Introduction

This document is intended as supplementary material to HFSS for beginners and advanced users. It includes instructions to create, simulate, and analyze a right-angle coaxial connector.

Sample Project - Coaxial Connector:

Coaxial connectors can connect co-axial cables with one another or devices for which a signal needs to be carried through co-axial cables.

The following figure illustrates a model of a right-angle coaxial connector to be drawn as part of this exercise.

Figure 1-1: Co-axial Connector

HFSS Design Environment:

You will use many features of HFSS to create, analyze, and evaluate this model, as follows:

• 3D solid modeling to design the device
• Define Offset Coordinate Systems
• Use primitives, such as Cylinders and Polylines
• Perform Boolean operations to Unite and Subtract objects
• Assign Excitations
• Analysis a Setup and Fast Frequency Sweep to analyze
• Validate the model
• Create Plots in Cartesian coordinates
• Create Field Overlays to plot electromagnetic fields
• Create 3D Field Plots
• Animate Results
• View the Port Field Display