Mathcad Prime 3.0 Released
03/10/2013
Mathcad Prime 3.0 has significantly improved its calculation capability to allow bigger problems to be solved, faster. With hundreds of built-in mathematical functions and the unlimited ability to define your own, the ability to solve equations both numerically and symbolically, and the ability to solve complex systems of equations, Mathcad Prime 3.0 supports your advanced engineering design exploration.
The result is a comprehensive tool allowing every engineer – from the casual user who simply needs to document the source of design parameters, to the power user who needs to perform sophisticated design studies and trade-off analyses – to spend more of their time actually engineering.
Our Best Mathcad Offer Ever
21/08/2013
Hearne has a great Mathcad Prime 2.0 (includes Mathcad 15) offer available now, for all orders until the end of September 2013, you get three licenses for the price of two. This is our best ever Mathcad Prime 2.0 deal and only valid for a limited time.
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AUD$8,210 inc GST
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The offer applies to both floating and individual licenses and means you will save thousands.
You can contact us for more information.
Mathcad Prime 2.0 Is Here
09/03/2012
Mathcad Prime 2.0 now available with 64-bit support and multithreaded processing, Mathcad Prime 2.0 is the most advanced and robust Mathcad ever - while still allowing you to reuse old worksheets. Mathcad Prime 2.0 combines ease-of-use with superior performance and powerful capabilities, like a symbolic algebra solver.
What is new in Mathcad Prime 2.0?
- Excel Component - Seamless and meaningful integration of Mathcad and Excel
- 3D Plots - Engineers need to visualise 3-dimensional data for better understanding and communication
- Symbolic calculation - Engineers can manipulate complex equations with the help of Mathcad's symbolic algebra engine
- Performance - Allows users to better leverage, large memory, multi-core and multi-processor hardware. Full 64-bit support
- Collapsible Areas - Manage large documents by focusing on one part at a time
Mathcad Prime 1.0
01/02/2011
Mathcad Prime 1.0 is PTC’s latest release of the industry standard software for engineering calculations. Completely re-designed, Mathcad Prime 1.0 provides a task-based interface for enhanced usability. Plus it delivers powerful capabilities within a document-centric calculations environment for users to create complex, professional engineering design documents quickly and easily.
New features and benefits include:
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Improved usability and discoverability – Experienced users can complete more tasks with less effort, and new users will spend less time learning to use Mathcad Prime 1.0
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Document-centric calculation environment – Reduce the time it takes to develop a design worksheet, by combining math, text and images on one document. That means less time editing and formatting your worksheet
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Advanced Math Exploration – Quickly and easily create calculations for testing – before committing them to a design, and reducing re-work in the design process
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Numeric functions library – With ready-to-use numeric functions, you’ll be able to tackle any computational problem, saving time and effort
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Dynamic Units Checking – Now you have full support for units throughout all calculations created in Mathcad Prime 1.0, resulting in reduced errors and higher accuracy, while improving process efficiency in product development
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Reverse compatibility – Quickly convert most engineering worksheets saved in previous versions back to Mathcad 7.0, while summarizing any specific compatibility issues, minimizing any work to recreate calculations and worksheets
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WYSIWYG equation editor – Express problem constraints and solutions in natural math notation – focusing on the calculations, while spending less time manipulating the document
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Design of Experiments (DoE) – Save time, effort and expense by creating fewer, yet more intelligent experiments
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Maximize productivity with full Windows 7 support
Mathcad Prime 1.0 greatly enhances the overall user experience with a new interface within a document-centric calculations environment, and advanced math exploration. The result: you spend more time engineering and less time documenting.
Mathcad and Economic Debate
20/08/2010
Associate Professor Steve Keen at the University of Western Sydney has made a major impact on economic debate in recent years. All of his work has been done using Mathcad.
You can use Mathcad equations to solve just about any math problem you can think of, symbolically or numerically. By combining equations, text and graphics in a single worksheet, Mathcad makes it easy to keep track of the most complex calculations. This simplifies and streamlines the documentation and publishing of your work.
"I use Mathcad in two main ways", Dr Keen explained "for statistical analysis and presentation, and for constructing dynamic models."
Dr Keen publishes a monthly newsletter called Debtwatch, which warns of the dangers of excessive private debt. The newsletter is written in Mathcad, and makes use of Mathcad's very flexible programming language to import data from a wide range of statistical sources. Dr Keen then puts Mathcad's graphing capabilities to work to make this information visually compelling.
Debtwatch has now become very influential in the Australian economic debate, and Mathcad's power and flexibility has been essential here. No other program could allow so rapid a turnaround from analysis to argument.
He also uses Mathcad to model dynamic systems, such as a model of credit money creation that goes well beyond the textbook model of the "money multiplier". Here Mathcad's combination of a natural display of mathematics, and logical as well as numeric programming, has been invaluable.
"Using Mathcad's programming and symbolic engine, I've been able to enter a matrix that records flows between bank accounts in a way that any accountant would recognise--it's basically double entry book-keeping. Then from this very natural interface I automatically derive a set of differential equations to be simulated using the Odesolve block. The programs that achieve this are almost embarrassingly simple, and yet very powerful."
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"It's this blend of analytic power and a very natural expression of mathematical logic that makes Mathcad so unbeatable. I expect that I could have done all this in any number of other programs, but the programming would have been far harder to achieve, far more difficult to interpret later, and the presentation of the results would have necessitated exporting to another program to format text, graphs and equations properly. In Mathcad, I can do it all in one place."
"I also find that Mathcad's brilliant equation editor makes it possible for me to develop the logic of a mathematical argument in Mathcad faster and more accurately than I ever could on paper, and then almost instantly test the idea out. There's simply no other program like it. If I found myself wrecked on a desert isle--or the computing equivalent, having to choose just one program out of all those I know--then Mathcad would be it."
Steve Keen is a long term Hearne customer, publisher of Debtwatch and Debunking Economics, as well as a regular guest on many TV programs.
Hearne Scientific Software is the ISO Quality Assured trainer and distributor for Mathcad in Australia and New Zealand.
Mathcad 15 is now available
02/07/2010
Mathcad 15.0 includes over 25 new Design of Experiment functions, more robust reference libraries and integration with third-party tools, including Microsoft Excel 2007.
Additionally, the Mathcad 15.0 integration with existing engineering platforms like Pro/ENGINEER®, as well as with PTC’s Windchill® solutions, Windchill PDMLink® and Windchill ProductPoint®, enables better management of critical engineering content, making it easier to share and reuse information leading to standardization and best practices.
“These design of experiment fitting functions are a great bonus and now that I have augmented them with my own functions they will save many hours of work evaluating large sets of data.” – Philip Leitch, PRL Software
Highlights of the enhancements in Mathcad 15.0 include:
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Integration with Kornucopia® software – Kornucopia by Bodie Technology, is designed to reduce time and effort spent on analysis by providing functions and templates using Mathcad-based documented workflows, that improves interpretations and value of experimental data and simulation results
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Support for Microsoft Excel® 2007 – Leverage the following functions and features with Excel: READEXCEL(), WRITEEXCEL(), READFILE, the data import wizard, and the Excel Add-in
“PTC continues to view Mathcad as an important component of its overall product offering and remains committed to delivering the best engineering calculation software to our customers” said Jake Simpson, general manager, Mathcad Business Unit, PTC. “Mathcad 15.0 with its new Design of Experiments functions and integration with Windchill ProductPoint as well as other tools, enables our customers to easily create complex engineering calculations and communicate those calculations across the organization, thus helping them achieve a level of standardization and collaboration within their product development process.”
More information
For more information about Mathcad 15 including licensing options and prices, contact us.
GKN Revolves Around Aerospace Calculations
03/03/2008
GKN Aerospace Engineering Services Pty Ltd, Australia’s leading aerospace design services organisation, offers a full range of engineering and design services to the aerospace and defence markets. Engineers provide calculations and designs of structures for customers aimed at ensuring safety, performance and manufacturability. These services range from the supply of engineers to the execution of complete design packages.
GKN Aerospace Engineering Services needed an engineering calculation environment that could combine the simplicity of a word processor with visual diagrams of equations, so customers could comprehend design principles and make amendments to calculations if required during development.
Mathcad is a visual design environment that allows engineers from all industries to draw from a variety of data sources during the design phase of a product and document all mathematical formulas and calculations.
Mathcad version 14 is used at GKN Aerospace Engineering Services by stress engineers, who produce calculations and product designs that are provided to customers to ensure designs meet performance requirements and calculations are free of errors. A key element of this process is the ability to capture the rationale of complicated equations.
Mathcad allows engineers at GKN to provide hard-copy calculation sheets, as well as digital copy files that can be shared with customers. GKN's customers benefit from Mathcad digital files, because information can be transferred easily and calculations can be modified if needed.
The hard copy is critical in the aerospace industry as it forms a part of contract documents and in all cases it is inspected by a validation organisation, such as, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority. Once the analysis is complete, the second phase is to validate the calculation to make sure there are no errors. This involves complete recalculation to validate the original analysis.
Mathcad has also saved time on training programs. Graduates coming into the company bring the knowledge of how to use it with them, as Mathcad is used extensively in universities.
"We greatly benefit from the ease of formulating industry-standard stress analysis; the literal viewing of formulae; explicit unit management (which is especially useful when moving between projects, e.g., from a European SI-based system to a US Imperial-based system); the ability to vectorise calculations to encompass a range of different load cases; the ability to interface with other applications, such as MS Excel; and the capability to form simple iterative solutions to problems that previously were solved using cumbersome graphical methods. " - Australian Engineers, GKN Aerospace Engineering Services Pty Ltd.
All Mathcad licensing and support for GKN Aerospace Engineering Services Pty Ltd is handled by Hearne Scientific Software Pty Ltd.
About GKN Aerospace Engineering Services
GKN Aerospace Engineering Services (GKNAES) opened in Australia on 1st August 2001 to service the global demand for engineering services in the aerospace and defence industries. Headquartered in the aerospace precinct of Fisherman's Bend in Port Melbourne and with engineering offices in Sydney and Brisbane, the Australian operation has undergone strong growth since inception and total staffing now exceeds 220 people. GKNAES is part of GKN Aerospace, a global company with $2bn in annual revenue and over 7,500 employees. www.gknaerospace.com
New Mathcad version 14
14/02/2007
Mathcad 14.0 is now available in Australia and New Zealand. This new version extends integration with Pro/ENGINEER and Improves Calculation Power and Clarity.
Since PTC, the Product Development Company, acquired Mathsoft in April 2006, it has focused on making the broad capabilities of the Mathcad technology more widely available to customers operating across geographic boundaries. Mathcad 14.0 expands the ability of PTC’s customers to solve pressing engineering calculation needs and improves the associated documentation of these calculations throughout the product development process.
Mathcad 14.0 delivers improved calculation power and clarity through new worksheet analysis functions, inline numeric evaluation enhancements, and enhanced symbolics. This will help users to derive formulas, demonstrate process and document engineering reasoning. Specific enhancements to the Mathcad 14.0 mathematic solvers will allow users to solve and document a broader range of engineering design problems.
Engineering calculations are critical to the process of designing and developing products, which today is often a globally distributed process. With Mathcad 14.0, PTC now provides full Unicode support and will soon offer the product in nine languages. New languages will include Italian, Spanish, Korean, and both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Expanded language support in Mathcad 14.0 will enable geographically dispersed teams to solve and document calculations in their local language which ultimately improves efficiencies by increasing speed and accuracy as well as reducing potential errors that may occur from language translation.
“As a long-time user of Mathcad software, SkyCross is particularly pleased with the additional capabilities delivered with Mathcad 14.0,” said Dr. Chris Morton, CEO, SkyCross. “The additional language support and continued integration with Pro/ENGINEER will enable us to easily extend this software into our product design processes. We look forward to continue working with PTC as it delivers the technology we require to optimise our product development systems.”
Highlights of the enhancements in Mathcad 14.0 include:
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New ODE solvers including a state space solver and support for the Adams-Bashforth ODE method for more trouble-free, higher precision answers
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Improved calculation clarity by viewing definition and result in a single statement
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Enhanced plot formatting capabilities that include new tab to customise 2-D plot axes, support for negative radii on polar plots
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Enhanced documentation quality with a new math font to improve display of math expressions and operators
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Continued integration with Pro/ENGINEER
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Increased technical support with access to PTC’s global 24 x 7 technical phone support and online web tools for maintenance customers
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Support for nine languages that include English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese
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Full Unicode support enables usage of all multilingual characters including Asian, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek throughout the application
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The Extension Pack Series (Data Analysis Extension Pack, Image Processing Extension Pack, Wavelets Extension Pack, Signal Processing Extension Pack, Electrical Engineering Library) is now included free of charge with all Node-locked and Floating network licenses.
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Mathcad Solving and Optimisation Extension Pack is now part of Mathcad and no longer sold as an additional module
The integration between Mathcad and Pro/ENGINEER is a bi-directional link between the two applications. Users of these solutions can easily associate any Mathcad file with a Pro/ENGINEER part or assembly using the analysis feature in Pro/ENGINEER. Critical values calculated in Mathcad can be mapped to parameters and dimensions in the CAD model to drive the geometric design. Parameters from a Pro/ENGINEER model can also be input into Mathcad for downstream engineering design calculations. The integration offers dynamic updates to calculations and the CAD drawing when parameters are changed. Additionally, Mathcad-driven Pro/ENGINEER designs can now be validated using Pro/ENGINEER Mechanica structural, thermal, fatigue and mechanism analysis solutions.
“Mathcad 14.0 reinforces our commitment to develop products that enable organisations to optimise their product development processes,” said James Heppelmann, executive vice president and chief product officer, PTC. “With its multiple language support, additional engineering calculation capabilities and integration with Pro/ENGINEER, Mathcad 14.0 allows organisations with geographically dispersed engineers to leverage critical engineering calculations that drive product design models and standardise best practices.”
Mathcad Special Offer
15/09/2006
Purchase Mathcad 13.1 before September 30, 2006 and you will receive the Data Analysis Extension Pack and the Mathcad Add-on Collection FREE. Availability is limited while stock lasts.
You will receive in total no fewer than eight add-on products at no extra charge when you purchase one of the following Mathcad 13.1 licenses:
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Upgrade license from Mathcad 11 or 12
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Upgrade license from Mathcad 2000, 2001 or 2001i
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Single-user license
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Multi-user Mathcad network licenses (please contact us for a quote)
This special offer only applies to Commercial and Government licenses.
The Mathcad Add-on special includes:
Electronic Libraries
Extension Packs