Are the Extension Packs worth the money?
Are the Extension Packs worth the money?
(OP)
Hello all,
I have been tasked to looking into the MathCAD extension packs for our company. In the very near future, we will be involved with a consulting project that will require the use of multivariable diff. equations, and partial differential equations. These equations would all be linked together in one big system of equations for a body.
I am looking through all of the extension packs offered for MATHCAD, and from a first glance, the only one that looks like it could relate to this new project is the Solving and Optimization extension pack.
We are currently using Mathcad Professional 2001, and it appears that the stand alone program can do everything we need it to.
My question to all of you experienced mathcad users is:
Given my problem, is the purchase of the solving and optimizing extension pack worth the money, or will we be able to use the stand alone software package?
Any comments are welcome!
I have been tasked to looking into the MathCAD extension packs for our company. In the very near future, we will be involved with a consulting project that will require the use of multivariable diff. equations, and partial differential equations. These equations would all be linked together in one big system of equations for a body.
I am looking through all of the extension packs offered for MATHCAD, and from a first glance, the only one that looks like it could relate to this new project is the Solving and Optimization extension pack.
We are currently using Mathcad Professional 2001, and it appears that the stand alone program can do everything we need it to.
My question to all of you experienced mathcad users is:
Given my problem, is the purchase of the solving and optimizing extension pack worth the money, or will we be able to use the stand alone software package?
Any comments are welcome!
Regards,
Grant
Aerospace Engineer





RE: Are the Extension Packs worth the money?
If you have need of such a function, then the extension pack might be worth it. You might be able to get in contact with Mathsoft and have them print out what the new functionality entails and you can then make the appropriate decisions.
TTFN
RE: Are the Extension Packs worth the money?
While I have not used MathCad for partial or ordinary differential equations, it appears that I can use the standard MathCAD program to enter a system of differential equations. Is this correct?
Regards,
Grant
Aerospace Engineer
RE: Are the Extension Packs worth the money?
As for the basic Mathcad, yes, there's a number of options, see Mathcad help for v11.2:
If you do a search in the Collab, there have been numerous postings on rkfixed, rkadapt, etc.
TTFN