DoE by understanding the variable interactions that will influence the experiment. DoE helps identify critical factors and optimal settings for a complex process. It provides templates for fewer, yet more intelligent experiments which are indispensable when having multiple variables and levels.

• Direct access to trusted Roarks and Hicks reference works on Mathcad worksheets by Knovel®

• Direct access to Truenumbers enables you to communicate values across applications, without loss of quantity or unit integrity

• Integrate with Pro/ENGINEER® to realize unique predictive engineering capabilities

• Integrate with Windchill PDMLink® and Windchill ProductPoint® to quickly and securely share and access knowledge contained in Mathcad worksheets

Features

Mathematical formats and display

• Real, imaginary, and complex number support

• Decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal formats

• Over 200 built-in units with user-defined default options

• Support for creating user-defined unit systems

• Engineering and scientific notation display

• Mixed integer display

• Explicit calculations enable variables to be displayed in the equations as defined values, improving visual audit and review of calculations

Live mathematics and symbolics capabilities

• Define and evaluate variables and functions numerically or symbolically

• Manipulate, transform, and extract information from matrices

• Expand, factor and simplify expressions algebraically

Built-in operators

• More than 17 arithmetic operators, 12 vector and matrix operators, and 5 summation and product operators

• 2 derivative operators and 5 integration and limit operators

• 9 evaluation operators

• 10 Boolean operators

• Customized user-defined operator support

• Arithmetic operations are IEEE-adherent

Graphing and visualisation

• Standard engineering plot types: x-y plots, a secondary y-axis, polar plots, bar charts, vector, contour, scatter, and surface plots

• 2-D and 3 D QuickPlot™ and plot annotation capabilities

• Interactive plot zoom data point selection, and 3D angle adjustment

• Detailed plot formatting for numbers, ticks, labels, line types, markers, etc.

• Image viewer with support for BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, TARGA, PGM, TIFF

• Image manipulation (zoom/pan/crop, brightness/contrast, rotate/flip/transpose, etc.)

• Animation of plots or any calculation

Built-in functions

• 80+ core mathematical functions and 10 discrete transform functions

• 110+ statistics, probability, and data analysis functions

• 18 differential equation and partial differential equation solvers

• 25+ functions for Design of Experiment

• 28 file access functions

• 14 expression-type and string functions

• 18 finance functions

• 13 symbolic functions, including numer and denom, for algebraic calculations

• Data analysis

• Image and signal processing

• Vector matrices

• Plus another 600+ functions

Application customisation and extensibility

• Native XML file format for simple integration

• Ability to add user-created functions created in C or C++

• Embed, link, and automate any OLE-compliant application or ActiveX control in Mathcad using VBScript or JScript

• Use OLE Automation & Visual Basic to develop solutions incorporating Mathcad computations 

Solving capabilities

• 7 built-in functions for solving linear and non-linear systems and root-finding

• 18 built-in functions for solving ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations

• Solve block notation for solving systems of linear, nonlinear, and differential equations in natural notation, along with constraints

• Programming and parameterization for repeated solutions

Document/text editing features

• Customisable spell checker with technical terms database

• Document templates and style sheets

• Hyperlinking

• Hide, collapse, and encrypted password lock

• Support for UNICODE

• Mathematics font allows insertion of formulas directly into text portions of the worksheet

• Header and footer can be customised for a professional-looking document

Usability features

• Comprehensive units support

• Automatic recalculation

• Easy-to-use equation editor

• Error tracing and redefinition warnings

• Multi-step undo

• Flexible data import features, supporting text and numerical entries, engineering format, real and complex data, cut and paste, and import from a wide variety of file formats (Excel®,fixed width, binary, etc.)

• Enhanced error messages clarify source of problems

• Program debugging capabilities

• Autosave function

File formats, publishing and Web support

• Save as HTML, XHTML and RTF formats

• Convert files to Adobe Acrobat® PDF

• Truenumbers® enables outputs to be moved to any publishing format without losing context or integrity

Data exchange features

• Enhanced data exchange with Excel 2007 integration

• Native XML file format for simple data exchange

• Data Import Wizard

• Data import for .mat files, Excel files, Lotus® 1-2-3, ASCII, binary and others

• Microsoft® Access, FoxPro®, and SQL-supported databases, as well as ODBC connectivity

Integration with Pro/ENGINEER

• Bidirectional integration enables efficient and accurate data exchange between applications

• Supports dynamic, live updates to calculations and CAD models

• Values or results of calculations performed in Mathcad drive parameters and dimensions in the CAD model

• CAD parameters and dimensions can be sent to Mathcad as inputs to calculations

• Support for units and units conversion

Integration with Windchill

• Effectively manage Mathcad worksheets

• Check-in and check-out Mathcad worksheets from either the Mathcad or Windchill user interface

• Quickly search attribute labels and contents of Mathcad worksheets stored within Windchill

• Preserve and access all versions of worksheets

• Improves management and tracking of Mathcad-Pro/ENGINEER dependencies

Connectivity with other applications, including:

• Built-in integration with Microsoft Excel

• Built-in integration with MathWorks MATLAB®

• National Instruments® LabVIEW™

• Bentley MicroStation®

• ANSYS® Workbench™

Resources

• Direct access to Knovel Math content

• References tables, key formulas and constants

• Technical support knowledgebase

• Detailed tutorials across all Mathcad functionality

• Easy-to-use online help with Search and Index

• More than 300 QuickSheets for standard analyses and tasks

• 11 language dictionaries

• User forums and Web Library

• Active maintenance customers receive one year of maintenance support