Using Maxwell SV for Ion Engines

[jlcaldwell82]

I had a question about the Maxwell SV program and was hopping someone might be able to answer it for me. Using the Maxwell program I have made a whole bunch of different cases of magnet geometries for an 8cm Ion Engine and they all seem to be good. The only problem is that when I try save the plots information I either get unreadable files or files I can open in excel but it are not of any use to me because the data isn’t in any format that can be used to extract various gauss lines. I was hopping you might know how to get the plot information out of Maxwell and into a text file or even excel in a data fashion that MATLAB could then use to get various gauss lines in terms of x and y coordinates. I know that there is a way to do this because a previous student’s work on this had output files that were useable from there plots. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Navin A S]

Unfortunately, I do not have a specific answer to your question as I am not familiar with Maxwell SV. However, I would suggest reaching out to the developers of the software directly for help with this issue as they may have a better understanding of how the data is saved and how to get it into the format you need for MATLAB. Additionally, you may want to contact the previous student who worked on this project and see if they can provide any insight on how they managed to get the data into the desired format.