Multitasking made easy

Field Precision programs are optimized for the latest generation of multi-core or multi-processor PCs. The 64-bit major solution programs (HiPhi, Magnum, GamBet,…) feature true parallel operation. The time-intensive subroutines have been coded in OpenMP, giving significant improvements in speed (see magnum-in-parallel or multicore-gambet). A second feature is the capability to run multiple independent calculations simultaneously. All [...]

Website introduction video

We’ve added a lot of content to our website at www.fieldp.com in 13 years. In fact, there’s so much material that the site might intimidating to first-time visitors looking for software or educational resources. To help, we’ve added a short overview video on the home page. Here it [...]

Particle flux plots in Gendist

A recent consulting project involved Xenos simulations of an intense, non-circular electron beam striking a graphite beam stop. A phosphor plate on the downstream face of the target was used as a diagnostic. The researchers wanted to know how the shape of the phosphor response correlated with the shape of the beam. One option was to [...]

Improved extrusion model in Geometer/MetaMesh

MetaMesh (our 3D automatic mesh generator) accepts geometric information from a wide variety of sources (see Automatic meshing of printed circuits). For relatively simple systems, the quickest path to a mesh is through the native combinatorial solid modeler of MetaMesh. A variety of shape models are available. One of the most useful is the extrusion, the [...]

Automatic 3D meshing of printed circuits

A recent trial user had an application that required creation of a three-dimensional mesh of a printed circuit. Such an object is thin in z with relatively complex spatial variations in x-y. The user attempted to represent the full complement of conductors as a single, thin STL solid object with thousands of facets. It would have [...]