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Getting Help
Ansoft Technical Support
To contact Ansoft technical support staff in your geographical area,
please log on to the Ansoft corporate website, http://www.ansoft.com,
click the Contact button, and then click Support. Phone numbers and email addresses for the technical support staff are listed. You can also
contact your Ansoft account manager in order to obtain this information.
All Ansoft software files are ASCII text and can be sent conveniently by email. When reporting difficulties, it is extremely helpful to include very
specific information about what steps were taken or what stages the
simulation reached, including software files as applicable. This allows
more rapid and effective debugging.
Help Menu
To access online help from the HFSS menu bar, click Help and select from
the menu:
Contents - click here to open the contents of the online help.
Seach - click here to open the search function of the online help.
Index - click here to open the index of the online help.
Context-Sensitive Help
To access online help from the HFSS user interface, do one of the following:
To open a help topic about a specific HFSS menu command, press
Shift+F1, and then click the command or toolbar icon.
To open a help topic about a specific HFSS dialog box, open the dialog box, and then press F1.
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Table of Contents
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Analyze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26
Solution Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26
Create Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26
Create Terminal S S-Parameter Plot Magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26
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This example is intended to show you how to create, simulate, and analyze a UHF probe, using the Ansoft HFSS
Design Environment.
The following features of the Ansoft HFSS Design Environment are used to create this passive device model
3D Solid Modeling
Primitives: Cylinders, Boxes
Boolean Operations: Unite, Subtract
Boundaries/Excitations
Ports: Wave Ports
Ultra High Frequency Probe -1
Analysis
Sweep: Fast Frequency
: Results
Cartesian plotting
Field Overlays:
3D Far Field Plots
Getting Started
To access Ansoft HFSS, click the Microsoft Start button, select
Programs Programs, and select the Ansoft, HFSS 12 program
group. Click HFSS 12.
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rials tab.
Create Ring 1
1 Click Draw>Cylinder
2 Using the coordinate entry fields, enter the cylinder position
X: 0.0, Y: 0.0, Z: 0.0, Press the Enter key
Create Ring 2
1 Click Edit>Select>Object and select ring_1
2 Click Edit>Copy
3 Click Edit>Paste
The paste operation places ring_2 in the same location as
ring_1, but the History tree nows lists ring_2.
Create Arm_1
To create Arm_1
1 Click Draw>Box
Group Conductors
To group the conductors:
1 Click Edit>Select All Visible or press CTRL+A.
2 Click Modeler>Boolean>Unite
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X: 0.0, Y: 0.0, Z: 0.0, Press the Enter key
Using the coordinate entry fields, enter the radius:
dX: 0.1, dY: 0.0, dZ: 0.0, Press the Enter key
Using the coordinate entry fields, enter the height:
dX: 0.0, dY: 0.0, dZ: 5.1, Press the Enter key
set the name:
In the Properties window Name field type: center_pin
Create Arm_2
To create Arm_2
1 Click Draw>Box
Group Conductors
To group the conductors:
1 Click Edit>Select>By Name
The Select Object dialog opens.
2 Select the objects named: Arm_2, center_pin pin, and pin.
Use the Ctrl + Left mouse button to select multiple objects
4 Click Modeler>Boolean>Unite
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X: 0.0, Y: 0.0, Z: 0.0, Press the Enter key
3 Using the coordinate entry fields, enter the radius of the
circle:
dX: 0.31, dY: 0.0, dZ: 0.0, Press the Enter key
To set the name:
1 In the Properties window Name field type: p1
2 While holding the CTRL key, select all of the faces of the
Air vacuum object except the face on the XY plane. Use
the rotate button in between selections to access the back
side faces.
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2 Place Arm_2 in the Conducting Object list and ring_1 in
the Reference Conductor list
3 Click the OK button
Rename the Wave Port and Terminal
1 Double click on WavePort1 under Excitations in the project
tree.
Save Project
To save the project:
1 In an Ansoft HFSS window, click File>Save As.
Model Validation
To validate the model:
1 Click HFSS>Validation Check
Analyze
To start the solution process:
Click HFSS>Analyze All
Solution Data
To view the Solution Data:
1 Click HFSS>Results>Solution Data
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Create Reports
Create Terminal S S-Parameter Plot - Magnitude
To create a report:
1 Click HFSS>Results>Create Terminal Solution Data
Report>Rectangular Plot
The Reports dialog opens.
2 Specify the following:
Solution: Setup1: Sweep1
Domain: Sweep
Category: Terminal S Parameter
Quantity: St(T1,T1)
Function: dB
3 Click the New Report button
4 Click the Close button.
The new plot opens.
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