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Calculating the Critical Speed of a Shaft Bearing with Mathcad
A few weeks ago, Jakov Kucan, the Development Director for Mathcad, asked me to help him make a few short videos for PlanetPTC Live (June 12-15 in Las Vegas, NV). “Two to three minute videos highlighting the look and feel of Mathcad Prime 1.0, as well as some of its key capabilities,” he said. Now I could have just stitched together some …
Meet the Mathcad Users: The Florida DOT Structures Group
Next in the series of our ‘Meet the Mathcad Users’ (see what Eva had to say last time) is the staff from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Structures Design Office. Thanks to modern-day luxuries and technology, interviews can be conducted in myriad ways. For this one, I traded a few email messages with some folks over at FDOT, and …
Mathcad Demo Series – Engineering Calculations Done Smarter
Hi folks, We’re getting ready to kick-off a series of demo videos in the next few weeks. The intent here is to create and provide content for engineers who are generating calculations related to their specific role and industries they work in. For instance the first of the series of videos coming out discusses using Mathcad to perform and document …
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Tagged analysis, demos, engineering, engineering calculation software, load resistance
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Mathcad Strives to Improve Customer Service
I want to acknowledge that some of our customers have been experiencing challenges installing the Mathcad software and acquiring a license with the release of Mathcad 15.0 – and we’ve been listening. The Mathcad team has spent time reviewing the process, and identified a few areas causing the issues. Here are the fixes we’re working hard to implement and solve …
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Tagged engineering, engineering calculation software, engineers, PlanetPTC, PTC, support
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Why Don’t My Students Love Mathcad As Much As I Do?
As September comes to a close college students all over the country are experiencing Mathcad for the first time in their physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and engineering classes. In this regard September 2010 is a noteworthy one within the Mathcad Education Program. The students’ widespread use of Twitter has given us a new perspective on their first experiences with Mathcad. …
Why is Mathcad so Keen on Units?
In an earlier Blog Mona Zeftel writes about units checking and conversion in Mathcad. Sure it is a convenience, but why is unit handling such an important part of Mathcad’s product strategy. If I am an engineer designing a spacecraft to orbit Mars (this blog is not about criticizing NASA engineers), sure it would be nice if the program checked …
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Tagged custom units, dynamic units, engineering, engineering calculation software, unit checking, units
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