Copying Meshes in Optimetrics Sweeps

An option in the Optimetrics Analysis setups allows you to request Ansys Electronics Desktop to copy a mesh that was calculated for one sweep variation for reuse on a geometrically equivalent sweep variation. For example, with this option selected a sweep on a scan angle would not need to generate meshes for each solution. The option is available on the setups for sweeps on parametrics, optimization, sensitivity, and statistics.

To copy and reuse meshes on geometrically equivalent parametric variations:

  1. Define a variable for the kind of Optimetrics sweep you intend to set up.
  2. Select Ansys Electronics Desktop and then select the appropriate Optimetrics > Add command to display the associated Setup dialog box.
  3. Click the Options tab in the setup dialog box.
  4. Select Copy geometrically equivalent meshes.
    • When this option is enabled, you can additionally select Solve with copied meshed only or Solve with copied meshes and continue adaptive passes. The Solve with copied meshes only option is not available for Maxwell 3D/2D magnetic and electric transient designs. It is available for HFSS Transient but does not apply for a Transient solve setup with a mesh link.

    Ansys Electronics Desktop copies the mesh for a particular parametric sweep for reuse on each geometrically equivalent sweep variation.

Note:

This option is available with all Optimetrics setups, and is applied when these analyses generate geometrically equivalent values. However, it is most relevant to parametric sweep, where such equivalences are more likely to occur.

The Copy geometrically equivalent mesh option is not recommended for use when the frequency is varying, since meshing is frequency-dependent. You may wish to turn this option off when the first geometrically equivalent variation requires numerous passes after the initial mesh, but the other geometrically equivalent variations require fewer additional passes, so that it is cheaper to start with the initial mesh each time.