Hi

I can use a MathCAD15 for 3 Month.
So I will use this time to convert all my mcd MathCAD2000 files to SMath.

Do anyone have an Idea how to do followong as a bach/macro Job:

Open mcd File in MathCad15
Create full-page pdf (best: one page)
Save as xmcd
Open this in SMath
Save as: sm

Would be also nice when they could stay in the original file structure...but no idea how about that...!

Found following programms, but never did something like this and have no idea:
RunCmd 160108
BatchRun
Makro 160108
AutoIt
MacroMaker

Cause of conversion problems I would save a proper pdf of the original.
Perhaps someone will say better do that via MathCAD2000 than in 15 about problems doing that - please let me know.

Every idea would be nice!
Thanks a lot for feedback!

Reselty

Edited by moderator 03 May 2016 21:39:27(UTC)  | Reason: title updated

Thank you first - i'll try it !!!
Never wrote a batch - but think will mean:
-write in notepad and save as *.bat?
-only this small changing?:
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@echo off
for %%a in ("C:\examples\*" do call:convert %%a
exit/b

:convert
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\SMath Studio\SMathStudio_Desktop.exe" -silent -e .sm %*
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And yes, I hope someone else will answer for the mcd to xmcd convertion too..
Thanks again
Reselty

If you own Mathcad 2000, you have the CD. If you can use Mathcad 15 for 3 months
you don't have the CD, just a downloaded version. If you install 15, you may not be
ble to re-install 2000. If I would be you, I would purchase a new PC to run 15.
The warflame started between PTC and myself at PTC Mathcad 14 [no more a Mathsoft
product anymore], my Mathcad work sheets 11.2a crashed PTC at their head office,
or could not read.
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From: Zeftel, Mona [.......@ptc.com]
Sent: February 16, 2009 3:36 PM
To: jm giraud
Subject: RE: MATHCAD for Engineers_Fit methods

Hello Jean,

I’ve been swamped with other responsibilities, but am finally working on posting files to the online Mathcad Resource Center. Unfortunately, this file crashed my Mathcad 11 when I tried to open it twice, so I was unable to even view it in Mathcad 11. I am able to view it in Mathcad 14, and 90% of it works in Mathcad 14.

Some of the input files are missing.

I suggest you break it up into smaller files for posting in the Mathcad Resource Center, covering smaller topics. Some of the topics need more explanation as well, so it is clearer for other users, what you are doing.

I’ll be glad to post the shorter topics with some description when you resubmit them.

Thanks so much,
 
Mona
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It would be wise working wisely. Plug your backup 2000 work sheets in 15. Read each one,
one by one top to bottom if they all go. If that step is successful, try a typical Mathcad work sheet that has cspline and from all the guidance you may have in this forum, read back in Smath ... it won't work. Smath cspline is a local interpolation, Mathcad is a scalar algorithm . Smath is not going to implement the missing code. From that same Mathcad work sheet, take the derivative of the cspline : it works, but not in Smath. Smath drivative is stricly "symbolic", it is not a numerical scalar derivative algorithm. Smath is not going to invent the missing code.

Next, Mathcad 15 is symbolic MuPad, Smath is Maple.

If you think Smath can reverse Engineer Mathcad/Mathsoft 2000 via transit PTC Mathcad 15: answer is surely NO. Make another test: you surely have a Mathcad 2000 work sheet using
"Minerr", Smath won't take. What made Mathcad/Mathsoft so powerful was their coding, protected by their own Patents and Patents of their subcontracts.

You may be condamned doing like I do, recode Mathcad 2000 manually as far as Smath can digest. Me is recoding Mathcad 11.2a ... 11.2a reads all Mathcad 2000 [very few little things in different presentation].

... here is a simple test: visit "Samples" Model Depopulation.
It contains a minimal example of "Minerr", that you can make
work in your Mathcad 15. Read back in Smath and let us know
if it works by changing a bit of the initial a,b,c,d

It looks like I could use following:
Mathcads automation interface
for the "save as" process.
"Right now Mathcad's automation interface is rather limited...supporting only SetComplex, GetComplex, Recalculate, and SaveAs methods"

What also would be nice:
to let the files in the filestructure (find mcd's in structure and act on them)
and
place the html and xmcd in the same folder (save in samer folder than original)

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Don't take my comment badly, I'm just 1/1 think/write.

1. Mathcad*.PDF and anything your keyboard puts on the screen [Smath as well....]
are just print on paper, dead like a stone. *.PDF are printing paper left in the
hard drive from the command "Print to file" then select the PDF creator, give file
name then open from a PDF reader.

2. Mathcad, Smath, Mathematica are direct equation editors. Maple is a "code to
equation edit/viewer". But only Smath, Mathcad have visual program construction editor.

3. There is no point having Mathcad /Smath compatibilty for (π/4)*D^2

4. Smath is not a "reverse Engineer" version of Mathcad .

5. That some very little Mathcad stuff can be put in some form of script [VB ...]
and that Smath would read back: maybe, but what for ? if you have created nothing
by yourself in Mathcad.

6. I don't understand your "batch convert" if there is nothing to convert.

7. In my Mathcad time [Mathcad 11] one of the gurus wrote a "Microsoft Component"
script to collect the entire Mathcad work sheets folder, then display back in a
Mathcad style extensible data table and open any particular work sheet. Very handy
for personnal use .

8. I don't understand your "batch save Mathcad 15" . You can create your own web site
"Google Sites" for $0.00, and upload as many Mathcad 15 files up to 100 MB per web page and upload all of them [1000's] up to the base limit of 10 GB Google Drive.
My Mathcad 11 web site uploads 663 work sheets in about 1 hr. Opening them as qucik as you can click takes about one full day.

In short, the magic button that will put Mathcad 15 stuff in Smath sheet is to me:
a Urban Myth. Don't you feel challenging to create in Smath ?

Cheers, Jean

Dear Mr. Giraud

1. That’s all I want - I dead copy of that what I wrote in the time I was working on them - I think you would also be able to have a possibility to see your pictures made in 2000 in 20 years - or not...

And I rather would have a pdf as one page than in several pages, especially when they are wider than a page. And rather than in html, when html is not in one file.
But for now html gives me one "sheet" view as in the original...


2. Thank you for information

3,4,5+6. Even when the calculation in SMath fails, a lot of defining of variables and writing of formulas is done.
And für comparing results, after making SM to work, I can compare with copies of original in pdf/html, even when there is now more MathCAD access...
For what I saw in my tests it was only the definition of how to take numbers out excel files and showing the graphs..

7. Not sure if I understood right what means " display back in a
Mathcad style extensible data table"
But please only feedback on this when it does help on my ordinary question

8. Do not understand it.
Wishes:
1: changing from MathCAD to SMath
1: possibility to save an image of what I did once in a always readable form
3: taking out the most of offered conversion possibilities SM offers as possible,
(could also do this job in future, when needed, with the hope that than SM does this job even better) But then perhaps SM serves mcdx and not anymore xmcd. Easier to have than already a bunch of batched files already.

I like a lot the feeling to write formulas in SMath - it is intuitive and simple like I like.
To the challenging points I didn’t get yet, but it looked to me as it will fulfill my needs. Even that today I have to calculate less and simulate more, so that a lot of what I calculated the traditional way can be simulated today. Not worth anymore to pay what PTC would like to have paid. The Prime way I do not start to go!
Best regards

Jean

I apologize in advance for my question , probably is off-topic but where are now located all the files that were available in the MathCad Collab Site organized in different sections . Some of them were very interesting ...has been trow away everything or they still exist somewhere...even if there is always the problem on how to visualize them .

Best regards

Franco

Thanks a lot for the interesting inputs .
I thought I could try something as well.

especially the inputs from kilele I would have checked.
I also followed a similar path, via AutoIt...

Befor Thuesday I can't act on it - hmmm...