Table of Contents1. Welcome to Maxwell Online HelpUser Interface Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1Modeling Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2Boundaries/Excitations Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2Meshing Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3Analysis Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3Optimetrics Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4Results Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4Scripting Quick Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

2. Getting Started with Maxwell and RMxprtSystem Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Additional Windows Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2Increasing RAM on a 32-Bit PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3Contents-1

Network Installations on Windows for Non-graphical batch solves without product-links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4Additional Linux Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5Setting Up a Printer on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

The Maxwell Desktop UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8Working with the Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9Working with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

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Moving and Resizing Desktop Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10Working with the Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Customizing Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Customize Toolbar Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13ents-2

External User Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13Working with the Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Shortcut Menu in the Toolbars Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Shortcut Menu in the Modeler Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Shortcut Menus in the Project Manager Window . . . . . . 2-15

General Purpose Keyboard Shortcuts for Maxwell . . . . . . 2-16Custom Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17Working with the Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19Exiting the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19Working with the Project Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

Working with the Project Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Viewing Maxwell Design Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

Viewing Material Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Working with the Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22Opening the Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

Showing and Hiding the Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

Setting the Properties Window to Open Automatically . . 2-23

Modifying Object Attributes Using the Properties Window 2-24

Modifying Object Command Properties Using the Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Working with the Progress Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25Stopping or Aborting Simulation Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Viewing Distributed Analysis Subtasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Working with the Message Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25Setting the Message Manager to Open Automatically . . 2-26

Clearing Messages for the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

Clearing Messages for the Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

Copying Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

Working with the Modeler Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

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Working with the History Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29Expand or Collapse Groupings in the History Tree . . . . . 2-30

History tree Grouping by Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

History of Commands on Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31Contents-3

Selecting Objects in the History Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

Shortcut Menus in the History Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

View Item Properties in the History Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

View and Edit Commands on History Tree Objects . . . . 2-33

Controlling the View of Objects in the History Tree . . . . . 2-34

Upgrade Version in History Tree Shortcut Menu . . . . . . . 2-34

Keyboard Shortcuts for the 3D Modeler Window . . . . . . . 2-35Running Maxwell From a Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36

For -batchoptions Use: Project Directory and Lib Paths . . 2-42For -batchoptions Use: TempDirectory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43For -batchoptions Use: Various Desktop Settings . . . . . . 2-44For -batchoptions Use: Maxwell2D and Maxwell 3D Options with Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45

Running from a Windows Remote Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47Windows HPC Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48Getting Started Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49

A 3D Rotational Actuator Magnetostatic Problem with Paramet-rics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50A 3D Transient Rotational Actuator Problem with Motion 2-50A 2D Magnetostatic Solenoid Problem with Parametrics . 2-51

Copyright and Trademark Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52Third-Party License Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52

3. Getting HelpHelp Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2Conventions Used in the Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3Searching in Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4Using WebUpdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5Obtaining Information About the Software and Version . . 3-6Emailing a Help Page URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

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4. Working with Maxwell Projects and DesignsMaxwell Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2Creating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3Creating New 2D Designs from 3D Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4ents-4

Converting a 3D Model to 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4Creating New 3D Designs from 2D Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Converting 2D XY Model to 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5Converting 2D RZ Model to 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Opening Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7Opening Example Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8Opening Recent Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8Opening Legacy Maxwell Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Translating Legacy Maxwell Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Saving Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11Saving a New Maxwell Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11Saving the Active Maxwell Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12Saving a Copy of a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12Save a Project as a Technology File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12Renaming a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13Saving Project Data Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Save Before Solve Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

Recovering Project Data in an Auto-Save File . . . . . . . . 4-14

Saving a Project From a Previous Version . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15Closing a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16Deleting Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17Exiting Maxwell and RMxprt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18Undoing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19Redoing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20Removing Unused Components from a Project . . . . . . . . 4-21Updating Design Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22Managing Projects and Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Copy and Paste a Project or Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23Rename a Project or Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

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Delete a Project or Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24Validating Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25

Modeler Validation Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25Exporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27Contents-5

Exporting Ansoft 2D Modeler Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27Exporting 2D AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format Files 4-27Exporting 3D Model Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28Exporting Graphics Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29Exporting Data Table Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30

Importing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31Importing 2D Model Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31Importing GDSII Format Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-32Importing 3D Model Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34Importing DXF and DWG Format Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36Importing Solution Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39Importing Data Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39

Inserting a Documentation File into a Project . . . . . . . . . . 4-41Importing and Converting Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42Importing a Model from the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-43Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-44Previewing the Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-45Changing the Page Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-46Saving Design Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-47Using the Password Manager to Control Access to Resources 4-49

Specifying a New Password Protected Resource . . . . . . 4-49Encrypting a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-49

Setting Options in Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50Setting General Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50

General Options: Project Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50

General Options: Miscellaneous Options Tab . . . . . . . . . 4-51

General Options: Default Units Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-53

General Options: Analysis Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-53

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General Options: WebUpdate Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56

General Options in Maxwell 2D/3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56Solver Options in Maxwell 2D/3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56Setting Maxwell 3D Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56ents-6

Maxwell 3D Options: General Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56

Maxwell 3D Options: Solver Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-57

Report Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-59Setting Maxwell 2D Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-60

Maxwell 2D Options: General Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . 4-60

Maxwell 2D Options: Solver Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-61

Setting RMxprt Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-62RMxprt Options: General Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-63

RMxprt Options: Solver Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64

RMxprt Options: Export Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64

Setting Report2D Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64Report 2D Options: Curve Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-65

Report2D Options: Axis Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-65

Report2D Options: Grid Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-65

Report2D Options: Header Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66

Report2D Options: Note Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66

Report2D Options: Legend Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66

Report2D Options: Marker tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-67

Report2D Options: Marker Table Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-67

Report2D Options: General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-68

Report2D Options: Table Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-68

Setting Modeler Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-69Modeler Options: Operation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-69

Modeler Options: Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-70

Modeler Options: Drawing Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72

Setting Machine Options in Maxwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72Setting Fields Reporter Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72Exporting Options Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-73

Setting Options via Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74

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Setting or Removing Option Values in Configuration Files: Up-dateRegistry Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-77Example Uses for Export Options Features . . . . . . . . . . . 4-79

Example for Setting an Installation Default Value . . . . . . 4-80Contents-7

Example for Setting a Host Dependent Default Value . . 4-80

Example for Reverting from a User Defined Option Value to the Administrator Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-80

User Options and the Update Registry Tool . . . . . . . . . . . 4-81Example of Removing a Host Dependent User Option Setting 4-82

Example Adding a Host Independent User Option Setting 4-82

Setting the Temporary Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-82

Example Temporary Directory Configuration File Format 4-83

Setting the Temporary Directory Using the GUI . . . . . . . 4-85

Setting the Temporary Directory From the Command Line 4-85

Batchoptions Command Line Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-85Example -BatchOptions with -Remote (Windows) . . . . . . 4-86

Example -Batchsolve with -Machinelist (Windows) . . . . . 4-86

Example -Batchsolve with -Machinelist (Linux) . . . . . . . . 4-87

Example -Batchsolve for Local (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . 4-88

Working with Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-91Adding a Project Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-91Deleting Project Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-93Adding a Design Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-93Add Array of Values for a Design Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-95Editing a Design Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-97Deleting Design Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-98Adding Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-98Datasets Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-100

Dataset Preview Plot Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-100

Importing Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-101Editing Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-

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101Cloning Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-102Exporting Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-ents-8

102Removing Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-103Using SheetScan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-103

SheetScan Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-104

SheetScan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-104

The Curve Values Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-105

Loading a Datasheet Picture into SheetScan . . . . . . . . . 4-105

Deleting a Datasheet Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-106

Defining a SheetScan Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . 4-106

Defining a Characteristic Curve in SheetScan . . . . . . . . 4-107

Performing Operations on SheetScan Curves . . . . . . . . 4-108

Importing Characteristic Data into SheetScan . . . . . . . . . 4-110

Exporting SheetScan Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-111

Defining Mathematical Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-111Defining an Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-112

Using Valid Operators for Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-113

Using Intrinsic Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-114

Using Intrinsic Functions in Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-115

Using Piecewise Linear Functions in Expressions . . . . . 4-117

Using Dataset Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-117

Assigning Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-118Choosing a Variable to Optimize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-118Including a Variable in a Sensitivity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 4-119

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Choosing a Variable to Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-120Including a Variable in a Statistical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 4-120Contents-9

Exporting Variables for Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-121

5. Setting Up a Maxwell DesignInserting a Maxwell Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2Setting the Model's Units of Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3Design Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Set Material Threshold Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4Set Material Override Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5Matrix Computation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Matrix Computation Settings for Magnetostatic Solutions 5-6

Matrix Computation Settings for Transient Solutions . . . 5-6

Setting a Symmetry Multiplier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7Export Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8Model Depth Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8Background Material Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8Preserve Transient Solution Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9Advanced Product Coupling Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9Band Meshing Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

6. Specifying the Solver TypeMagnetostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2Eddy Current Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3Electrostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3AC Conduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4DC Conduction Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4Electric Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5Disconnected Solution Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

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7. Drawing a ModelDrawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Drawing a Straight Line Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4Drawing a Three-Point Arc Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5ents-10

Drawing a Center-Point Arc Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6Drawing a Spline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7Drawing a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8Assigning a Cross Section and Dimensions to a Polyline 7-9Inserting Line Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11Drawing an Equation-Based Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12Drawing a Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13Drawing an Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14Drawing a Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16Drawing a Regular Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16Drawing an Equation-Based Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17Drawing a Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18Drawing a Cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19Drawing a Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20Drawing a Regular Polyhedron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20Drawing a Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21Drawing a Torus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22Drawing a Helix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23Drawing a Segmented Helix with Polygon Cross-Section Using a User Defined Primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24Drawing a Segmented Helix with Rectangular Cross-Section Using a User Defined Primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25Drawing a Spiral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26Drawing a Spiral Using User Defined Primitives . . . . . . . . 7-28Sweeping Objects Around an Axis, Along a Vector, or Along a Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29Drawing a Bondwire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29Drawing a Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30Drawing a Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

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Segmented Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33

Drawing Non-Model Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33Contents-11

Selecting Non-Model Drawing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-34

Changing an Object to Non-Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-34

Drawing a Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-35User Customization through User Defined Primitives (UDPs) 7-36

Creating a User Defined Primitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36Specifying UDP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38Updating the User Defined Primitives Menu . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38User Defined Primitives (UDPs) for Motor Geometries . . 7-39

Stator Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-40

Rotor Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-41

Pole Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-42

Parameters for RMxprt User Defined Primitives . . . . . . . . 7-43RMxprt/Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-43

RMxprt/ClawPoleCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-44

RMxprt/ConCoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-45

RMxprt/DCMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-46

RMxprt/DiskCoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-48

RMxprt/DiskPMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-49

RMxprt/DiskSlotCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-50

RMxprt/DoubleCage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-51

RMxprt/IPMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-52

RMxprt/LapCoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53

RMxprt/LinearMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

RMxprt/NonSalientPoleCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

RMxprt/PMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-56

RMxprt/PMDamperCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-56

RMxprt/RacetrackSlotCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-57

RMxprt/SalientPoleCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-59

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RMxprt/SquirrelCage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-61

RMxprt/SRMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-62

RMxprt/SynRMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-62ents-12

RMxprt/TransCoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-63

RMxprt/TransCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-64

RMxprt/UnivMCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-64

RMxprt/VentSlotCore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-65

RMxprt/WaveCoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-67

Model Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-69Analysis Options Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-70Analyzing the Surface Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-71Model Analysis Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-71

Objects Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-72

Objects Misalignment Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-73

Surface Mesh (Single/Pairs) Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-74

Last Simulation Mesh Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-75

Heal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-76Healing Stage One: Validation Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-77Healing Stage Two: Fix Intersections Between Objects . . 7-78Healing Stage Three: Fix Object Pair Intersections . . . . . 7-79Healing Stage Four: Analysis Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-79Healing Non-Manifold Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-80Setting the Healing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-82Stitch Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-84Aligning Selected Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-84Removing Selected Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-85Removing Selected Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-85

Modifying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-87Assigning Color to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-88

Setting the Default Color of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-88

Setting the Default Color of Object Outlines . . . . . . . . . . 7-88

Assigning Transparency to an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-89

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Setting the Default Transparency of Objects . . . . . . . . . . 7-89

Copying and Pasting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-89Copying an Image to the Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-90Deleting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-90Contents-13

Deleting Start Points and Endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-90

Deleting Last Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-91Cutting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-91Moving Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-91Rotating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-91Changing the Orientation of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-92Mirroring Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-92Offsetting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-94Duplicating Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-94

Duplicating Objects Along a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-95

Duplicating Objects Around an Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-96

Duplicating and Mirroring Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-96

Scaling Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-97Sweeping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-97

Sweeping Around an Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-97

Sweeping Along a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-99

Sweeping Along a Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-99

Sweeping Faces Along Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-100

Thicken Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-100

Wrap Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-101Covering Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-101Covering Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-102Uncovering Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-102Detaching Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-102Detaching Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-

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103Creating a Cross-Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-103Connecting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-ents-14

103Moving Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-104

Moving Faces Along the Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-104Moving Faces Along a Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-105

Moving Edges Along Normal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-106Uniting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-107Subtracting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-107Creating New Objects By Intersecting Objects . . . . . . . . . 7-108Creating an Object from a Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-109Creating an Object from an Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-110Splitting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-110Separating Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-112Converting Polyline Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-112Rounding the Edge of an Object (Fillet Command) . . . . . 7-113Flattening the Edge of an Object (Chamfer Command) . . 7-114Imprinting an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-115Imprint Projection commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-117

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Modifying the Model View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-119Changing the Model View with Alt+Double Click Areas . . 7-120Apply an Orientation to the Current View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-121

Viewing 3D User Interface Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-122Rotating the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-122Panning the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-123Spinning the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-123Zooming In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-124

Zooming In or Out on a Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-124

Zooming In or Out using a Mousewheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-125Fitting Objects in the View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-125

Fitting All Objects in a View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-125

Fitting a Selection in a View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-125

Hiding Objects from View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-126Showing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-126Active View Visibility Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-128Rendering Objects as Wire Frames or Solids . . . . . . . . . . 7-128

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Setting the Default Rendering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-129

Setting the Surface Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-129Using Clip Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-ents-16

130Modifying the View Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-134

Applying a Default View Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-135

Applying a New View Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-135

Removing an Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-136

Modifying the Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-136Setting the Projection View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-137Setting the Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-138Modifying the Coordinate System Axes View . . . . . . . . . . 7-139

Showing or Hiding the Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-139

Show the Axes for Selected Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-139

Enlarging or Shrinking the Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-139

Showing or Hiding the Triad Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-139

Choosing Grid Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-140

Setting the Grid Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-140

Setting the Grid Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-140

Setting the Grid Density and Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-141

Setting the Grid's Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-141

Setting the Grid Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-142

Setting the Color Key Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-142Setting a Plot's Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-142

Selecting Items in the Modeler Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-

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Selecting Multiple Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-144Contents-17

Selecting Objects by Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-145

Select By Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-145

Selecting All Objects in a History Tree Group . . . . . . . . . 7-147

Setting the Default Color and Transparency of Selected Objects 7-148

Setting the Default Color of Highlighted Objects . . . . . . . 7-148

Creating an Object List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-149

Reassigning Objects to Another Object List . . . . . . . . . . 7-149

Using or Viewing List Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-150

Selecting Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-150

Selecting All Faces of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-152

Selecting Faces by Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-152

Selecting Faces by Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-153

Face Selection Toolbar Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-153

Creating a Face List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-154

Selecting Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-154

Selecting All Edges of an Object or Face . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-155

Selecting Vertices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-156Selecting Multi (a Mode for Selecting Objects, Faces, Vertices or Edges) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-157

Controlling the Selection in Multi Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-157

Clearing a Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-158Selecting the Face, Edge, Vertex, or Object Behind . . . . 7-158Selecting the Edges of the Problem Region . . . . . . . . . . . 7-

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159Selecting Objects and Surfaces That Lie Inside Other Objects 7-159Selecting Based on Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-ents-18

159Using the Mouse to Select Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-159Selecting Objects by Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-160

Assigning Coordinates to New Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-161

Setting the Reference Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-161Defining Cartesian Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-161Defining Cylindrical Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-162Defining Spherical Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-162Using Absolute Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-163Using Relative Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-164

Choosing the Movement Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-165

Moving the Cursor In Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-165Moving the Cursor Out of Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-165Moving the Cursor in 3D Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-166Moving the Cursor Along the X-Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-167Moving the Cursor Along the Y-Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-168

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Moving the Cursor Along the Z-Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-168

Choosing Snap Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-169Contents-19

Snap Setting Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-170

Measure Modes for Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-171

Measuring Position and Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-172

Setting Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-175

Setting the Working Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-176Creating a Relative Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-176

Creating an Offset Relative CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-176

Creating a Rotated Relative CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-177

Creating an Offset and Rotated Relative CS . . . . . . . . . . 7-178

Creating a Face Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-178

Automatically Creating Face Coordinate Systems . . . . . 7-179

Creating an Object Coordinate System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-179

Creating an Offset Object CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-181

Creating a Rotated Object CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-181

Creating an Object CS that is Both Offset and Rotated . 7-182

Move CS to End Command for History Tree . . . . . . . . . . 7-183Modifying Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-184Expressing Cartesian, Cylindrical, or Spherical Coordinates 7-185Deleting Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-186

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Setting the Drawing Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-187

8. Assigning MaterialsSolving Inside or on the Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3ents-20

Searching for Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4Searching by Material Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4Searching by Material Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Adding New Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5Assigning Material Property Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7

Defining Anisotropic Relative Permeability Tensors . . . . 8-7

Defining Anisotropic Relative Permittivity Tensors . . . . . 8-9

Defining Anisotropic Conductivity Tensors . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Defining Anisotropic Dielectric Loss Tangent Tensors . . 8-11

Magnetic Loss Tangent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12Defining Magnetic Loss Tangent Tensors . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12

Defining Variable Material Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13Specifying Thermal Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13Defining Material Properties as Expressions . . . . . . . . . . 8-14Defining Functional Material Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14Material Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15Lamination Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17

Stacking Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17

Core Loss Type for a Maxwell Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18Calculating Properties for Core Loss (BP Curve) . . . . . . . 8-19

Core Loss Coefficients for Electrical Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20Core Loss Coefficient Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21Importing a BP Curve From a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22Manually Specifying BP Curve Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22

Assigning Materials from the Object Properties Window . 8-24Viewing and Modifying Material Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-25Setting the Material Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-27Validating Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28Copying Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-29

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Removing Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30Exporting Materials to a Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-31Sorting Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-32Filtering Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-33Contents-21

Working with Material Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34Working with Ansoft's System Material Library . . . . . . . . . 8-34Working with User Material Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34Editing Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34Configuring Design Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34Editing Material Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36Setting a Thermal Modifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36

Setting the Temperature of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38Reverting Objects to Initial Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39

Setting Deformation of Objects for Stress Feedback . . . . 8-40Reverting Objects to Zero Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41

Permanent Magnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42Nonlinear vs. Linear Permanent Magnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42

Compute Remanent Br from B-H curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-42

Temperature Dependent Nonlinear Permanent Magnets 8-43Characteristics and Main Parameters of Permanent-magnetic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44

Demagnetization Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-45

Recoil Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46

Calculating the Properties for a Permanent Magnet . . . . . 8-49Calculating the Properties for a Non-Linear Permanent Magnet 8-49

Nonlinear Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-54Perfect Conductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-55

9. Assigning Boundaries and Excitations for 3D Designs

Selecting Objects and Faces in the Geometry . . . . . . . . . 9-2Defining Boundary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2Defining Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

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Viewing Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4Setting the Visibility for Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . 9-4

Functional Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4Setting Eddy Effects and Displacement Current . . . . . . . . 9-6ents-22

Setting Core Loss for 3D and 2D Transient and 3D Eddy Current Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-7Setting Magnetization Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-8Showing and Verifying Conduction Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11

Recalculating Conduction Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11Modifying Boundary Conditions and Excitations . . . . . . . . 9-11

Duplicating Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-11Showing and Hiding Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . 9-12

Showing and Hiding Boundaries and Excitations in Every View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Setting Default Values for Boundaries and Excitations . . 9-12Reassigning Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13Reassigning Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-13Deleting All Boundaries and/or Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14Reprioritizing Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-14Viewing and Editing Boundary or Excitation Properties . . 9-15

Set Default Boundary/Excitation Base Name . . . . . . . . . . 9-16Magnetostatic Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17

Magnetostatic Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-17Default Boundary Conditions for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-18

Assigning a Magnetic H Field for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-18

Assigning an Insulating Boundary for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-19

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a Magnetostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-19

Assigning a Master Boundary for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-20

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a Magnetostatic Solver . 9-21

Magnetostatic Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-22Assigning a Voltage Excitation for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-23

Assigning a Voltage Drop Excitation for a Magnetostatic Solver

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Assigning a Current Density Excitation for a Magnetostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-23

Assigning a Current Excitation for a Magnetostatic Solver 9-24Contents-23

Electrostatic Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-25Electrostatic Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26

Default Boundary Conditions for an Electrostatic Solver . 9-26

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for an Electrostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-26

Assigning a Master Boundary for an Electrostatic Solver 9-27

Assigning a Slave Boundary for an Electrostatic Solver . 9-28

Assigning an Insulating Boundary for an Electrostatic Solver 9-29

Electrostatic Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-30Assigning a Voltage Excitation for an Electrostatic Solver 9-30

Assigning a Charge Excitation for an Electrostatic Solver 9-30

Assigning a Floating Excitation for an Electrostatic Solver 9-31

Assigning a Volume Charge Density Excitation for an Electro-static Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-31

DC Conduction Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32DC Conduction Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32

Default Boundary Conditions for a DC Conduction Solver 9-33

Assigning an Insulating Boundary for a DC Conduction Solver 9-33

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a DC Conduc-tion Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-33

Assigning a Master Boundary for a DC Conduction Solver 9-34

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a DC Conduction Solver 9-35

DC Conduction Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-36Assigning a Voltage Excitation for a DC Conduction Solver 9-37

Assigning a Current Excitation for a DC Conduction Solver 9-37

Assigning a Sink Excitation for a DC Conduction Solver 9-37

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DC Conduction + Electrostatic Boundaries and Excitations 9-38Eddy Current Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-39

Eddy Current Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-39ents-24

Default Boundary Conditions for the Eddy Current Solver 9-40

Assigning a Magnetic H Field for the Eddy Current Solver 9-40

Assigning an Insulating Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-41

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-41

Assigning a Master Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-42

Assigning a Slave Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-43

Assigning a Radiation Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-44

Assigning an Impedance Boundary for the Eddy Current Solver 9-45

Eddy Current Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-48Assigning a Current Density Excitation for the Eddy Current Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-48

Assigning a Current Density Terminal Excitation for the Eddy Current Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-49

Assigning a Current Excitation for the Eddy Current Solver 9-49

Transient Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-51Transient Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-51

Default Boundary Conditions for a Transient Solver . . . . 9-52

Assigning a Zero Tangential H Field Boundary for a Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-52

Assigning an Insulating Boundary for a Transient Solver 9-53

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary for a Transient Solver . 9-53

Assigning a Master Boundary for a Transient Solver . . . 9-53

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a Transient Solver . . . . 9-54

Transient Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-56Assigning a Coil Terminal for a Transient Solver . . . . . . 9-56

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Assigning a Winding Setup for a Transient Solver . . . . . 9-57

Setting Up an External Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-59

Editing the External Circuit Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-62

Electric Transient Solver Boundaries and Excitations . . . 9-64Contents-25

Electric Transient Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-64Assigning a Charge Excitation for an Electric Transient Solver 9-64

Assigning a Volume Charge Density Excitation for an Electric Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-65

10. Assigning Boundaries and Excitations for 2D Designs

Selecting Objects and Faces in the 2D Geometry . . . . . 10-1Defining Boundary Conditions in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2Defining 2D Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2Viewing 2D Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4

Setting the Visibility for 2D Boundaries and Excitations . 10-4Functional Boundaries and Excitations in 2D . . . . . . . . . 10-4Setting Eddy Effects and Displacement Current in 2D . . 10-5Modifying 2D Boundary Conditions and Excitations . . . . 10-5

Duplicating 2D Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . 10-6Showing and Hiding Boundaries and Excitations in 2D . 10-6

Showing and Hiding 2D Boundaries and Excitations in Every View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6

Setting Default Values for 2D Boundaries and Excitations 10-7Reassigning 2D Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7Reassigning 2D Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8Deleting All 2D Boundaries and/or Excitations . . . . . . . . 10-8Viewing and Editing 2D Boundary or Excitation Properties 10-8

2D Magnetostatic Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . 10-92D Magnetostatic Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-9

Default Boundary Conditions for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver 10-10

Assigning a Vector Potential for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver 10-

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Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a 2D Magneto-static Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for a 2D Magnetostatic ents-26

Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

Assigning a Master Boundary for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver 10-11

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver 10-12

2D Magnetostatic Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13Assigning a Current Density Excitation for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-13

Assigning a Current Excitation for a 2D Magnetostatic Solver 10-13

2D Electrostatic Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . 10-152D Electrostatic Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-15

Default Boundary Conditions for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-16

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a 2D Electrostat-ic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-16

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for a 2D Electrostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17

Assigning a Master Boundary for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-17

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-18

2D Electrostatic Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-18Assigning a Voltage Excitation for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-18

Assigning a Charge Excitation for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-19

Assigning a Floating Excitation for a 2D Electrostatic Solver 10-19

Assigning a Charge Density Excitation for a 2D Electrostatic Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-20

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2D AC Conduction Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . 10-212D AC Conduction Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-21

Default Boundary Conditions for a 2D AC Conduction Solver 10-22Contents-27

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a 2D AC Con-duction Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-22

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for a 2D AC Conduc-tion Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-23

Assigning a Master Boundary for a 2D AC Conduction Solver 10-23

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a 2D AC Conduction Solver 10-23

2D AC Conduction Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-24Assigning a Voltage Excitation for a 2D AC Conduction Solver 10-24

2D DC Conduction Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . 10-262D DC Conduction Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-26

Default Boundary Conditions for a 2D DC Conduction Solver 10-27

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary Condition for a 2D DC Con-duction Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-27

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for a 2D DC Conduc-tion Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-28

Assigning a Resistance Boundary Condition for a 2D DC Con-duction Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-28

Assigning a Master Boundary for a 2D DC Conduction Solver 10-29

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a 2D DC Conduction Solver 10-29

2D DC Conduction Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-30Assigning a Voltage Excitation for a 2D DC Conduction Solver 10-30

2D Eddy Current Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . 10-312D Eddy Current Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-32

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Assigning a Vector Potential for the 2D Eddy Current Solver 10-33

Assigning an Impedance Boundary for the 2D Eddy Current ents-28

Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-33

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary for the 2D Eddy Current Solv-er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for the 2D Eddy Cur-rent Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36

Assigning a Master Boundary for the 2D Eddy Current Solver 10-36

Assigning a Slave Boundary for the 2D Eddy Current Solver 10-37

2D Eddy Current Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-38Assigning a Current Excitation for the 2D Eddy Current Solver 10-38

Assigning a Parallel Current Excitation for the 2D Eddy Current Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-38

Assigning a Current Density Excitation for the 2D Eddy Current Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-39

2D Transient Boundaries and Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-402D Transient Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-40

Default Boundary Conditions for a 2D Transient Solver 10-41

Assigning a Vector Potential for a 2D Transient Solver 10-41

Assigning a Symmetry Boundary for a 2D Transient Solver 10-42

Assigning a Balloon Boundary Condition for a 2D Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-42

Assigning a Master Boundary for a 2D Transient Solver 10-42

Assigning a Slave Boundary for a 2D Transient Solver 10-43

2D Transient Excitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-43Assigning a Current Excitation for a 2D Transient Solver 10-44

Assigning a Current Density Excitation for a 2D Transient Solver 10-44

Assigning a Coil for a 2D Transient Solver . . . . . . . . . . 10-45

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Assigning an End Connection for a 2D Transient Solver 10-46

Assigning a Winding Setup for a 2D Transient Solver . 10-46

Setting up a Y Connection in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-49

Setting Up an External Circuit in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-50Contents-29

Editing the External Circuit Connection for 2D Transient 10-54

11. Setting Up Motion for Transient ProjectsAssigning a Band of Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2

Modifying Motion Setup Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4Non-Cylindrical Rotational Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5

Reassigning a Band of Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6Adding and Deleting Objects from a Band of Motion . . . 11-7Showing and Hiding Motion Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7

Setting the Visibility for Motion Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7

12. Adding Solution ParametersAssigning a Force Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1Assigning a Torque Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2Assigning a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2Reassigning Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4Viewing Parameter List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4Deleting All Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4Showing and Hiding Solution Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5

Setting the Visibility for Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5Changing the Parameter Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6

13. Defining Mesh OperationsAssigning Length-Based Mesh Refinement on Object Faces 13-3Assigning Length-Based Mesh Refinement Inside Objects 13-4Assigning Skin Depth-Based Mesh Refinement on Object Faces 13-5Assigning Cylindrical Gap Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7Modifying Surface Approximation Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8

Surface Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9

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Guidelines for Modifying Surface Approximation Settings 13-9Modifying the Model Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11Reverting to the Initial Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-13Applying Mesh Operations Without Solving . . . . . . . . . . 13-14ents-30

Specifying Initial Mesh Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-15Deleting All Previously-Assigned Mesh Refinements . . . 13-17Viewing List of Mesh Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-18Reassigning a Mesh Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-19Viewing Mesh Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-20

14. Specifying Solution SettingsAnalysis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-4Setting Analysis Parameters for Non-Transient Solutions 14-6

Defining Settings on the General Tab for Non-Transient Solu-tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6

Setup Name for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6

Adaptive Setup for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . 14-6

Parameter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-7

Defining Settings on the Convergence Tab for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-7Defining Expressions for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . 14-7Defining Settings on the Solver Tab for Non-Transient Solutions 14-9

Magnetostatic Solver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-9

Eddy Current Solver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-20

Electrostatic Solver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21

AC Conduction Solver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21

DC Conduction Solver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21

Import Mesh for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 14-21

Setup Link for Non-Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-23

Enabling the Iterative Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-26

Defining Settings on the Frequency Sweep Tab for Eddy Cur-rent Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-26Defining Settings on the Defaults Tab for Non-Transient Solu-

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Defining Settings on the General Tab for Transient Solutions 14-28Contents-31

Setup Name for Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-28

Transient Setup (2D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-28

Transient Setup (3D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-29

Defining Settings on the Save Fields Tab for Transient Solutions 14-29Defining Settings on the Advanced Tab for Transient Solutions 14-30

Using a Control Program in Transient Solutions . . . . . . 14-30

Get Data From Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-33

Continue from a Previously Solved Setup . . . . . . . . . . . 14-35

Compute Data For Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-35

Defining Expressions for Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . 14-35Defining Settings on the Solver Tab for Transient Solutions 14-37Defining Settings on the Output Variables Tab for Transient So-lutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-37Defining Settings on the Defaults Tab for Transient Solutions 14-38

Setting Analysis Parameters for Electric Transient Solutions 14-39

Defining Settings on the General Tab for Electric Transient So-lutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-39

Setup Name for Electric Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . 14-39

Time Steps Setup for Electric Transient Solutions . . . . 14-39

Defining Expressions for Electric Transient Solutions . . 14-39Defining Settings on the Solver Tab for Electric Transient Solu-tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-41Defining Settings on the Defaults Tab for Electric Transient So-lutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-42

Resetting Analysis to Time Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-43

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Changing Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-44Specifying the Desired RAM Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-44Specifying the Hard Memory Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-45

Setting View Context for Transient Solutions . . . . . . . . . 14-46ents-32

Speed and Position Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-46Renaming a Solution Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-47Copying a Solution Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-48Disabling and Enabling an Analysis Setup . . . . . . . . . . . 14-49Setup Link Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-50Clearing Linked Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-51Setting the Report Updating During Analysis Options . . 14-52

15. Maxwell Coupling with ANSYS Workbench, Simplorer, and HFSS

Maxwell to ANSYS Thermal Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3Coupling Maxwell Designs with ANSYS Thermal via Workbench 15-4

Maxwell to ANSYS Stress Feedback Coupling . . . . . . . . 15-11Coupling Maxwell Designs with ANSYS Structural via Work-bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-11

Coupling Maxwell with Both ANSYS Thermal and Structural via Workbench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-16

Example 1: One iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-17

Example 2: Manual iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-20

Example 3: Revert Maxwell Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-21

Example 4: Only Stress Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-23

Near Field Coupling Between Maxwell and HFSS . . . . . 15-27Magnetic bias source coupling between Maxwell and HFSS 15-28Coupling Maxwell to a Simplorer Component . . . . . . . . . 15-29

16. Exporting Equivalent Circuit DataExporting a Circuit From a Parametric Solution . . . . . . . 16-2

Types of Equivalent Circuit Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3

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Current Variables Represent Ampere-Turns . . . . . . . . . 16-7Current Variables Represent Amperes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-7Contents-33

Setting Inputs and Outputs in the Table Window . . . . . . 16-9Setting Coil and Mechanical Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-12

17. Scripting in MaxwellRecording a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2Stopping Script Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-3Running a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-4Pausing and Resuming a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-5Stopping a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-6

18. Running SimulationsSolving a Single Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-2Running More Than One Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-3Monitoring Queued Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-4Specifying the Analysis Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-5Remote Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-6

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-9Distributed Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-12

Configuring Distributed Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-12Editing Distributed Machine Configurations . . . . . . . . . . 18-13Selecting an Optimal Configuration for Distributed Analysis 18-17

Monitoring the Solution Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-18High Performance Computing (HPC) Integration . . . . . . 18-20

Scheduler Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-20What a Scheduler Does . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-21

Installation of Ansoft Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-22Firewall Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-23

Installation Directory Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-23

Ansoft Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-23

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Integration with Microsoft Windows HPC Scheduler . . 18-24Windows HPC Job Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-25

Windows HPC Task Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-26

Windows HPC Job Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-28ents-34

Selecting Computation Resource Units (Job Unit Type) 18-29

How to Select the Windows HPC Job Unit Type . . . . 18-29

Windows HPC Job Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-30

Submitting and Monitoring Ansoft HPC Jobs . . . . . . . . . 18-31Submitting and Monitoring Jobs Using the Ansoft Submit HPC Job Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-32

The Ansoft Submit HPC Job Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-35

Specifying the Number of Compute Resource Units for HPC Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-37

Integration with Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF) . . 18-38Installation of Ansoft Tools on LSF Cluster . . . . . . . . . . 18-39

Integration of Ansoft Products with LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-41

LSF Job Submission Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-41

LSF Command Used to Launch Remote Engine Processes 18-42

Submitting Ansoft LSF Batch Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-42

Current Working Directory with LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-42

Quoting Ansoft Command or Arguments for LSF . . . . . 18-43

bsub Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-43

Monitoring Ansoft LSF Batch Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-43

Terminating Ansoft LSF Batch Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-44

Example LSF bsub Command Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-44

Known Issues for LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-48

Troubleshooting for LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-48

Workarounds with LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-50

Integration with PBS (Portable Batch System) Professional from Altair Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-50

qsub Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-51

Monitoring Ansoft PBS Batch Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-52

Example PBS qsub Command Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-53

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Integration with Sun Grid Engine (SGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-55Monitoring Ansoft SGE Batch Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-58

Ansoft Desktop -monitor Command Line Option for SGE 18-58

Example SGE qsub Command Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-59Contents-35

Recommended Practices for SGE Clusters . . . . . . . . . . 18-60

Issue with qrsh (SGE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-65

Issue with MainWin Core Services for SGE . . . . . . . . . 18-65

Command Line Enhancements for Ansoft Desktop Products 18-67Integrating Ansoft Tools with Third Party Schedulers . . . 18-69

Build Information for Scheduler Proxy Library . . . . . . . . 18-69

Implementation Details for Custom Scheduler Integration 18-70

IsProductLaunchedInYourEnvironment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-70

GetTempDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-71

GetMachineListAvailableForDistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-71

LaunchProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-72

GetUseRsmForEngineLaunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-73

GetThisJobID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-74

GetSchedulerDisplayName . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-74

Testing Your Scheduler Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-75Testing IsProductLaunchedInYourEnvironment . . . . . . 18-75

Testing GetSchedulerDisplayName and GetThisJobID 18-76

Testing GetTempDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-76

Testing GetMachineListAvailableForDistribution . . . . . . 18-76

Testing LaunchProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-76

Testing GetUseRsmForEngineLaunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-77

Troubleshooting Custom Scheduler Integration . . . . . . . 18-77None of the Proxy Functions are Called . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-78

Troubleshooting IsProductLaunchedInYourEnvironment Func-tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-78

Troubleshooting GetSchedulerDisplayName . . . . . . . . 18-78

Troubleshooting GetThisJobID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-78

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Troubleshooting GetTempDirectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-79

Troubleshooting GetMachineListAvailableForDistribution 18-79

Troubleshooting LaunchProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-79ents-36

Troubleshooting GetUseRsmForEngineLaunch . . . . . . 18-80

Changing a Solution Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-81Aborting Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-82Re-solving a Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-83Re-solving after ANSYS Workbench Thermal Feedback 18-84

19. Post Processing and Generating ReportsViewing Solution Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2

Viewing Convergence Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2Viewing the Number of Completed Passes . . . . . . . . . . 19-3

Viewing Output Variable Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-3

Plotting Convergence Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-3

Viewing a Solution's Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-4Viewing Matrix Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-6

Exporting a Circuit Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-7

Coupling Coefficient Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8

Viewing Parameter Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-9Viewing Mesh Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-9

Cleaning Up Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-11Creating Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13

Creating Geometry Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13Creating Field Plot Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-14Controlling the Animation's Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-15Exporting Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-17

Creating Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-19Creating a Quick Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20 Quick Report Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20Creating a New Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-21

Using Families Tab for Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-24

Creating a Report from an Ansoft Report Data File . . . . 19-26

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Modifying Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-27Modify Report: Using the Edit Sweep Dialog . . . . . . . . . 19-29

Zooming and Fitting Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-30Modifying the Background Properties of a Report . . . . . 19-31Contents-37

Modifying the Legend in a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-33

Creating Custom Report Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-34

Selecting the Report Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-35Selecting the Display Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-36

Creating 2D Rectangular Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-36

Creating a Rectangular Stacked Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-38

Creating 3D Rectangular Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-40

Plotting a Quantity Versus Adaptive Pass . . . . . . . . . . . 19-41

Creating Data Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-42

Creating Rectangular Contour Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-44

Delta Markers in 2D Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-45

Working with Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-45Editing Trace Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-47

Editing the Display Properties of Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-48

Adding Data Markers to Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-49

Discarding Report Values Below a Specified Threshold 19-51

Add Trace Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-51

Removing Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-52

Copy and Paste of Report and Trace Definitions . . . . . 19-53

Copy and Paste of Report and Trace Data . . . . . . . . . . 19-54

Sweeping a Variable in a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-54Sweeping Values Across a Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-55

Selecting a Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-55Selecting Solution Quantities to Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-60Selecting a Field Quantity to Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-61Plotting Imported Solution Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-61Post-Processed Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-61Setting a Range Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-62

Eye Measurement Range Function Parameters . . . . . . 19-63

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Perform FFT on a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-64FFT Window Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-65

Apply FFT to Report Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-67

Perform TDR on Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-68ents-38

Spectral Domain Plots in Transient (FFT) . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-68Time Domain Plots in Eddy (IFFT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-69

Specifying Output Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-70Adding a New Output Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-71

Building an Expression Using Existing Quantities . . . . . 19-71

Function List for Output Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-72

Deleting Output Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-75

Updating All Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-76Opening All Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-77Deleting Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-78Plotting Field Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-79

Plotting Standard Field Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-81Loss Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-83

Named Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-85Plotting Derived Field Quantities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-85Creating 2D Reports From Named Expressions . . . . . . 19-86Creating Scalar Field Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-88Creating Vector Field Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-88Modifying Field Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-88Setting Field Plot Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-89

Modifying Field Plot Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-91

Modifying the Field Plot Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-93

Modifying Vector Field Plot Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-95

Setting the Mesh Visibility on Field Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-96

Modifying Scalar Field Plot Isovalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-96

Mapping Scalar Field Plot Transparency to Field Values 19-97

Modifying Markers on Point Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-98

Viewing Data Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-98

Modifying Line Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-99

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Setting a Plot's Visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-99Saving a Field Overlay Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-100Opening a Field Overlay Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-Contents-39

100Deleting a Field Overlay Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-101Setting Field Plot Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-101Renaming a Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-101

Using the Fields Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-102

Opening the Fields Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-102Context Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-104The Calculator Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-104Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-104

Enlarging the Register Display Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-105

Units of Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-105

Stack Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-105Input Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-106

Quantity Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-107

Geometry Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-107

Constant Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-108

Number Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-109

Function Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-109

Geometry Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-110

Reading an External Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-111

General Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-

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Cont

111Steps for Calculating the Complex Vector Electric Field 19-113Scalar Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-ents-40

114Vec? Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-115

1/x (Inverse) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-115

Pow Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-115

(Square Root) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-115

Trig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-116

(Integral) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-116

Min Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-117

Max Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-117

(Gradient) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-118

Ln Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-118

Log Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-118

Vector Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-119

Scal? Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-119

Matl Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-119

Mag Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-120

Dot Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-120

Cross Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .