Composed Non Meshed Coil Improvements

Introduction

In Flux 2021, some features have been implemented in the creation dialog box of a non meshed coil of the "Composed" type to facilitate the creation / manipulation of the list of points of the path of the coil:

  • Insert a point
  • Delete a point
  • Change the position of a point in the list
  • Reverse the order of the points
  • Import a files to define the list of points
  • Access to the formula editor

Dialog box

To facilitate the creation of composed coils (non meshed), several features are available.



Features added

  • Insert a point in the list via the button .
  • Delete a point in the list via the button (after activating one of the cells of the line to be deleted).

    The definition line of the point is fully deleted, i.e. the 3 coordinates as well as the curvature radius.

  • Move a point up or down using the buttons and (after activating one of the cells of the line to be deleted).
  • Reverse the order of the points in the table using the button (allows, among other things, to easily change the direction of the current in the coil).
  • Import a list of points contained in a TXT file in order to fill the points table with the desired list of points via the button .

    If the table already contains points, the import will overwrite them all and replace them with the list of points of the imported file.

    The file must contain 4 columns: the coordinates X, Y, Z and the value of the curvature radius. The separator can be:

    • a semicolon
    • a space
    • a tabulation

  • The button has been added on each cells to be able to use the formula editor to define the points of the path of the wished coil. Therefore, each coordinate of each point can be parameterized (also the radius of curvature).