Features
Template Design Parameters
- Initial sizing feature
- Template library includes several variations of standard types of brushless DC motors such as:
Interior Permanent Magnet
Surface Mounted
Bread-loaf
Spoke - Modify geometric dimensions of the rotor and stator, including skew
- Number of poles and slots can be arbitrarily large
- Polyphase machines supported
- An extensive database of steels and permanent magnet materials
Coil Windings
- Automatic coil winding layout feature generates a list of possible balanced layouts
- Input manual layout by table entry
- Supports several wire sizing methods
- Relevant factors (winding factor, fill factor, back emf, etc) are automatically calculated
Output Waveforms and Charts
- Current
- Back-EMF
- Torque
- Flux Linkage
- And many more
Waveforms can be viewed as instantaneous, time-averaged or by harmonic content.
Performance Calculations
- Torque
- Efficiency
- Air Gap Flux
- Cogging Torque
- And many more
Field Plots
- Demagnetization prediction
- Flux density
- Total loss and loss by each component
- Ohmic loss
- And many more
Field plots can be viewed as instantaneous or time-averaged.
Drives
Drives can be treated as either ideal or PWM, supporting both wye and delta connections.
Lumped Parameter analysis also supported for use in equivalent circuits.
Innovation by Design
- Any design can be modeled with the exceedingly adaptive templates
- Error checking and validation during the design creation process
- Intuitive modern GUI: Annotations and visual feedback
- Full, descriptive parameter names
- Modern Interface with extensive visual feedback
- Complete solution: characterize the machine and drive
- Hybrid of classical methods and automated electromagnetic FEA for machine design without requiring any calibration
- Users control the level of refinement (accuracy vs time)
Tracking Your Design
MotorSolve tracks and stores all the changes and results for a specific motor with the design history feature.
Summary and Report
- The summary feature compares two or more designs side-by-side and highlights the differences in design data.
- Design parameters, performance data and summary comparisons can be added to the report form which is stored with the motor design file and can be printed or saved as a PDF document for distribution.
Design Analysis
- Export the device geometry, materials data and winding configuration to MagNet
- Optimized Mesh Settings and boundary setup also included in the export
- Use MagNet to accurately analyze the performance of the BLDC
Export
- DXF
- MagNet


