Mathcad + CAD and PLM: Complete Solution for Engineering
PTC Mathcad offers precise and documented technical calculations, easily integrating with CAD and PLM solutions, increasing efficiency and quality in engineering projects.
PTC Mathcad
Engineering calculations are essential for product design. To achieve engineering excellence, you need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs accurate calculations, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and lets you show your work.
Document your most critical engineering calculations in an engineering notebook with natural math notation and unit intelligence. Show your work using advanced formatting options along with plots, text, and images in a single, professionally formatted document.
Choose PTC Mathcad Prime because spreadsheets simply can’t keep up.
Mathcad Express
Mathcad Express includes all the features of Mathcad Prime for 30 days, free of charge. After the 30-day period ends, you can continue to use the limited functionality of Mathcad Express for as long as you want – the Mathcad Express license never expires. But there are a few differences beyond the functionality.
You will see in-product messages with information about selected features, training, tips and tricks, and easy ways to purchase the full commercial product. You will also see “Mathcad Express” specific headers and watermarks on the worksheets. If you decide to upgrade to the full product, you will get all of Mathcad’s features and can eliminate in-product advertising and watermarks.
Benefits of Mathcad
Reduce errors with calculation precision
Leverage state-of-the-art optimization solvers and continually updated engines with the precision your calculations deserve. Units intelligence and balancing make sure you never suffer from a unit conversion error again.
Decrease time to market
Repurpose standardized calculations from one project to the next by making a template library.
Make complex actions feel easy
The equation editor is like writing math right out of a textbook, and you can learn the basics within minutes. More advanced features have ample documentation and examples to learn from at your fingertips.
Document your design intent
Communicate your design intent and engineering knowledge by combining math with text, images, plots, tables, hyperlinks, and more, ensuring your clients understand what you’re showing and why.
Integrate with your other tools
Engineering calculations are the foundation for your intellectual property and flow downstream from there. Leverage out-of-the-box bi-directional integrations with Creo, Windchill, and Excel, or build your own with the API.
Top Mathcad features
Units
Mathcad provides a complete set of units in SI, USCS, and CGS unit systems, with support for defining your own units. Attach units to your variables and automatically convert between unit systems if necessary.
Solving and optimization
PTC Mathcad has many built-in solving and optimization functions for linear, nonlinear, and differential equations, or for finding the optimal (such as maximum or minimum) points of given functions.
Plots and charts
Visualizing your data is crucial to understanding the nature of your problems, as well as communicating to other stakeholders. Mathcad Prime comes with several plotting options, ranging from 2D XY charts to 3D plots, as well as polar plots and contour plots. These can be customized to become publication-ready.
Symbolic calculations
Mathcad has two engines: numeric and symbolic, giving you flexibility in your approach. Symbolic expressions can contain mathematical symbols, and Mathcad returns the results in symbolic form, allowing you to evaluate those expressions without assigning values to variables.
Programming
Add logic using familiar programming constructs and natural math notation for advanced flexibility within the Mathcad environment. These include loops and conditional statements.
Control structures
Add an extra layer of interactivity and automation to your worksheets with basic and advanced controls with scripting, unlocking new possibilities. These range from combo boxes to list boxes, sliders, check boxes, buttons, radio buttons, and configurable text boxes.
Integration with Excel
You don’t have to stop using spreadsheets when using Mathcad Prime. Use Mathcad and Excel together and allow each software to play to their respective strengths. Embed Excel worksheets, read from external files, and even write into Excel from Mathcad Prime.
Engineering notebook (Creo integration)
PTC Creo has an out-of-the-box integration with PTC Mathcad Prime called the Engineering Notebook. Document your design intent by embedding Mathcad worksheets directly into a Creo assembly, and drive Creo model parameters from Mathcad results, or use Creo parameters to drive Mathcad calculations.
Insert OLE objects
Mathcad Prime supports object linking and embedding (OLE) technology, allowing you to directly reference a wide range of external files into your Mathcad sheet. These could range from supporting documentation to imported diagrams, and if a file is updated, you can have that updated within your worksheet as well.
Integration with CAD system
Mathcad is an advanced and modern engineering system; it is the industry standard for engineering mathematical calculations.
It stands out due to its Ease of Use, High Capacity for Performing Sophisticated Calculations and Complete Calculation Reports, and its ability to Integrate with other Applications such as EXCEL, CAD, and any other system via API.
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