In order to improve performance of reluctance motors, careful design of the magnetic circuit is necessary. The machine reluctance is a determining. parameter in the design process. In this paper several techniques' for designing the magnetic circuit are proposed. A fields approach is applied and computer programs are used for numarical solutions. The proposed techniques lead to optimised values of the ratio between (Kand(Kact,) e.g. the anistropy coefficient. Theoritical prediction foraThe performance of a designed model is performed and computed results are reported.