1        User Interface

1.1         Ribbon

1.1.1     File

1.1.2     View

1.1.3     Geometry

1.1.4     Sketcher

1.1.5     Parameters

1.1.6     Model

1.1.7     Antenna Array

1.1.8     BHM

1.1.9     Simulation

1.2         Toolbars

1.3         Mini Toolbars

1.4         Main Menu

1.4.1     File Menu

1.4.2     Edit Menu

1.4.3     View Menu

1.4.4     Tools Menu

1.4.5     Macro Menu

1.4.6     Geometry Menu

1.4.7     Sketcher Menu

1.4.8     Model Menu

1.4.9     BHM Menu

1.4.10        Mesh Menu

1.4.11        Postprocessings Menu

1.4.12        Simulation Menu

1.4.13        Windows Menu

1.4.14        Help Menu

1.5         Drawing Pane

1.5.1     Navigation Modes

1.5.2     Navigation Cube

1.5.3     Selecting Objects

1.6         Tree View

1.6.1     New Project

1.6.2     QuickWave group

1.6.3     Media group

1.6.4     Circuit group

1.6.5     Patch Antenna Array group

1.6.6     Basic Heating Module group

1.6.7     Basic Heating Module Rotation Axes group

1.6.8     Basic Heating Module Movement Trajectories group

1.6.9     Postprocessing group

1.6.10        Mesh group

1.6.11        Mesh Snapping Planes group

1.6.12        Mesh Boxes group

1.6.13        Ports group

1.6.14        PlaneWave group

1.6.15        Probes group

1.6.16        Wires group

1.6.17        Contours group

1.6.18        Absorbing BC group

1.6.19        NTF group

1.6.20        Field Monitors group

1.6.21        Tools group

1.6.22        Subregion Borders group

1.6.23        User Parameters group

1.7         Task Panel

1.8         Property Editor

1.9         Python Console

1.10      Report View

1.11      Status Bar

1.12      Progress Bar

1.13      User Parameters

1.14      Dock Windows

1.15      Workbench Approach

1.15.1        Workbench Switching

2        Project Settings

2.1         Units

2.2         Circuit Settings

2.3         Bodies of Revolution

3        Media

3.1         Project Media

3.2         Media Library

3.3         Medium Addition

3.4         Medium Assignment

3.5         PEC

3.6         PMC

3.7         Metallic

3.8         Dielectric Isotropic

3.9         Dielectric Anisotropic

3.10      Dielectric Dispersive

3.11      Dielectric Dispersive Anisotropic

3.12      Dielectric Dispersive Nonlinear

3.13      Cold Plasma

3.14      Metamaterial

3.15      Ferrite

3.16      Dispersive Media Chart

4        Geometry

4.1         Primitives

4.1.1     Box

4.1.2     Cylinder

4.1.3     Sphere

4.1.4     Cone

4.1.5     Torus

4.1.6     Ellipsoid

4.1.7     Prism

4.1.8     Wedge

4.1.9     Various Primitives

4.1.10        Shape Builder

4.2         Boolean Operations

4.2.1     Union of Shapes

4.2.2     Cut of Two Shapes

4.2.3     Intersection of Two Shapes

4.2.4     Connection of Two Shapes

4.2.5     Embedding of Two Shapes

4.2.6     Cutout of Two Shapes

4.2.7     Parametric Geometry

4.2.8     Refine Shape

4.3         Geometry Transformations

4.3.1     Extrude

4.3.2     Revolve

4.3.3     Translate

4.3.4     Rotate

4.3.5     Loft

4.3.6     Sweep

4.3.7     Fillet

4.3.8     Chamfer

4.3.9     Mirroring

4.3.10        Offset

4.3.11        Thickness

4.3.12        Pocket

4.3.13        Ruled Surface

4.3.14        Cross-Sections

4.3.15        Convert to Solid

4.3.16        Make Compound

4.3.17        Make Face from Sketch

4.3.18        Simple Copy

4.4         2D Geometries

4.4.1     General Overview

4.4.2     Sketcher Operations

4.4.3     Sketcher Geometries

4.4.4     Sketcher Constraints

4.4.5     Sketch Tools

4.4.6     Good Practises

4.5         Thin Layer

5        Modelling

5.1         Transmission Line Port

5.2         Point Port

5.3         Plane Wave Box

5.4         Lumped Impedance

5.5         Wire

5.6         Contour

5.7         Absorbing Box

5.8         Absorbing Wall

5.9         NTF Box

5.10      NTN Box

5.11      Field Monitor Box

5.12      Waveform

6        FDTD Mesh

6.1         Mesh Snapping Plane

6.2         Mesh Box

6.3         Borders

6.4         Mesh Settings

6.5         Mesh Inspect

6.6         Mesh Visualisation

7        Postprocessings

7.1         S-Parameters

7.2         NTF

7.3         NTF Fixed Angle

7.4         NTN

7.5         FD-Probing

7.6         Power Available

7.7         Fields Monitor

7.8         ExH Time Integral

7.9         QProny

8        Basic Heating Module

8.1         Heating Details

8.2         Components

8.3         Variable Heating Steps

8.4         Excitation Port Parameters

8.5         BHM Rotation Axis

8.6         BHM Movement Trajectory

8.7         Preview

9        Patch Antenna Array

9.1         Patch Antenna Array Structure

9.2         Patch Antenna Array Boundary Conditions

9.3         Patch Antenna Array Excitation

9.4         Patch Antenna Array Beam Steering

10     Subregions

11     Project Export

11.1      Exported Objects

11.2      Sections

11.3      Export Options

11.4      Energy Stop Criterion

12     Python Scripting

12.1      QuickWave Objects

12.1.1        New QuickWave project

12.1.2        Working with QuickWave project

13     Appendix

13.1      Compatibility with previous versions of QuickWave

13.2      Supported formats

13.3      DXF Import/Export

13.4      DWG Import/Export

13.5      Placement

13.6      Placement Settings

13.7      Quantity

13.8      Units Calculator

13.9      Alignment

13.10    Edit Mode

13.11    Clipping Plane

13.12    Macros

13.13    Dependency Graph

13.14    Preferences

13.15    View Turntable

13.16    About

14     Macro tutotrial example

14.1      Introduction

14.2      Importing libraries

14.3      Adding User Variables (QW Vars Object)

14.4      Declaring Python variables

14.5      Defining sketching functions

14.5.1        Sketch polyline

14.5.2        AddX, AddY

14.6      Defining specific geometry

14.7      Removing existing objects

14.8      Meshing

14.9      Executing final Macro in empty project

14.10    Example of use