What's New in QuickField 4.3

This article is addressed to users of previous versions of QuickField. It contains brief description of new options and capabilities. Since all these features are described later in more details, you can skip this section, if you are new to QuickField.

The main new features introduced in QuickField 4.3 are:

ActiveField Technology™

ActiveField (TM) Technology extends the possibilities of usual FEA program by converting it to a flexible development platform for engineering applications.

In addition to the features of previous QuickField versions ways of your control over our software are not restricted by its graphical user interface any longer. You also could develop your own custom-made applications, interacting with QuickField core through Automation (former known as OLE Automation).

The most important benefits of ActiveField technology:

Most of modern development environments supports this technology. Among them are Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Visual C++, Borland Delphi and many other.

The core components of the ActiveField Technology are QuickField Object Model, ActiveField Techonlogy Examples and QuickField Parametric Workbench:

The QuickField Object Model is implemented as COM Automation classes and interfaces. Therefore, scripting languages like Microsoft Visual Basic as well as Visual J++ and Visual C++ applications can access the QuickField objects.

  1. The Magn1 Tutorial consisting of three lessons. Each lesson explains how to define and solve our old Magn1 example utilizing several possible approaches of ActiveField technology.
  2. Three more advanced examples demonstrate ActiveField use with Microsoft Word (Cable sample), combination of different analysis types (Slot-Tooth sample) and Workbench use for a real world problem - design of the switched reluctance motor (SRM sample).
  1. Workbench Wizard for interactive authoring a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 code. Each module implements a parameterized model with predefined set of input and output parameters.
  2. Workbench application for running several models with different input parameters.

To see the ActiveField on-line manual please run the ActiveField.chm help file in your QuickField folder or visit active.quickfield.com.