PTC Mathcad Prime 11 is expected to be available for download for new and existing customers, as well as via the free 30-day trial, in the first half of April 2025. Mathcad Prime 11 continues PTC’s work on improving the math engines, enhancing the performance of existing features, and adding entirely new functionality. Keep reading for a preview of what you can expect when you install Mathcad Prime 11.
Manual Calculation Mode: You will be able to choose when and how to calculate your Mathcad worksheets. Before Mathcad Prime 11, you could only recalculate your entire worksheet whenever you had a new change, but with the new Calculate Now option, you can update only relevant regions up to the page currently in view.
Custom Unit Systems: You can create your own unit systems, alongside the built-in SI, USCS, and CGS systems, providing you with increased flexibility and control over the default units that display in your worksheet.
Result Threshold Formatting: You have the option to set thresholds for exponential, complex, and zero results.
Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Support: You can now perform calculations and format results in these number systems, in addition to the decimal system. There is also a menu option to select the default format for displaying results.
Region Borders: You may toggle borders on or off for regions in the worksheet. These can be displayed for individual regions or with multiple regions selected.
Python for Advanced Controls: Use Python scripting for advanced controls, in addition to the VBScript and JScript languages that were available when advanced controls were first introduced in Mathcad Prime 10.
New decomp Keyword: Use decomp to decompose large symbolic expressions for easier analysis.
Symbolic Calculation Improvements: You should see improved performance for symbolic calculations, including the simplify keyword and calculus operators.
New vec() and IsRange() Functions: The vec() function creates a simple vector with start, step, and stop values, or by converting an existing range variable to a vector. IsRange() is a new data type identification type function, determining if an expression is of a range data type, returning a 1 if it is a range, and 0 otherwise.
Solve Block Improvements: The solve block has been enhanced, providing you with superior support for scaling objective functions and constraints, in addition to expanding the role of your worksheet’s CTOL settings during calculations.
Plot Processing Improvements: 2D plots now have faster display times. This encompasses native XY plots, contour plots, polar plots, and Chart Components.
Simplified Insert Image: Streamline insertion of images into the worksheet. Instead of an empty Browse for Image… button region appearing, Mathcad Prime 11 will now immediately search your file browser system when clicking Insert Image.
Radio Button Selected by Default: The Radio Button Advanced Control now has a preselected choice for improved clarity. You can manage this with the SetSelectedButton State Property in the script. If placed in the Start event and if you have the option to run scripts on worksheet recalculate enabled, the Radio Button will default to this selection when the worksheet is recalculated.
Slider Invert and Min/Max Properties: There are new options to invert slider points, as well as to display the minimum and maximum values on the slider control itself.
Page Number Format: There are new page number formats for headers and footers. These formats do not contain text.
Convert Password-Protected Areas: You can now convert legacy PTC Mathcad worksheets, such as those saved in Mathcad 15, that contained collapsed password-protected areas. Those areas will remain password-protected with the same passwords they originally had.
After Mathcad Prime 11 is released, we will hold a webinar featuring Mathcad product manager Andrew McGough demoing the new capabilities in finished form, as well as an interview blog where you can read his thoughts. In addition, we’ll be publishing videos going over each of these 16 items, and where necessary, we’ll be publishing content going into even further depth for these topics (such as with the addition to Python for advanced controls). After the launch, feel free to let me know on PTC Community where you would like to see additional focus. We’re excited about how the new and updated features will enable our customers to have even better success solving, analyzing, documenting, and sharing their calculations than ever before!
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