Field Precision LLC has announced the release of Magnum for 3D simulations of electromagnets and permanent magnet assemblies.

The programme has application to a wide range of areas including the design of industrial and laboratory magnets, particle-beam optics, electric motors and magnetic shielding.
Magnum represents a dramatic breakthrough in cost and computational power, Field Precision said. “The complete 3D design package for Windows XP or Vista is priced at less than $5,000. With regard to speed and accuracy, 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, the finite-element solution package and an interactive post-processor. A textbook-quality instruction manual and a library of worked application examples are also supplied.
The programme cost represents a single-time purchase price with no continuing licence fees and free updates.

Features
Package features include: direct import of complex parts from SolidWorks and other 3D CAD programmes; representation of self-consistent saturation effects in any soft magnetic material; interactive graphical utility Magwinder to build complex drive coils; MagView postprocessor capabilities which include high-quality 2D and 3D plots, interactive point and scan calculations and automatic force and energy integrals.