MathCAD 13 preview
MathCAD 13 preview
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I have a meeting with a local MathCAD representative arranged for next week, to talk about Ver. 13. As a preparation, he has sent me some information about new features. The most interesting (and useful) is an autosave option - having Mathcad crashed on me too many times unexpectedly, this looks like a very good idea. I will also try to find out how can we efficiently carry out revision control of our electronic Mathcad calculations. Any ideas, experiences or questions to ask would be apprecaited.
(I have been using Mathcad as a design and assessment tool for last seven years and I am not as much interested in advanced maths features as I am interested in stability, QA and functionality in a busy design office).
(I have been using Mathcad as a design and assessment tool for last seven years and I am not as much interested in advanced maths features as I am interested in stability, QA and functionality in a busy design office).





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Cheers
Greg Locock
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And if I'm doing something wrong with V11 and it is easier than I think to pass on all or some of a worksheet to a user who does not have mathcad, I would be happy to be put out of my misery! (apart from copy-'n-paste via the clipboard).
The mathcad reader application of the older versions was pretty good - you could read a worksheet (and change variables but not formulae if I remember right). Maybe something similar is needed again.
Bung
Life is non-linear...
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What interests me in Version 13 is explicit calculations to show substituted values before the final calculation and equation tracing.
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Print to pdf and e-mail that to them. Forget about the html and rtf crap. It doesn't work worth a crap in V12.1. Printing to pdf is relatively painless.
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"The most interesting (and useful) is an autosave option - having Mathcad crashed on me too many times unexpectedly, this looks like a very good idea."
I like Mathcad, but if Mathcad is piching the autosave option as an improvement due to the multiple crashes ... seems as if they don't have a handle on it yet.
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I agree with Monkeydog that if MathSoft is pitching AutoSave as a "fix" for their frequent crashes, I'll stick with V11 (after exorcising V12.1 from my machines) for a while longer.
David
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Their track record is that they'll repeat this one-time-only price about once a month until spring. If they don't then I stick with V11. I'm not going to buy V13 until at least 6 months from now when it will probably V13.2.
David
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The bottom line, though, is if there is no specific feature you need to have, then upgrading may not be necessary. Much of the newer features of v12 and v13 appear to be tied in with their "Calculations Management" paradigm; XML format, provenance, traceability and static unit checking are all tied in.
TTFN
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They have also demonstrated a program called Designate for managing Mathcad sheets. Looks useful, but probably still needs some development to become useful (and it would need to integrate into our QA structure - not sure how at the moment).
They were very helpful and offered additional help and information to enable us to use Mathcad more efficiently. It appears that they are now part of Mathsoft UK, while previous distributors were Adept Scientific.
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> Corrupted files. With XML, the text-based format allows you to determine where the interpreter chokes and bypass the damaged sections. It may even be possible to repair the damaged sections to some degree.
> Mathcad viewer. With XML, an XML viewer with the correct style template can display the file on any machine that supports XML.
Additionally, the XML structure allows the ability to provide provenance, which is important, sometimes.
TTFN
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David
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Actually I am still working with Mathcad 2000. I bought V12.1 to be able to view newer version files.
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