Hello!

Thank you for trying QuickField.

This is the new release of the system formerly known as ELCUT. If
you have some experience in ELCUT, please see the list of major
changes later in this file.

You've probably had a chance to use some field analysis packages,
and maybe you asked yourself, why too many of them are so
inconvenient, why they always try to flood your poor HD, why you
must browse thousands and thousands of pages in manuals before
analyzing quite a simple problem. We asked ourselves too. And we
decided to prove that a rather complicated problem could be
described in ten minutes and solved in ten seconds, that one can
obtain exactly what he needs from the field picture by pressing
several buttons, that finite element stuff could be handled as
easy as a pocket calculator.

Please, try QuickField now. In fifteen minutes you will find
yourself fully comfortable with it and you will discover all the
buttons, menu items, controls, etc. exactly where your intuition
says they should be. We're sure you'll find it really easy!

This Students' Version is SHAREWARE, so if one day you decide
your evaluation period is over, you are encouraged to register
your copy (see REG_FORM.TXT for details).

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY:
THIS SOFTWARE AND ALL THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS".
TERA ANALYSIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED. YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS, WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY,
ADEQUACY, QUALITY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL TERA ANALYSIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT.

Comparing to version 3.4 the bugs were fixed:

- Electrostatics: electrostatic displacement calculation near internal boundaries is correct.

- Magnetostatics: vector plots of H vector are now correctly displayed.

- Magnetostatics: Zero length vectors could now be exported to
graphics file without hanging up the computer.

- All types of problems: Plots along the edge are exported to graphics file
correctly.

Comparing to previous version 3.2, Students' QuickField 3.4
capabilities include:

- Solving problems of time-harmonic (AC) magnetics as well as
  corresponding coupling analyses.

- Solving coupled problems of thermo-structural, magneto-
  structural, electro-structural and electro-thermal analyses.

- New Move and Copy commands have been added which greatly
  enhance the capabilities of the Geometry Editor. With the new
  Copy command, it's very easy to create regularly repeated
  features such as poles of the multipole electric machines.
  With the new Move command you can easily perform parametric
  studies on your models, such as obtaining forces for multiple
  positions of the plunger in solenoids or torques for different
  positions of the rotor in electric motors.

- Graphical output of the field pictures and XY-plots to CGM and
  PostScript files or directly to PostScript printer.

- Extended list of length units (microns, millimeters,
  centimeters, meters, kilometers, inches, feet and miles).

- XY-plots of different quantities can be presented
  simultaneously.

- Wider set of maintained physical quantities is available (Hill
  criterion, energy density and strain components in stress
  analysis problems).

- Contents of output table file are now user-defined.

- The Zoom options are now available under X-Y plot and
  Integrals submenues as well, which makes it easier to choose
  contours in very small air gaps.

If your problem requires finer mesh--just contact us! We have
developed a much more powerful version of our software. It allows
you to solve problems with more than 100,000 degrees of freedom on
any PC! The speed of our advanced solver (50,000 nodes in 2.5
minutes on AT/486DX2, 8MB RAM, 66MHz) will meet all your
requirements. The preconditioner based on our original Geometric
Decomposition(TM) technique guarantees very high speed and very
weak correlation between the number of nodes and the required
solution time.

We are always glad to hear from you!
Please contact us:
     Worldwide:
          Tera Analysis Europe
          E-mail: support@tor.spb.su
          URL:    http://www.tor.ru/quickfield
          Tel:    +7 812 316 1965
          Fax:    +7 812 110 1334

     from North America:
          Tera Analysis Co.
          P.O. Box 571086,
          Tarzana, CA 91357
          E-mail: terainfo@tera-analysis.com
          URL:    http://www.tera-analysis.com
          Tel:    818 831 9662
          Fax:    805 493 2172