Field Precision software tips

An update of our software installation packages involves uploading 42 files with sizes that range from 20-120 MB. Each file must be placed in a different directory on our server. An FTP program like FileZilla is useful for day-to-day file updating, but lacks script operation features. In this case, an update would involve a tedious process [...]

A customer working with RFID devices asked me about finding magnetic flux inside a detector coil surrounded by an array of drive coils. The drive coils may move around or rotate. There are no iron structures. The calculations are fast and easy using the free-space mode of Magnum. In this post, I’ll review the required techniques.

Although Magnum and PerMag are magnetostatic codes, they can often be used to find AC magnetic field distributions (e.g., transformers and motors). A static field calculation provides a good approximation when the electromagnetic wavelength is much larger than the system scale length. The issue is complicated by the presence of iron and steel, because the speed [...]

In the distant past, in a time we called the 80s, there was only one input method for technical programs — the script. An input script is a text document with lines to set code options and parameters. Although infinitely superior to a stack of punch cards, people grew to hate them for several reasons:

Each program had [...]