HFSS15: General Options: Desktop Performance Tab

These options are set on the Desktop Performance tab of the General Options dialog box.

Report Update Options for Design Type:

• The Design type is HFSS or HFSS-IE.

• Select or clear Dynamically update reports and field overlays during edits.

If selected, report plots and overlays update dynamically.

• Dynamically update postprocessing data for new solutions.

Updating numerous reports may a significant amount of time. Updating reports during the analysis process can impact the overall time to solution. You may want to vary the times when your reports get updated relative to the impact on overall solve time.

Five options exist for updating reports during solutions:

• Automatically - the default. It means update most things immediately.
For "AdaptivePass" plot context, plots are updated at the end of each solution pass. For "LastAdaptive" or "Transient" the plot is updated at the end of the transient or adaptive solution.
This option balances report and field plot updating with solution time. For example, reports may be updated after each adaptive pass but field plots will not be updated until the solution is complete.

• Immediately - update reports and plots as soon as data comes from the solver.
This option will have the greatest impact on the overall solution time but will have the most rapid updating of reports and field plots. Caution should be used in selecting this option. Some types of reports and field plots may take a long time to update, especially as the mesh size increases.

• Never - only manual intervention updates reports.
This option will prevent updates from impacting the solution time.

• On Completion - as with Never, but a single update is done when the solve completes. Note: Reports that are updated on completion are done after the solve has been completed. The time for that update is not included in the solve profile.

• After Each Variation - when performing an Optimetric or parametric analysis, all reports are updated after analysis of each variation has been completed.

The Animation setting lets you set a limit to Stop computing animation frames when available memory is less than a value in megabytes. The default is 100.

Desktop Pre/Post Processing settings:

• Number of Processors

Set the number. The default is the number of logical processors on the machine/2. This option is common for both pre-processing and post-processing. This option only affects pre/post processing in desktop (not solve or simulation)

Currently following pre-processing algorithms can take advantage of multiple processors

• Visualization/faceting of 3D models for 3D products

• Model validation for 3D products

• Auto net identification for Q3D