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Engineering and Design for the Future: The Making of the 10,000 Year Clock Project
Imagine this: A 300 foot tall clock encased in the middle of a mountain. Gliding titanium gears, clacking ruby latches, sapphire, metals, and ceramic all perfectly fitted and working in unison so that the clock will be able to endure and capture time for 10,000 years. A giant 9 foot tall pendulum swings back and forth glacially within the mountain …
Getting Started with Mathcad Prime
So many Creo Apps… How about Mathcad?
Guest blog by Mark Walker Director of Mathcad Product Management, PTC I’m pleased to share that we’re working on a new architectural solution to enable direct utilization of Mathcad inside Creo models. PTC has captured many related use cases in recent years, but we haven’t had the ideal foundational relationship between the two apps to best solve those use …
Mathcad- A Better Choice for Engineering Calculations
Excel is an accountant’s tool, a general journal, a ledger. It was never intended to be used by engineers trying to analyze bridge capacity, size transformers, or calculate the stress on a plane’s fuselage. When used for its intended purpose, Excel is an excellent tool, providing tabular displays of numbers, analytics for finance and interactivity through pivot tables and pivot …
Multi-threading, multi-core and parallel calculation in Mathcad
One of the features of Mathcad Prime 2.0 is enabling use of multiple processors/cores for worksheet calculations. A natural question is: “How does this help?” As with all finer things in life (and I consider Mathcad in this category), the answer depends on many factors. Before answering the question, let me clarify some of the basic concepts. Multi-threading and parallelism …
Posted in Mathcad, The Inside Scoop
Tagged engineering calculations, Mathcad Prime 2.0, multi-threading, performance, processor
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Teaching and Learning Corner: Using Include Worksheets
As a teenager I was, I realize now, a terrible learner. I attribute this fact to having developed the wrong priorities – I am not sure it was entirely my fault. Success was measured by test scores. High test scores could be attained via rote memorization. Therefore, I focused on memorizing facts in history, formulas in math and science, and …
Posted in Education, Mathcad, Tips & Tricks
Tagged engineering calculations, Function Toolkit, Mathcad Prime 2.0, Physics, reuse, students
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Temperature Units
Simple units conversion Unit conversion are simple (in most cases): Converting a quantity, say length, from one unit (e.g. inches) to another (e.g. meters) involves multiplying the quantity by a factor (namely 0.0254). This is very convenient because the following calculations can be done without any ambiguity: Why am I even writing about this? This stuff is trivial. A paradox …
Posted in Mathcad, The Inside Scoop, Uncategorized
Tagged engineering calculations, Mathcad, temperatures, unit conversion, units
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The Top 5 Assets Available to Get to Know Mathcad Prime 2.0
Now that Mathcad Prime 2.0 has been launched, it is time to learn about the product and see what it has to offer you and the engineering world. In this blog post, I will take you through a number of assets that you can find on PTC’s Mathcad Product Page, which we have worked hard to provide you with. These …
Symbolic Calculation in Mathcad Prime 2.0: Explicit Evaluation and Numeric and Symbolic Calculation Integration!
In the last set of posts we talked about the Excel integration and the new 3D plots component in Mathcad Prime 2.0. Today we will be introducing you to the symbolic calculation feature. Mathcad 15.0 has had various symbolic calculation capabilities for a long time. These capabilities were absent in Mathcad Prime 1.0 but, we are happy to announce, they …
Mathcad Prime 2.0’s Excel Component Continued — Application and Advantages
In the last post you were introduced to Mathcad Prime 2.0’s new Excel component. I explained this exciting improvement, how the Excel component works, and how it maps into the rest of Mathcad. Specifically we highlighted how much easier it is to use within Mathcad Prime 2.0 because of the User Interface and Task Ribbon and the multiple ways you …
