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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.