What’s New in PTC Mathcad Prime

• 2D Native Plot Updates: Add plot title, axes titles, gridlines, and a legend to your 2D native plots.
• Performance Enhancements: Your calculations will be rendered faster than before.
• Header/Footer Updates: Customize your page numbering on the first page, set a custom total page number, and decide which page that page numbers will begin.
• Hide Symbolic Keywords: Hide symbolic keywords and modifiers from the symbolic evaluation arrow.

• Functions to Analyze Functions: A new class of functions for symbolic analysis, returning information such as local or global extrema or evaluating continuity.
• MultiStart for Solver Functions: Instruct Mathcad’s solving & optimization functions to look for a global solution, increasing the likelihood of converging to an answer.
• Optimized or Non-Optimized for Solver Functions: Selecting Optimize prioritizes a faster, more approximated result for minimize and maximize.
• Manual Definition of First and Second Derivatives for Solver Functions: Entering the first and second derivative for solver functions will now provide a faster solution.
• Improvements of Calculus Operators in Symbolics: Expanded use cases for limits, range-summations, indefinite integrals, and more.
• King Rule Support: Mathcad’s symbolic engine now supports the King Rule for definite integrals.
• Clear Function Improvements: The clear function can now reset system variables like ORIGIN to their default values.
• Substitution of Integral Variables: Perform integration by substitution for cases of one variable.

• Find and Replace Identifier with Subscript: Find identifiers with subscripts and quickly replace them with new identifiers.
• Hide Solve Block Labels: Improve the readability of worksheets by hiding labels.
• Larger Page Sizes: Display more content with larger printable canvas options.
• Worksheet Background Colors: Choose from Mathcad’s default paper color, white, and gray to meet your needs.
• Quality Improvements for Embedded OLE: Objects maintain higher resolution while zooming, resizing, or exporting worksheets.
• Refresh Buttons for Include Regions: Quickly retrieve the latest data from the included worksheet.

PTC has updated Mathcad Prime’s back-end architecture from .NET Framework to .NET. This is a foundational upgrade to support future innovation in Mathcad, such as engine enhancements, usability updates, and UI/UX improvements. In addition, the migration to .NET removes long-term platform risk and makes future .NET transitions simpler.

In addition to major feature releases, Mathcad Prime 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 XX.0.1.0 is fully compatible with Mathcad Prime XX.0.0.0).

The latest maintenance releases can be found on the Mathcad Prime Software Download page, alongside major releases.

Mathcad Prime 12 currently does not have any available maintenance releases.