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[Wenjie_Wu]

I'm using ANSYS Maxwell3D to simulate the static electric field in a complex structure with a known voltage supply. In order to do the following study about the transportation of charged particles in the resulting fields solved by Maxwell3D, I need to export the resulting fields in 4 different files. These files consist of the following information:

ELIST.lis: Element index e and the corresponding material.

NODELINES.lis: Node positions n(x,y,z)

PRNSOL.lis: Potential of each node

MPLIST.lis: Considered materials and their properties

However, I can't find how to export these four files. This should be workable since I read an article and it's been done by the author: http://flc.desy.de/lcnotes/notes/localfsExplorer_read?currentPath=/afs/desy.de/group/flc/lcnotes/LC-TOOL-2013-022.pdf. Does anyone know how to make it work?

The software I'm using is ANSYS Electronics Desktop 2019 R2 (as the attached snapshot).

[icellb1]

Hi,nYou can go to field calculator, under Input column, choose the field of interest, for example, E, then click write under output column, this will output information at nodes of each mesh elementnTo export XYZ coordinates on all mesh elements in Fields Calculator: nInput>Function? Scalar, Xn Scalar>Vec?>VecXn Input>Function? Scalar, Yn Scalar>Vec?>VecYn Input>Function? Scalar, Zn Scalar>Vec?>VecZn General>+n General>+n Output>Write n

[Wenjie_Wu]

nThanks a lot for your reply.nIt turns out the interface of the current version of Garfield++ (the software used to simulate the trajectory of charged particles in an electric field) doesn't support the field map from Maxwell3D. So I think the question now becomes: is it possible to trace a charged particle in the electric field calculated by Maxwell3D?n