Capabilities in SIMION

• Refine
• Enhancements
• Anisotropically Scaled Grid Cells in SIMION
  • Overview
  • Purpose of Anisotropic Scaling
  • Purpose of Storing Cell Lengths in PA Files
  • PA Changes
  • Effect on Refine
  • Effect on the Workbench and View Screen
  • Effect on Magnetic Arrays (ng Scaling Constant)
  • Effect on the Fly’m
  • PA File Format
  • IOB Format Changes
  • Refine
  • Geometry Files
  • STL Import
  • User Programs
  • Lua Potential Array Interface
  • SL Libraries
  • Double and Halve Functions
  • 3D Visualization
  • Gradient Contour Plots
  • Other Assorted Changes
  • Other [FIX-TODO] Items
  • See Also
  • Changes
• Electrode Surface Enhancement / Fractional Grid Units
  • Status
  • Modify Screen
  • View Screen
  • Fly’m
  • Usage / GEM files
  • Usage / STL Files
  • Usage / Lua PA API
  • PA Format
  • Performance
  • Caveats
  • Older Notes
  • History
  • See Also
• PA Antimirroring
• Additional Fast Proportional Scaling Solutions
  • Rationale
  • Overview
  • Description
  • See Also
• Poisson Solver in SIMION
  • Overview
  • Applications
  • Version Requirements
  • Math
  • SIMION Array Modeling
  • Effect of Scaling After Refining
  • Calculation Method
  • Usage
  • Comments on Fast Adjust (.PA#) Files
  • Comments on magnetic arrays (experimental)
  • Computing charge density from trajectories
  • Charge density smoothing
  • Performance
  • Thermionic Cathodes
  • Examples
  • Problems
  • Current Limitations / Caveats
  • History/changes
  • See Also
• How do I disable relativistic effects?
• Neumann Boundary Condition
• Physical Constants
• Editing SIMION Text Files
  • Introduction
  • A Summary of SIMION support in SciTE, Emacs, and VIM
  • The SciTE Editor - Installation
  • The VIM Editor - Installation
    • The VIM Editor - Optional Tweaks
  • The Emacs Editor - Installation
    • The Emacs Editor - Optional Tweaks
    • ZeroBrane Editor
    • Notepad++
    • Sublime Text
  • Conclusion
  • Older Notes (SIMION 7)
• Plotting Fields
  • PE and Contour Functions in View Screen
  • 3D OpenGL Color PA Plots
• Geometry Input Methods
  • Notes on Modify
  • See Also
• Particle Initial Conditions
  • Lambert Cosine Emission
  • Overview
  • User Programming Examples
  • Lambert Cosine
  • Procedure for creating a .ION file in Excel
  • Flying ions in the reverse direction or other ion transformations
  • Mass and Charge Limits
  • See Also
• Particle Trajectory Calculations
  • Overview
  • Background
  • Questions
  • Count/detection
  • Measure beam
  • Particle definition
  • Particle control
  • Time step control
  • Custom physics
  • Multiple runs or flym segment
  • Trajectory Display
  • Fields seen by particles
  • Output logging
  • See Also
• Data Import/Export
• Trajectory Data Recording
  • Exporting “data recording” results to text file
  • Postprocessing Output Files
• Importing and Exporting Field and Potential Array Data
  • Exporting Data
  • Importing Data
  • See Also
• Cookbook of SIMION User Programming Examples
  • Additional Examples
    • Periodically update potential energy display
    • Print Electrode Values
    • efield_adjust
    • Suppress fringe fields or compare to ideal field
• Lua
• How do I run Lua code in SIMION?
• Lua Cookbook
• Manipulating SIMION Potential Arrays Programmatically
  • Abstract
  • Problem
  • The C++ solution
  • The Python Solution
  • The Perl Solution
  • The Lua Solution
  • Conclusion
• Movie Files
• Test Plane
• Markers
• Optimization
  • Screenshots
  • Genetic Algorithms
• SL Tools
  • See Also
  • Tutorial
    • SL Tools Tutorial
      • Abstract
      • Introduction
      • Installation
        • System Requirements
        • Installation
      • Converting from 3D CAD (STL) Format to PA format
      • Converting from a 2D Bitmap (BMP/PNG/JPEG/PNM) to PA Format
      • Converting a PA File to ASCII Text
      • Converting from ASCII Text to a PA File
      • Converting a PA File to STL
      • The Quick Viewer
      • Advanced: Command-line Usage
      • Conclusion
    • Converting from 3D CAD (STL) Format to PA Format
      • Conversion Options
      • Accuracy
      • Assigning Voltages to Electrodes
      • Mixing GEM and STL Files
      • More CAD Package Specific Hints
      • Dielectric Material
      • Manipulating STL Files
      • Major Changes
• Using QuickField with SIMION
  • Introduction
    • Why Import?
    • SIMION and QuickField Versions
    • SIMION-QuickField Toolbar
  • Methods of Import
    • The basic approach
    • Import Magnetic Vector Potential A
    • Import B Field Vector Components
    • Importing from QuickField into a SIMION PA - Using the Toolbar
    • Exporting from QuickField Manually for Subsequent Import into a SIMION PA
    • Importing from QuickField into a SIMION PA - Using the Programming API
    • Reading Fields Directly in Real-Time through ActiveField
    • Reading Fields (or Geometry) Directly from the QuickField Finite Element Mesh
  • Viewing the Fields in SIMION
    • Plotting with the Contour Library
  • Applying the B Field to Particles
  • Program Templates
  • Accuracy and Other Conversion Tips
    • Checking the Conversion
    • Pole/Non-Pole PA Point Types and Particle Splatting
    • Converting Magnetic Vector Potential to Magnetic Scalar Potential
  • Controlling QuickField from SIMION
  • Ordering
  • Future Improvements
  • Changes/History
  • See Also
• Using Poisson Superfish with SIMION
  • Why Import?
  • SIMION and Poisson Superfish Versions
  • Methods of Import
    • The basic approach
    • Import vector magnetic potential
    • Import B Field Vector Components
  • Exporting from Poisson Superfish
  • Converting to a SIMION PA
  • Viewing the PA in SIMION
  • Applying the B Field to Particles
  • Plotting with the Contour Library
  • Checking the Conversion
  • Pole/Non-Pole PA Point Types and Particle Splatting
  • Drawing Regions
  • Converting Magnetic Vector Potential to Magnetic Scalar Potential
  • Reading Fields Directly from the Binary Solution File (.T35)
  • See Also
• Excel
• Early Access Mode
• Engineering Tolerance
• Off-Axis Misalignments in 2D Cylindrical Symmetry
• See Also