And welcome!
And let me introduce you to the
Ansys Electronics Desktop
and that's AEDT for short.
And we're going to create a digital twin
of your electronic component
or your system.
In this video I'm going to walk you
through the user interface
of the AEDT Student version.
Every year Ansys releases a new version
with new features
and this year in the 2021R2 version
we have a free student version.
And this brings you the industry
gold standard simulation tools
to the learning community.
AEDT is a unified
multi-physics user interface
for electronic simulation tools
and we can design and simulate
various electronic components and devices
be it can be for RF/microwave usage or
even antenna applications.
Also let's begin.
So let's launch AEDT.
You can double click on the
AEDT Student version icon
on the desktop or launch it from
the windows start menu
of course assuming you already installed it.
And you'll see the user interface screen pop up
as seen here.
And it consists of a main window
and several smaller windows
for any related tasks.
And what you see is at the
top of the main window
is this menu bar
and it's context sensitive
it depends on the type of simulation
you want to do.
For example whether you're going
to do an HFSS or a Maxwell simulation
a high frequency or a low frequency simulation.
And below that menu bar is a ribbon area
which has more tabs
again changes depending on the
simulation type that's selected
and each is appropriate for the
selected design type
and the solver.
And below that ribbon tab
are additional windows.
Starting on the left hand side is the
project manager window
and this is where you're going to see
a new project
or open an existing one.
So let's open a
HFSS example model just to illustrate this.
Now once that model is open
now you'll see in that project manager window
some of the simulation steps that are
called out below that model design.
Note you can have more than one model design
in a project.
So let's move on to the geometry window
and this is the largest window pane
that appears in the user interface.
As the name indicates
it displays your model geometry.
And on the left hand side
of the modeler window
is this history tree.
And you can see
this is a creation of the history tree list
of the features of the selected geometry
whether it's a solid or a surface
defines the materials the coordinate system.
And in the model geometry window
you can also view the model geometry
in any orientation.
It could be 3D or 2D
and you can zoom and rotate
and many of these have shortcut hotkeys.
Of course we also have copy and paste
ctrl C, ctrl V
and one of my favorite is
ctrl D
that's view all.
Sometimes the models get
so detailed and I need to reorient myself
every once in a while.
So ctrl D becomes my favorite hotkey.
And shown here is a quick list of
some of the default
viewing orientation shortcut keys.
And below the project manager window
is the properties window.
And this contains more detailed properties
about the item you selected
whether it's a surface or a solid again
and
they are editable.
And the bottom left of the screen
is the messenger window.
This is your friend.
And it provides information
to us what the solver is doing
behind the scenes.
This window provides you with
many warnings
errors
during the simulation solve process.
And also on the bottom of the UI
by default
to the bottom right
is the progress window
and this
shows you where you are in your simulation.
And at the footer of the
AEDT UI
is a status bar
as well as an alternate entry
for coordinates during
the geometry operations.
That's it for the user interface.
So thank you for listening to
this introductory video
on the basic windows
inside the AEDT user interface.
Go ahead
continue on to other courses
at courses.ansys.com
and watch our other introductory videos
on the specific electronic simulation
design types
whether it's for HFSS or for Maxwell, Q3D
or Icepak within the student version
as well as
all of our other Ansys simulation tools
as well as related topics.
Thank you!