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Flux installation guide
This document provides instructions for Flux installation on supported platforms.
Flux installation guide
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.
Required Hardware Configuration
This section presents the hardware configurations required for Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor 2024.1.

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.
    - Supported Operating Systems
      This section presents the operating systems supported by Altair Flux & FluxMotor 2024.1.
    - Required Hardware Configuration
      This section presents the hardware configurations required for Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor 2024.1.
  - 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.

Required Hardware Configuration

This section presents the hardware configurations required for Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor 2024.1.

Processor

The processors required to run Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor should have the following characteristics:


Element	Characteristics
Processor	Intel or AMD 64 bits multi-core

Minimum configuration (hard disk and RAM)

The minimum configuration required to run Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor are:


	Flux 2D & FluxMotor	Flux Skew/3D	Flux PEEC
Hard disk	250 GiB	500 GiB	50 GiB
RAM	8 GiB	16 GiB	16 GiB

Recommended configuration (hard disk and RAM)

The recommended configuration required to run Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC & FluxMotor are:


	Flux 2D & FluxMotor	Flux Skew/3D	Flux PEEC
Hard disk	500 GiB	1 TiB	100 GiB
RAM	16 GiB	64 GiB	64 GiB

Graphic card for Altair Flux

The graphic cards required to run Altair Flux 2D, Skew, 3D and PEEC should have the following characteristics:


Element	Characteristics
Graphic card	OPENGL V2.0 compatible for an optimal graphic quality (see below) NVIDIA chipset recommended

Altair Flux uses the OPENGL V2.0 graphic technology. This technology provides improved rendering and smoother motion when moving objects.

This technology requires:

the use of a graphic card compatible with OPENGL V2.0
the latest version of the graphic card driver supplied by the manufacturer

A summary of the conditions of use is presented in the table below:


Conditions of use
Installation of a graphic card compatible with OPENGL V2.0: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 and higher ATI Radeon X1300 and higher
Installation of the latest version of the card driver For NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html For ATI: http://amd.com

Warning: The use of graphic chipsets with shared memory is not recommended.

It is preferable to use graphic chipsets with dedicated memory.