Mathcad prime 5.0 vs maple license#

PTC seems to see it as a work in progress as the website states that the results may look different to what you are used to and that for the next few versions of Prime (= next few years ?) you have the option to switch back to Mupad for the symbolic calculations.

Mathcad prime 5.0 vs maple license#

Obviously PTC does not like to pay license fees to MathWorks for that age-old version of MuPad in the long run (MuPad in MatLab is much newer and more powerful and flexible). Its also unclear if its a PTC development or a third party software. Haven't heard that PTC would work on that project. The real surprise about P6 is that there is a new symbolic engine. While in old Mathcad you could chose among a couple of different algorithms and could change some parameters there, there is no such option in Prime - if it doesn't come to a solution there is no way you can tune it. In some cases (there are some forum threads about it) they performs even worse. In actual work they proved not much advantage over the formerly used implemented algorithms. The highly praised numeric Knitro solvers from Artelys were implemented in Prime from the very beginning AFAIR. Both feature should be standard anyway and do not address the main points of criticism of Prime. It was already told in another thread that we can expect a spell checker and custom margins in P6 - the interesting thing is that PTC seems to find it even worthwhile to mention those 'features'. Not sure what exactly you mean by 'address a lot of the gripes'. The Knitro solver is mentioned, but I think that's something different. Is it home grown or licensed from someone. I'm curious what the new symbolic engine is. the e-store, the licensing, and the lack of any mention of classic mathcad are all concerning to me.Д«ased on all the forum posts, it looks like Prime 6 delivers a lot more than people expected. i tolerate prime express because i have to, not because i want to. that's basically all i'm looking for at this point. Like everyone here has said, we all have lots of old mathcad files and want to be able to open them. the best thing would be if they sold it to maple, in my opinion. it's just all us old timers hoping something good will happen. where as with the old mathsoft forum no one was complaining and people posted files for learning purposes. there is some help, but it's more like i have a problem help me. now it's just constant complaints about ptc. that's how i learned mathcad, by studying peoples files. I miss the old days when people posted files on the forum of mathsoft. i'd much rather have classic mathcad continue on. if ptc continued selling it, i wouldn't buy it. the only thing is they need to keep it basically the same and able to import old mathcad files.

I think it would be good if ptc sold classic mathcad to maple and had them develop it and sell it.

but at least it's not relying on maple or mathworks. i wonder if they will actually contribute their efforts back to the original open source software. but like you pointed out, it's a work in progress. trying to license things from competitors has got to be weird. I think it's good they found an open source symbolic engine to use. also did math with mathcad 15 because i have used classic mathcad for a long time and find it more comfortable. i did some actual math with it but nothing complicated. just overlaying math onto pictures for documentation. For what i did, mathcad prime express was fine.