@charlie_fcl 

Both responses from @nm worked for me with some minor adjustment in Maple Flow.

I think the only things you need to change in your initial complexplot statement are:

1. reference the imaginary unit as 1i, not i

2. as @nm showed, call the plots package first before using the complexplot command

In Maple Flow, this is the output of your initital statement, with the above modifications (link to worksheet is at the bottom):

For you other question, evalc works and just use 1i instead of i for the imaginary unit.

See the attached Flow worksheet.

Complexplot.flow

I have recently made the switch. I have been a Mathcad user since 1996 and had been looking to transition to "something else" for a long time. I have had good experience with Maple Flow and am happy with the transition. The biggest advantage is that Maple Flow is modern software for one thing - I purchased my last copy of Mathcad 14 in 2009 and have used that since. This leads to a larger user community and just more avenues to share and get help than are available with legacy Mathcad versions. There are lots more formatting features for creating the kind of professional looking documents that you can find examples of in the Maple Flow application gallery. Another advantage is that the Maple programming language is available and from what I can tell so far, substantially works in Maple Flow for anything I have tried to do. I can already see possibilities for integrating workflow with other software tools that I use that either weren't possible with Mathcad or if they were, I never figured out how to do it. Finally, and probably most important, the Maple technical support is very good.

There really are no disadvantages. There is a learning curve, as there is with any software, especially with the syntax. Sometimes the difference between Maple and Maple Flow syntax can add a twist when the help files and other technical support documents available are written for Maple and you are trying to execute them in Maple Flow. But, those aren't really problems - just things that have to be learned.

The best way to learn is just to practice - try to convert an existing Mathcad document to Maple Flow and get up to speed in a methodical way like this.  Get the basic data entry down, then tackle units and creating any custom units that you might use. If you used the programming toolbar in Mathcad, then try to duplicate any programming structures you had in the Maple Flow code editor as that is a bit of a different approach. Then work on the plotting and format your document styles however you want. Those would be my suggestions. And by the way, I would give yourself plenty of time. It is going to be tough if you have to construct a complicated document to match an existing Mathcad worksheet if you are under pressure for a deliverable.

Good luck

@acer 

Thanks for the suggestion. I see from your example how to do this in Maple, but I don't see that this approach works in Maple Flow, which is what I am trying to do. I read in the Maple Flow manual that the typesetting package is not supported.

I am just trying to make sure that there was not some capability in Maple Flow that I was missing as it seems strange that the program does not automatically proportion the fonts in order to avoid the symbol overlap. I can live with typing conjugate() or just using an inline fraction \/ for the case when the conjugate is in the denominator and the bar symbol is desired.

Thanks for the suggestions. op(5,eval(timing)) works for what I am trying to do. I don't get any return values for print statements, but I don't think that is really a problem given that the above works. I just wanted to make sure that I was not missing something with Describe syntax in Maple Flow.

Appreciate the help.