What's New
in Mathcad 14
Mathcad 14 is PTC's first global release
of Mathcad since the acquisition of Mathsoft in April 2006. This release
offers several significant enhancements which improve the personal and
engineering process productivity benefits currently offered by the Mathcad
product family.
Global Language Support
9 Languages
Mathcad is now available in the same 9 languages that PTC
has historically offered: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish,
Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean.
Full Unicode Support
Unicode enables consistent worksheet display regardless of operating
system, local or language setting. Users can use all necessary region-
and discipline-correct notation in any area of a Mathcad worksheet including
variable names, plot labels, etc. Mathcad now offers better support for
Asian characters, improving usability, streamlining insertion of Japanese
characters, and increasing personal productivity and global collaboration.
Improved
Calculation Power and Clarity
Worksheet Analysis
- New worksheet compare feature enables users to visually compare
2 similar worksheets and quickly identify added, changed, or removed
regions. This enhances collaboration, worksheet reuse, and the engineer's
ability to audit engineering calculations.
- Enhanced worksheet search
now identifies search results in collapsed (hidden) regions of worksheets,
enabling a more complete reporting of search results. This improves
engineering design efficiency, quality, and collaboration.
Inline Numeric Evaluation and Enhancements to Explicit Calculation
- This capability allows users to define and evaluate equations
in a single statement- one line- enabling compact documentation and
support for standard report formats. This saves space on the worksheet
and improves worksheet organization and clarity.
- Inline numeric evaluation also improves the existing explicit calculation
capability by binding the variable name to the result of the inline
numeric evaluation. Explicit calculations allow users to substitute
values for variables in equations to document and verify that the correct
values are being used to calculate the result. Users can leverage the
enhancement in Mathcad 14 when documenting intermediate equations and
results in explicit calculations. Improving the clarity of explicit
calculations enables faster verification, validation and auditing of
engineering calculations. This enhancement benefits engineers who submit
worksheets as part of a design proposal, standards compliance document,
or other formal report.
Enhanced Symbolics
- Mathcad 14 offers a significant Symbolics update which includes new
and enhanced capabilities such as symbolic vectorization, solve fully,
new and enhanced keywords, continued fraction expansion, extended, piecewise,
and repeating solutions. This enables users to derive formulas, demonstrate
process, and document engineering reasoning. Power users, research and
design engineers, and other Ph.D. level users requiring symbolics will
benefit from these improvements.
- New gradient operator
and Jacobian matrices. These new symbolic features enable vector analysis,
particularly as input for genfit and stiff ODE solvers. Applicable
in both symbolics and numerical analysis, these features enable streamlined
and clearer vector.
Enhancements in Mathematic Solvers
These enhancements allow users to solve and document a broader range
of engineering design problems.
- New and improved ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers enable
faster, more reliable calculations. Solves ODEs faster and more reliably
for design problems with varying scale and periodicity of solutions.
Reduces the expertise required to solve difficult ODE problems. This
improvement benefits a broad range of engineers, especially mechanical
engineers.
- Statespace for ODE matrix operations. Enter linear systems of ODEs
in a discipline-correct statespace notation. More discipline-specific
notation for documenting and capturing intellectual property. This benefits
users that develop and analyse control engineering designs.
- A new solving and optimization e-book (a collection of Mathcad worksheets)
is included in Mathcad 14. This replaces the former Solving & Optimization
Extension Pack which was previously a chargeable add-on.
Enhancements in Plot Formatting
Allow users to create better graphical reports, improving documentation,
communication and collaboration throughout the product development process.
- New tab for customizing number format on 2D plot axes allows users
to quickly customize graphs.
- Support for negative radii on polar plots results in an alternate
style of polar plots, improving plot quality and clarity. Polar plot
improvements in Mathcad 14 are useful for electrical design engineers
analysing electromagnetic radiation for communications or antenna design
applications.
Increased PTC Support
With Mathcad 14, customers on
active maintenance now have access to PTC's global 24x7 technical support
as well as local support from
Adept Scientific. This significantly increases the previous technical
support offering, giving customers the support they need anytime,
anywhere.
Single users will activate Mathcad
14 new licences and upgrade licences using PTC's automated licensing infrastructure.
Mathcad's new FlexLM licence management implementation for single users
offers a more robust activation process and improves the end-user experience.
Documentation
Enhancements
Localized Documentation
Mathcad documentation and help resources
are now localized into all 9 languages that PTC supports including English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and
Traditional Chinese.
New Additions to Mathcad Resources
Mathcad's online resources continue
to provide hundreds of worksheets that illustrate the depth of Mathcad's
mathematical power and the variety of applications that Mathcad supports.
All of these worksheets are live, so as you read the Tutorials or QuickSheets
you can watch Mathcad at work, change the inputs, and see the results
in the outputs as they update. A new Solving and Optimization Library
E-book is now available with Mathcad 14.
Migration Guide
In addition to the traditional
Help and Resources, Mathcad 14 documentation offers an important resource
for experienced users. The Migration Guide discusses math constructs that
have been upgraded in recent versions and any incompatibilities those
may create with older versions of Mathcad. This enables customers to quickly
get up to speed on the latest version of Mathcad and leverage their existing
intellectual property.
Mathcad Calculation Server
Enhancements
- The Mathcad Calculation Server includes all of the functional capabilities
of Mathcad 14.
- The Mathcad Calculation Server now includes all Mathcad extension
packs to fully support Mathcad worksheets that utilize calculation functions
that are only available in the extension packs and not in the base Mathcad
product.
- Localized Documentation
Mathcad Calculation Server documentation is now localized into all 9
languages that PTC supports including English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
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