And yet, we recommend you give collaboration due thought as well. Let’s be honest: during the first 30 days, you’re probably more focused on hammering out some calculations than you are on collaboration.

This is great for collaboration and sharing-keeping important calculations from being modified or seen by those who don’t need to see them. Moreover, you can lock the display state of that area to prevent others from viewing the contents. Just right click within the area and select Protect Area. But what is only available with a license is the ability to protect those areas, so that what’s inside those areas cannot be edited or manipulated in any way. That’s available in PTC Mathcad Express after the trial. These areas can hold chunks of calculations or text or constants or function definitions or whatever, and then can be collapsed to tuck it away from view. If you’re relatively new to Mathcad, you might not think to use Collapsible Area in your first 30 days. It’s redundant to say what level of detail and correction this can add to your documentation. It could be a web page, an email address, or a file location. And with hyperlinks you can select a word or a group or words and assign a link to that selection. With spellcheck, you can check the spelling of text regions in your worksheet. With their aid, all the calculations that follow in the Mathcad worksheet can be easily reevaluated by selecting the desired option from the drop-down. You can see this functionality in the image above.Ĭontrol calculations with drop-down menus of variable definitions are quite useful when you need to rapidly change or select given values according to new measurements or checks. Chart component includes custom formatting, secondary Y-axes, and gridlines for example.

The chart component differs from basic 2D plots in the Plots tab in important ways.

To customize plots for better data representation, you can embed one or several chart components in your worksheet, and the improved charts will be saved as part of the Mathcad worksheet. Where to start? Here’s a list of some of the most important features to explore unavailable after the clock runs out. Calculations are as clear as if in a textbook. Image: Prevalence of hurricanes over time charted in PTC Mathcad with curve smoothing.

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