typesetting equations
Is their a way to make MathCAD equations look like the way they do in textbooks? Formulas and equations are normally typeset in italics and basically look totally different to MathCAD worksheets. Maple...
View ArticleWill PTC ever port Mathcad to Max OS X?
Ever plan to release a Mac variant of Mathcad? A while ago I converted to Mac OS X, due to a very unpleasant Vista experience, after using exclusively Windows since the days of CPM. I plan to never...
View ArticleMathcad marathon calculator
Hi marathoners, For all of you interested in long distance running. Attached is a Mathcad marathon calculator. You input your age, weight, resting heart rate and race distance; it calculates the pace...
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Matrix to vector (M2V)
Could someone help me to with drafting a simple short function that would be able to transform a large matrix into a vector - say M2V function. I need one M2V function for transforming matrix rows (row...
View Articlerendering xmcd file without Mathcad
Hi,is it possible to render a xmcd file readable without using mathcad? The intention is to use a requirements management system to store the source files and make them available for inspection and to...
View ArticleExcel blamed for multibillion dollar financial losses.
Interesting article in the New Statesman about the dangers of Excel, highlighting some of the problems with Excel workbooks, particularly it would seem the difficulty of validating them and the poor...
View ArticleWorksheet protection
Hi,We just install the network version of MathCAD 12 and I have some interogation regarding the worksheet protection. Apparently, a worksheet can't be protected if it's save in a xmcd format. It work...
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disappearing toolbar
My math toolbar has disappeared, and I can't find it. I have run 11.2a for years on my XP PC, and have always had the this toolbar to launch the others. It's the one shown below, the one that has,...
View ArticleMathcad 14 List Box Output
Hello all, I am relatively new to Mathcad 14. The problem I am having is with List Boxes. In the attached document, you can see two list boxes. The second reads the output from the first and displays a...
View ArticleORIGIN variable in MathCAD
The ORIGIN variable is the variable that sets the indexing for matrixes. When the user sets the ORIGIN to a value of 1, MathCAD should start the indexing of matrixes at one. When I do this, MathCAD...
View Articleadding single line to a vector/matrix
Hello!I have a simple, but rather interesting question here: does anybody know, how to simply extend a vector (or matrix) with a single element (or line). Whenever I came to the point of adding one...
View ArticleInserting Date
Sorry if this is a repeat. I searched for "date" and didn't get anything useful.I'd like to insert the date in a Mathcad 14 worksheet, not in the header or footer. Is there a way to do this?Help would...
View ArticleDeleting Rows from Data Tables
I have created a Mathcad 14 sheet with a data table that I use to provide input variables. The number of rows of data in that data table vary from problem to problem, so I need to be able to increase...
View ArticlePTC Mathcad User Forum
== PTC has started a Mathcad User Forum at http://www.ptc.com/forums/== We are not closing these forums. At some point, these User Forums will move to PTC.com. At the present, we plan to keep both sets...
View ArticleSMath Studio
Check out SMath Studio, a new and free symbolic mathematics software application with WYSIWYG 'paper sheet' interface at "http://en.smath.info"
View ArticleGiven/Solve error - result returned too large to display
I am working with some students to try and solve a system of three equations using a Give/Solve block. Mathcad 14 is solving, but we are getting an error that says, "The symbolic result returned is too...
View ArticleOld MathCAD Library
Out of curiosity, what happened to the old MathCAD library?Not the resource center and not Knovel ...I was playing around with an old hard drive that had V8 installed. One of the links was to...
View ArticleSolution ever found for Running Mathcad 6.0 in Windows 7?
It works just fine except you cannot create or save a new file; Mathcad just closes/crashes. Yeah, I know how old 6.0 is. I use version 13 quite a bit but want to use 6.0 on my laptop. Thanks for any...
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Cylinder under external load
I am currently having trouble designing a reel winder in work, picture included below to help with the explanation. If you can imagine the wire coming off the bottom of the barrel and attached to a...
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