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What's New in Maple Flow


Maple Flow is updated several times a year, as we continually improve the product and respond to customer requests. On this page, you will find details about the latest enhancements to Maple Flow, as well as information about earlier updates.


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You will receive an email from us whenever we release an update to Maple Flow that you are eligible for, which will provide you with detailed instructions. Point releases can also be found by visiting Download Product Updates.
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Maple Flow 2023


Maple Flow 2023.2

The Maple Flow 2023.2 update offers new formatting and annotation features, and enhancements to make it faster to manage units and perform calculations in your engineering worksheets.

  • Enhanced layouts with page settings and annotations. The new Drawing Canvas lets you freely insert lines, shapes, and annotations in your document, while new page setting options enable you to configure margins and page size for individual worksheets.
  • New options for handling of units. The Custom Unit feature allows units to be defined for specific projects, and you can now choose IPS (Inch-Pound-Second) as your global system of units.
  • Streamlined evaluation of calculations – by default. By popular request, the recently introduced evaluation method that uses = to immediately evaluate a math container is now the default method. Other options remain available.
  • Improved response when searching within documents. Maple Flow is now quicker at processing Find requests, and when zooming in and out.
  • Usability updates: Various enhancements make Maple Flow easier to use, including:
    • New shortcuts for navigating and selecting. Users can press Shift+Tab to cycle to a previous container, and can triple-click a typeset matrix or piecewise expression to select it all.
    • Quickly apply background color to text containers. You can now change the background color of multiple containers at once.
    • Easily denote text changes. The Strikethrough attribute is available for all fonts.
    • Retain the image aspect ratio when resizing. Adjusting an image using the corner handles keeps the image proportions consistent.

Available to: All Maple Flow 2023 users.

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Maple Flow 2023

The Maple Flow 2023 update offers many new usability features and productivity enhancements to make it even easier to create and manage your documents.

  • Standardize your document layouts. New settings for page-breaks and container alignment make it easier to create templates and professional looking worksheets.
  • Import data more easily. The Data Import Assistant offers a fast point-and-click method of selecting the data to import into your worksheet. 
  • Take control over units. Maple Flow 2023 lets you configure units inside your mathematics using the keyboard, and offers the following new options to reduce errors and save time:
    • You can set the SI or FPS systems of units as the document default and still change the units for specific results.
    • Maple Flow now applies automatic unit balancing to ensure manual changes stay consistent with your previously defined units.
  • Track your defined variables. The new Variables Palette shows a list of known variables and their values at any point in the document, for a quicker calculation review process.
  • Safeguard your worksheet. You can make a worksheet editable or non-editable to separate the authoring role from that of the intended users.
  • Improved performance when working with documents. The enhanced canvas responds faster when adjusting whitespace and performs calculations more quickly.

Available to: Maple Flow customers who were enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)


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Maple Flow 2022


Maple Flow 2022.2

The Maple Flow 2022.2 update offers new productivity features and interface enhancements to make it even easier to create and manage your documents.

  • A faster, more intuitive workflow for evaluating calculations. A new optional evaluation method uses = to immediately evaluate a math container, display the result, and recalculate dependent containers. This feature is in response to customers requesting a simpler way to access solutions with fewer keystrokes.
  • More responsive worksheets. Maple Flow prioritizes the evaluation of the math you see on screen, giving you faster calculation updates for the part of the worksheet you’re working on, with more math being evaluated as you scroll down.
  • Increased flexibility with Copy-Paste. You can now select multiple containers at once by creating a drag zone, add them separately to a selection, and also copy and paste part of an existing equation, making it quicker to reuse existing content.
  • New options for gridlines. Text and math containers can be set to automatically align to the grid for better looking layouts, and you can toggle the display and the printing of gridlines.
  • Improved appearance of plots. You can rotate the viewpoint of 3D plots to add clarity to your analysis, and the units on plots are clearer.
  • Additional document examples. The refreshed Application Gallery offers new worksheet templates across a variety of engineering disciplines.
  • Usability updates. Various enhancements make Maple Flow easier to use, including:
    • The Print Settings menu can be used to modify how sections look on the printed page
    • Adding and removing white space and expanding sections is now faster when working on large documents
    • Navigating and moving containers around zoomed-in worksheets is more streamlined

Available to: All Maple Flow 2022 users on Windows and MacOS.

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Maple Flow 2022.1

The Maple Flow 2022.1 update adds new features to give you more control over the appearance of your document.

  • Global control over number formatting.  You can specify if you want your results to be displayed using engineering, scientific, or fixed notation, and this option will be applied to all your documents.
  • Easier to add images to your document. Supporting images can be cut and pasted from another source directly into Maple Flow using standard clipboard operations.
  • Timestamp documents for tracking and record-keeping. A timestamp field can be added in the header or footer so that current date and time information is included when the worksheet is printed or exported to PDF.
  • More formatting options. You can now set borders around the header, footer, and page edges to improve the look of the document, especially when creating standardized templates.
  • Additional product help. New content in the help system makes it easier to get started with advanced features, including techniques for optimization and signal processing.

Available to: All Maple Flow 2022 users


Maple Flow 2022

Maple Flow 2022 offers a variety of productivity improvements that improve your workflow.

  • Improved product help. A new, integrated help system contains only the help pages you need, and displays them as Maple Flow documents. As a result, it’s now quicker and easier to find the answers you are looking for, and the information is easier to use since you can now copy and paste examples into your own document.
  • Simplified installation process. Maple Flow no longer requires a separate Maple installation in order to function, so you only need to install and activate a single product – Maple Flow.
  • More formatting options. You can now set background colors to draw attention to important results or groups of containers.
  • Enhanced performance. Documents are updated more quickly when you change a parameter.
  • Usability updates. Various interface enhancements make Maple Flow easier to use, including:
    • You can use Tab to cycle through placeholders of an expression template
    • Repositioning vectors, matrices and arrays on the canvas is smoother
    • After deleting an equals sign used for evaluation, the result now also disappears

Available to: Maple Flow customers who were enrolled in the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Plan at the time of its release. (Customers who were not under EMP at that time can contact Maplesoft sales to obtain an upgrade.)

Maple Flow 2021


Maple Flow 2021.2.1

This updates fixes a serious problem that some macOS users were experiencing with doubled characters appearing when using the shift key.

Available to: All Maple Flow 2021 users on macOS



Maple Flow 2021.2

The Maple Flow 2021.2 update offers a richer range of formatting features for creating professional-looking engineering documents.  

  • Categorize your content using sections. You can group and collapse areas of the canvas to simplify the look of your work. Sections can be titled, and the boundary of the section can be formatted to reflect the look you want.
  • Choose whether to display commands . You can align your formatting to your audience - when preparing for tech reviewers, set the command lines to be visible, and hide them for the finished print-ready document.
  • Greater control over when to apply calculation updates. Select how you want calculations to be evaluated when making a series of changes, by enabling or disabling Automatic Evaluation.
  • Draw and write text on images. You can customize images (such as title or headers blocks) with project-specific information.
  • An improved interface gives you faster response to computational parameter changes and edits you make.

Available to: All Maple Flow 2021 users



Maple Flow 2021.1

This update contains the following additions and improvements:

  • Printing/export to pdf
    • Define your page size (e.g. letter, A4 etc.) and margins
    • Define headers/footers for the printed page /export PDF
    • Display the page extents on the canvas
  • Style sets
    • Support for text/math styles
    • Switch styles with Maple-based style sets
  • Separate numeric/symbolic calculation modes
    • Additional “symbolic” evaluation mode that suppresses numeric evaluation as much as possible
    • Symbolic evaluation mode can be made “sticky” (i.e. all future math containers will be symbolic if sticky symbolic mode is set)
  • Japanese language support
  • Other interface enhancements and bug fixes

Available to: All Maple Flow 2021 users



Maple Flow 2021

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