A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell

(blog.ozeninc.com)

43 points | by peter_d_sherman 5 days ago

4 comments

  • rdtsc 5 days ago
    In case you're wondering Maxwell is a Finite Element Analysis package from Ansys for low frequency EM fields [1]. It looks quite neat. I never used it, but I worked for a competitor and we had something similar.

    [1] https://www.ansys.com/products/electronics/ansys-maxwell

  • amluto 1 hour ago
    Interestingly, a few weeks ago I fed Claude a curve from a datasheet (actually a screenshot from the web) via its UI with some of its internal tools enabled, and, with minimal prompting, it turned that plot into an interactive tool that analyzed it. (Good results took four attempts, all in the same conversation. Try 1 had JS errors and did not work at all. Tries 2 and 3 had problems with the visualization. Try 4 was usable.) Oddly, Claude corrupted some of the text in the sheet.

    I would not trust this for real work — a real tool like SheetScan is likely much more reliable and is unlikely to hallucinate data.

  • flancian 4 days ago
    File under "unexpectedly interesting and cool". I'd never seen such good visualizations of magnetic fields before, or of the magnetization process.
  • ktallett 5 days ago
    Ansys is such a powerful range of software but the guides on all features are basically non existent. (The tutorials do not count).
    • auxym 1 hour ago
      Ansys also costs 5 digits per seat per year.

      My experience working at large size company that paid those sort of sums for a different FEA software is that we got an "application engineer" assigned to us to answer any questions we had and provide needed documentation if anything was needed. He actually sat and worked from our own offices one day per week.