MagNet and SPEED --
With SPEEDLink Assistant , SPEED models are ready for solution within minutes

Montréal, Québec, Canada – March 22, 2004 -- With the latest release of SPEEDLink Assistant, Infolytica Corporation has enhanced its capability to import motor models from the University of Glasgow SPEED software into MagNet, the company's finite element electromagnetics design package.

What SPEEDLink Assistant extracts from the SPEED model:

• 2D geometric, material, and coil data
• Stack length data that allows for the construction of a true 3D model
• Stator, rotor, and airgap data as a multiplicity of identical shapes with common material properties that are repeatedly copied to form the complete model

What SPEEDLink Assistant does with the data imported from SPEED:

• Uses Boolean union operations to coalesce SPEED sub-components into single stator iron and rotor iron components
  • This grouping of the components into two bodies (i.e. rotor and stator) allows easy set-up for:
    • Dynamic simulation of motion effects, usually used for simulating startup or supply-switching or fault conditions
    • Parametric study in MagNet and optimization in OptiNet, Infolytica’s new Design Optimization software
• Automatically applies the corresponding periodic boundary conditions to part models, such as one or two poles of a multi-pole machine, when it is required for a MagNet simulation
• Adds a limited number of additional regions to represent the airgap and the other major parts of the motor
• Allows users to set up the analysis for one or more rotor positions (e.g. from 0-30 degrees, analyze for every one degree)
• The stack length data can be redefined

To get more information on the exciting new possibilities that SPEEDLink Assistant now provides to SPEED software users, please contact one of our sales representatives at 514-849-8752 or by email at info@infolytica.com.