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Chapter 07 · The knowledge map of the store
Everything Polymagnet sells
polymagnet.com is a Shopify storefront with roughly 200 SKUs. This page maps all of it — what each thing is, what it costs, and what it’s for — as a knowledge resource. To buy any of it, go to polymagnet.com; this site sells nothing.
Start here: the Demo Kit — $149
Polymagnet Demo Kit 1002031 · $149
The canonical introduction — eight magnet pairs plus tools, each demonstrating one behavior:
- High-Force pair (contact strength) · Controlled-Field pair (attenuation) · a conventional pair for comparison
- Spring · Latch · Twist-Release · Spring-Latch combo · Rotational-Align pairs
- A steel plate and green magnetic viewing film — hold the film over any pair and the printed maxel pattern appears as a visible texture.
Individual demo pairs sell separately: Conventional $16 · High-Force $21 · Rotational-Align $42 · Spring / Latch / Twist / Spring-Latch $52 each. Viewing film $16 (small) / $91 (large). Function pairs run $7–$45.
The store, collection by collection
| Collection | What it is |
|---|---|
| demonstrators | The behavior demo pairs above — the feel-it-yourself tier. |
| align / spring / latch / detent / twist-release | Function pairs by behavior — the parts behind the datasheet numbers (1002300 twist ~$35/pair; 1002288 spring-latch; 1002289 slide-release bar). |
| attach / high-performance-attach / torque | Holding and coupling parts, including the licensed Max-Attach® line via Industrial Magnetics (28 sizes, 8–96 lb). |
| conventional-magnets | Plain magnets — sold, sensibly, right alongside the coded ones. |
| viewing film / accessories | Field-visualization film, steel targets, mounting hardware. |
Polyvision — the design software · $4,999/yr
Maxel-level magnet CAD: pick catalog functions or paint custom patterns, with real-time field visualization, then export to a printer. This is the “magnetization became software” layer — the actual product of the company, arguably, with magnets as its output format. “Programmed in minutes, not weeks” is the pitch vendor claim.
Magnetizers
| Machine | Tier |
|---|---|
| Polydesk | Desktop magnetizing printer. |
| Polylab | Lab-scale system. |
| Polymag 6.2 | Current full-size platform. (Lineage: MagPrinter 2013 → Mini MagPrinter 2014, ~$45k — see Manufacturing.) |
Custom solutions
Custom pattern design, prototyping (“minutes or hours vs months” vendor claim), force testing, training, and volume sourcing through partners — the services wrapper around the printer.
Polymagnet University
The free education layer: eight webinars — Demystifying Polymagnets, Magnetic Design at the Speed of Thought, Reducing Rare-Earth Use, Net-Shape Manufacturing, Smart Magnets for Product Design, Precision Alignment, Differentiate Your Design — plus ~20 education/news posts (function explainers, the NASA Prandtl-M article, patent milestones, and press reposts from Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch and AL.com, including the Obama demo and SmarterEveryDay).
Reading the store as evidence. A $149 demo kit, a $4,999/yr CAD seat, ~$45k printers and function pairs at $7–52 describe a company selling capability to engineers, not components to BOMs — consistent with a category still measured in design wins. The FAQ is notably honest: flux-circuit shaping, sub-2 mm gaps, NiCuNi coating, RoHS/REACH, and Earnshaw’s theorem cited against levitation dreams.
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