{"id":326745,"date":"2023-12-06T21:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/326745\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T21:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:39:33","slug":"326745","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/326745\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Import a geomtery from FDTD into MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"

<p> <\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Hello Hala Mohammad, <\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>From my understanding, there is no direct method to export geometry from FDTD to MATLAB.<\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span lang=””en-CA””>A possible work around is using script to obtain and export the data for your structure (e.g. radiuses) and utilize this information for recreating your structure. For example you can use the<\/span><span lang=””en-US””> <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>get<\/span><span lang=””en-US””> <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>command<\/span><\/a><span lang=””en-US””> to obtain the value of an attribute for your object (and use <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>?get(“object”)<\/span><span lang=””en-US””> to get the list of properties for the object). If you decide that this might be a useful approach, <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>Scripting basics<\/span><\/a><span lang=””en-US””> and <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>S100 course<\/span><\/a><span lang=””en-US””> might be helpful.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span lang=””en-CA””>You can submit a request for the addition of 3D export on our<\/span><span lang=””en-US””> <\/span><span lang=””en-CA””>Ideas Exchange<\/span><\/a><span lang=””en-US””> portal, where it will be reviewed by our product managers and it might be implemented in the future releases of our software.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p lang=””en-US”” style=”text-align: left;”> <\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”><span lang=””en-CA””>You have the option to export gometry into GDS from FDTD: <\/span><span lang=””en-US””>GDSII Export Automation – Ansys Optics<\/span><\/a><span lang=””en-CA””>. <\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Unfortunately, you cannot directly export 3D geometry.<\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”> <\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Hope this helps.<\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Thanks and regards<\/span><\/p><p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-size: 12pt;”>Devika<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-326745","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t