Maxwell Getting Started Guides

Maxwell documentation includes the following Getting Started Guides:

3D Rotational Actuator with Parametrics

This Getting Started Guide is written for Maxwell beginners and experienced users who would like to quickly familiarize themselves with the capabilities of Maxwell 3D. This guide leads you step-by-step through creating, solving, and analyzing the results of solving a 3D rotational actuator magnetostatic problem.

3-D actuator example with field and plot results

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks:

Draw a geometric model
Modify a model’s design parameters
Assign variables to a model’s design parameters
Specify solution settings for a design
Validate a design’s setup
Run a Maxwell simulation
Plot the magnetic flux density vector
Run a parametric analysis
Create an animation using saved parametric field data.

3D Transient Rotational Actuator Problem with Motion

3-D rotational actuator example with transient analysis field and plot results

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks:

Import a geometric model
Modify a model’s design parameters
Assign variables to a model’s design parameter
Specify solution settings for a design
Validate a design’s setup
Run a Maxwell simulation
Plot the magnetic flux density vector
Include motion in the simulation

2D Magnetostatic Solenoid Problem with Parametrics

This Getting Started Guide is written for Maxwell beginners and experienced users who would like to quickly familiarize themselves with the capabilities of Maxwell 2D. This guide leads you step-by-step through creating, solving, and analyzing the results of solving a 2D asymmetric solenoid magnetostatic problem with parametric analysis.

2-D Magnetostatic solenoid example with parametric force plot

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks:

Draw a geometric model
Modify a model’s design parameters
Assign variables to a model’s design parameters.
Specify solution settings for a design
Validate a design’s setup
Run a Maxwell 2D simulation
Plot the simulation results
Set up a parametric sweep analysis varying multiple solution variables
Plot families of curves of the parametric results

ECAD Integration with Maxwell 3D

This Getting Started Guide is written for Maxwell beginners and experienced users who would like to integrate HFSS 3D layouts into the Maxwell simulation environment. This guide leads you step-by-step through importing a 3D layout into Maxwell, preparing it for simulation, and then postprocessing the results. It also shows you how to incorporate an MCAD component into an imported layout.

ECAD integration with Maxwell example with layout force plot

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks:

Assign ports in a 3D layout in HFSS
Define a mesh on a 3D layout
Import a 3D layout into a Maxwell 3D transient design
Create a region and assign a boundary condition
Assign excitations.
Validate a design’s setup
Run a Maxwell simulation
Plot layout force and terminal current
Export harmonic force data
Combine a 3D layout with an MCAD component

Skin Depth Seeding

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn to use Skin Depth-Based mesh refinement for HFSS or Maxwell models to specify a number of layers and a skin depth as an alternative to modeling physical layers. The guide also shows how to use mesh plots with cut planes as well as a repurposed Model Analysis dialog box to view and obtain statistics on layering success.