User’s Manual of

User’s Manual of

QW-AddIn

for Autodesk^® Inventor^® software

QW-AddIn for Autodesk® Inventor® Software

allows user to prepare

a complete project for QuickWave^TM

version 1.6

Copyright QWED

Warsaw 2023

1 Introduction, system requirements and installation

1.1 Introduction

1.2 System requirements

1.2.1 Microsoft .NET Framework

1.2.2 Sentinel HASP® run-time

1.2.3 Supported QuickWave software

1.2.4 Supported Autodesk® Inventor® software

1.3 Installation process

1.4 Activation process

2.1 QW-AddIn ribbon

2.1.1 Settings panel

2.1.1.1 Circuit settings

2.1.1.2 Basic Heating Module settings

2.1.2 Insert panel

2.1.2.1 Template port

2.1.2.2 Template Ports Sequence

2.1.2.3 Point port

2.1.2.4 Lumped Impedance

2.1.2.5 Plane Wave Box

2.1.2.6 Absorbing Wall

2.1.2.7 Absorbing Box

2.1.2.8 Monitor

2.1.2.9 Monitor 3D

2.1.2.10 NTF Box

2.1.3 Mesh panel

2.1.3.1 Global Settings

2.1.3.2 Borders

2.1.3.3 Mesh Box

2.1.3.4 Snapping Plane

2.1.3.5 Snap to planar surfaces

2.1.3.6 Generate Now

2.1.3.7 Subregions

2.1.3.8 Inspect

2.1.3.9 Visibility

2.1.4 Simulation panel

2.1.4.1 Postprocessing

2.1.4.2 Energy Stop Criterion

2.1.4.3 Options

2.1.4.5 Run Start

2.1.4.8 Simulator file

2.1.4.9 Editor file

2.1.5 About panel

2.2 QW-AddIn model tree

2.2.2 Movements

2.2.4 Thin Layers

2.2.6 Contours

2.2.8 Lumped Impedances

2.2.9 Absorbing Boundary Conditions

2.2.10 Near To Far

2.2.11 Monitors

2.2.12.1 Snapping Planes

2.2.12.2 Mesh Boxes

2.2.13 Subregions

2.3 Optimisation

3 Waveguide to coaxial line transition

3.1 Creating new project document

3.2 Defining the type of the structure

3.3 Drawing the structure

3.4 Drawing the ports

3.5 Setting up the mesh

3.6 Defining post-processings for simulation

3.7 Exporting the project and running the simulation

3.8 Introducing symmetry plane