Mathcad Express, free, forever

Mathcad Express gives users the ability to spend more time solving engineering problems and less time programming, documenting, reporting and verifying their solutions. Although it lacks the more powerful features of Mathcad Prime 2.0, such as advanced numeric functions, solving capability, Excel integration, 3D plotting, programming and symbolic, Mathcad Express is still a powerful analysis tool - and it is easy to learn and easy to use.

Mathcad Express includes the following capabilities.

• Create, edit, review and mark up Mathcad Prime documents - and convert and use files from older versions of Mathcad too
• Enter your equations in familiar maths notation, as you would write them on paper or a blackboard, and watch the results calculate automatically - and re-calculate whenever you change a variable
• Place equations, formulae, plots, text and images wherever you want on the page, automatically documenting your work as you go
• Perform a broad range of mathematical functions and operations, produce top-quality x-y plots, handle vector and matrix operators
• Never worry about unit-related errors - Mathcad Express seamlessly tracks units for you, maintains their integrity and accuracy and automatically identifies any inconsistencies

Users can expect to see in-product messages with information on selected features, training, tips and tricks and easy ways to purchase the full commercial product, along with specific "Mathcad Express" headers and watermarks on worksheets. A user who decides to upgrade to the full product will receive the full breadth of Mathcad capabilities and eliminate in-product advertising and watermarks.

Mathcad is supplied and supported in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and the Nordic countries by Adept Scientific. To find out more about Mathcad Express click here.