I bought the student version of Mathcad prime 8 in April 2022. I have been using it for a couple of months without any issues. Recently, the program does not open anymore. Also my Mathcad file do not open either. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it again but it did not work. Can someone help me fix this problem please?!
I need to rant about how rubbish Prime is, so I am looking at the support renewals and its coming in at like 3k for my current licenses. We only use MathCAD 15 as prime's functionality is so poor compared to MathCAD 15. So what am I paying for? I sat through a 30min webinar on Prime 5.0, the only thing that they had done was add a graphing app, I had to temper my annoyance that that was the focus for the prime 5.0 release. What about the simple stuff:-
Its even more disappointing to hear that they just ignored a technical committee's advice. I am all for updating software and integrating it with other packages, but as a small consultancy we tend not to link all the packages up as by the time we set-up a mathcad linked to a drawing model file and maybe linked to an analysis file we would have spent all our hrs and missed our deadline! Most of our work is designing prototypes for our clients so the value in setting up linked bits of software is not really there as we rarely reproduce the same engineering.
I first came across MathCAD when I worked at Airbus in the UK, I guess their (or similar sized companies) requirements are maybe what is driving how they develop mathcad and the ptc suite. Certainly the wider community of small engineering companies has no influence.
If I had to guess, it could be Matlab who pick up the slack. They already own Symbolic engine (MuPAD but that's not mentioned in _of_computer_algebra_systems), and also have the Simulink graphical environment, so with a little bit of tweaking they could easily auto generate the computational flow graphs and do the dependency management. (remembering that each mathcad region has an anchor, which is a paired I/O point, and the flow is in page reading order, so easy to link as if a simulink design)...
Before PTC bought MathSoft/Mathcad, it had a very large user base of 'consultant' level users who used mathcad at a higher level that would be expected in a typical drawing office (DO) type environment. This included a lot of professional engineers and scientist types who were pushing the leading edge of their applications in a local sense and needed to extend the maths that was in their text books to the new environment and scenarios.
I have quite a few Mech Engs, especially those that are in Stress and Thermal analysis, who do some quite powerful analyses via mathcad, and would like (and benefit from) the integration with Creo a lot sooner that 'the other crowds' who are at arms length to the rest of the PTC tool set.
The only useful feature of prime that I know of is mixed arrays. I.e. for me when I'm doing thermal assessments or data evaluations. MathCad 15 has its short comings but is still far more capable than MC prime for my work as a mechanical engineer.
Hi, I'm using the Mathcad Prime 4.0 free version. The programm was working perfectly fine, but now when I try to run the program it doesn't work anymore. The mathcad logo appears, but then it disappears again and a main window never shows up.
your hard drive is about to break. So I advise you to save everything and replace it with a new one, and after installing the operating system, purchase and install a good antivirus (The others, the free ones do not serve anything), then install mathcad.
I work for a small employer and the company only has Mathcad 15. I'd like to be able to go back and forth using the same file between the version of mathcad I have at work and the version I'm considering to purchase for my personal home use.
No. Mathcad Prime (any version up to the current 6.0) has a converter appended. This converter will attempt to interpret a Mathcad (non-prime) file to a Prime file in the version of the installed Prime. Two things are worth noting:
And no, Prime 5 is no improvement at all. The only thing they added (maybe some bug fixes, too - there's no documentation of bug fixes in Prime like we were used with Mathcad) is a third party chart component which IMHO is just one big disappointment for various reason. I have ranted about it in several other threads here so I won't repeat it. Personally I don't like any version of prime and am still using Mathcad 15 for a while (and then will switch to other software as Mathcad is a dead end). I am just using Prime here in the forum to answer questions.
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