1 - Introduction
This Getting Started Guide describes how to use Skin Depth Seeding in ANSYSElectronics
Desktop.
This guide answers the following questions:
l What is Skin Depth seeding?
l Why use seeding?
It also covers the following topics:
l Skin Depth mesh plot visualization
l Improvement compared to older implementation
l Using simple models
l Choosing settings
This guide does not discuss when a user should use Skin Depth Seeding.
What IsSkinDepth Seeding?
Skin Depth seeding is a Mesh Operation feature of solvers that use the 3D Modeler, including
HFSS and Maxwell 3D.
The Mesh Operations for Length Based refinement operate on crucial surfaces. The Skin Depth
Based mesh refinement lets you calculate or specify a skin depth for mesh refinement, as well as
the number of layers of elements.
Getting Started with Maxwell: Skin Depth Seeding
Introduction 1-1
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