What’s new in PTC Mathcad Prime 11
PTC Mathcad Prime 11 empowers technical professionals to solve and document complex calculations. New manual calculations mode provides users with the choice of when, and what, to calculate. Custom unit systems provide control over default display units. Create advanced controls scripting in Python. Upgrade to PTC Mathcad Prime 11 to solve, analyze, document, and share your engineering calculations.
Update Details
PTC Mathcad Prime 11 introduces several enhancements, including important features requested by users.
Application updates
- Manual Calculation Mode: Users choose to recalculate the entire worksheet or only update to the page currently in view.
- Custom Unit Systems: Customize unit system behavior with increased flexibility and control over the worksheet’s unit system.
- Result Threshold Formatting: Set thresholds for exponential, complex, and zero results.
- Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Support: Perform calculations and format results in these number systems.
- Region Borders: Toggle borders for worksheet regions.
- Python for Advanced Controls: Use Python scripting for advanced controls, in addition to VBScript and JScript.
Engine enhancements
- New decomp Keyword: Decompose large symbolic expressions for easier analysis
- New vec and IsRange Functions: Create vectors and determine if a variable is of a range datatype
- Solve Block Improvements: Enhanced support for scaling objective functions and constraints and expanded CTOL settings
- Plot processing improvements for 2D plots
- Symbolic Calculation Improvements: Improved performance for symbolic calculations, including the keyword simplify and calculus operators
Usability updates
- Simplified Insert Image: Streamline insertion of images into the worksheet
- Convert Password-Protected Areas: Convert areas in legacy worksheets that are password protected and collapsed
- Radio Button Selected by Default: Radio button from Advanced Controls now has preselected choices for improved clarity
- Slider Invert and Min/Max Properties: New option to invert slider points and display min/max values on slider control
- Page Number Format: New page number formats for headers and footers
Maintenance Releases
In addition to major feature releases, Mathcad Prime now has maintenance releases to improve the software’s stability and reliability. Maintenance releases primarily address known bugs and bring security enhancements to ensure Mathcad Prime remains robust and secure. Maintenance releases are fully compatible with their previous version (i.e. Mathcad Prime 11.0.1.0 is fully compatible with Mathcad Prime 11.0.0.0).
Visit the Mathcad Prime Software Download page to download the latest maintenance release.
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