Mathcad helps you to do your calculations, present your work, share your worksheets with colleagues and generally provides a user-friendly environment for people that have to do calculations and document them.

Mathcad allows you to integrate text, maths, and graphics into a single worksheet so you can visualise, illustrate and annotate all of your calculation work. Like a spreadsheet, Mathcad  automatically and immediately updates your results. Mathcad has convenient, easy-to-use equation entry and editing that uses standard mathematical notation. You can even use dimensional units, which Mathcad checks for consistency and converts as needed.

Mathcad offers an unmatched level of functionality and features for accurately solving and analysing a broad array of technical problems, from the simple to the complex. Advanced maths functionality and visualisation capabilities allow you to perform the most demanding calculations and offer better insight to the problem at hand.

Create a reference document to define standard equations and constants, such as strength of materials, and refer all other documents to it.

See the slide show link above for a PowerPoint show that will give you a brief introduction to the user interface.

Why Use Mathcad?

Whether you are a technical professional, manager or lecturer, Mathcad will increase productivity with the following benefits:

One Environment - Save time and costly errors because you can calculate and present your work in one environment. This is opposed to the traditional technique of transcribing calculations from paper to spreadsheets and programming languages, then back to a word processor.

Readability - Mathcad work sheets improve communication and save time because they are easy to read and check by other people. Calculations appear as you would write them, unlike spreadsheets and programming languages where it is difficult find and check formulas.

Reuse - Save time by reusing existing Mathcad worksheets, just change the parameters to complete your next job.

Reduce Risk - Mathcad helps you to reduce mistakes. Any changes to your calculations are updated instantly. Documents are also easy to read and understand this makes the checking/ audit process very fast. This is opposed to the frustration caused by checking spread sheet calculations. More time gives you the oportunity to optimise and experiment with your design.

Collaboration - Since Mathcad documents are easy to read,  it is easy to share, check and reuse calculations around the work place. This improves communication and saves time.

Standardisation - Mathcad can save time and costly mistakes by being an environment that creates consistent set of calculations, notation and constants that your company can follow and trust.

Conserve Intellectual Property - Mathcad helps you to conserve costly intellectual resources. New staff can instantly read and understand the calculations of their predecessor.