After installation and during your first run the Samarium window may appear as shown below. It consists of a multiple document interface as well as a few other windows that provide interaction with the user. The Logger window displays the progress of the analytical model or mathematical design. The Folder window allows viewing of folders and opening of certain file types. The Multirun window provides details of the multirun. The status workspace gives an overview of the opened design file. The main window shown has two tabs and the Main tab is used for the model visualization while the Data tab is used for data visualization. The toolbars provide short cuts to the menu items. |
The window settings can be reset by loading the SamariumBCG.reg registry file into the registry at any later time.
Window with Line model
The menu items are arranged according to the usage. For analytical design runs, only the Model and Outputs menus are required. For finite element analysis, the Mesh2D, Finite element analysis, and Fields menus are required. For multiruns, the Multirun menu is required. This arrangement simplifies usage as different parts of Samarium and clearly separated. The Tools menu items contain several features that may be common to all parts of Samarium.
Window with 3-D model
The OpenGL display in the Main window does not get enabled by default to prevent a total loss of availability of design tools if the computer's OpenGL engine has any type of problems or if the OpenGL support is very poor on the particular PC you are running Samarium on.
Window showing mesh
Samarium allows complete visualization of all parts of the motor model in 2 and 3 dimensions. Meshes that are generated and the results from finite-element analysis can be easily visualized. Samarium allows zooming, panning, and rotation of all visualizations.
Window showing 3-D view of 2-D flux density from FEA
The status bar shows several useful parameters of interest. The size of the window, the polar coordinates of the mouse, the x-y coordinates of the mouse, FEA field values, mesh element number (if mesh is visible), thread running status, help, and main program status are displayed from right to left.