Hello!

Thank you for trying Student’s QuickField for Windows - 
finite-element analysis package for electrostatics, AC and DC 
magnetics, current flow, heat transfer and stress analysis.

You've probably had a chance to use some field analysis packages,
and maybe you asked yourself, why too many of them are so
inconvenient, why they always try to flood your poor HD, why you
must browse thousands and thousands of pages in manuals before
analyzing quite a simple problem. We asked ourselves too. And we
decided to prove that a rather complicated problem could be
described in ten minutes and solved in ten seconds, that one can
obtain exactly what he needs from the field picture by pressing
several buttons, that finite element stuff could be handled as
easy as a pocket calculator.

Please, try QuickField now. In fifteen minutes you will find
yourself fully comfortable with it and you will discover all the
buttons, menu items, controls, etc. exactly where your intuition
says they should be. We're sure you'll find it really easy!

In this new version we have fixed some bugs found in the previous 
4.0 release, added new features to every QuickField component and 
made our software more stable and user friendly.

QuickField 4.1 is a native Windows application designed to run on
NT 4.0 and Windows 95. To install it you have to run install.exe 
and then follow instructions displayed on screen. 

Student's QuickField 4.1 is free software. Distribution limitations
are described in the License Agreement, which is displayed at 
the installation procedure.

New Features in Version 4.1

- Command Line
  Now you can run QuickField in unattended mode, specifying the 
  list of problems in command line to be solved one by one. 
  You can use Windows system features to schedule problems to be 
  solved at specified time, e.g., at night.
  When several problems are loaded at the same time, you can 
  choose to solve all of them, or any subset of them, at once.

- Problem Tree
  The problem tree, as you normally see it to the left of QuickField 
  window, now incorporates data label trees. You can directly edit 
  material properties and boundary conditions in this view. 
  Furthermore, when you select a label in the problem tree, it 
  becomes highlighted in the model view, and vice versa; 
  giving you the ability to check correspondences between geometric 
  objects and material data assigned to them.
  

- Changing problem’s coordinate system (Cartesian or polar) or 
  length units now is immediately reflected in the Model and 
  Postprocessor views.

- Creation of a new problem is now done through a wizard, allowing
  you to choose correct problem parameters (the kind of analysis, 
  class of symmetry, coordinates, length units, etc.) while the 
  problem is created.

Model Editor

- The ‘Smart Grid’ mode changes grid size according to your zooming
  actions.

- Creating new vertices and edges with mouse is now more convenient
  and safe.

- You can select geometric objects by their labels.

Postprocessor

- Now draws field pictures faster.

- New postprocessor window inherits previous window’s setting, 
  including the contour.

- The state of the window can be saved to a file for restoring in 
  latter sessions (just as it was in version 3.4).

- You can switch between color and gray-scale pictures to prepare 
  reports for color or monochrome printers.

- Docking window for local values:
  - highlights the quantity shown with the color map;
  - allows in-place editing of point’s of interest coordinates 
    (Cartesian or polar);
  - has its own context menu, providing fast access to several 
    controls in Field Picture dialog.

- Docking legend window:
  - allows to manipulate the fill range;
  - provides selection of curves shown in X-Y plot;
  - has its own context menu;
  - can be copied to Clipboard.

- Force and torque integrals can now be calculated for stress
  analysis problem.

- Tables can be saved as text files.

- A special table containing field quantities calculated in nodes 
  of rectangular grid can be saved to file in text or binary format.


If your problem requires finer mesh - just contact us! We have
developed a much more powerful version of our software. It allows
you to solve problems with more than 100,000 degrees of freedom on
any PC! The speed of our advanced solver will meet all your
requirements. The preconditioner based on our original Geometric
Decomposition(TM) technique guarantees very high speed and very
weak correlation between the number of nodes and the required
solution time.

We are always glad to hear from you!

Please contact Student's QuickField support team at:
          Tera Analysis Europe
          Web:    www.tor.ru/quickfield
          E-mail: support@tor.spb.su
          Tel:    +7 812 316 1965
          Fax:    +7 812 110 1334

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY:
THIS SOFTWARE AND ALL THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE SOLD "AS IS".
TERA ANALYSIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED. YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS, WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY,
ADEQUACY, QUALITY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL TERA ANALYSIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT.
