Synopsis
This page will document some of my experience of working with HFSS.
Background
I work in a Cubesat Lab at ASU and am electrical engineer with an RF Focus. I was bound to eventually start using this software. So I decided to try it.
Installation
If you are student, you can just utilize Ansys’s provided free trial of it. Doesn’t last terribly long but is sufficient for getting started.
Good Starting Tutorial
HFSS is limited to antenna testing but with my focus on RF design, Ansys’s Dipole Series is rather useful. It goes through some helpful tips so that your model is properly parameterizd to eventually far field plots + other useful plots.