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Spreadsheets- A Disaster Waiting to Happen?
There has been a lot of buzz in the media lately about error in spreadsheets. The first article that was pointed out to me, “Shocking Paper Claims that Microsoft Excel Coding Error is Behind the Reinhart-Rogoff Study on Debt” by Mike Konczal at Business Insider is in fact, pretty shocking. In this article Konczal shares how two economists conducted a …
You Asked? We’re Answering… A Response to Questions from our Recent Webinar (part 1)
On August 14th, PTC Mathcad and NASA Tech Briefs co-produced a webinar called “Best Practices for Engineering Calculations- Calculate, Document, and Share”. You can read more about the webinar here and you can watch the replay here. Overall, the webinar was a great success with over 400 attendees. As you might imagine, our presenters Roger Yeh and Ned Daniels couldn’t …
Posted in Mathcad, Tips & Tricks
Tagged Conversion, documentation, Excel, Monte Carlo simulation, virtual event
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Excel vs. Mathcad for Engineering Calculations
Hey folks, as promised, here is my second installment on the topic of Excel vs. Mathcad for engineering calculations. In my first post I talked about conceptual differences between the two products and kept the details light. In this installment I will put a finer point on the differentiations. WHITEBOARD VS FORMULA BAR Mathcad is a document that emulates an …
Posted in Mathcad
Tagged calculus, documentation, Excel, Mathcad, standard math notation, symbolic calculations, units
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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 …
Using the Improved and Easy-to-Use Excel Component in Mathcad Prime 2.0
Once again, PTC’s Mathcad software is approaching a very exciting time, with the much anticipated launch of Mathcad Prime 2.0. Mathcad is already the industry standard software for solving, documenting, sharing, and reusing vital engineering calculations, but now we are pleased to say that we have reached a new level, by combining the clean and easy to use interface and …
Posted in Mathcad A to Z, The Inside Scoop
Tagged *Excel component*, Excel, Excel component, Mathcad Prime 2.0
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The Spreadsheet Spooktacular: Mathcad Takes on Halloween
Here in the United States, October 31st is when we celebrate one of my favorite holidays, Halloween. What’s not to love about free candy, carving pumpkins, and goofy costumes? In this post I’m going to tell you one of the scary stories that have been circulating through the Needham office, a story so frightening, you’ll be clutching your computer keyboard …
Posted in Mathcad
Tagged documentation, engineering calculation software, Excel, spreadsheets, student edition
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Calculating the Thickness of a Steel Pole – So Easy With Mathcad!
Today, I ran into this forum discussion where a student asked for help doing a calculation. The task was to calculate how thick a steel pole would need to be to hold a hanging object with a defined weight: “… If I have a solid steel pole with a length of 50 cm, hang this from a roof, and want …
Posted in Tips & Tricks
Tagged 2D diagram, beam calculation, download, equations, Excel, standard math notation, structural engineering, units, worksheet
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Mathcad A-Z: E is for Excel
Did you know that there are many ways to import data from Excel to Mathcad? In Mathcad 15 and earlier versions, you can use the Excel Component or Data Import Wizard to import data. The data can then be embedded in your worksheet, so that you can edit the data directly in Mathcad. Use Mathcad to analyze and visualize the …
Mathcad and the Three Bears
My four-year-old daughter Mia is a big fan of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We read it a lot, so much so that we have developed a game of making variations to the story: Goldilocks and the Three Chairs, Goldilocks and the Three Fairs, etc. Today I want to play our little game with the readers of the …
Mathcad + Excel = Major Value to Engineers
The other day I came across a blog post by Robert Mote titled: The battle between Excel and MathCAD. In it, Robert discusses the use of Mathcad vs. Excel for standardized engineering calculations. He relates this to his field of structural engineering, ultimately giving Excel the nod as the tool of choice for an engineer. Now as I’m sure you …
Posted in Best Practices
Tagged engineering calculation software, Excel, math integration
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