Programming with QuickField

QuickField is recognized as one of the most efficient and user-friendly finite element analysis packages available. At the same time, it is a very efficient platform for developing custom engineering applications that call the QuickField finite element engine. Such applications can be written in almost any modern programming language — Visual Basic, Visual C, VBA (part of Microsoft Office), scripting technologies such as Python, or higher-level simulation systems such as MATLAB — where the implemented algorithm can create or modify a QuickField finite element model and use its simulation results.

There are two main ways for other programs to interact with the QuickField engine: the low-level QuickField Object Model (called ActiveField), and the high-level parametric interface (using the LabelMover tool). Together, the object model and the parametric interface provide a complete feature set that lets QuickField users:

• Automate repetitive work
• Automate parametric geometry definition for a specific class of models
• Automate the computation of specific results
• Make field simulation one step in a more complex task
• Use QuickField together with Microsoft Office, MATLAB, AutoCAD and other specialized tools in a unified development environment to solve specific problems