Automated Design of a Correction Dipole Magnet for LHC

A correction dipole magnet, with a horizontal dipole nested inside a vertical dipole has been designed and optimized linking together different electromagnetic software and CAD/CAM systems. The necessary interfaces have recently been established in the program ROXIE which has been developed at CERN for the automatic generation and optimization of superconducting coil geometries. The program provides, in addition to a mathematical optimization chest, interfaces to commercial electromagnetic and structural software packages, CAD/CAM and databases. The results from electromagnetic calculations with different programs have been compared. Some modelling considerations to reduce the computation time are also given.