CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 January 2005
Product News
Ansoft Enhances Maxwell SV; Simulation Software Allows Professionals and Students to Design and Study Electromechanical Devices
Ansoft Corporation released an enhanced version of Maxwell® SV, adding to its existing line of SV (student version) software.
Maxwell SV is a free, downloadable, subset of Maxwell 2D, Ansoft's commercial electromagnetic-field simulation software for the design of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices. The software is ideal for engineering students studying topics such as electromechanical component, power-electronic and mechatronic design.
"Maxwell SV is a fantastic engineering tool and is easy to use," said Marc Cole, an engineering student at the University of Southern California. "The Maxwell SV tutorial does an excellent job of familiarizing the user with the software operation. The post-processor is a powerful tool that allows the student to visually understand what is happening with the fields."
"Many industries, including automotive, aerospace/defense, power transmission and distribution and industrial devices, rely on Ansoft's Maxwell software to quickly and accurately design electromechanical devices, such as motors, actuators and transformers," said Mark Ravenstahl, Product Marketing Manager at Ansoft. "For universities with electromechanical, mechatronic and power-electronic curricula, Maxwell SV is an asset to those departments for teaching and research purposes."
The new version of Maxwell SV includes:
• 2D Electric Field Solver
• 2D DC Magnetic Solver
• 2D AC Magnetic Solver
Maxwell SV offers users the same unrestricted two-dimensional AC, DC magnetic and electrostatic-field solvers that are included in the commercial Maxwell 2D. Additional capabilities found in the commercial version are transient simulation, coupled thermal analysis, parametric modeling and automated equivalent circuit generation.
To download the new version of Maxwell SV, go to http://www.ansoft.com/maxwellsv . To learn more about the commercial version of Maxwell 2D, visit http://www.ansoft.com/products/em/max2d .
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