Mathcad
what is Mathcad?
Engineering calculations are essential for product design. To achieve excellence in engineering, you need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs accurate calculations, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and allows you to show your work.
Document your most critical engineering calculations in an engineering notebook with natural mathematical notation and units intelligence. Show your work using rich formatting options alongside plots, text, and images in a single, professionally formatted document.
Choose PTC Mathcad Prime because spreadsheets just can’t compete. Mathcad visually represents math in an intuitive way, making it easy to define, understand, and manipulate engineering calculations with the whiteboard-like user interface.
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PTC Mathcad Prime is the industry standard for engineering mathematics software, enabling you to solve your most complex problems, and share your engineering calculations. Mathcad Prime is the industry’s leading engineering math software, use it to perform highly accurate calculations easily, and then preserve, share, and reuse those calculation so that you get the most from your important intellectual property
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Why use several types of software when PTC Mathcad has what you need?
Open up a worksheet and perform your engineering calculations using the math notation you’re used to. Add images, write some text, and put in graphs or plots. Your PTC Mathcad worksheet is more than just engineering calculation software or a professionally-formatted document: it’s the place where your design intent lives. Curious? The short videos below range from a brief overview to demos of specific software capabilities.
Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 10 Comparison
Math and Equation Editor
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Equation break on all 4 main arithmetic operators | • | ✔ |
| Equation break on addition operator | ✔ | ✔ |
| Variable, unit, constant, function label styles | • | ✔ |
| Redefinition Warnings | ✔ | ✔ |
| Math styles | ✔ | • |
| Solve blocks | ✔ | ✔ |
| Solve blocks contain local variables | • | ✔ |
| Hide left hand side of evaluation | ✔ | • |
| Hide symbolic keyword | ✔ | • |
| Referenced/included worksheets | ✔ | ✔ |
| Referenced/included worksheets can be cached for portability | • | ✔ |
| Error tracing | ✔ | ✔ |
| PDEsolve | ✔ | ✔ |
| Setting tolerance for Zero/complex threshold on numerical results | ✔ | • |
| Hexadecimal, octal, and binary number format | ✔ | • |
Units
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| SI, US, CGS unit systems | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic unit checking | • | ✔ |
| Mixed units in matrices | • | ✔ |
| Native units in plots | • | ✔ |
| Mixed units in plots | • | ✔ |
| MKS, None and customized unit systems | ✔ | • |
Functions
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive built-in functions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Data Analysis, Signal Processing, Image Processing functions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Wavelet functions* | ✔ | • |
| Localized functions and keyword names | ✔ | • |
| Choice of solving algorithms for applicable functions | ✔ | ✔ |
Matrices and Vectors
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Insert matrix with desired rows and columns | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ability to view large matrix results | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tools to easily add and delete rows and columns in matrices | • | ✔ |
Operators
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Algebra operators | ✔ | ✔ |
| Vector and matrix operators | ✔ | ✔ |
| Definition and evaluation operators | ✔ | ✔ |
| Calculus operators | ✔ | ✔ |
| Boolean operators | ✔ | ✔ |
| Polar representation operator | • | ✔ |
| Matrix row operator | • | ✔ |
| Custom display of operators | ✔ | • |
| Custom operators, prefix and postfix operators | ✔ | • |
| Gradient operator | ✔ | ✔ |
| Picture operator | ✔ | • |
Document features
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Collapsible areas | ✔ | ✔ |
| Locked areas | ✔ | ✔ |
| Copy/ paste content into third party applications | ✔ | ✔ |
| Embedded math in text | ✔ | ✔ |
| Headers and footers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Insertion of OLE objects | ✔ | ✔ |
| Save to RTF | ✔ | ✔ |
| Spell check | ✔ | ✔ |
| Templates | ✔ | ✔ |
| Separate regions vertically | ✔ | ✔ |
| Separate regions horizontally | • | ✔ |
| Align regions vertically and horizontally | ✔ | • |
| Math formatting | • | ✔ |
| Text formatting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Text styles | ✔ | ✔ |
| External hyperlinks | ✔ | ✔ |
| Region tags/internal links | ✔ | ✔ |
| Subscript and superscript in text | ✔ | ✔ |
| Worksheet Border, Header & Footer Borders | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display worksheet grid | • | ✔ |
| Region border | ✔ | • |
| Ruler and guidelines | ✔ | • |
| Auto save | ✔ | • |
| Worksheet protection | ✔ | • |
User Interface
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Ribbon user interface | • | ✔ |
| WYSIWYG document editing | • | ✔ |
| Tile worksheets | ✔ | • |
Calculation
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Multithreading for optimized performance | • | ✔ |
| Math Kernel Library | ✔ | ✔ |
Platform
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| 64-bit application | • | ✔ |
| Windows 11 support | • | ✔ |
Plots
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| 2D plots; traces: line, column, bar, stem, waterfall, error, box, effects, polar plots | ✔ | ✔ |
| 2D plots: trace and zoom | • | ✔ |
| 3D plots: surfaces, curves, scattered plots, contour plots | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3D plots: rotate, pan, zoom | ✔ | ✔ |
| 3D plots: vector field, 3D bar, 3D patch | • | ✔ |
| 3D Plot legends, titles as embedded regions | • | ✔ |
| 3D Plots: Color gradient on surface | • | ✔ |
Programming
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| In-Line programming | ✔ | ✔ |
| Debugger | ✔ | • |
| Programming operators: else if, also if | • | ✔ |
| Programming operators can be typed in directly | ✔ | ✔ |
Tables
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Insert data input table | ✔ | • |
| Tables with multiple variable definitions | • | ✔ |
Integration with other applications
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Read/write Excel data | ✔ | ✔ |
| Windchill Workgroup Manager integration | ✔ | ✔ |
| Excel Component | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automation API | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-defined DLLs | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scriptable Objects | ✔ | • |
| Engineering Notebook integration with Creo | • | ✔ |
Symbolics
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Symbolic math* | ✔ | ✔ |
| Symbolic Solve blocks | ✔ | ✔ |
Controls*
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Web Controls: Textbox (display control; not needed for calculations to run) | ✔ | • |
| Web Controls: Check box (use Combo box in Prime) | ✔ | • |
| Web Controls: List box/Combo box | ✔ | ✔ |
| Web Controls: Radio button group (use Combo box in Prime) | ✔ | • |
| Web Controls: Submit | N/A | N/A |
| Scripted Controls: Check Box | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scripted Controls: Radio Button | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scripted Controls: Push Button | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scripted Controls: Text Box | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scripted Controls: List Box | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scripted Controls: Slider | ✔ | ✔ |
Miscellaneous
| Feature | Mathcad 15 | Mathcad Prime 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | ✔ | • |
| E-books | ✔ | • |
PTC Mathcad Datasheet
Checklist for updating to Mathcad Prime 10
PTC Mathcad Datasheet
PTC Mathcad Prime is the industry standard for engineering mathematics software, enabling you to solve your most complex problems, and share your engineering calculations. And with PTC Mathcad Prime 10, engineering calculations just got better. This release introduces key application, symbolic engine, numeric engine, and usability enhancements.
Checklist for updating to Mathcad Prime 10
PTC Mathcad Prime 10 delivers customer-driven enhancements to the symbolic and numeric engines, worksheet
properties, the user interface, and user experience.