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[Francesco Mirizzi]

Dear Sirs,

I am working in the Frascati Research Center of the Italian ENEA institution.

My main duty is to draw HFSS models of RF and mw passive components.

The HFSS version we are actually working with is the 2024 one.

In the design of a HFSS model of a particular RF component I have identified a couple of drawing problems that I summarize below.

Drawing a curve of the type "x = a z^2 + b z" I verified that this curve, for z = 0, does not pass by the origin of the axes, but by a generic point P(x ,0,0) whose distance x from the origin depends on how wide the curve is.

In addition, I verified that, when this curve is swiped along an arc of circumference lying on the xy plane in order to generate a surface with double curvature (both in the xy and in the zy planes), the final edge of this surface, in the zy plane, is "engorged" in the direction in which the sweep took place.

These two problems are not specific to the 2024 version of your code, but I have also verified them in previous versions, and unfortunately, they generate drawbacks both in the design of the component models and in their simulations.

To overcome the two above exposed problems, I have had to use some drawing "expedients" that introduce in the design some not parameterizable variables.

As a result, this makes impossible to use the "Optimetric" option of your code, either to perform a parametric analysis of the model or to optimize it.

Please, could you help me in solving these problems? Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Francesco Mirizzi

[Praneeth]

Hi Francesco,

Thank you for reaching out to the Ansys learning forum. 

Please share screenshots of your issue if possible to help us serve you better.

For your first observation: you might be zooming onto the origin and see the trace is not passing through the origin - this is just a render issue after you zoom in from a certain point. You can verify using the measure option in the draw ribbon area.

Best regards,
Praneeth.