Mathcad Resources

This chart summarises the availability of primary capabilities and features in Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 8. This should be used as a reference to assist in assessing your ability to transition into Mathcad Prime.

PTC Mathcad is a powerful engineering calculation solution that helps you design better products faster. This document compares the versions of PTC Mathcad and displays the different capabilities within each version.

Engineering calculations are at the heart of product design. They are essential to every step of the design process. To achieve excellence in engineering, teams need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs calculations with accuracy and precision, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and shows their work. With PTC Mathcad, it’s easy.

PTC is announcing the end-of-sale for the following versions of PTC Mathcad, effective December 31, 2021:

▪ Mathcad 15

▪ Mathcad Prime 1.0–Prime 6.0

Effective January 1, 2022, the only version of Mathcad available for subscription will be PTC Mathcad Prime 7 and future versions of PTC Mathcad Prime. After December 31, 2021, PTC will no longer have the right to distribute a component of those versions of Mathcad listed above.

PTC Mathcad has all your engineering notebook’s ease-of-use and familiarity with live mathematical notation and units intelligence. Most importantly, the calculation capabilities produce far more accurate results than a spreadsheet can provide. Using PTC Mathcad’s rich array of mathematical functionality,

PTC Mathcad Prime 7 includes and improves on the new symbolic engine, delivers combo-box input control, usability improvements, and more! Solve, analyse, document, and share your most vital engineering calculations. To ensure

your update to Mathcad Prime 7 goes smoothly, we’ve written a checklist with links to helpful articles and resources.

Create calculations using standard operator notation for algebra, calculus, differential equations, logic, linear algebra, and more

• Evaluate, solve & manipulate expressions symbolically

• Support for various data types including:
- Scalar, vectors and matrices
- Complex numbers

In the document above, the keyboard shortcuts can be found in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" PDF guide. They are relevant from Mathcad Prime 5.0 release onward.

PTC Mathcad is an engineering calculation solution that helps you design better products faster.

With PTC Mathcad, you have the power to do highly accurate engineering calculations and then easily share this critical IP. The powerful math engine and intuitive documentation front-end of PTC

Mathcad can handle the simplest equations or the most complex multi-step engineering analysis.