Re: number of points in material defintion

["David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxxxxxx>" <dmeeker@xxxxxxxx>]

--- In femm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Robert Macy" <macy@xxxx> wrote:
> I took points from manufacturer's data curve. When femm
> plotted the data, the curve did not follow the data points.
> 
> Yet, the original data was monotonic and "made sense". Please explain.
> 
> - Robert -

Even when you enter in a lot of data points, your selection of points
could be such that the program can't fit a "good" cubic spline through
the points. The program fits a cubic spline and then checks if there
are any extremas anywhere in the fit, which is the definition of a
"bad" fit. If there are any extremas, the program smooths the entered
data points using a three-point moving average algorithm. The process
is repeated until a "good" fit is obtained.

Dave.
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David Meeker
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