Since version 2026, Flux 3D and Flux PEEC are no longer available.
Please use SimLab to create a new 3D project or to import an existing Flux 3D project.
Please use SimLab to create a new PEEC project (not possible to import an existing Flux PEEC project).
/!\ Documentation updates are in progress – some mentions of 3D may still appear.
3D Overlay
Flux has predefined models for rotating machines via Overlays allowing to describe a geometry, a mesh and a physics adapted to the wished machine.
Introduction
For several versions, Flux has 2D overlay dedicated to motor applications. The user thus has a bank of motor configurable and quickly obtains of geometries using just few parameters.
Overlays 3D is available for two motor types:
- BPM (brushless permanent magnet)
- IMD (induction motor).
What is a motor 3D Overlay?
A dedicated interface adapted to the vocabulary of the user:
- Number of slots, radius of rotor and stator, number of turns of windings, …
- Possibility to define the whole motor with a few number of parameters
- Mesh is done automatically
- Winding definition tool:
- Possibility to easily define classical windings
- Assignment between coil and region automatically done
- Possibility to import a SPEED Model
- Available for BPM (surface, interior and insert magnet) and IMD (induction motor).