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

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