Field Precision unveils 3D magnet simulator

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 12, 2009

Field Precision has released Magnum, for 3D simulations of electromagnets and permanent magnet assemblies.

The program can be applied to a wide range of areas, including the design of industrial and laboratory magnets, particle-beam optics, electric motors and magnetic shielding.

Magnum consistently outperforms software costing two to four times as much.

The integrated Magnum package includes a graphical solid geometry editor, an automatic conformal mesh generator, a finite element system package and an interactive post-processor.

A textbook-quality instruction manual and a library of worked application examples are also supplied.

Package features include: direct import of complex parts from Solidworks and other 3D CAD programs; representation of self-consistent saturation effects in any soft magnetic material; Magwinder interactive graphical utility to build complex drive coils; Magview post-processor capabilities, including high-quality 2D and 3D plots, interactive point-and-scan calculations, and automatic force and energy integrals; high degree of transparency with well-documented data formats; programs may be initiated from the command prompt, making it easy to create user control loops with Perl or other scripting languages; output file porting directly to the Field Precision Omnitrak and Gambet programs, to find electron trajectories in vacuum or materials; 32- or 64-bit solvers with dynamic memory allocation for huge meshes.