With a variety of new tools supporting every stage of the application development process, Maple 13 makes it even easier to develop robust, reusable solutions for challenging engineering problems.

• The Maple Portal for Engineers provides a starting point for hundreds of common engineering calculations, including pointers to both interactive tools and commands. It also includes step-by-step tutorials that cover key topics in application development such as data structures and creating interactive applications.
• Context-sensitive menus for control systems development means that creation, manipulation, and visualization operations from the Dynamic Systems package can all be done with a click of a button.
• CAD Connectivity support, which provides analysis capabilities to CAD systems such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor, has been expanded to include NX®.
• Element-wise operations for applying functions to all members of a data structure provide a powerful and easy way to separate data structure operations from mathematical operations, simplifying application development.
• Vector Calculus Task Template enhancements provide new templates and improved notation support to make these notationally challenging problems easier to set up and the results easier to interpret.
• An Online Troubleshooting Guide for understanding and resolving coding problems helps you make corrections quickly. Hyperlinked messages lead to explanations and suggested solutions from Maplesoft and members of the Maple community.