Version 1.0.5.9

The present version is 1.0.5.9

The release date is December 14, 2007.

- Made several small improvements. Code freeze here until next release.

Version 1.0.5.8

The present version is 1.0.5.8

The release date is December 11, 2007.

- Made several improvements to the field plotting.

- Added Gradient Recovery field plot option and contour options. This is only for first order meshes.

Version 1.0.5.7

The present version is 1.0.5.7

The release date is November 28, 2007.

- Added Adaptive FEA that automatically generates finer mesh in areas of larger error. h-Adaptive refinement is used where elements are made smaller.

- Prevented some boundary nodes from being relocated during smoothing.

- Modified "Use saturation"  option in FEA so that one of the materials can be plain air or vacuum.

Version 1.0.5.6

The present version is 1.0.5.6

The release date is November 17, 2007.

- Made several improvements in AVI export and in Graph modules.

- Added A Posteriori error estimation based on gradient of the scalar magnetic potential.

Version 1.0.5.5

The present version is 1.0.5.5

The release date is October 21, 2007.

- Added support for multiple views for multirun operations.

Version 1.0.5.4

The present version is 1.0.5.4

The release date is October 21, 2007.

- Fixed all display lists so they are part of the View. Multiple views should work properly from now. Involved major internal changes to the View classes.

Version 1.0.5.3

The present version is 1.0.5.3

The release date is October 17, 2007.

- Fixed all mesh and line drawing display lists so they can reside in multiple views. Major changes in display list processing.

Known issue

- Multiple windows for viewing OpenGL graphics do not work correctly in all cases. Will be fixed shortly.

Version 1.0.5.2

The present version is 1.0.5.2

The release date is September 28, 2007.

- Added B-Mu_r graph to Database Inspector.

- Made changes in boundary condition application in certain partial motor models resulting in more accurate results.

Known issue

- Multiple windows for viewing OpenGL graphics do not work correctly. Will be fixed shortly.

Version 1.0.5.1

The present version is 1.0.5.1

The release date is August 07, 2007.

- Added analytical and full fixture magnetostatic FEA capability for Cobalt magnetizing fixture design.

- Fixed the bug causing crash when plotting lam steel loss curves.

- Fixed a small bug in partial motor mesh generation that produced bad meshes under certain cases.

Version 1.0.5.0

The present version is 1.0.5.0

The release date is July 24, 2007.

- Extended steady state 2D thermal analysis for outer rotor, slotted motors. Only full motor models are available for thermal models as of now.

- Fixed a minor bug with the Logger vertical scroll bar.

- Made minor improvements in all mesh related display lists.

- Fixed some bugs in mesh generation material markers for outer rotating motors. All appear at unique locations now.

- Fixed an annoying bug with outer rotor motor 3D slotted stator models with skew where the liner and winding were not displayed correctly. This bug was fixed earlier and somehow had made its way back into Samarium

Version 1.0.4.9

The present version is 1.0.4.9

The release date is July 17, 2007.

- Added steady state 2D thermal analysis without radiation, with convection for inner rotor, slotted motors.

- Added cancel option when pixel by pixel actual interpolation is used so user can abort the operation if it is taking too long. No need to close down the application and loose all data anymore.

- Moved Language menu to the Tools menu.

- Fixed bug where application would crash when Colormap was changed when FEA data was not available.

Version 1.0.4.8

The present version is 1.0.4.8

The release date is July 13, 2007.

Code freeze at this point. This is the version that is available for release until updated.

- Added additional UI messages in multiple languages

Version 1.0.4.7

The present version is 1.0.4.7

The release date is June 26, 2007.

- Added partial Japanese language support for UI

- Fixed some small bugs

Version 1.0.4.6

The present version is 1.0.4.6

The release date is June 20, 2007.

- Several dialog boxes and property pages have been modified to accommodate strings in multiple languages.

Version 1.0.4.5

The present version is 1.0.4.5

The release date is June 07, 2007.

- Added video export capability and associated support methods and files. Refinement is continuing.

Version 1.0.4.4

The present version is 1.0.4.4

The release date is May 30, 2007.

- Added user defined torque units for output graphs displaying torque.

- Made some minor changes.

Version 1.0.4.3

The present version is 1.0.4.3

The release date is May 10, 2007.

- Fixed Unicode formatting error of screen size in Main window.

- Fixed Unicode screen text printing issues from the OpenGL engine.

- Fixed Unicode launch of certain Windows tools like Notepad, Calculator, etc.

- Fixed a bug where Samarium would crash if Cobalt was enabled and disabled and then the input property pages were called. Memory allocation problems for the winding arrays caused this.

- Fixed problem with slot liner when tooth tip width is almost equal to the tooth width. Liner can now be used when motor does not have any tooth tips.

- Fixed copper loss calculations with Sine drive, earlier calculations used the same equations of the 6-step drive.

- Added automatic disabling of reusable initial conditions for partial motor mesh multiruns.

- Added surface integration method of torque calculations for quadrilateral air gap elements.

- Air gap layers can optionally be hidden when viewing raw input data for mesh and FEA.

- Added toolbar for the Logger window with some new features.

- Added Laplacian smoothing option for triangular mesh, results in improved element shape metrics.

- Added measuring capability when objects are parallel to screen. Angles and length between two points can be obtained using the mouse and enabling "Measure".

Version 1.0.4.2

The present version is 1.0.4.2

The release date is May 09, 2007.

- Some minor adjustments and freeze. (Added full archive capability, newer version will not be compatible with older version loading FEA data. A converter will be made available (only if required).)

Version 1.0.4.1

The present version is 1.0.4.1

The release date is May 07, 2007.

- Migration to Unicode has been completed with all relevant support modules. Feature development will continue shortly.

- Due to Unicode migration, versions later than v1.0.3.9 will require another license generation process and users will have to run the License generator application on their computers again.

- Additional language support process has been initialized.

Version 1.0.4.0

The present version is 1.0.4.0

The release date is April 19, 2007.

- Multiple internal changes will occur here. Development of features has been suspended until all internal changes are completed. v1.0.3.9 is available for use.

- Added surface integral method of calculating torque from FEA results (attributed to Dr. Antero Arkkio).

- Fixed small bugs in air gap layer positions for partial motors.

Version 1.0.3.9

The present version is 1.0.3.9

The release date is April 17, 2007.

- Fixed a bug in magnet wire weight which was introduced with custom windings.

- Fixed a bug in eddy current calculation with a 1e-8 factor for steel resistivity. This error was introduced via the database. Database has also been fixed.

Version 1.0.3.8

The present version is 1.0.3.8

The release date is April 13, 2007.

- Added reusable mesh for partial motor models. Only the air gap layer is fixed. Other parts of the motor are re-meshed at each step.

- Fixed some bugs in partial motor input data generation.

- Added auto checking of node connectivity vector sizes to add robustness. Recursive increase in size is performed until all connected nodes are included

Version 1.0.3.7

The present version is 1.0.3.7

The release date is March 31, 2007.

- Fixed rotating/ non-rotating region bug in partial motor model with multiple air gap layers.

- Adjusted the differential length 'dl' during force calculation after FEA so it is more accurate.

- Added quadrilateral element option for the air gap (only first order elements are supported now). Quadrilateral element FEA data cannot be saved to file as this is still under test.

Quadrilateral elements in air gap

Version 1.0.3.6

The present version is 1.0.3.6

The release date is March 30, 2007.

- Fixed a bug where the stator material definition point for outer rotor motors was incorrect for partial motor model mesh generation.

- Fixed a bug where the stator edge nodes did not match for partial model outer rotor motors for FEA.

- Fixed a related bug where the end points of the rotor for partial rotor motors with arc magnets were marked incorrectly as part of the air gap.

Version 1.0.3.5

The present version is 1.0.3.5

The release date is March 17, 2007.

- Added x-y-z axes direction indicators in OpenGL mode. Options are in the Display properties.

- Changed the mesh area definitions to be based on stator OD and refined the mesh density default numbers.

- Added option to turn on or off full motor FEA calculations when a partial motor model has been used.

- Increased maximum number of nodes for FEA to 500,000 (500k) from 100k.

- Fixed some bugs in FEA torque calculations.

- Fixed issue with multirun tree updates when threads are terminated.

Version 1.0.3.4

The present version is 1.0.3.4

The release date is March 10, 2007.

- Added basic checks for proper motor dimensions in input data. Dialog provides indication of which parameter is incorrect.

- Fixed a bug in FEA post processing routine for torque when 'one electrical cycle' was turned on.

- Upgraded install method so smooth installation is possible in most PCs.

Version 1.0.3.0

The present version is 1.0.3.0

The release date is February 15, 2007.

- Implemented custom winding capability for slotted motors. Three phase imbalanced windings can now be simulated. But all coils have the same number of turns. Mutual inductances for imbalanced windings has to be updated, this will be done soon.

- Added some parameters for wye-delta calculations under user control.