Overview

A view of simulation results for a bowtie antenna, and a list of the ways the model can be created, which includes parametric design, a linear approach, and the antenna design toolkit

This Getting Started Guide contains three separate tutorials that show you how to create a coplanar, waveguide-fed, bow tie antenna in Ansys HFSS. There are multiple ways to create and solve designs in HFSS. A bow tie antenna is a simple design that can be created using any of the following methods:

Parametric Method: Makes use of advanced 3D Modeler commands.
Linear Method: The traditional approach of creating the antenna in a "linear" fashion.
Antenna Design Toolkit: Automatically generates the antenna in a ready-to-solve state.

The first tutorial covers the parametric method, the second one covers the "linear" method, and the third one covers the automatic method of creating the antenna.

Initial Setup

In the subsections that follow, you will perform the following tasks:

Launch Ansys Electronics Desktop and insert an HFSS design into your project
Set up general options
Modify some program attributes (background color and grid visibility)
Define the length unit
Define the solution type