Engineering software improves documentation
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Adept Scientific product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 16, 2007
Mathcad 14 expands the ability of users to solve pressing engineering calculation needs and improves the associated documentation of these calculations
Adept Scientific has released Mathcad 14, the latest release of the engineering calculation software from PTC.
Mathcad 14 expands the ability of users to solve pressing engineering calculation needs and improves the associated documentation of these calculations throughout the product development process.
Mathcad 14 delivers improved calculation power and clarity through new worksheet analysis functions (including the ability to visually compare worksheets), inline numeric evaluation enhancements and enhanced symbolics.
This will help users to derive formulae, and to demonstrate, process and document engineering reasoning.
Specific enhancements to the Mathcad 14 mathematical solvers will allow users to solve and document a broader range of engineering design problems, and generate higher precision results.
Significant enhancements have also been made to Mathcad's plot formatting, and a new maths font has been added to improve the display of mathematical expressions and operators.
Engineering calculations are critical to the process of designing and developing products, which today is often a globally distributed process.
Since its acquisition of Mathsoft in April 2006, PTC has focused on making the broad capabilities of the Mathcad technology more widely available to customers operating across geographic boundaries.
With Mathcad 14, PTC now provides full Unicode support and will soon offer the product in nine languages.
Italian, Spanish, Korean, and both Traditional and Simplified Chinese will be added to the languages already supported by Mathcad (English, French, German and Japanese).
Expanded language support in Mathcad 14 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.
A major strength of Mathcad is its ability to integrate with other software used by engineers, such as VisSim, Matlab, Excel and other Microsoft Office applications, and ODBC-compliant databases.
Now there's also a bidirectional link between Mathcad 14 and Pro/Engineer, PTC's engineering CAD solution.
Users 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 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 at PTC.
"With its multiple language support, additional engineering calculation capabilities and integration with Pro/Engineer, Mathcad 14 allows organisations with geographically dispersed engineers to leverage critical engineering calculations that drive product design models and standardise best practices".
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