Creating Vector Field Plots

A vector plot uses arrows to illustrate the magnitudes of the x-, y-, and z-components of field quantities. Vector plots can be created on surfaces or volumes. The vector plots calculates a good initial spacing (min, max, and spacing range). The initial min, max spacing is based on a percentage of the plot geometry size and they are in model units. You can edit the vector min and max threshold spacing and the arrow representation.
Vector Fields overlayed on 3 different models.

  1. Do one of the following:
    1. To create a vector surface plot, select the faces on which you want to plot the fields.
    2. To create a vector volume plot, select the objects within which you want to plot the fields.
  2. Click HFSS > Fields > Fields.
  3. From the Fields submenu, click the vector field quantity you want to plot.
    Modify Field Plot dialog.
  4. Follow the procedure for plotting field overlays.

If you select a vector quantity when creating a plot, you can also check Streamline for the plot.

Create Field plot dialog.

Notes for creating Streamline plots:

  1. Before creating the plot, select both starting and ending edges (in 2D) or surfaces (in 3D).
  2. In the Creating Field Plot menu, select "In Volume: Region" which is the volume in which the streamlines will appear and is outside of the sources.
  3. After the plot is created, on the Attributes/Plot tab reduce "Seeds density" to show more streamlines. If no streamlines appear, reduce this by a factor of 10 (or 100) because the default seeding was too large.
    Model with streamline plot overlay.