Mathcad 2000 Professional (10-user)

by MathSoft Inc

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S7KQ
• Item model number: 10963
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Mathcad 2000 starts with what you need most--unmatched calculating power and speed. But now Mathcad takes you even further. Advanced visualization capabilities bring new dimension and clarity to your work. Professional documentation features enable you to format documents to the exact specifications you need. Collaboration tools, like instant Web access, make it easy to share your work with others. Built-in SmartSketch puts 2-D CAD (computer-aided design) capabilities right at your fingertips. And Mathcad's integration features enable you to work seamlessly with other applications for maximum flexibility.

Mathcad 2000 Professional, the foundation of the Mathcad family, provides advanced math functionality to help you specify and perform complex calculations. Extensive interoperability features enable you to streamline your work and integrate data from Microsoft Office, CAD, and other OLE- and ActiveX-compliant applications directly into your project workflow. Get powerful programming features and the ability to create your own functions using C and C++ for the extensibility you need.

Mathcad 2000 Professional offers an unmatched level of functionality and features for accurately solving and analyzing a broad array of technical problems, from the simple to the complex. Advanced math functionality and visualization capabilities allow you to perform the most demanding calculations and offer better insight to the problem at hand. Proprietary IntelliMath technology automates common routines for increased speed and productivity.

Mathcad allows you to integrate text, math, and graphics into a single worksheet, which makes it easy to visualize, illustrate, and annotate all your calculation work. Further, Mathcad's unique "live" interfaces automatically and immediately updates your results with minimal recalculation work. Mathcad makes it even more convenient, with easy-to-use equation entry and editing that uses standard mathematical notation (instead of command-line programming), plus automatic unit conversion. Mathcad also enables you to create accurate technical documents that adhere to internal and external business standards and that can be easily shared, communicated, integrated, and reused.

Mathcad 2000 Professional is the industry-standard calculation software package for technical professionals. Mathcad 2000 Professional provides an unmatched level of functionality and features that enable users to solve a broad range of technical problems. Because Mathcad has a familiar "scratchpad" interface and understands real math notation, it is easy to learn. By integrating text, equations, and graphics, it also simplifies and streamlines documentation of the design engineering process, which is critical for internal communication and for meeting internal and external business standards such as ISO 9000.

Designed to complement the Microsoft Office application suite, Mathcad 2000 Professional has become a standard design platform for technical and engineering design teams within the corporate environment. Mathcad 2000 Professional addresses the workgroup needs of engineers and scientists working on complex technical projects and lets them communicate and publish on the Internet or an intranet. Mathcad 2000 Professional enables users to share resources, integrate project components, and streamline work, insuring accuracy and increasing the productivity of the scientific and design engineering workplace.

From Winmag®

When I was a struggling physics graduate student, I would have given anything to have Mathcad. Long able to perform anything from the simplest arithmetic to the most demanding symbolic solutions of indefinite integrals or ordinary differential equations, the new Mathcad 2000 Professional version improves its publishing and graphing capabilities, enables project-level problem analysis, and reaches out to new audiences.

Mathcad lets you create text, mathematics, and technical drawings on the same worksheet. Mathcad's worksheet interface has always allowed you to simply type mathematics on a blank page and let Mathcad grind out simple answers, tables, or graphs. But it is clearly moving beyond that very capable scratchpad to support complete technical publication. In the past, you might do your calculations in Mathcad, then copy everything to a scientific word processor. That is no longer necessary. Mathcad itself now has real mathematical notation, text formatting, font choice, and alignment capabilities to produce output suitable for journal publication. You can even use pre-formatted templates to create output on your company's own forms. Since Mathcad has always allowed you to create graphs embedded within the worksheet itself, including graphs within your output is a snap. Anyone who has to prepare technical reports will find this very attractive.

Speaking of graphing, Mathcad now includes the highly-regarded Axum LE graphing program as a component. Axum allows extensive control over the appearance of graphs and charts. It also contains its own data analysis tools for curve-fitting, for example. This is a nice bonus, as I have sometimes found Mathcad's own graphs to be a little stubborn about doing what I want.

One new feature I found astonishing is the MathConnex project manager. Very often a technical problem has a solution that won't fit on one page, like the parts of a machine or a complex process. MathConnex lets you link together many Mathcad worksheets and other components, so that the result of one part feeds into another. This allows you to simulate the behavior of very complicated systems constructed of independent pieces. Presumably, different people could work on separate parts, and all the different parts would contribute to the whole system solution.

Mathcad is clearly making an effort to reach out to other audiences. Although I didn't try this, new connectivity to AutoCAD beefs up the "CAD" part of Mathcad. The program itself includes Intergraph's SmartSketch LE 2D CAD application as a component. You can also create ordinary MS Excel spreadsheets that incorporate Mathcad capabilities, while Mathcad can get inputs from Excel spreadsheets. In addition, a whole section on financial calculations will appeal to business users, as well as scientists paying off a mortgage.

One item I especially liked was Trace Error. You know how it is: you divide by zero somewhere, and everything that depends on that result goes blooey. With Trace Error, you can click on any problematic result and track that error back to its origin. It even gives you suggestions about what went wrong and how to fix it. That feature alone would have saved me a lot of "incorrect, but close" comments as a student.

Mathcad's great improvements throughout merit its replacement of Mathcad 8 Professional on our WinList.