I was lucky enough to sit in on a few day-long technical and planning meetings for PTC Mathcad this week. To make a long story short, there are some really exciting things happening with the implementation of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 and the planning for future versions of the software, as well as a tighter integration with PTC Creo and PTC Windchill. Here’s a little insight on what’s coming.
The goal of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is to allow users to better capture knowledge with more enhanced document formatting and conversion fidelity, standardize their worksheets using templates, integrate their worksheets better with other programs, and do more and better calculations with enhanced numeric functions.
Now, I can’t give away all the details just yet but it was pretty clear from the presentations I saw that there are going to be a vast amount of usability improvements which should make your Mathcad worksheets better organized and documented, and allow you to calculate more quickly and powerfully than ever before.
Keep on the lookout for upcoming posts that highlight new functionality in Prime like templates, math in text, custom functions, and more. More details about functionality and improvements in PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 are coming your way!
Greate news Anna!, when is the new realese coming? I can’t wait
Glad to hear you’re excited for the new software! We’ll be having a number of blogs on the new functionality in PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 to get you even more excited
We are anticipating the release of PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 to be in Summer of 2013.
Sad news! It only means that Prime 3 will add a few of the features which Mathcad 15 and older have for quite a long time. Nothing to be excited about unless you are new to Mathcad.
Although it might seem like PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is just adding the same features that PTC Mathcad 15.0 had because they have the same names, they are actually new with different functionality. We will be addressing this question in a new blog post in a short while.
Hello Anna
is there a list or plan which percentage of the Mathcad 15 functionality will be represented in Prime 3?
Raiko
Hi! Is there any plans on a better compatibility with MC15? I think it’s about time you should be able to open MC15 files in Prime without having to do a conversion first
Improving compatibility with Mathcad 15.0 and earlier worksheets is a constant theme of each Mathcad release. Prime 3.0 will add to that. Leveraging features such as formatting options for equations, global definition operator, etc. the fidelity of converted documents will be better. The converter is still required. At some point, we will improve the workflow so that conversion is better integrated, or on-the-fly.
We still prefer the conversion approach for several reasons: when using references, it may be necessary to convert more than one file at the time; we do not want to modify the original file to prevent any data loss during the process; and conversion takes time, so this performance hit is taken only once (during the conversion), rather than every time on open.
Looking forward to Prime 3, and I have been using Prime 2 as well as converting M15 files for some time now.
The most significant Prime 2 deficiency (as opposed to sheer inconvenience) is the lack of ability in plotting, plots seem to exist merely for pretty shape presentation and not as useful engineering tools, specifically:
1) No grid capability so plots cannot be printed and still be interpreted.
2) Limited multiple plots per graph for comparison purposes due to cumbersome definition process taking up a lot of vertical space.
3) No ability in radial format (similar to X & Y cursors in XY format) to even interpret values on the screen let alone with a “grid” to use in printed versions.
I hope Prime 3 will at least give us as good as M15 in these areas.
Inconvenience gripes:
Loss of simple use of period for non-indexing subscript!!
Formatting looks pretty but takes up a lot more paper page space.
Cut and paste between MS Office and Prime works only for text, needs generalisation.
Question: Why do you use a Greek capital Sigma instead of an E in PRIME? It shows a lack of understanding that tarnishes the Prime image from the very start.
I hope Prime 3.0 will have a real full converter from v15.0 …
If not I should stay using v15.0 waiting to prime 4.0 …
Very sad that PTC forgot their old loyal users for some years…
PTC has been doing a lot of bad job since they acquired Mathcad… Almost everyone in the communnity is sticking to M15, for obvious reasons… and with such sky-high prices, you do the math!! (no pun intended)
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Hi, Is there any plans on possibility to move equation to the next line ?