Hello, I am trying to activate/transfer our Mathcad license to a new computer. After clicking "activate" in Mathcad Prime 3.1, it displays the correct MAC address of our new computer, but it is also asking me for a product code to complete activation. Where can I find the product code? Thank you.
Moreover, my Product Code was being rejected by the PTC Support site - turns out when you log in you're identified by a Customer Number... I had two and that caused conflict. You might check the number shown by your log in icon.
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When one goes to install Mathcad (ver Prime 3.1), the program asks for the product code. I have looked at all the info I have from PTC (fulfillment letter, hard copy of software, etc) but I do not see it.
Since you have brought the license from PTC Sales, than I believe you have a license file to run the software. If that's true than you just need to get the host id updated for the new machine. My suggestion: Open a case with PTC LM and request them to move your license to new host id(Mac Id) -
I have looked at all the info I received from PTC and I don't see anything in the format described in the link you sent. Honestly, I would have expected that the product code would be prominently displayed somewhere, given its role in getting the software to operate. Part of me thinks that I have missed something ...
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Mupad was a nice product and, although there were problems with the transition, Mathcad could have done a lot worse in its choice of symbolic engine. Of course, since version 14 of Mathcad was released the owners of this symbolic engine, Sciface Software, were completely bought out by MATLAB makers, The Mathworks, and now The Mathworks use Mupad as the basis for their symbolic toolbox.
I bought Mathcad a couple of years ago because I could not afford Mathematica or Maple. I even bought a couple of the extensions. I did some good work with it, and found its conceptual model of an integrated workspace based upon an extended sheet of paper intriguing. I developed some facility with its expression language.
All I can say is this: There are a number of free and commercial products with superior functionality to MathCAD. My sadness is that MC was a great program in the early 90s that has been left to wither.
I too have looked at Maxima as an alternative and it does not stack up so favorably. The learning curve is a lot steeper and there is not a similar notebook interface that can be used to make a pretty document you can show your boss.
I believe I am saying: Mathcad is losing it stand in the mathematical position in the marketplace. The EASE of working in the Mathcad 6 Pro environment way exceeds what the later environments. PTC especially destroyed the close working relationship we had with Mathcad 6 (and earlier) application and programming engineers.
In my opinion it may already be too late, the current user base may not be enough to re-build the product, and the new version may turn away people who like the older Mathcad technology. However, if the product is powerful enough and priced right, it could very well create a new golden time for Mathcad.
-Since writing this post I now disagree with some of my own points on why anyone would use it. Mathcad users have told me why THEY use it and the penny finally dropped for me. It is still one of my least favourite mathematical products but my views are nowhere near as strong as they were when I originally wrote the above post.
Upgrades.
I work in IT too and part of my job is to deploy Mathcad to Manchester University. The part of me that deploys Mathcad hates upgrades because it makes more work for me. However, the part of me that supports the use of mathematical software for our academics tells me that upgrades are important. When you have enough users of any product, they will ask for new features and Mathcad is no exception.
New hardware (multicore processors for example), the latest operating systema (eg win7), new functions and new algorithms for existing functions. When someone publishes a superfast new algorithm for performing in a major journal, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will be asking if it can be implemented in . All this stuff needs upgrades.
Of the users I know of at our site, _most_ of them are mathematically unsophisticated, they use Mathcad because it is easy to use and not because it is powerful. Note that I said MOST and not ALL. There are always exceptions.
With all of that said, I am glad that PTC are doing something positive with the product and I am genuinely looking forward to Mathcad Prime being released. I liked what I saw at the virtual conference and hope that they can develop it into a full and powerful product. Ease of use is fine but, for my money at least, it has to have power behind it.
I also use it to teach computational physics. Some of my students entering that class are computer savvy, but others are not at all. Mathcad is much easier to teach and to learn than any other package.
I am in Lodz, Poland, at this time of writing. I surprised myself that using a Polish compmuter seems to work. Many proper English spellings are underlined as improper Polish words, so this causes me to warn you, the reader, of unintended misspellings.
I have tried using higher than Mathcad Pro 6 for some past more than 15 years. All later versions have unnecessary complicated rules for entering plain, everyday mathematical formulas. Mathcad Pro 6 with a and e extensions has served me very, very well into the the startingly foundations of the Nature of the Universe, NOU. So far, I have come to mathematical no-theory solutions to presently known questions of other persons wondering what TOE, the Theory of Everything, is about. ALL with unadulterated Mathcad Pro 6!! These proofs are on my computer in the US. I will be returning the end of August.
The points I am making here are Mathcad Pro 6 has handled *everyting* of the simple mathematics that NOU defines what surrounds TOE. PTC has made a horrendous mistake not improving the programs within Mathcad by destroying the simple, straightfoward mathematical symbology of everywhere known equations. I have offered Mathcad some major simplifications to the beta 8. They were unable to simplify the beta version enough for my suggestions to ba appplied to the undownloadable 8 on my computer???
@VFO
I have been using Mathcad from Dos based version and I personally feel that the issues of memory/bugs or drawbacks citied above seem false because whenevr I use the same functions repeatedly I try to experiment and find out that there also another way of creating the same function which can optimize memory requirements.The permutations and combinations possible with arrays and functions are the key factors which contribute to explore mathcad as new whiteboard each time I use. I am thrilled by the idea of getting more and more with the release of Mathcad prime
Does anyone know if other programs will import MCAD sheets? I am certianly willing to look and new programs. We looked at MATLAB a few years ago. It looked like mainly a programming tool, not a live math calculator.
Formatting was a no-brainer. Documentation was near-perfect. A savvy user could gin up more complex functions as needed. I even learned how to do recursive calculations with that old sweetheart of a program. It was the best self-documentating calculator ever.
I use the symbolic capabilities (MuPad, did you say) a fair amount, and they seem more capable that the Maple engine was. I am told that Mathcad 15 is about the same as 14. After that, it appears, the whole thing went to heck. Mathcad Prime appears to be a horrendous strategic error, and may indeed signal the early death throes of a classic software product. Sad, I say.
I own Mathcad 11, 12 and 13 but after a computer crash I could not reinstall even though I had the code that came with the original product. PTC would not activate the product. So now to even look at my previous work, I have to pay $600 a year.
NOTE: For complete information about managing Mathcad licenses, see the fullMathcad license guide HERE.
For license installation you will first need to acquire the full version of Mathcad from CADDIT. If you have not specified a licence key due to having a licensing file or that you are running the trial, before you click finish, ensure that the box is ticked for run the licence setup to acquire or specify a licence.
NOTE: In case you have either hastily clicked finish without ticking this box or that in a later stage you need to update your licence details, you can access the file via going to the MathCAD directory > MathCAD14 > MCLicence and the start the MCLicence.exe located there to start the licensing program.
Generally you only need to specify the new license file, leave the port setting as it is.
NOTE: A typical installation can configure a new nodelock license file from the Windows command line:
\mathcad.exe /license where path=installation location of Mathcad, i.e.
"C:\Program Files\Mathcad\Mathcad 14\mathcad.exe" /license
Alternatively this can be found manually by going to the location of where Mathcad is installed: Mathcad> Mathcad 14> MCLicense> MC License Application.
MathCAD version 14.0 will not be able to start-up unless you complete the licensing step properly, either through the installation process via the product key given or that by accessing via trial or product file key. The following Window should open to start the process as shown here: