1        User Interface

1.1         Ribbon

1.1.1     Home

1.1.2     Model

1.1.3     Simulation

1.2         Toolbars

1.3         Toolbars/Ribbon

1.4         Mini Toolbars

1.5         Main Menu

1.5.1     File

1.5.2     Parameters

1.5.3     UDO

1.5.4     BHM

1.5.5     I/O Ports

1.5.6     Mesh

1.5.7     Postprocessings

1.5.8     Configure

1.5.9     Tools

1.5.10        Windows

1.5.11        Help

1.6         Project Tree

1.7         Project Info

1.8         QW-Editor Log

1.9         QW-3D Projects

1.10      QW-V2D Projects

2        2D Window

2.1         2D Window Toolbars

2.2         2D Window Menu

2.3         View Options

2.4         Grid/Snap

2.5         Axes

2.6         Coordinates Options

2.7         Coordinates

2.8         Plane

2.9         Level

2.10      Pen

2.11      Brush

2.12      Select Element

2.13      Element Details

2.14      Select Object

2.15      Object Details

2.16      Reproduce

2.17      I/O Ports

2.18      Special Planes and Boundaries

2.19      Keyboard Entry

2.20      Circle and Arc Sectors

2.21      Edit

2.21.1        Edit Point

2.21.2        Edit Line

2.21.3        Edit Port

2.21.4        Edit Element

2.21.5        Edit Object

2.22      Element Change

2.23      Object Change

2.24      Port Change

2.25      Wire Change

2.26      Wires Grid Change

2.27      Special Plane and Boundary Change

2.28      Wire Grids (Asymptotic Boundary Conditions)

3        3D Window

3.1         3D Window Toolbars

3.2         3D Window Menu

3.3         Blend

3.4         View Elements

3.5         V2D View Options

3.6         Background Colour

4        Project Settings

4.1         Units

4.2         Circuit

4.3         Media

4.3.1     PEC

4.3.2     PMC

4.3.3     Metallic

4.3.4     Dielectric Isotropic

4.3.5     Dielectric Anisotropic

4.3.6     Dielectric Dispersive

4.3.7     Dielectric Dispersive Anisotropic

4.3.8     Dielectric Dispersive Nonlinear

4.3.9     Cold Plasma

4.3.10        Metamaterial

4.3.11        Ferrite

4.3.12        Dispersive Media Chart

4.3.13        Medium Potentials

5        Geometry

5.1         Manual Drawing

5.1.1     Rectangle Element

5.1.2     Polygon Element

5.1.3     Combined Rectangle Element

5.1.4     Combined Polygon Element

5.1.5     Wire

5.1.6     NTF

5.1.7     Plane Wave

5.2         Boolean Operations

5.2.1     Basic Join operations

5.2.2     When we do not need Join operations

5.2.3     Join operations on combined elements

5.3         SAT Filter

5.4         DXF Converter

5.5         Export to SAT

6        I/O Ports

6.1         Manual Drawing

6.1.1     Point Source/Probe

6.1.2     Transmission line

6.1.3     Absorbing Wall

6.1.4     PML Wall

6.1.5     Lumped impedance

6.1.6     Wire

6.1.7     NTF

6.1.8     Plane Wave

6.1.9     Mesh Snapping Planes and Symmetry Planes

6.2         Edit Transmission Line Ports

6.3         Transmission Line Port

6.4         Edit Point Source and Probe Ports

6.5         Point Source and Probe Port

6.6         Edit Plane Waves

6.7         Plane Wave

6.8         Edit Lumped Impedances

6.9         Lumped Impedance

6.10      Edit ABC

6.11      ABC Wall

6.12      ABC Box

6.13      Edit NTF

6.14      NTF

6.15      Edit NTN

6.16      NTN

6.17      Edit Fields Monitors

6.18      Fields Monitor

6.19      I/O Ports Parameters

6.19.1        I/O Port Parameters for transmission line ports

6.19.2        I/O Port Parameters for point sources/probes or lumped impedances

6.19.3        I/O Port Parameters for absorbing boundary conditions

6.19.4        I/O Port Parameters for free space excitation with a plane wave or a Gaussian beam

6.20      I/O Port parameters for QW-V2D ports

6.21      Waveform

7        FDTD Mesh

7.1         Edit Snapping Planes

7.2         Snapping Plane

7.3         Mesh Settings

7.4         AMIGO

7.4.1     AMIGO Inspect

7.5         Mesh Info

8        Post-processings

8.1         FD-Probing

8.2         Power Available

8.3         S-Parameters

8.4         Near To Far

8.5         NTF Fixed Angle

8.6         Near To Near

8.7         Fields Monitor

8.8         ExH Time Integral

8.9         QProny

8.10      Processing/Postprocessing

9        Project Export

9.1         How to assure the proper mesh generation

9.1.1     Intersecting elements

9.1.2     Multiple-filled cells

9.1.3     Meshing hazards along the Z-axis

9.2         Export Options

9.3         Energy Stop Criterion

10     Basic Heating Module

10.1      Heating Details

10.2      Components

10.3      Variable heating steps

10.4      Excitation Port Parameters

10.5      Edit BHM Rotation Axes

10.6      BHM Rotation Axis

10.7      Edit BHM Movement Trajectories

10.8      BHM Movement Trajectory

10.9      Assign Objects

10.10    Preview

10.11    BHM Settings Conversion From Previous Versions

11     UDO scripts

11.1      UDO Paths

11.2      UDO Editor

11.3      UDO Library

11.3.1        Using standard library UDOs to create more complicated UDOs

11.3.2        A circular waveguide junction – application of biphased objects

11.3.3        Radiating horn with lens – application of biphased objects

11.4      Add Object

12     Syntax of the User Defined Object (UDO) language

12.1      Structure of a single UDO and calls to other UDOs

12.1.1        Syntax of header and main UDOs commands

12.2      Defining elements, combined elements and materials

12.2.1        Syntax of geometrical UDOs commands

12.2.2        Syntax of material UDOs commands

12.3      Variables, functions, arithmetic expressions and file reading

12.3.1        Numbers and variables

12.3.2        Operators and logical conditions

12.3.3        Mathematical functions

12.3.4        Reserved variable names

12.3.5        File commands and others

12.4      Loops in UDO scripts

12.5      Defining ports, boxes, mesh snapping planes, post-processing and circuit parameters

12.5.1        Syntax of port commands

12.5.2        Basic points about port definitions in UDO

12.5.3        Postprocessing and circuit parameters

12.6      Moving the elements, copying them and controlling their intersections

12.7      Biphased element and objects

12.8      Controlling the mesh

12.9      UDO commands for QW-BHM regime

12.10    Files used by UDO language and their location

12.11    Optimising with UDO

12.12    UDO commands and functions in alphabetic order

13     Appendix

13.1      Preferences

13.2      Import Preferences

13.3      Set Tools

13.4      Variables

13.5      Import Recent Files

13.6      QuickWave Updates

13.7      QuickWave Licence Manager

13.8      End User Licence Agreement

13.9      About

13.10    Command line options of QW-Editor

13.11    Undo/Redo

13.12    Memory Usage

13.13    QW-Editor Starter

14     Files created or used by QW-Editor

14.1      Files used by QW-Editor, created by QW-Editor or externally

14.2      Files created by QW-Editor and used by QW-Simulator

14.2.1        Basic structure of shape files

14.2.2        Basic structure of tasker files