1 Introduction - Finite Element Method Magnetics

Figure 27: Input geometry in the region of the air gap.
Figure 28: Solution with integration contour defined in the region of the air gap.
5.12 Exporting of Graphics
Ultimately, you will probably want to export graphics from FEMM for inclusion in reports and so
on. It is possible to get what you are seeing on the screen onto disk in several different graphics
formats.
Probably the easiest way to get graphics out of femmview is to use the Copy as Bitmap or
Copy as Metafile selections off of the main menu’s Edit list. These command takes whatever is
currently in the femmview window and copies it to the clipboard as a Device Independent Bitmap
(.bmp format) and Extended Metafile (.emf format), respectively. The clipboard data can then be
pasted directly into most applications (e.g. Word, MS Paint, etc).
LATEXafficionados typically find PostScript to be the most useful type of graphics output.
FEMM does not support postscript output directly, but it is still relatively easy to create postcript
figures with FEMM. To obtain a postscript version of the current view, you first must set up a
postscript printer driver that outputs to File:. This is done via the following steps:
1. Choose Settings/Printers off of the Windows Start menu. A window containing the list
of currently defined printers will appear.
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