Generating an Animation on Multiple Planes with a Positional Variable

Description

This recipe generates animated field output in which each frame is a snapshot of the fields on a different plane of the modeled volume. Any derived field quantity could be plotted in this manner, but this example will simply use the E-field magnitude at zero degrees input excitation.

Usage Examples

This calculation permits you to generate animated output results in addition to those automatically available from the post-processor. For example, peak E field (E dot E conjugate) could be plotted at multiple planes in sequence.

Prerequisites

This operation will only work in the global coordinate system if you are using X, Y, or Z positions as the animation variable.

Calculator Operation	Resulting Stack Display (top entry only unless noted)
Quantity>E	CVc : <Ex, Ey, Ez> (Animations for other quantities can also be created; E used as example.)
Smooth	CVc : Smooth(<Ex,Ey,Ez>)
Number>Scalar>”0”	Scl : 0
Complex>AtPhase	Vec : AtPhase(Smooth(<Ex,Ey,Ez>,..
Mag	Scl : Mag(AtPhase(Smooth(<Ex,...
Add Type: E_mag0 OK	E_mag0 : Dot(AtPhase(<Ex,Ey,Ez>,0),… (User defined Named Expression E_mag0 is added)
Done	{exit field calculator window}
Planes>Global:YZ (user can choose other planes Under modeler tree/Planes)	(YZ plane that can vary with X position)
HFSS>Fields>Plot Fields>Named Expression (E_mag0)	(Plot named expression on YZ plane)
HFSS>Fields>Plot Animate>New	{launches Animation Plot Settings}
Swept variable Normalized Distance OK	{displays animation}