I had demo'ed Prime 2.0 earlier that year, but it didn't seem finished, hence the wait. After dealing with several freeze or crash episodes per day for about two weeks, I resolved to upgrade to Mathcad Prime as soon as Prime 3.0 was released (which was about 3 months after I finished the project calcs).

The tipping point was a project I did in 2013 for which I created about 100 pages worth of Mathcad calcs in documents ranging from 4 to 10 pages. It was slightly slower than it had been under 32-bit Windows Vista (on a slower computer, no less) and had a tendency to freeze or even crash the computer during a long session. I have used the file converter to successfully convert MC8 files to Prime 3.0 format.īTW, the main reason I upgraded is that MC8 was not very happy running under 64-bit Windows 7, even in compatibility mode. This is a good thing because you need MC15 to use the MC-to-Prime file converter.

This means that I also jumped to Mathcad 15.0 because MC15 is included free with Prime (it's a separate download, but it uses the same licensing file). I jumped from Mathcad 8.0 Standard (c.1998) to Mathcad Prime 3.0 a little over a year ago.

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