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What’s new for PTC Mathcad Prime 3.1

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• Get & Set data in different units– Completing goal of units everywhere, API

can now make 3rd party applications ‘unitsaware’

• Input and output designation table– Reduces interference between applications

and end users each updating inputs

• Event handlers– Custom code can be called to log activity or

launch other applications based upon useractivity

• Pause and Resume calculation– Applications can be linked tightly in

customer workflows

• SDK with documentation– Allows users to quickly achieve a proficient

skill level with the API

PTC Mathcad Prime 3.1

API – Some of What’s New

Forward looking information, subject to change without notice

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Engineering Notebook, powered by PTC Mathcad

3 use cases for PTC Creo user


Document Design Intent

Analysis Driven Design

Verification and Validation

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Capture design intent inside your model


• Embed a Mathcad worksheet directly within the Creo model

• Embedded worksheet can be opened, edited and saved within the Creo

model

• All design details in the worksheet automatically travel with the Creo model

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Share parameters between PTC Creo and PTC Mathcad


• Analysis Driven Design– Perform calculations in Mathcad and use the results as dimensions within the Creo model

• Verification and Validation– Analyze Creo models using Mathcad’s extensive array of math tools

D:/Users/bedmonds/Documents/PTC Information/Mathcad Information/Videos/Engineering Notebook Demo.mp4


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• Tag parameters in the embedded Mathcad worksheet– Inputs – values from Creo to Mathcad

– Outputs – values from Mathcad to Creo

• Mathcad input definitions and output evaluations are made available in

parameters table

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• Mathcad inputs & outputs can be used in Relations like any other native

Creo parameter– Relate Mathcad inputs to parameters in Creo to use Creo values in Mathcad

– Relate Mathcad outputs to parameters in Creo to use Mathcad values in Creo



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A look at some of the functional areas of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.1

PTC Mathcad in Greater Detail

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• Features– Create templates to use as the

basis for new worksheets

– Store templates in

customizable folder locations

– Customize default template

used for creating new

worksheets

• Benefits– Supports adherence to

standards for calculations and

documentation

– Makes it easier to reuse

calculation procedures and

processes

– Encourages work to be done in

accordance with best practices

Templates

Share and reuse engineering calculations


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• Features– Insert math region in text by keyboard

shortcut, or by inserting region or math

operators from ribbon

– Seamless integration of math in flowing

text

• Benefits– Create documents, that are easier to read

and understand

– Ability to construct readable text and

math, ideal for text book formatting and

example notation

– Results are automatically updated within

the report documentation

Documentation

Math in Text


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• Features– Format font, font size, color and highlight

in equations

– Formatting can be applied to individual

regions or the whole worksheet

• Benefits– Increased control over whole document

format

– Emphasize important inputs, outputs and

formulae in the worksheet

Documentation

Math Formatting


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• Features– Enable use of custom

functions written in C, C++, or

other languages (User DLLs) in

any worksheet

– Documentation and examples

of how to create, compile and

install custom functions

• Benefits– Reuse existing algorithms

already coded in C++, C,

Fortran, etc.

– Extend Mathcad functionality

beyond what is provided ‘out of

the box’. e.g.

• A specific solver

• A file access function that

reads a proprietary format

Custom Functions

User DLLs


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Optimize and organize document presentation without disrupting calculation

• Hide several pages of complex calculations or arduous lookups

• Streamline the presentation / printed format

• Easily collapse and perform actions on the entire area and its contents:

– Cut / copy / paste

– Disable / enable

Collapsible Areas

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Embedded Excel spreadsheet supports bi-directional exchange of

information between Mathcad and Excel

Excel Component

• Ability to expand and collapse

input and output areas

• Easily create input and output

expressions as needed

• Maintain formatted display of

Excel spreadsheet within

Mathcad

• Allows use of existing engineering

mindshare captured in spreadsheet

form, and use of Excel for its tabular

data calculation power

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3D plots allow display of more complex data sets in an explorable

representation within a 2D document space

• Parametric (function) display, via:– Prior function definition

– In-plot definition

• Use CreateMesh() and CreateSpace() for more

complex / closed parametric representations

• Discrete data plots as scatter plots

• Direct controls for editing axis scales and

adjusting views

• Customizable trace styles

3D Plots

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Allows calculation, operations, solving work in symbolic terms, traversing to

numeric evaluation as needed

• Chaining allows sequential, linked operations

• Operators & keywords better organized above operator for presentation

• Explicit keyword use for clarity, clear() command to reset variables

Symbolics

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• Multithreaded calculation option

• 64-bit versions for XP, Vista,

Windows 7 for improvement in

handling large data sets

• Using new math kernel libraries

(MKL) for more efficient calculation

• New solvers from KNITRO for

more robust optimization results

(minimize, maximize, miner)

• Limited saving of large results, to

prevent file size / memory issues

• Improved legacy conversion

results (including data input tables)

Performance

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