Assign Primary and Secondary Boundaries

In this section we will illustrate a key requirement for setting up a unit cell--the perimeter of a Floquet port must be covered by Primary and Secondary boundaries. You will assign the boundaries as follows:

  1. Select the face of the box and click HFSS> Boundaries> Assign> Coupled> Primary.

    Primary Boundary dialog.

  2. Select New Vector from the the U Vector menu and draw the U-V vectors as shown below, from right edge to left.

    Primary Boundary dialog, Coordinate System groupbox. U Vector field set to Defined.

    The Primary1 boundary gets assigned as shown in the following figure.

    Model with Primary 1 Boundary overlay.

  3. Access the face opposite to Primary1 and click HFSS> Boundaries> Assign> Coupled> Secondary.

    Secondary: General Data dialog.

  4. Assign the secondary boundary as shown in the following figure.

    Model with Secondary1 boundary overlay.