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Lifecycle Insights: Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions Webinar

Chad Jackson Lifecycle Insights

Chad Jackson is an Industry Analyst at Lifecycle Insights and publisher of the engineering-matters blog. With more than 15 years of industry experience, Chad covers career, managerial and technology topics in engineering. Chad is also one of the co-presenters in our upcoming webcast on April 23rd. He writes, “For engineers, it’s become a really interesting time. There are a ton of tools …

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Mathcad Prime 2.0 How To: Labels

Formatting Labels in PTC Mathcad Prime 2.0

PTC Mathcad Prime 2.0 supports a feature called “Labels”. In this blog, I’d like to describe the motivation behind, benefits and nuances of this feature. For the “old-timers” I will reflect how it relates to a similar Mathcad 15.0 feature. Background: Labels come from the well established convention in mathematics and engineering that uses different font styles for variables to …

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Develop Safer, More Efficient Engineering Solutions by Sharing Resources

Enghance.com

In our past two posts, PTC Mathcad Takes on the Demanding World of the Oil and Gas Industry and From University to the Oil and Gas Industry, PTC Mathcad A Reliable Tool you were introduced to Luke Devall, a graduate engineer who specializes in design at Neptune Subsea Engineering. In Devall’s spare time he has been working to start Enghance, a community …

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Desktop Scientific: Calculating Temperatures in Mathcad

Desktop Scientific Temperature Conversion

Desktop Scientific is a recognized, leading distributor of academic, mathematical, engineering, scientific and technical software in Africa, which offers internationally recognized software tools and resources with which to excel in the global community. Recently they posted a PTC Mathcad worksheet on calculating temperatures in Mathcad. This worksheet was created by PTC Mathcad staff and can also be found on PTC’s Engineering Resources, …

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Live Webinar: Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions- Exploring Calculation Software Tools

spring in Boston

Tomorrow is the first official day of Spring. I know a lot of people (at least in Massachusetts) are looking forward to warmer weather with no snow, the option of outdoor and rooftop dining in Boston, the opening of Fenway Park, and the increasingly present signs of the new season with budding flowers and chirping birds. There is one more …

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Design News: Don’t Risk Your Most Important Calculations to Spreadsheets

design news Mathcad Express

Brent Edmonds, Senior Director of PTC Mathcad highlights the importance of good engineering calculations software in a guest blog post on Design News. In this article, titled “Don’t Risk Your Most Important Calculations to Spreadsheets” Edmond writes, “What exactly is engineering calculation software, and how does it reduce the risks associated with spreadsheet errors? Simply put, engineering calculation software speaks …

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Happy Pi Day!

pi day pie

Happy Pi Day, all! March 14th is the unofficial holiday that celebrates the mathematical constant pi (π) because the month/day date format digits in this date correspond with the first three digits of π (3.14). It has become an international observance that is celebrated live and online and also celebrates Albert Einstein’s birthday. (3.14) Join in on the fun on our …

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From University to the Oil and Gas Industry, PTC Mathcad A Reliable Tool

Oil and Gas Engineering Calculations

In the last post, Devall shared how PTC Mathcad has saved him and his company time because of ease of use of the software, have better documentation and sharing capabilities, and save money for both the company and their clients. In this post we’ll give some background on how Devall first started using PTC Mathcad during his dissertation while completing …

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PTC Mathcad Takes on the Demanding World of the Oil and Gas Industry

subsea engineering mathcad

Luke Devall is a graduate engineer who specializes in design at Neptune Subsea Engineering, a leading provider of engineered solutions to the oil and gas, and marine and renewable energy industries. The company designs components, structures, equipment and systems for the offshore oil and gas industry. PTC Mathcad has proven to be helpful for Luke and his company in the …

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Exciting Things to Come: PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0

contour plots in mathcad prime 3.0

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 …

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