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Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0
Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 Is Available for Installation
PTC Introduces PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0
PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 is the leading standard for solving, analyzing, documenting
and sharing engineering calculations. Take advantage of application updates like the new
redefinition warning functionality, partial derivative operator, and copy/paste multiple
values to the combo-box edit mode, usability enhancements with how you interact and
use worksheets, new standalone converter functionality to save your legacy worksheet in
HTML format, and many updates and enhancements to the new symbolic engine.
See PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 What's New for more information.
Using PTC Mathcad Express Prime 8.0.0.0
PTC Mathcad Express Prime 8.0.0.0 is a free version of the product with selected
features. After the installation of PTC Mathcad Express, you can explore the full
capabilities of the commercial product for 30 days. After that period, you can use only the
selected features indefinitely.
In PTC Mathcad Express, a watermark is displayed across the background of your
worksheet, and functionality not included in Express is locked from use. Click on any
locked functionality to view information on its benefits. There is an Upgrade button for
purchasing a full license if you wish. If you purchase the product, the watermark
disappears, and you have immediate access to all functionality.
PTC Mathcad Version Availability
As communicated last year, starting January 1, 2022, PTC ended distribution of PTC
Mathcad 15.0 and Mathcad Prime 1.0 to PTC Mathcad Prime 6.0.0.0 due to the loss of
rights to distribute a third-party component included in those versions. PTC Mathcad
Prime 8.0.0.0 license will activate PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 and PTC Mathcad Prime
7.0.0.0. For more information, please see the relevant pages on www.mathcad.com.

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Migrating from Earlier Releases of Mathcad
Users of PTC Mathcad 15.0 and earlier, see the PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 Migration
Guide. PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 has differences from PTC Mathcad 15.0 and does not
support all its capabilities. The Migration Guide provides information and procedures for
converting your worksheets to PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0. You can use the converter for
files in PTC Mathcad 15.0 and legacy files that can be opened by PTC Mathcad 15.0.
Installation
For the most up-to-date installation information, see the PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0
Installation and Administration Guide. In the PTC Installation Assistant, click Help or
browse for the guide on the Reference Documents page.
You can install PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 side-by-side with any previous version. For
installing PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 side-by-side with an earlier release of PTC
Mathcad Prime, the following limitations apply:
• PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 runs only on the 64-bit edition of Windows.
• You must install the products in an ascending order (PTC Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0 and
then PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, for example) to maintain the worksheet file
associativity with the latest release.
• If you have installed two releases, by default Mathcad files open with the latest
release. To open files in an earlier release, you must manually set file association. In
Windows Explorer, right-click a file, select Open with, and then click the desired
program from the shortcut menu.
• After you install PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, integration with Windchill Workgroup
Manager, PTC Pro/ENGINEER, Creo Elements/Pro, and Creo Parametric will no
longer work with earlier releases of the product.
• If you registered PTC Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0 or earlier with Windchill Workgroup
Manager, then you must repeat the registration with PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0. Use
the Application Management utility.
• If you have one or more releases of Mathcad installed on your computer, you can
remove one or all of them. You must uninstall them in descending order, and then
reinstall them in ascending order.
• After installing PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, you can use the PTC Mathcad Prime
8.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter. You can also use PTC Mathcad Prime 6.0.0.0 and

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 earlier Converter versions. Each Converter version creates an MCDX file matching its
application version.
• PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter and PTC Mathcad Prime
7.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter do not work side by side. On installation of PTC
Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter, PTC Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0 XMCD,
MCD Converter is uninstalled. When you uninstall PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, PTC
Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter appears in the PTC Mathcad Prime
7.0.0.0 Installation Wizard, but it does not work. To use PTC Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0
XMCD, MCD Converter, reinstall PTC Mathcad Prime 7.0.0.0.
• After installing PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, you can use both the latest License
Wizard and the one from a previous version, e.g. PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 License
Wizard and PTC Mathcad License Wizard.

Operating System Support

PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 runs on the 64-bit edition of Windows 10 and Windows 11.
For more details on which release versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, visit the
Platform Support page for PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0.
PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 or a later, Microsoft
certified compatible replacement version of .NET.
System Requirements and Hardware Certification Information
Visit the Platform Support page for PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 for updated system
requirements and certified hardware configurations.
Licensing
Full product licensing options include subscription-based floating and subscription-based
locked licenses. All licenses must be renewed based on their subscription period, with the
exception of existing perpetual licenses.
• A 30-day, full capability license can be used by any workstation on your network.
After the 30-day period, the product reverts to PTC Mathcad Express Prime 8.0.0.0
until a locked or floating license is configured.
• Floating licenses can be used by any workstation on your network.
• Locked licenses can only be used on specified workstations.

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 Note
For floating licenses, in addition to use of a single license server, PTC Mathcad Prime
8.0.0.0 supports the configuration of the triad license server.

For more information on licensing, see the PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 Installation and
Administration Guide.
Language Support
The PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 user interface and documentation are translated into
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, and Russian. During installation, the PTC Installation Assistant installs the
product based on the language and locale settings of your computer. In the Customize
Application tab, you can choose to install Help locally in any of the above languages. You
can change the Help path, including language specific folder, by opening PTC Mathcad
Options, selecting the Set the path for accessing Help at an alternate location checkbox,
and specifying the path to the alternate location.
To run the application in a language different from your operating system locale, such as
running German on a Belgian system, follow the steps below:
1. Click the Windows Start button to access the Run dialog box or the command line.
2. Get the path to the PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 executable: Right-click the Mathcad
Prime 8.0.0.0 icon on your desktop, select Properties, and copy the path that appears in
the Target box. See below for an example of a path:
C:/Program Files/PTC/Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0/MathcadPrime.exe
3. In the Run dialog box or at the command line, paste the path, including the quotation
marks, press SPACEBAR and type /culture:<Command Argument>. You can
find the Command Arguments for the languages in the table below. For example, to
run PTC Mathcad Prime in French, use the following command:
C:/Program Files/PTC/Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0/
MathcadPrime.exe" /culture:fr-FR
Language Command Argument
English en-US
French fr-FR

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Language Command Argument
German de-DE
Italian it-IT
Japanese ja-JP
Korean ko-KR
Russian ru-RU
Spanish es-ES
Simplified Chinese zh-CN
Traditional Chinese zh-TW
To view system messages in a language other than English, you must download and
install the .NET Framework language pack that matches the language you are using for
PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0.
Using Function Names and Keyboard Shortcuts in Supported Languages
For PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, function names remain in English for all languages.
Keyboard shortcuts for certain commands do not work on non-English keyboards in PTC
Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0. You can access those operators and commands from the ribbon.
You can access the list of all keyboard shortcuts from the Resources tab in the ribbon.

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Interoperability
PTC Product Interoperability with Mathcad Prime
8.0.0.0
Creo Parametric In addition to the existing Mathcad Prime
Analysis Feature integration, PTC Mathcad
Prime 8.0.0.0 includes the Engineering
Notebook, powered by PTC Mathcad. With
this functionality you can embed a Mathcad
worksheet directly within a Creo
Parametric part or assembly, and document
design intent or critical engineering
decisions within the model. Data can be
shared between the embedded Mathcad
worksheet and the model using the Creo
Parametric user interface and relations to
linked parameters. For embedded Mathcad
worksheets, click Assign Inputs or Assign
Outputs from the Integration group on the
Input/Output tab to designate parameters to
be shared with Creo Parametric. Refer to
the Creo Parametric Help Center for more
information.
Windchill Workgroup Manager (Windchill Work directly from Mathcad with these
PDMLink, Pro/INTRALINK, Windchill products. For example, you can check in
ProjectLink) and check out files to Windchill, and you
can open and save your Windchill files
from Mathcad. Refer to the Windchill Help
Center for more information.

Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 Help Center and User Guides

You can access the Help Center online in the language of your install system from within
the application by pressing F1 or by clicking the question mark icon on the right end of
the ribbon.
PTC Mathcad user guides can be found on the install media and via the Resources tab in
the application itself. Local copies of the 10 supported languages is installed via the
installation assistant.

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Mathcad Prime provides direct access to many resources from the Resources tab on the
ribbon.
To access PTC documentation from the Web, you must have a PTC account. If you do not
have a PTC account, you may create one here:
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/common/account/basic.jsp.
Firewall and Internet Issues
In few cases, PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 may access the Internet:
• PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 opens the online Help Center, located on a PTC web site,
in the user’s default web browser. If Help is installed locally, it will be accessed using
the local file path. You can set an alternate location in the PTC Mathcad Options
window.
• PTC Diagnostic Tools data reporting: PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 performance and
usage data is collected and transmitted to PTC servers via SSL. You can disable data
reporting when using PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 with a full license. When using
either the 30-day, full capability license or PTC Mathcad Express Prime 8.0.0.0 (no
license), this capability cannot be disabled.
Converting Files from Previous Versions of Mathcad
From PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0, you cannot directly open documents (mcd, xmcd,
xmcdz) created with PTC Mathcad 15.0 or earlier. You must convert them using the PTC
Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 XMCD, MCD Converter. Select XMCD, MCD Converter feature on
Customize Applications tab during installation.
Access the converter from the Input/Output tab or from the Windows Start menu. For
more information on file conversion, see the PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 Migration
Guide.
Compatibility between Versions of Mathcad Prime
PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0 can open worksheets last saved in Mathcad Prime 1.0, 2.0,
2.0 M010, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.0 M010, 5.0.0.0, 6.0.0.0, and 7.0.0.0.
However, Mathcad Prime 1.0, 2.0, 2.0 M010, 3.0 and 3.1, 4.0 and 4.0 M010, 5.0.0.0,
6.0.0.0, and 7.0.0.0 cannot open worksheets last saved in PTC Mathcad Prime 8.0.0.0.

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