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Yes, your choices are very good. Other than
OPERA I have tried or actually leased all of them. I hesitated with OPERA
because I am a machine designer and they have not paid as much attention to
machines. The others provide varying degrees of assistance to us "old
time" motor designers..Ansoft trying the hardest lately with an analytical front
end. Each has isses, mostly commercial / support / ease of use. In
fact, the easiest to use was IES but the answers were inconsistent from model to
model and did not agree with finite element. I could not recommend one
over the other. I would say the solvers are all robust.
I could go on. Anyway, I'm glad you were
amused.
Dave, I don't know if you get enough praise and
thanks for your work. It would be, is, great to have an open source
finite element program available. It would also be nice if it were to
develop like a "Netscape" and the magnetics community could improve and expand
it. But alas that is not an easy task. I only wish I could
contribute more but my expertise in the theory and math is limited. Anyway
thanks for your time, work, and creativity. Best of luck in
2001.
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