Cable Modeling - Oil and Gas Toolkit

To work with tool kits in the oil and gas industries:

1. Click HFSS > Toolkit > Cable Modeling > Oil-Gas Cable Bundle.

The Cable Modeling - Oil & Gas dialog box appears.



2. Enter a Name for the toolkit, and select Units.
3. If you have a *.csv or *.tab file containing cable parameters, you can Import it.
4. To manually modify the cable parameters:
   • Enter and select values for each of the available fields, in the unit you selected.
5. To save your cable parameters for future use, click Export to create a *.csv or *.tab file for later import.
6. To add new variables, click Variables. This opens the Edit Variables dialog box. All variables that are already present in the project and design levels are listed. Click Add to add a new row to create new variables.
7. Click Draw to draw the 2D cross-section geometry. A validation check is run. This catches errors such as any variable or parameter missing a value.
8. For 3D designs, you can create a 3D geometry.

   Click Extrude. The Extrude to 3D dialog box appears.

   

   • Click Sweep Along Vector to extrude along the z axis. Z length is the input parameter.
   • Click Sweep Along Path to extrude along a selected path.
     Note:

     3D models of cables are hard to solve if the ratio of extruded length to cross-section diameter is high.