EMS for SOLIDWORKS helps bearing designers to size their magnetic arrays to support various designs of the shaft (basically different weights). This way the bearing can ensure optimum performance. Another advantage of a magnetic bearing is that it can support offset of the inner cylindrical array wrt to the stationary outer cylinder.
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The N-S directions of each magnet is indicated by the black arrows. This type of arrangement can be easily created in EMS and the magnetic flux distribution and the axial force acting on the inner array can be visualized and computed respectively.
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