I can find no way in Mathcad 15 to indicate the value associated with a particular contour in a contour plot. Numbering can be turned on but that often leads to an undecipherable mess, particularly for experimental data that contains a noise component. I can find no way to add a strip of the colours used in the plot along with the numeric equivalent of each colour.
This makes Mathcad contour plots unusable for technical publications. The Mathcad data has to be exported to a more versatile plotting program. I suppose this is no different than other Mathcad plots that have all been ruled unacceptable by any technical journal our group has published in.
There have been many requests over the years for Mathcad to improve its plotting functionality to avoid the time consuming step of exporting Mathcad data, but they have all gone unheeded. There was a brief period of hope when Mathsoft purchased Axum, but that only resulted in the demise of Axum, but no improvements to Mathcad plotting functions.
Is Prime any better than Mathcad 15 in its plotting ability.