The Antenna Magus database is continually being updated and released with new and improved antennas, models and designs so that engineers can efficiently explore their options and be confident that all their bases are covered. Only after the attempt to adapt and optimise an existing antenna element failed to meet the new specifications, the engineer will start to consider other elements with which he and his colleagues are familiar. Often, one of the first elements considered becomes the de facto choice, simply because too much time has been expended on the element choice and the "cost" to start over with a new element is too high. To meet the need for rapid assessment of many antenna elements, antenna information in Antenna Magus is structured in a standardised format, making it easy to compare various elements identified using a keyword based search of the database. Unlike most literature, Antenna Magus highlights unique and general characteristics of each antenna which makes it easy to compare antennas with each other and more importantly compare them with the given requirements. When designing an antenna for the first time, there are some elementary steps that need to be completed before continuing with the distinctive (non-standard) part of the design process. If one knows where to start the design process - i.e. which references to use and what data to compare first order designs to - the elementary steps should be trivial, but often the starting point is not that well defined. Published papers or books may have insufficient information that is needed to reproduce reference designs and often good reference results aren't available. This means that days are spent manually optimising a basic antenna structure in an attempt to get the general performance within specification. Antenna Magus takes care of this (sometimes tedious) exercise by offering reliable first order designs that have been validated against reference data. Each antenna is thoroughly researched and design algorithms undergo various tests and validation routines to confirm that they work properly for a wide range of objective combinations. Antennas can be designed for specific objectives like gain, bandwidth and impedance at the puch of a button. Estimate the performance Antenna Magus Estimate icon The "Estimate performance" feature allows quick analysis of the designed antenna to give an indication whether an element is a suitable candidate for the final design. Because the topology and the environment of the antenna are known, Antenna Magus can make certain approximations which can speed up analysis time while still giving reasonable estimated performance results. The user can study the relationship between certain physical parameters within given constraints and the antenna's performance within the structured Antenna Magus framework before proceeding to non-standard changes and additions to the antenna.