Ansys Motor-CAD

Electric machine design software

Ansys Motor-CAD quickly and iteratively evaluates motor topologies and concepts to produce motor designs that are optimized for size, performance, and efficiency. Expert and non-expert motor designers alike can use their Ansys electric machine tool platform with its modern and intuitive user interface to produce faster motor designs at lower cost and higher reliability. Built by expert motor designers, the Ansys electric machine simulation tools evaluate all design constraints and targets simultaneously.

Ansys Motor-CAD has many features that include: Unparallelled speed and accuracy through specific simulation methods, tailor multiphysics capturing all critical aspects of the performance specification, and time saving through automated workflows of comprehensive templates or flexible CAD import.

The software provides tools for creating efficiency maps, which are essential for evaluating motor performance across different operating conditions. This helps in optimizing motor design for specific applications. Ansys Motor-CAD also includes powerful visualization tools that help in interpreting simulation results. Graphical representations of electromagnetic fields, temperature distributions, and mechanical stresses aid in understanding complex data.

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Key Features

Ansys Motor-CAD delivers high-fidelity, 2D/3D analysis capability enabling users to analyze end-effects, demagnetization, core loss, hysteresis and other advanced electromagnetic phenomena, calculate the thermal envelope for operation and design complete motor cooling systems

Integrates with Ansys Maxwell and other physics solvers

Ansys Motor-CAD connects to Ansys Maxwell for advanced 2D and 3D electromagnetics analysis. For electric machine noise and vibration sound prediction, Ansys Motor-CAD integrates with Mechanical and VRXPERIENCE. It also connects with Ansys CFD solvers and for cooling system design and analysis, as well as provides feedback into the Motor-CAD’s thermal model.

Ratio-based Optimization

Motor-CAD is the ideal tool to use for optimization of electric machine designs. Powerful ratio-based optimization enables the design space to be explored easily while the coupled multi-physics analysis enables evaluation of each candidate design against the complete performance specification.

Magnetic force analysis

Automatically extract and visualize magnetic forces as a function of time and space, over the full operating range. Enabling NVH analysis of a design.

Manufacturing effects and housing interface

Motor-CAD has built in knowledge to guide engineers in configuring the manufacturing effects appropriately and enables straightforward sensitivity analysis to understand the impact of manufacturing variation on performance.