HFSS15: HFSS-IE Options: General Options Tab

These options are set on the General Options tab of the HFSS-IE Options dialog box. Clear or check the following options:

• Duplicate boundaries with geometry

When this is checked, you can duplicate a boundary or excitation when its geometry is pasted or duplicated. See Duplicating Boundaries and Excitations with Geometry.

• Save before solving

• Apply variation deletions immediately.

Checking this saves disk space.

• Save Optimetrics Field solutions.

Checking this uses more disk space.

• Visualize boundaries on geometry.

This controls the display of boundaries.

• Auto-assign terminals on ports.

• If this option is switched on, then the Assign Lumped port command will try to automatically assign the terminals on ports. If this option is switched off, then you assign a lumped port. You have a choice to either:

a. Manually assign a terminal. Select any edge/face of conductor that is touching the port.

b. Use Excitations>Auto Assign Terminals. This will bring up a dialog box to get the input from the user to select the objects used for “reference”

There are certain validation checks, like

Lumped port can have only one terminal.

No two terminals can touch each other

Unassigned terminals (not assigned to any port)

• Use Wizards for data input when creating new boundaries

When this is checked, the creation of boundaries and excitations use Wizard to guide you through the process. When this is not checked, the creation of boundaries and excitations displays a Properties dialog with tabs for different kinds of information.

• Default matrix sort order. This affects the order of the Matrix Data, and is of interest depending on how port names are assigned for that design. The default is ascending alphanumeric. This can also be a User Specified order that defaults to creation order.