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PTC Mathcad

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What is PTC Mathcad?

PTC Mathcad Prime is a digital engineering notebook enabling engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to solve, analyze, document, and share their calculations. It helps users to solve problems accurately the first time numerically and/or symbolically, and then reuse important intellectual property with templates to save time on the next project.

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PTC Matchad - A Must Have For Any Design Engineer

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Conversion of measurement units (Imperial and Metric)
  • Easy to use for writing detailed engineering worksheets
  • Formulas can be written in the expanded form which facilitates verification
  • Spell Checker feature is life saver.

Cons

  • The feature to add pictures can be improved. The pictures do not align easily. Overlapping of text and picture should be prevented automatically.
  • Possibility to add customized units

Most Important Features

  • Ability to write formulas as we write on paper
  • Measuring unit change
  • Spell Checker

Return on Investment

  • It definitely helped me document the projects more efficiently in a way that is usable for other teammates as well.

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft Teams, Cisco AnyConnect

Robust and fast data analysis

Incentivized
Yevgen GorashView profile
Research Fellow in Engineering at University of Strathclyde (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Fitting the experimental data with an arbitrary fitting function and visualization of the results
  • Writing a technical document with lots of mathematical calculations, that should look a kind of professional
  • Operation with arrays and matrices, processing of raw data with arbitrary methods

Cons

  • A limited number of file formats for export, especially those that support visual graphics in vector format
  • Interfaces for mathematics and equations with MathType and LaTeX / MikTex / Tex
  • Limited functionality for visualization of data in a 3D format

Return on Investment

  • It accelerates issuing reports and writing documents
  • it improves the visual quality of the reports/documents
  • It helps to make the decisions faster

Alternatives Considered

MATLAB

Other Software Used

PTC Creo

Essential Engineering Software

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Engineering (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Iterative calculations
  • Calculation templates
  • Documentation of design process

Cons

  • Attaching support material, such as pictures, is a bit simplistic
  • Automatic equation solving would be nice.
  • The new free version (as of 2020) has a intrusive watermark that can't be removed.

Return on Investment

  • Speeds up calculations (especially when corrections need to be made near the beginning).
  • Ability to re-use old calculations as a template can save significant time.
  • You can use consistent formatting for all calculations, allowing for more organized, clear calculations.

Other Software Used

MATLAB

Easy to Use...Powerful Math Computation Software

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • PTC Mathcad has an easy to use interface.
  • PTC Mathcad offers templates that can be used to start projects.
  • PTC Mathcad has extensive math tools and functions for complex engineering analysis work.

Cons

  • Some of the math and text formatting aspects are a little cumbersome.
  • Converting from older Matchcad versions to the newer Mathcad Prime platform could be made easier. It should be a direct import function.

Return on Investment

  • Mathcad has allowed us to take legacy hand written calculations and document them in an electronic format. Now we can quickly run different design scenarios using the legacy calculations. It allows us to quickly vet new design options.
  • Sharing new design concepts is quicker and easier within our various design groups.

PTC MathCad- an engineering calculator playground

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • MathCad has a relatively easy to learn and easy to use programming language.
  • It is easy to deploy and manage seats of MathCad.
  • Documentation and support are reasonably strong.

Cons

  • Since Prime, MathCad has improved its user interface. It still, however, lacks the visual qualities that could make it more efficient.
  • While able to integrate and pass values back to solid 3D models, this process isn't always reliable or easy.

Return on Investment

  • Positively, MathCad works extremely well as an easy-to-program engineering calculator for most basic equations.
  • The learning curve for someone new to math-based software isn't terribly steep. But custom functions and techniques are not intuitive.

Alternatives Considered

MATLAB

Usability