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MapleFlow documentation and tech support

rquirt — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:26:42 Z

I'm new to MapleFlow, and I have a few questions about MapleFlow help.

I read the recent post about the release of MapleFlow 2025.2, and it mentions some new functionality and bug fixes. Is there a "What's new in MaplleFlow 2025.2" section in a help file, online or offline, that lists the new features and bug fixes?
I can find Online Help for Maple, MapleSim and MapleSim Toolboxes, but I can't find a section for MapleFlow. I realize that MapleFlow and Maple share a lot of functionality, so the Maple section covers the functions, but there are MapleFlow-specific features that don't seem to have their own section in the Online help.
The offline MapleFlow help seems rather dated and limited. When was the last time any updates were made? Are there plans to continue to improve the offline MapleFlow help?
I have a few tech support questions in, and I have received some feedback, but at least one has been sent to the Math group for review, and it's been about a week, and I've heard nothing. Is there somewhere we can check the status of our tech support issues?

Thanks

Inconsistency between StepProperties and ResponsePlot

rquirt — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:45:38 Z

I have attached a MapleFlow file that shows a result I don't quite understand. For some reason the FinalValue result that I get using the DynamicSystems:-StepProperties is different than the steady state value from a DynamicSystems:-ResponsePlot to a unit step using a DifferentialEquation object.

You will notice that I played around a bit, including transforming the DiffEquation object to a TransferFunction object, to see if I could make sense of it. All of the results are the same as the StepProperties result, it appears that only the ResponsePlot for the DifferentialEquation object is different.

Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone have any ideas?

Dynamic_Systems_Final_Value.flow

Announcing Maple Flow 2025.2

Samir Khan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:33:54 Z

We've reached quite a rhythm with Maple Flow - we update frequently, we add lots of improvements and we move fast.

What does this mean for you? It means that the feedback loop between development, the user experience and course correction has a fast time constant.

Without you being loud and vociferous, the feedback loop breaks. So don't be shy - tell us what you want!.

The new 2025.2 update builds on the theme of connectivity with two popular tools - Excel and Python. On top of that, we also have many other features and fixes that you've asked for.

Paste Data From Excel

Earlier versions of Maple Flow let you

import and and export Excel data from Excel spreadsheets
run Maple Flow worksheets in Excel with a mouse-driven UI to generate the communication glue

With the 2025.2 update, you can now copy and paste data from Excel into a Flow worksheet.

To be blunt, this is type of cross-application copy-paste behaviour is a no-brainer. It's such a natural workflow.

Run Worksheets from Python

We've increasignly found that Python is now being used to script the interaction and data flow between different engineering tools. With Maple Flow 2025.2, you can now execute Maple Flow worksheets from a Python script.

From Python, you can change and export any parameters and results defined in the worksheet

Run a Worksheet in Parallel for Parameter Sweeps

This gives me the dopamine hit of watching CPU utilization spike in the Task Manager (hey..I get my kicks where I can)

You can now do your parameter sweeps more quickly by executing the same worksheet in parallel, changing parameters for every run.

This is easy to set up - no special programming is needed.

There's more!

Print Extents can now be set globally for all sessions, or just for the current session.
Any user-installed fonts used in the worksheet are now respected in the PDF export
Worksheets execute faster
The update includes fixes to many user-reported issues

You can install the Flow 2025.2 update via Help > Check for Updates (or if you're not already in the race, then grab a trial here and take Flow for a spin).

We're not pulling back on this aggresive development velocity, but we need you to point us in the right direction. Let's keep the feedback time constant small!

Optimization and bounds on the variables

rquirt — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:26:59 Z

I'm doing some experimenting with the Optimization:-Maximize and Minimize functions, and I'm having difficulties getting them to find the actual extrema within a set of bounds. I have found that the extrema they identify depend on the bounds, even when the same extrema lie within those bounds. I've also tried the initialpoint option to start the solution near the extrema and I've found three things: sometimes it works to get the correct solution, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes I get a message saying the initial point was ignored by the solver.

The problems I'm using are all taken from the Maple help or tutorials.

I haven't included a bunch of test cases but I've attached the Maple Flow file. I have a suspicion it has to do with the second derivatives of the functions near the boundaries, but I'm not sure.

Can anyone point me to more information, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Optimization_Local_Max_and_Min.flow

Temperature conversion?

SMaton — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:37:26 Z

Hello everyone,

I'm currently evaluating MapleFlow and the transition from MathCad sheets to this software.

I was looking at temperature conversions and this seems to be wrong:

I was expecting 0°C after the conversion. Has someone an explanation for this?

Thanks for your help.

Migrating Mathcad 15 files.

Marco Venturini — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:34:36 Z

I downloaded the Maple free trial but could not find the Migration Assistant. What to do?