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Speeding up HFSS script for model creation

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Folks,

I'm building a large structure in HFSS with thousands of periodically-placed lumped RLC boundary conditions. I can't use the eigenmode-solver and a smaller section of the structure because (1) it's an open structure, and (2) the distribution of the R, L, and C of the boundary conditions changes spatially.

I have a script that actually builds the rectangle, selects them, and assigns the BC (along with the current direction line). T

he issue is that during the build, HFSS slows to a crawl, requiring minutes to build a single BC. The modeler reports a progress bar with "Update UI data-RUNNING, Initialize viewing and picking data..."

Any ideas on how to speed this up?

Regards,
J
 

Is there any way to suppress the UI re-drawing the model after each BC (or object) is created?

-J
 

I don't believe there is any way to suppress redrawing. Also, you probably don't have enough memory to calculate anything useful. Such is the limit of field simulators.
 

I am not sure whether this might help - Try unchecking the option Do Autosave under Tools > Options > General
 

SLK001 said:
I don't believe there is any way to suppress redrawing. Also, you probably don't have enough memory to calculate anything useful. Such is the limit of field simulators.
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SLK001 -- I don't believe this is the case. The machine I'm using (RHEL) has 512GB of RAM. The process that's building the model is using less than 15GB of RAM.

-J
 

sv1437 said:
I am not sure whether this might help - Try unchecking the option Do Autosave under Tools > Options > General
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I will give this a try. I've noted that if, prior to executing the script that builds the BCs, if I hide all the solids in the model in all views, the script is able to execute much more quickly (I'd say almost 100% faster). It still begins to slow down as the number of created BCs grows...

-J
 

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