"See? If you'd built that prototype, you'd have fried the magnets on the first dyno test. Now, let's fix it."
He dragged a slider. Instantly, the winding temperature shot up to 180°C—past the Class H insulation limit.
That's when their senior engineer, Marcus, walked in. "You two are still working in the dark ages. Have you tried ?"
He pulled up the software. Within minutes, he had imported a basic geometry—stator slots, windings, a hairpin-style rotor. He clicked "Analyze." In under , Motor-CAD returned a full electromagnetic torque-speed curve.
Her colleague, Tom, leaned over. "You're going to kill yourself building prototypes. Last time we spun a physical rotor, it took six weeks and cost $40,000."
"That's it?" Tom asked, stunned.
"That's the 'Motor' part of Motor-CAD," Marcus explained. "But watch this." He switched tabs to the module. The screen filled with a color-coded 3D mesh of the motor—blue at the housing, orange at the windings, red-hot at the end windings.