copying HFSS designs and solutions

Is it possible in HFSS to copy a design and its solution(s) from one project to another project?

On a related note, is it possible to merge two projects into one project retaining all design solutions from both original projects?

Of course, the two questions are synonymous, because if you can do one then you can do the other.

regards,
NT

Hello

I am not Quite sure if you can copy both the design and solution together from one project to another.From my understanding Solutions are saved separately for each project for each case.but for sure you can copy the designs.

Regards

Right. You can copy designs from one project to another. The problem is that the solution data is _not_ copied with the design. Basically, what I'm wondering is: if there are two solved designs in different projects is there a way to get them together with their solutions in one project without having to re-solve one?

regards,
NT

I dont think there's way around this because everytime you make a minor change to any design,HFSS has to do a mesh operation.so i dont think it will work

Regards

chachitoelflaquito said:

I dont think there's way around this because everytime you make a minor change to any design,HFSS has to do a mesh operation.so i dont think it will work

Regards

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I don't understand this reply. I'm not talking about changing any design in any way - not even a minor way.

Here is an example:
I have two HFSS projects ... PROJECT1 and PROJECT2

PROJECT1 has one design in it: DESIGN1
DESIGN1 is solved. It is a complicated design and solving it took 12 hours.

PROJECT2 has one design in it: DESIGN2
DESIGN2 is solved. It is a complicated design and solving it took 12 hours.

I want DESIGN1 and DESIGN2 and their solutions to be in the same project. I choose PROJECT1. I can do it by copying DESIGN2 from PROJECT2 into PROJECT1 and re-solving. 12 hours later I will have what I want. However, the solution of DESIGN2 in PROJECT1 is exactly same as the solution of DESIGN2 in PROJECT2. I'm looking for a way to get to the same end without the wait. DESIGN1 and DESIGN2 and their solutions already exist. I want them together in the same project and I don't want to wait for a re-solve.

regards,
NT

ok.Well honestly i dont know how to solve this issue of yours.

Never had anything that was similar to your problem.i hope you will find an answer and share with us for to get some understanding as well

Regards
CEF

natethern said:

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I want DESIGN1 and DESIGN2 and their solutions to be in the same project. I choose PROJECT1. I can do it by copying DESIGN2 from PROJECT2 into PROJECT1 and re-solving. 12 hours later I will have what I want. However, the solution of DESIGN2 in PROJECT1 is exactly same as the solution of DESIGN2 in PROJECT2. I'm looking for a way to get to the same end without the wait. DESIGN1 and DESIGN2 and their solutions already exist. I want them together in the same project and I don't want to wait for a re-solve.

regards,
NT

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NT,

In going through many slides and presentations on HFSS the last couple weeks I believe I came across something indicating that what you want to do (combining two SOLVED designs) can be done ... as it is, HFSS ver 12 can do solving on 1 to x number workstations as assigned (this is beyond the scope of my reply though) so HFSS has quite a bit of capability that most of us will never use!

I will keep an eye out for where and what source I ran across this information which I can only at the present recall anecdotally without much support, proof or any references.


Jim

natethern said:

Is it possible in HFSS to copy a design and its solution(s) from one project to another project?

On a related note, is it possible to merge two projects into one project retaining all design solutions from both original projects?

Of course, the two questions are synonymous, because if you can do one then you can do the other.

regards,
NT

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NT,

There is an interesting slide on Pg 63 which alludes to using the 'solved' near or far field data as the source excitation in another solver; this may not be what you want come to think of it, but, it may open other avenues or foster other ideas to accomplish your goal, so I offer it in any case:

**broken link removed**

The slide says:

• HFSS Data Link allows the Near-Field or Far- Field data from one HFSS design as the source excitation in another HFSS design
• The source design is solved separately from the target design and placed as the source excitation in the target design

How this is accomplished would take some study and reading of the user manuals!

Jim


PS. Added: A big presentation on using one HFSS model as excitation 'source' for another:

**broken link removed**

Pherhaps you can in HFSS copy DESIGN2 into PROJECT1, than close HFSS. Now copy the DESIGN2 files from the folder PROJECT2.hfssresults into the folder PROJECT1.hfssresults.
Then open PROJECT1. I don't know if this work, but pherhaps now HFSS find he solution for DESIGN2 in PROJECT1 since the solution files are there.

Otherwise it depends what solotion value do you need. For example it is easy to export the S parameters of PROJECT2 and import it in PROJECT1.
But I don't know if there is a way to do this with the fileds.

RF_Jim said:

NT,

There is an interesting slide on Pg 63 which alludes to using the 'solved' near or far field data as the source excitation in another solver; this may not be what you want come to think of it, but, it may open other avenues or foster other ideas to accomplish your goal, so I offer it in any case:

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Thanks, Jim. I was aware of HFSS's ability to use solution data from one project as input to another. What I'm talking about is more related to "housekeeping" than to solving/analyzing a project or using said solution/analysis in some way.

NT

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flanello said:

Pherhaps you can in HFSS copy DESIGN2 into PROJECT1, than close HFSS. Now copy the DESIGN2 files from the folder PROJECT2.hfssresults into the folder PROJECT1.hfssresults.
Then open PROJECT1. I don't know if this work, but pherhaps now HFSS find he solution for DESIGN2 in PROJECT1 since the solution files are there.

Otherwise it depends what solotion value do you need. For example it is easy to export the S parameters of PROJECT2 and import it in PROJECT1.
But I don't know if there is a way to do this with the fileds.

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I have actually tried that. HFSS ignores those subfolders in the .hfssresults folder. It appears that with a little (or maybe a LOT!) reverse engineering one might figure out how to tweak things and get HFSS to accept the results.

NT