Free Mathcad Worksheets

PTC offers free, sample PTC Mathcad Prime worksheets that showcase the product's capabilities, including specific features and use cases in engineering disciplines.

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About Mathcad free worksheets

PTC provides these free worksheets as examples of how to use certain features or to provide best practices.

If you cannot open a worksheet in your version of Mathcad Prime, please upgrade to a higher version.

If you decide to apply these worksheets to your actual projects, it is your responsibility to verify their accuracy. Please be aware that you assume all risks associated with their use, and PTC does not accept liability for any outcomes resulting from your application of these materials.

Capabilities Examples

Getting started with Mathcad

This Mathcad Prime worksheet uses a simple physics problem to provide introductory information on some important fundamentals of Mathcad. Learning this worksheet's core principles will be helpful for those who are new to Mathcad and just getting started.

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Natural math and units

This Mathcad Prime 9 worksheet explores two distinguishing features of PTC Mathcad that are critical to performing engineering calculations clearly and accurately. These two features are Natural Math Notation and Units Intelligence.

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Importing data from Excel to Mathcad

This PTC Mathcad Prime worksheet explores two options for importing data from an external Excel file into Mathcad. These two options are the Excel Component and the READEXCEL function. When unzipping, save both documents to the same directory.

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Solving & optimization

Benefit from using Mathcad Prime’s robust solving capability to find solutions to a set of simultaneous constraints or solve for parameters that optimize a result using two examples as your guide:
1. Solving for a pipe diameter and
2. Optimizing the profile of a piston head.

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Programming loops

Follow this example of Mathcad Prime’s easy-to-use programming constructs to calculate total impedance of a simple RLC Circuit using a for loop to loop over an array of frequencies, calculate impedances, and feed the results into a chart for visualization of frequencies vs. impedance.

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Random number generation

This Mathcad Prime worksheet combines for-loop programming with Mathcad's random number generation function, and the ability to read in a data file, in order to produce an array of n raffle winners from x number of entrants. Recalculate for a new set of winners.

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Design of experiments

This worksheet uses Mathcad’s design of experiments suite to study the effects of quantitative factors on a car’s fuel economy, and determines which independent factors and which interactions of factors have the largest effect on the response.

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Advanced controls use cases

This collection of twelve worksheets showcases common use cases for the List Box, Checkbox, Text Box, Radio Button, Slider, and Button advanced controls. Each control has two worksheets: one written with JScript, and the other written with Python.

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Mathcad Engine updates for Primes 7–10

These four worksheets were created by the Mathcad research & development team to showcase the advancements in Mathcad Prime’s numeric and symbolic capabilities with each release. They may be most effective when opened in the version they were built for.

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Engineering Disciplines

Mechanical engineering

Mathcad Prime is used by mechanical engineers to calculate forces, stresses, fatigue, energy, and performance for mechanical systems. Specific calculations may range from safety factors and efficiency to bending and vibration.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineers use Mathcad Prime across a broad spectrum of application areas, including circuit design & analysis, control systems modeling, signal processing, communications, and energy & power calculations.

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Civil and structural engineering

Civil and Structural engineers in the AEC industry rely on Mathcad Prime to ensure the safety of buildings, bridges, pipelines, and more. Example calculations include beam analysis, bending moments, tensile stress, and section properties.

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Physics

Physicists depend on Mathcad Prime, whether in university or in the laboratory. Mathcad solves physics problems such as forces analysis, motion and momentum, conservation of energy, magnetic flux, and much more.

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineers use Mathcad Prime to solve a variety of problems with systems of balanced equations and other techniques, performing calculations for process engineering, chemical compositions, reactor design, and thermodynamics.

Statistics

Mathcad Prime has dedicated suites of built-in statistics and data analysis functions. Common use cases include data smoothing and filtering, linear and spline interpolation, regression analysis with different model functions, Monte Carlo simulations, and more.