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MagNet: Electromagnetic Field Simulation Software.
ElecNet: Electric Field Simulation Software
ThermNet: Thermal Simulation Software
OptiNet: Design Optimization Software
Plug-Ins: Extends the capabilities of third party software
MultiNet: Unrestricted electromagnetic simulation and thermal simulation coupling software
Assitants: Easy-to-use tools that make modeling and analysis faster.

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The year in review -- Infolytica, a leader by tradition

With the 64-bit environment becoming more and more common in the workplace, limiting yourself to yesterday’s technology is no longer an option your business can afford. The companies poised to forge ahead in this new & exciting era are the ones who have embraced constant change as the pathway to progress. We at Infolytica have always steered our ship towards those uncharted waters, leaving the competition to wade in the shallows too afraid to venture far from its safe harbor. Traditionally, our company has never feared to explore the unknown, undertaking the most difficult of challenges instead of stagnating in the still waters of complacency. We believe that this is the true nature of our industry, to forever push the technology to levels unthought-of in the past. Driven by the determination and expertise of our development team, we’ve made significant advancements in the last year that not only confirms our position of leader in the electromagnetics simulation software world, but has further widened the gap between what our line of products offer and the minimalist approach undertaken by our competitors. In this span of time, we’ve had multiple releases of our applications (MagNet [8], ElecNet [4], ThermNet [3], and OptiNet [2]) and have also introduced our new MagNet Plug-ins for PSIM, Simulink®, and SPEED. Some of the major additions incorporated into our software have been:

Major additions

Applicable to:

MagNet

ElecNet

ThermNet

OptiNet

General:
New system architecture developed for Infolytica's migration to a 64-bit environment.

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Version 2.1 of OptiNet has a wider variety of objective/constraint functions, an expanded list of built-in functions for expressions, and re-usable expression variables.

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General:
A new optimizer engine, which allows for the specification of discrete values for variables, was added to OptiNet 2.0. The discrete optimizer is unique as it is the only tool of its kind for optimizing a design based on electromagnetic or thermal discrete-valued variables – no other optimizer on the market has this capability. This new optimizer engine allows a user to mix both continuous and discrete-valued variables.

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Coupled solution:

  • ThermNet adds thermal-transient to magnetic-transient coupling.
  • ThermNet adds thermal-static to magnetic-transient coupling.

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Coupled solution:
ThermNet adds the thermal convective link boundary condition to support heat transfer through air gaps.

 

 

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Plug-ins:

  • MagNet Plug-in for SPEED enables electric machine designers who use University of Glasgow’s SPEED software to combine SPEED's advanced CAD software for electric motors and drives with the powerful calculations of MagNet, Infolytica’s design & analysis software for low frequency electromagnetic devices.
  • MagNet Plug-in for Simulink® enables co-simulation capabilities between MagNet, Infolytica's low frequency electromagnetic simulation software, and Simulink®, MathWorks' platform for multi-domain simulation and model-based design of dynamic systems. Together, these software applications provide the ideal combination for designers working on time-varying systems requiring precise electromagnetic calculations.
  • MagNet Plug-in for PSIM allows users to combine the power of the PSIM, the Circuit and Systems Simulator from PowerSim, and MagNet, Infolytica's finite element analysis software package. This co-simulation, in which both PSIM and MagNet run their transient solvers simultaneously, allows a constant data exchange between the applications to keep the shared quantities (voltages and currents) synchronized.
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Assistants:
SPEEDLink Assistant is an easy-to-use wizard that imports data from a SPEED motor program file and then uses this data to build and solve a corresponding MagNet model. The wizard first reads and then translates the geometric, material, coils, and boundary condition data from the SPEED file.

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Solution:
Faster execution --

  • Increase in speed (from 1.1 to 2.5 times faster) and sizeable memory allocations (from 1.2 to 2.0 times larger)
  • All 2D & 3D Time Harmonic solvers are up to 150% faster.
  • All 2D & 3D Static solvers are up to 10% faster.
  • All 2D & 3D Transient solvers are up to 10% faster.
  • MagNet's 2D & 3D Transient with Motion solvers are up to 10% faster.
  • Overall speedup in the user interface -- especially when there are many deleted components. Much faster when generating 2D meshes for long thin regions.

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Solution:
MagNet adds support for multiple sliding interfaces with motion components in 3D.

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Meshing:
All solvers allow mesh and/or polynomial adaption on individual components.

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General:
Speed and memory usage improvements overall and especially in coupled solves.

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Material modeling:
A nonlinear anisotropy model has been added to the materials database.

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Material modeling:
Iron Loss calculations -- improved interpolation scheme when loss properties are specified for several frequencies and temperatures.

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Circuits:

  • Improved 3D circuit capabilities.
  • Commutators can now have more than two brushes in 2D motion problems.

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Meshing:
Addition of boundary layer meshing (called "mesh layers" in our applications) that allows skin depth controls in solid model 3d meshes. The control can be set on component surfaces and radiate outward, inward or on both sides of the surface. This control will be added to components and edges in a future release.

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General:
More efficient use of memory. Coupled with the /3GB boot flag for Windows XP SP2, or using Windows XP x64 Edition (refer to the Documentation Center for more details) allows for much larger problems to be solved on the 32-bit platform.

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General:
Several import/export options for native format CAD packages have now been added to MagNet, ElecNet, and ThermNet.

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Solution:
The MagNet 3D mesher and all 3D solvers make much better use of fragmented virtual memory allowing much larger problems to be solved. The installation now includes batch files for rebasing DLLs. This allows more continuous memory to be available to the applications for faster meshing and solving.

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Solution:
The MagNet 3D solvers now support complex-linear-anisotropic permeability.

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Coupled solution:
Added ConvectiveLinkCalculator.frm to ThermNet’s Samples subfolder. It calculates the convective transfer coefficients. It is to be used with the convective link boundary condition in ThermNet.

 

 

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To obtain more information or to arrange a web demo of any of our products , please contact one of our representatives by email at info@infolytica.com or by phone at 514-849-8752.