Mathcad

Perform, Document & Share Valuable Calculation & Design Work

Mathcad is designed to increase personal and organizational productivity - providing an easy-to-use whiteboard interface, instant recalculation, and an open architecture supporting .NET and native XML format. It combines a powerful computational engine, accessed through conventional math notation, with a full-featured word processor and graphing tools. Complete projects quickly with the help of expert documentation, sample applications and context-sensitive Help. Mathcad automates many tasks, including unit balancing and recalculation, saving you time and reducing errors.

How Mathcad Works
Mathcad lets you type equations as you're used to seeing them on a blackboard or in a reference book. There is no difficult syntax to learn; you simply type in your equations, then they display with the results. You can use Mathcad equations to solve just about any math problem you can think of, symbolically or numerically. You can place text anywhere on the worksheet to document your work. Mathcad lets you easily mix and convert between unit systems, catching unit mistakes by checking your worksheets for dimensional consistency. You can work in your preferred unit system, or switch to another system for a particular set of equations. Mathcad simplifies and streamlines documentation, critical to communicating and to meeting business and quality assurance standards. By combining equations, text, and graphics in a single worksheet, Mathcad makes it easy to keep track of the most complex calculations. By saving your worksheets in XML format, you can reuse the information in other text-based systems, or search and report on worksheets without needing to reopen them in Mathcad.

Highlights

• Calculate, model, and visualize your technical ideas while reducing errors
• Update interactive designs for instant results. Document your calculations using unit-aware math notation
• Graph and plot your work instantly with built-in 2D and 3D graphing tools
• Verify, visualize, and annotate your solutions for all engineering disciplines
• Store, track, and review technical information, data, and solution values
• Integrate your data across applications and systems
• Publish your results using a wide variety of output formats
• Reduce errors in your work with automatic unit checking
• Set your own default units and add your own unit types
• Automate your operations with templates and stylesheets
• Import and export data easily
• Annotate work for search and traceability of equations, results, units, and more

Benefits:
Easy to learn and use - no special programming skills required
Increases productivity, saving engineers time and reducing errors
Improves verification and validation of critical calculations
Promotes calculation best practices and reuse of calculation content
Complete documentation of calculations supports standards compliance