Coordinate System

Coordinate System is a common feature for several electromagnetic solutions:

Coordinate System MS MSIM MT MAC ES PE SC
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3D

The documentation is common for all these EM solutions.

Introduction

The Coordinate... button contains two buttons:

  • The Create button allows to create a new coordinate system by picking meshing entities from the model. For more detail, please refer to Create
  • The button Transform allows to modify or copy an existing coordinate system by using translation or rotation. For more detail, please refer to Transform

The Coordinate system is needed to create some types of Non-Meshed Coils. For more information on Non-Meshed Coils, please refer to Non-Meshed Coil.

How to create and modify a coordinate system

The coordinate system creation is needed to define the direction and the position of some types of Non-Meshed Coils: Composed and Rectangular.

In those types of Non-Meshed Coils, by default the Global coordinate system is taken.

If the Global coordinate system is not suitable, a new local coordinate system must be created by using first Create command.

This command allows to create a rectangular or cylindrical coordinate system (spherical is not managed yet for Non-Meshed Coils) by picking meshed geometrical entities (nodes, meshed edge, meshed face,…).

Here is the Create coordinate system dialog box:

Once the coordinate system creation done, it is possible to Transform the created coordinate system either by translation or rotation.

The Transform command allows either to modify a coordinate system or to duplicate it by translation or rotation.

Here is the Transform coordinate system dialog box: