bounding box in cst microwave studio
Thanks in advance
MWS: in "what's new" there's nothing about 5.1.0-5.1.1 changes :(
here the changes in 5.1 between 5.1 to 5.1.1 only little bug fix.
1. 64bit technology for the Transient solver (machines with up to 8 Gbyte and problemsizes of less than 30e6 mesh cells are covered by commercial licenses free of charge) NOTE: due to Windows driver issues, 64bit is currently only available for floating licenses.
supported platforms: AMD Opteron, Intel EM64T
limited support: INTEL Itanium
Tetrahedral Meshing for the Frequency Domain Solver including open boundaries (farfields, Floquet modes, and lumped elements/ports will be added as next steps)
New Solver: Modal Order Reduction technique for fast filter design
Tremendous speed up of history rebuild for large structures
New CAD imports: CATIA 5, VDA-FS, Autodesk Inventor
Improved interface to Cadence, Allegro.
Installation and handling of Distributed Computing simplified
VBA Online Help completely redesigned
Some bugfixes for the MSS feature (Multilevel Subgridding Scheme in the Time Domain Solver) (major changes for MSS including large memory saving are expected for spring 2005)
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March 11 2005, CST released service pack CST MICROWAVE STUDIO? v5.1.2, CST DESIGN STUDIO? v3.1.2 and CST EM STUDIO? v2.1.2.
Any information on new features or fixed problems?
As far as I know, CST MWS V6 will be released about the time of IEEE MTTS 2005.
Thanks in advance
Huge list there :)
Common
Fixed problem during open file in command 'MergeMaterialsOfComponent'.
Added flag for 3GB option again.
Added registry key to run the VBA engine as a single thread.
Repaired possible deadlocks during VBA initialization.
Problem with automatically generated component name which includes "^" for GERBER import repaired.
Fixed bug: Parameter update leads to wrong bounding box.
Fixed selection of variable parameter for tables.
GDI leaks in QuickStart guide repaired.
Problem with missing message "critical cells" in mesh mode repaired.
Fixed bug: 'MWS freezes after editing Polygons in History and Results are present'.
Supported CATIA versions added to main menu items.
Fixed bug concerning optimizer settings and history speedup.
Fixed access violation during preparation of tetrahedral mesh generation.
Fixed problem if an optimizer goal definition is set for a wrong goal due to a corrupt history list.
Sheet bodies were not been properly excluded from a simulation with PBA mesh.
Fixed missing multi pin update if history speed up is running.
Fixed bug of disappearing discrete ports during history speed up.
All Solvers
Fixed problem with incomplete dsn file for network computing.
Fixed wrong boundary condition of ports touching open boundaries.
Fixed "restart, continue, disable" query for all Hex solvers running with adaptive mesh refinement.
Wrong port impedance in connection with magnetic symmetry plane resolved.
Transient Solver
Wrong restart functionality of energy based mesh adaption fixed.
Inaccurate S-Parameters or possible instabilities due to incorrect treatment of TST in port regions resolved.
Fixed unphysical reflection of PLW excitation for a special structure.
Frequency Domain, MOR and Eigenvalue Solver
Fixed detection of singular PEC nodes in port regions for the Tet-FD port mode solver.
Fixed Tet-FD S-parameter sweep's convergence check for models with losses only due to lossy metal materials.
TD/FD Solver: Enabled restart possibilities after mesh adaption run.
Resolved problems with the Hex-FD Helmholtz equation for periodic boundaries, especially concerns port modes with large normal electric field component.
Tet-FD solver's port overlap calculation tolerance is now relative to the port size.
Fixed problems with small Hex-FD ports defined on PML boundaries at the upper boundary plane.
Fixed Hex-FD crash when calculating dispersive 3D monitors.
Corrected wrong scaling of time monitors.
Fixed Tet-FD tolerance problem for large ports leading to modes classified as hybrid instead of TEM.
Fixed problem with S-parameter de-embedding of MOR solver.
Fixed wrong S-parameters for evaluation frequency below cut-off in Hex-MOR solver.
Fixed storing of result tables during mesh adaptation of eigenmode solver.
Post Processing
'Show field at cursor' now available for TET meshes, as well.
Added message window for the case that TET mesh files are missing while result files are available. Stopped visualization routines, as well, to prevent errors.
Problem with field visualization on voxel data bodies in some cut planes resolved.
Fixed problem with missing farfield plot tree item after calculation has been finished.
Q+Loss calculation problem when material and component name are equal after project reload fixed.
Farfield bug with disabled array feature fixed.
Fixed hang-up in combine results with power loss monitor.
Fixed crash for Q calculation with dispersive materials when using freshly loaded model.
Fixed farfield calculation for a user defined antenna array list.
Fixed problem when deleting a single antenna from an array list.
Problem repaired with missing farfield plot tree item after calculation has been finished.
Changes in Version 5.1.1. This is an overview to the changes between Version 5.1.1 of CST MICROWAVE STUDIO? and Version 5.1.0
Common
"New variable" dialog appears twice in the port dialog repaired.
Fixed unwanted deletion of excitation signals when rebuilding model from history.
Access to mat-files from the Result3D object.
Crash during heal shape repaired.
Fixed problem with tissue list and voxel model format when importing arbitrary voxel data.
Fixed fast rebuild problem concerning s-parameters symmetries.
Speed up for open file with many parameter and optimizer settings implemented.
Crash when importing CATIA 4 file resolved.
Problem with uppercase parameters which were defined due to the 'new parameter' dialog repaired.
Distributed computing with adjustable access time slice.
Mesh Generation
Fixed update problem on partial rebuild. Mesh properties were not updated.
Transient Solver
Initializing lossy metal only once for multiple ports.
Fixed wrong rise or fall time check for rectangular time signals.
Fixed instability problem of open boundaries with magnetic symmetry planes.
Reactivated missing warning concerning discrete ports at open boundaries.
Fixed bug concerning plane wave excitation with mirror plane.
Fixed problem with simultaneous excitation and parameter sweep.
Wrong handling of periodic boundaries for PLW excitation fixed.
Fixed problem with zero reference frequency for timesignals.
Fixed wrong mode order of last frequency point for full de-embedding feature.
Frequency Domain, MOR and Eigenvalue Solver
Transmission S-parameters are no more missing when exciting a single discrete port with the Hex-FD solver.
The Tet-FD adaptive S-parameter sweep's error estimation is no more zero when calculating the first sample in the middle of the frequency band.
Floquet ports filled with dielectric materials other than vacuum are now considered correctly for a theta given in vacuum.
MOR solver gives a warning (no longer stops) if the evaluation frequency is below cut-off.
Tet-FD port modes only calculation is now performed even if there are no frequency samples defined.
Fixed phase de-embedding for Hex-FD solver.
Post Processing
Combine results dialog opens without S-parameter ports.
Fixed problem with missing rho matrix, if only the voxel tissues have a material density greater zero.
Fixed power flow monitor 2D plots at symmetries and umax/vmax boundary.
Fixed power flow monitor plots at open boundaries.
Fixed problem in accessing table result data.
Fixed backward compatibility problem in optimizer S-parameter goal definition dialog box.
Fixed input problem of the y-value for antenna array elements.
Fixed phase center calculation if multiple farfield monitors are defined.
Fixed farfield plots if multiple monitors are defined and phase center is activated.
VBA
Fixed problem in layer thickness of ADS import when "impedance" keyword is used.
TDR macro works for gaussian excitation signals.
Integration within 1D template
Single Ended S-Parameter macros available in the macros tree.