How Maple Flow Compares to Mathcad® - Maplesoft

How Maple Flow
Compares to Mathcad®

Maple Flow provides a refreshing alternative to Mathcad when creating and developing your engineering calculations and project reports.

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Powerful, connected calculations in a free-form interface. Develop and share documents while preserving the content in your critical design worksheets.
Here are the 4 strengths that Maple Flow brings to your engineering team:
Calculations & Analysis
Perform complex unit-aware calculations accurately and efficiently.
Key Benefits
  • Our math engine supports broader and deeper applications and has more computational power.
  • Visualizations and plots are easy to create and manage.
  • Engineering-focused packages to address specialty needs (Signal Processing, Thermophysical Data, Dynamic Systems).
  • Units are tracked alongside variables and can be updated without the risk of conversion errors.
  • Look up engineering formulas using an AI-powered assistant.
Documentation & Reporting
Combine live mathematical calculations with text, plots, and images within a single WYSIWYG worksheet.
Key Benefits
  • Maple Flow gives users confidence in layouts – knowing formatting and hyperlinks are preserved when exporting to PDF.
  • Innovative features that help navigating around the document such as an auto-generated Table of Contents.
  • Easy sharing of analysis and results in clear, professional reports and documentation, ready for a wider audience.
Connectivity & Deployment
Smooth integration with your engineering data toolchain and flexible licensing to fit how your team likes to work.
Key Benefits
  • Worksheets can be deployed as web and desktop applications to expand the usability and reach of your critical analysis.
  • Maple Flow provides easy steps for code generation (C, C#, Java, VBScript, Python, MATLAB, etc),and automating repeatable tasks.
  • Parameterize your worksheet to call it as a function through Excel, via API (via Maple OpenAPI), other Maple Flow docs, and more.
  • The Maple Flow Add-in for Excel allows formulas in Excel to draw from Flow worksheets, and use Excel's tools for parameter sweeps, analysis and optimization.
Cut The Pain of Migration
Maximize the value of your investment and lean on the experience of Maplesoft to ensure your document migration is easy and painless.
Key Benefits
  • We have experience with enterprise customer deployment across diverse teams and large volume migrations.
  • Low effort automated Migration Assistant unlocks content from your Mathcad worksheets for use with ongoing projects.
  • Save time and effort with fully tailored migration plan for more complex worksheets that can include QA steps.
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Unique Features offered ONLY by Maple Flow
Maple Flow 2025 and Mathcad Prime 11 both have their own unique design principles and features. Here we highlight features in Maple Flow that are not provided by other comparable tools.

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