In our three-dimensional magnetic field code Magnum, electromagnets are driven by coil assemblies created with the MagWinder utility. A coil assembly is a large set of filamentary current elements to represent windings of any shape or degree of complexity. In previous versions of MagView, the superposition of current element information on standard mesh and facet plots [...]
Updates are the dark underbelly of software ethics. Most commercial programs are relatively mature, with sufficient features to satisfy almost all users. Nonetheless, there is an economic conundrum when you make a product that never wears out. So software vendors must continually hype specialized features to create a desire for a new (but effectively identical) product. [...]
Most of us see the tech help procedure from the recipient end, but I wanted to share the view from the giver perspective. I recently got a succession of E mail and telephone messages from a user who was trying to complete a Trak solution for electron flow under an intense deadline set by his funding [...]
We are releasing updates of all programs in our catalog through the month of October. We have made improvements to all packages with major changes to the TriComp (2D) programs. The new version numbers are TriComp 7.0, AMaze 3.1 and GamBet 2.2.
The following general improvements apply to all packages:
We added bitmap buffering for displays in all [...]
The generation of attractive and accurate three-dimensional views of meshes, particle orbits and calculated quantities was a challenge in creating 3D finite-element programs in our AMaze series. The standard approach to 3D graphics is to use a library like OpenGL where surfaces are approximated with the the minimum number of facets that provide a psychologically-satisfying sense [...]