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Mathcad Prime 9

Mathcad is the industry-standard software for engineering calculations

Mathcad is chosen by most companies in the market for top-quality calculations to verify and validate engineering design calculations. This software tool, synonymous with professional yet easy-to-follow technical documentation, is a world-leading calculation software. Alfasoft can provide licences, technical support, administration, and tailor-made training for all your calculation and Mathcad needs.

Mathcad is the choice of engineering companies when they are looking for their engineers to work efficiently and error-free by using a tool that:

  • is easy-to-use
  • supports automated and quick calculations
  • verifies calculation results
  • enables documentation

Mathcad has helped our business by enabling standard calculations to be derived and developed for the whole team. This has improved our accuracy and document quality and provides a conventional math notation for all.

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What is Mathcad?

PTC Mathcad – Show your work!

Engineering calculations are essential for product design. To achieve excellence in engineering, you need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs accurate calculations, enables traceability, protects intellectual property and allows you to show your work.

Document your most critical engineering calculations in an engineering notebook with natural mathematical notation and units intelligence. Show your work using rich formatting options alongside plots, text, and images in a single, professionally formatted document.

Choose PTC Mathcad Prime because spreadsheets just can’t compete. Mathcad visually represents math in an intuitive way, making it easy to define, understand, and manipulate engineering calculations with the whiteboard-like user interface.

Mathcad’s approach to engineering calculations

Natural Math Notation

Access to math notations and symbols makes it easy to construct equations. Equations are entered as they appear in a reference book, with the ability to use English and Greek characters in standard math operations.

Mathcad - Natural math notation

Units Intelligence

Mathcad allows you to automatically recognize and convert to “like” units, eliminating unit conversion and rounding errors. Automatic conversions between imperial and metric systems are possible, and you can define custom units for specific applications.

Units intelligence

Higher Level Math

Mathcad provides more than 700 built-in mathematical functions for powerful numeric and symbolic math, allowing you to numerically solve algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, and more. Symbolic capabilities eliminate mistakes when performing hand calculations.

Higher level math

Documentation

Mathcad is more than just a calculator, but is an engineering notebook, allowing users to combine text. math, graphics, and annotations in a single worksheet.

Mathcad documents your work

News

Integrating Excel with PTC Mathcad

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What’s new in Mathcad Prime 9?

Mathcad Prime 9 is the latest version of Mathcad Prime, a technical computing software which allows engineers and scientists to create and share mathematical and engineering calculations. Some of the new features in Mathcad Prime 9 include:

Application Enhancements

  • Text Styles
  • Gradient Operator
  • Internal Links

Symbolic Engine Enhancements

  • Symbolic Solving of ODEs
  • Logarithmic Integral Functions
  • Elliptic Integral Functions
  • Symbolic Solve Block
  • Symbolic Assumption on Function
  • Definite Integral with complex limits
  • Improvements to Calculus Operators
  • General keyword improvements
  • General function improvements

Numeric Engine Enhancements

  • PDESolve in Solve Block
  • General function improvements

Usability Enhancements

  • Custom Colour Picker
  • Go-to Page
  • Current Page Tooltip
  • Math region to Text region conversion

Overall, Mathcad Prime 9 offers a range of new features and improvements that make it a more powerful and user-friendly tool for engineers and scientists working on complex mathematical and engineering calculations.

See the full list of improvements here.

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System requirements

System requirements

  • Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit)
  • 2 GB of hard disk space (600 MB for PTC Mathcad, 1.5 GB temporary space during installation)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
  • DVD drive (for physical media) or Internet connection (for download). An Internet connection is required in both cases for license acquisition.
  • To view the PTC Mathcad Prime 8 Help system, your system must have one of the following browsers:
    – Google Chrome (all versions), Internet Explorer 9 or later, Firefox 10 or later

Licensing

Licence Options

PTC offers the annual subscription base licences for Mathcad Prime

You can choose between:

  – Individual subscription
  – Floating subscription
  – Global subscription

For group pricing, academic bundles or purchase orders, please get in touch with us or send an email to info@alfasoft.com

Support

Support

Alfasoft provides free technical support to all our customers.

Please describe your problem as detailed as possible when contacting our support. Remember to always inform about your serial-/license number, product version and your operating system.

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