Mathcad
Engineering Calculation Software
to Optimize Your Design and Engineering Process
Mathcad Software: The Global Standard for Engineering Calculations
Engineering excellence is paramount for a wide range of organizations in a multitude of industries, from aerospace to automotive to pharmaceuticals and beyond. In product design, “engineering excellence“ means creating the best design in the least amount of time. Engineering excellence ultimately speeds products to market, improves quality, and spurs relentless innovation–so you can outperform your competition. In your quest for engineering excellence, you’re already investing considerable sums in detailed design development and prototype testing. Yet, you could be missing the most essential ingredient in this important investment: engineering calculations, which can be provided by Mathcad
Engineering calculations are used to predict the behavior of designs early in the product development process, and those results often drive critical parameters and dimensions of the design. Calculations are the heart of your engineering information.
Mathcad is the first and only engineering calculation software solution that simultaneously solves and documents engineering calculations while dramatically reducing the risk of costly errors. Mathcad software lets engineers design, solve and document their work–in a comprehensible format–that they can share and reuse, thus improving verification and validation, publishing and collaboration throughout the entire development process. The result is faster product development, higher product quality, easier compliance with regulations, and seamless integration of Mathcad into existing engineering applications.
Mathcad: Where Engineering Excellence Begins
PTC’s Mathcad product family provides a far more efficient solution for solving and documenting engineering calculations than traditional methods. By integrating text, live math and graphics into a single environment, Mathcad provides a unique solution that:
Automates the Process
- Simultaneously solves and documents calculations
- Live calculations are in the document
- All equations, text, graphs and data are captured in the same worksheet
- Integrated numeric and symbolic math shows both the reasoning behind the design and the results
- Provides intelligent, automatic units management
- Produces repeatable and auditable engineering calculations–standard and proprietary–that can be easily iterated, shared and reused
Communicates Engineering Knowledge
- Calculations, expressed in standard math notation, can be easily read and understood by others
- XML format enables automated publishing in downstream documents
- Ensures traceability
- Clear documentation of all methods, equations and assumptions enables traceability between:
- Calculations and design geometry
- Design geometry and customer requirements
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