Mathcad Prime 3.0 is now available
Mathcad Prime 3.0 is now available
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After a LONG wait, Mathcad 3.0 Prime is now available from PTC: http://www.ptc.com/
Since I am still running Mathcad 8 (vintage 1994) and it isn't completely happy on a Windows 7 machine, I decided to bite the $1550 bullet and upgrade. I didn't think Prime 1.0 and 2.0 were quite ready for prime time (pun intended), but it looks like Prime 3.0 now has sufficient functionality for what I do and in some areas much more functionality than I really need. Also, you get a copy of Mathcad 15 for backward compatibility.
There are two files to download, but PTC doesn't tell you what the second file is for. It's a download manager, but right now it's stuck on one of the files (Mathcad PDSI viewer, whatever that is). I am also hampered by not having received one of the two emails I need from PTC to complete the process. I have my order number but not my customer number and I need both for registration.
The trials and tribulations of trying to install software late on a Friday afternoon.
Since I am still running Mathcad 8 (vintage 1994) and it isn't completely happy on a Windows 7 machine, I decided to bite the $1550 bullet and upgrade. I didn't think Prime 1.0 and 2.0 were quite ready for prime time (pun intended), but it looks like Prime 3.0 now has sufficient functionality for what I do and in some areas much more functionality than I really need. Also, you get a copy of Mathcad 15 for backward compatibility.
There are two files to download, but PTC doesn't tell you what the second file is for. It's a download manager, but right now it's stuck on one of the files (Mathcad PDSI viewer, whatever that is). I am also hampered by not having received one of the two emails I need from PTC to complete the process. I have my order number but not my customer number and I need both for registration.
The trials and tribulations of trying to install software late on a Friday afternoon.
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I am pretty sure that Prime 3.0 will read Mathcad 15 files just like Prime 2.0 will. If so, there doesn't seem to be a reason to have included Prime 2.0. Regardless, I plan to migrate my Mathcad 8 files to Mathcad 15, then to Prime, as I have the time.
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Anyway, it applied to Prime2 and still aplies tp P3: the best thing at Prime is that you get Mathcad 5 for free with it. So you have something for serious work.
The sad thing is that Prime is the future and whether we like it or not we will have to get used to it or switch to another software. Most older, valued sheets will have to be abandonded in both cases.
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Hopefully, they will recognize the their idiocy and bring that functionality back, just like they did with global definitions in MP3, which they now claim as a great improvement to Mathcad, even though that functionality had been in Mathcad for decades:
http://blogs.ptc.com/2013/10/01/ptc-mathcad-prime-...
Oh, and they've also just announced that MP3 can do TEMPLATES! Yes, another wonderful advancement that no one (except for Mathosoft) ever realized:
http://blogs.ptc.com/2013/10/08/ptc-mathcad-prime-...
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Some other "new" features:
- we can highlight math regions "now"
- math can be place in text regions
- user DLLs (with the vers same old interface as in "old" mathcad
- ...
All those highly praised features we had in Mathcad already for decades.There is a very small list of things we have in Prime and didn't in Mathcad, like better integration of units in matrices and odesolve and better possibilities to edit matrices.
But then there's the list of whats still missing compared to MC15, beginning with plotting and apparently interminable, let alone the handling speed and ease of use of MC15 compared to Prime. Sometimes it looks like the goal in Prime was that everything you want to achieve should require twice the keystrokes and mouseclicks as it used to be.
Shame on PTC for ruining a good piece of software!
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At the moment I'm still using m13. I started on m6, moved to m9 and then to m13.
What is the big difference between prime + mathcad, besides the lost functionality :)
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Moving to Prime might be a good idea as you get MC15 for free to work with and Prime3 to take a look what the future would look like.
Apart from the missing features I don't like the new interface as its very slow and much more cumbersome, most tasks would need more keyboard strokes and/or mouse clicks which slows down working speed significantly.
But form your own opinion and give P3 a testdrive. Without MC15 you won't be able to convert older sheets (which will work painless only for sheets using basic features) but at least you get the look and feel.
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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.
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