Basic organization of QuickField

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In QuickField, you work with several types of documents: problems, geometry models, material libraries and so on. Each document is opened into a separate window within the main application window of QuickField. You can open any number of documents at once. When switching between windows, you switch from one document to another. Only one document and one window are active at a time, so you can edit the active document. Editing actions are listed in the menu residing on the top of main window of QuickField. Menu contents are different for different document types. You can also use context-specific menus, which are available by right-button mouse click on specific items in document window.

The QuickField documents are:

• Problem corresponds to specific physical problem solved by QuickField. This document stores the general problem parameters, such as the type of analysis («Electrostatics», «Magnetostatics», «Heat transfer» and etc.) or the model type (planar or axisymmetric).

• Geometric Model is a complete description of the geometry, the part labels and the mesh of your model. Several problems may share the same model (this is particularly useful for coupling analysis).

• Property Description, or Data, documents are specific to types of analysis (Electrostatics data, Stress Analysis data, etc.) These documents store the values of material properties, loadings and boundary conditions for different part labels. Data documents can be used as material libraries for many different problems.

For the problem to be solved and analyzed, it must reference the model and data documents. For convenience, the problem can reference two data documents at once: one document containing properties for commonly used materials (material library), and another document containing data specific for the problem or group of problems.

Between sessions, QuickField documents are stored in disk files, separate file for each document. During the session, you can create new documents or open existing ones.

Using this very flexible architecture, QuickField helps you build and analyze your design problems very quickly. In analyzing a problem, the typical sequence of phases that you go through with QuickField is depicted in the flowchart below: