Has anyone tried Fest3D?

Fest3D is an EM simulation tool for analyzing/designing waveguide devices such as filters and couplers and seems to belong to the same category as uWizard of Mician and Wasp-Net of MIG Germany.

www.fest3d.com

Helpful comments and info would be appreciated.

Yes,

FEST3D is a software of the same class as microwave Wizard and Wasp-net.

However, FEST3D is based on different electromagnetic algorithms such as the integral equation technique and the BI-RME method. They claim that these methods are more advanced than the mode-matching + FEM used by the other two software tools. It seems that problems such as relative convergence are minimized and that the frequency-dependent part is faster.

Additionally, FEST3D has tools for analysing high power effects (multipactor, corona,...). It seems that they are specialized in these aspects according to the webpage of the company who distributes the software (www.aurorasat.es).

It also seems that FEST3D belongs to the European Space Agency and that the overall price of the software is much lower than the rest of software of its type.

I have downloaded the DEMO and try it, and it looks pretty fine.

Hope this helps,

Jorge