FluxMotor

       Altair FluxMotor is a flexible and open pre-design tool dedicated to rotating electric machines (motors). With the software, users can flexibly use standard part libraries or custom parts to quickly build motor models, create windings, assign materials, and run a series of performance tests and result comparisons. The platform is built on state-of-the-art technologies and provides fast and accurate computation. When needed, it connects at the core level with the Altair Flux™ finite element tool to perform more advanced analyses and capture more complex phenomena.

【 Product Highlights 】

【 Advantages 】

High Efficiency

• Highly efficient working environment

• Complete motor modeling and evaluation in just a few minutes

• Quickly assess the technical and economic potential of a motor at the pre-design stage, enabling high productivity during detailed design and manufacturing

• Provides clearer, more intuitive visualization of motor performance maps

Ideal for a Wide Range of Users

• Technicians, engineers, and researchers

• Covers the entire chain from design and manufacturing to motor integration, maintenance, and training

Covers All Design Tasks

• Suitable for all user levels: beginner, intermediate, and expert

• Includes all stages: from motor performance selection and evaluation through pre-design

Accuracy Guaranteed

• FluxMotor leverages optimization techniques to effectively reduce computation time

• Builds on more than 35 years of engineering application experience from Altair Flux to ensure accurate results

• Analysis settings are tailored to each task to provide the best balance between accuracy and speed

Expandable for Advanced Analyses

• Directly export project files to Flux for advanced studies such as eccentricity, vibration and noise, and more

• Export fully parametric Flux models with existing physical property definitions, ready to be solved directly in the Flux environment

【 FluxMotor Capabilities in Detail 】

Step-by-Step Motor Design, Easy to Learn

• Always start from an existing motor template

• Progressively build the model: shaft → rotor magnets → stator slots → windings → housing

User-Oriented Winding Tools

• Four different winding modes (Auto, Easy, Advanced, Expert)

• Winding setup parameters are automatically adapted to the design task

• Auxiliary winding tools automatically compute winding characteristic parameters

• End-winding forms and connection types (Y-type and Δ-type) can be defined

Expandable Material Library

• Supports user-defined material properties: mechanical, electromagnetic, and thermal characteristics

• Easily define B(H) curves and core loss curves

Efficient Motor Component Library Management

• Built-in standard component libraries

• Provides a rich set of fully parametric models such as stator slots and magnets

User-Defined Parts (Slots, Magnets)

• Provides standard editable templates for slot or magnet parts that can be modified and customized

• External CAD can be imported via Flux Sketcher and converted into library part models

【 Powerful Project Management 】

Manage Motor Design Projects Easily in a Library Environment:

• Enhanced project management

• Quickly review existing designs

• Manage all products in one place

• Perform rapid performance comparisons

Built-In Motor Performance Testing

• FluxMotor provides dedicated testing environments for evaluating motor electrical performance

• Predefined standard test scenarios

• Rich sets of input parameters for controlling test conditions

• Test computations are based on optimization techniques

• Automatic extraction of test results

Predefined Automated Operating-Point Tests

• No-load tests: cogging torque, back-EMF

• DQ-plane maps: flux linkage, inductance, torque, core losses, etc.

• Rated-point test of overall motor performance

• Specified operating-point tests with sinusoidal or square-wave excitation

• Motor efficiency map tests

Automatic Report Generation

• Includes all design and test data

• Reports can be exported in HTML or PDF format

Seamless Integration with Flux Finite Element Software

• Motor models designed in FluxMotor can be exported directly to Flux for advanced analyses, such as dynamic behavior, thermal performance, eccentricity, vibration and noise, and drive control