Hello! Thank you for trying Student’s QuickField for Windows - finite-element analysis package for electrostatics, AC and DC magnetics, current flow, heat transfer and stress analysis. You've probably had a chance to use some field analysis packages, and maybe you asked yourself, why too many of them are so inconvenient, why they always try to flood your poor HD, why you must browse thousands and thousands of pages in manuals before analyzing quite a simple problem. We asked ourselves too. And we decided to prove that a rather complicated problem could be described in ten minutes and solved in ten seconds, that one can obtain exactly what he needs from the field picture by pressing several buttons, that finite element stuff could be handled as easy as a pocket calculator. Please, try QuickField now. In fifteen minutes you will find yourself fully comfortable with it and you will discover all the buttons, menu items, controls, etc. exactly where your intuition says they should be. We're sure you'll find it really easy! In this new version we have fixed some bugs found in the previous 4.0 release, added new features to every QuickField component and made our software more stable and user friendly. QuickField 4.1 is a native Windows application designed to run on NT 4.0 and Windows 95. To install it you have to run install.exe and then follow instructions displayed on screen. Student's QuickField 4.1 is free software. Distribution limitations are described in the License Agreement, which is displayed at the installation procedure. New Features in Version 4.1 - Command Line Now you can run QuickField in unattended mode, specifying the list of problems in command line to be solved one by one. You can use Windows system features to schedule problems to be solved at specified time, e.g., at night. When several problems are loaded at the same time, you can choose to solve all of them, or any subset of them, at once. - Problem Tree The problem tree, as you normally see it to the left of QuickField window, now incorporates data label trees. You can directly edit material properties and boundary conditions in this view. Furthermore, when you select a label in the problem tree, it becomes highlighted in the model view, and vice versa; giving you the ability to check correspondences between geometric objects and material data assigned to them. - Changing problem’s coordinate system (Cartesian or polar) or length units now is immediately reflected in the Model and Postprocessor views. - Creation of a new problem is now done through a wizard, allowing you to choose correct problem parameters (the kind of analysis, class of symmetry, coordinates, length units, etc.) while the problem is created. Model Editor - The ‘Smart Grid’ mode changes grid size according to your zooming actions. - Creating new vertices and edges with mouse is now more convenient and safe. - You can select geometric objects by their labels. Postprocessor - Now draws field pictures faster. - New postprocessor window inherits previous window’s setting, including the contour. - The state of the window can be saved to a file for restoring in latter sessions (just as it was in version 3.4). - You can switch between color and gray-scale pictures to prepare reports for color or monochrome printers. - Docking window for local values: - highlights the quantity shown with the color map; - allows in-place editing of point’s of interest coordinates (Cartesian or polar); - has its own context menu, providing fast access to several controls in Field Picture dialog. - Docking legend window: - allows to manipulate the fill range; - provides selection of curves shown in X-Y plot; - has its own context menu; - can be copied to Clipboard. - Force and torque integrals can now be calculated for stress analysis problem. - Tables can be saved as text files. - A special table containing field quantities calculated in nodes of rectangular grid can be saved to file in text or binary format. If your problem requires finer mesh - just contact us! We have developed a much more powerful version of our software. It allows you to solve problems with more than 100,000 degrees of freedom on any PC! The speed of our advanced solver will meet all your requirements. The preconditioner based on our original Geometric Decomposition(TM) technique guarantees very high speed and very weak correlation between the number of nodes and the required solution time. We are always glad to hear from you! Please contact Student's QuickField support team at: Tera Analysis Europe Web: www.tor.ru/quickfield E-mail: support@tor.spb.su Tel: +7 812 316 1965 Fax: +7 812 110 1334 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: THIS SOFTWARE AND ALL THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS". TERA ANALYSIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS, WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, QUALITY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT. 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