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Flux installation guide
This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.
Flux installation guide
Installation on Linux - Altair Flux only
This chapter deals with the installation on Linux of Altair Flux 2024.1.
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Welcome
User guide
The user guide gives information about principles and how to use Altair® Flux® 2024.1.
What's new?
See the release notes of the last and previous versions, with the necessary information on new features.
"How to" Documents
See a list of documents to understand how to use certain features.
Altair Flux Videos
Several youtube videos about how to use Altair Flux and several tip and tricks
Flux Supervisor
The Flux supervisor allows to run projects, examples, pythons scripts; to configure user preferences; to access tools...
Flux
Flux is a finite element software for low-frequency electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Both, 2D and 3D solutions are available...
Flux Skew
Flux Skew is a module dedicated to the analysis of rotating electric machines with skewing, allowing a straightforward geometric and physical description in 2D and the consideration of continuous or step skewing effects.
Flux PEEC
Flux PEEC is a 3D modeling module dedicated to electrical interconnections of power electronics devices. It also provides RLC extraction and generation of SPICE-like equivalent circuits.
Material Identification
The Material Identification tool is based on the Altair Compose environment and allows determining from measurements the parameters and coefficients required to create a material in Flux.
Altair Material Datacenter (AMDC)
AMDC is a comprehensive material database maintained by Altair and partner suppliers of engineering materials. Ready-to-use, Flux-compatible models may be obtained directly from this database for a growing number of materials.
Material Manager
Flux has a material manager with its own material base.The user can create his own material base and import them into the Flux models to be studied.
Flux e-Machine Toolbox
FeMt is a application in Flux dedicated for Electric Machine which permits to compute and postprocess results like efficiency maps.
Flux Examples
See the lists of examples 2D, 3D, SKEW and PEEC with all available documents and all project and python files.
Flux in SimLab Examples
See the lists of 2D and 3D SimLab examples using the Flux and Mipse solvers, with all available documents, *.slb databases and all script files.
Mementos
See a list of Memento documents to understand certain Flux features.
Macros
Flux proposes several macros enabling doing actions that are not yet implemented in Flux.
PyFlux Documentation (Beta version)
This documentation deals with the Jython script used in Flux and allows to understand the various structures of entities and functions, and use it in user scripts for example.
Flux installation guide
This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.
- Flux installation guide
  - Introduction
  - System Requirements
    Before you install Altair Flux & FluxMotor 2024.1, we recommend that you verify that your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements.
  - Installation on Windows - Altair Flux & FluxMotor
    This chapter deals with the installation on Windows of Altair Flux & FluxMotor 2024.1.
  - Installation on Linux - Altair Flux only
    This chapter deals with the installation on Linux of Altair Flux 2024.1.
  - Uninstallation
Flux Starting Guide
Several short videos to start with Flux.

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In order to install Altair Flux Version 2024.1, follow these instructions:

Close all the applications in use
Download the Altair Flux 2024.1 installer: hwFlux2024.1_linux64.bin

from the Altair One site: https://altairone.com/

And save it locally
Execute the file hwFlux2024.1_linux64.bin
- Select a language
- Click on the OK button
In the Altair Flux 2024.1 – Linux 64-bit window (License Agreement panel):
- Read through the license agreement and if you accept the terms of the License Agreement, then check the I accept the terms of the License Agreement box
- Click on the Next button to start with the Altair Flux 2024.1 installation
In the next Altair Flux 2024.1 – Linux 64-bit window (Introduction panel):
- Read the introduction and click on the Next button to continue with the Altair Flux 2024.1 installation
In the next Altair Flux 2024.1 – Linux 64-bit window (Choose Install Folder panel):
- Choose an installation directory:
  - By default:
    - with an unprivileged account: the installation directory is /home/<username>/2024.1
    - with the root account: the installation directory is /root/2024.1
  - You can specify another installation directory, however, make sure that the full directory path does not include any special characters, then click on the Choose button
- Click on the Next button to continue with the Altair Flux 2024.1 installation
In the next Altair Flux 2024.1 – Linux 64-bit window (Pre-Installation Summary panel):
- Review the installation details and click on the Install button to start the Altair Flux 2024.1 installation
In the last Altair Flux 2024.1 – Linux 64-bit window (Install Complete panel):
- Click on the Done button to complete the Altair Flux 2024.1 installation and exit the installer