Реально CST наконец то призналась, что subgridding scheme from TD solver не работает как задумано в том числе и в CST 5.1.3.

Как минимум необходим очень мощный компьютер, иначе то, что считалось в CST 5.1.3 будет еле ползать в CST 2006.

FD solver работает не очень устойчиво, возможны зависания.

This list provides an overview of some of the most important changes in Service
Pack 1 of CST STUDIO SUITE™ 2006.

General / Environment

• Improved conversion of old project files into new format.
• Fixed display of currently used host id and license server name in license dialog box.
• Progress bar for matrix calculation improved.
• Fixed problem that online help for the design environment tries to access drive D:.
• Restore height of parameter and message window from previous design environment session.
• Fixed scrolling to the top of the parameter list once a parameter unit type is modified.
• Parameter sweeps now store all independent parameters in the tables.
• Fixed VBA command GetLicenseCustomerNumber.

Distributed computing

• Fixed problems with user defined excitation signals.
• Fixed some problems concerning licensing.
• Frontend was not unlocked correctly when main controller was unspecified.
• The unit cell parameter sweep with distributed computing does no more query for reusing an adapted mesh.

Import

• Added new single layer and multiple layer Gerber file import options.

Modeler

• Added a check whether material exists during solid wire creation.
• It is no longer possible to create a solid curve wire with zero radius.
• The target solid is now checked for existence in change component command.
• Rebuild problems when using "Make shape from picked faces" fixed.
• Fixed program abort in new material dialog if add to library is checked and delete result question cancelled twice.
• Fixed update problems with imported curves in combination with macros.
• Polygon simplification improved.
• Resolved problems that sometimes wires are not electrically connected for coarse meshes.
• Fixed some problems in combination with fast history updates.
• Fixed some problems with layer stacking feature.
• Changes to material "default" are now considered after re-opening the file.
• Mesh view is now stored when switching to another view and retrieved when switching mesh view back on.
• Performance of show spline faces operation improved.
• Local mesh refinement now works for wire models even when use for auto mesh is deactivated.
• Fixpoints which are located slightly outside the bounding box are snapped correctly now.
• Fixed some problems with adding automesh fixpoints.

Visualization

• Changing the triangulation accuracy is no longer allowed during solver run.
• Visualization of surface plots does not depend anymore on the user click sequence in tree.
• Solid wires are now visualized transparently if material is transparent and can be selected.
• Wires are drawn when transparent field mode is active.
• Fixed visualization of wires in mesh view in case of symmetries: only the part of wire inside the calculation domain is shown now.
• Dragging the cutplane position slider with the arrow keys updates field cuts now, as well.
• Fixed redraw problem after switching to desktop and maximizing modeler again.
• Mesh is visible now even if "transparent view" is active.
• Fixed h-field interpolation on PEC surfaces for structures with a height of one mesh cell.
• Memory leak in field cut visualization fixed.
• The "Select mode frequency" dialog no more shows duplicated entries or hangs when selecting another frequency.
• Improved display and handling of arbitrarily oriented cutplane.
• Fixed field maximum search for scalar fields.
• Fixed field maximum search for power flow 3d on surfaces and 2d.
• Improved field display for unit cell structures.

Transient solver

• Added check for invalid dispersion models (failed fitting) before transient solver run.
• Fixed voltage monitors and field on curve extraction in case of non-symmetric curves and activated symmetries.
• Fixed inconsistency of port shielding functionality at ports touching open boundaries.
• Fixed logfile entry in case of simultaneous excitations.
• Fixed extraction of 2D monitors at the vicinity of waveguide ports.

Frequency domain solver

• Added validity check for dispersive materials.
• Changed stopping criteria for "resonant with fields" solver.
• Resonant solver no longer ignores "normalize to fixed impedance".
• Fixed h-field and derived monitors in combination with magnetic losses.
• The frequency sweep is no longer stopped when the "do you want to abort the entire sweep" query is answered with "no".
• Fixed bug for open structures with the "add space before mesh generation" flag activated in combination with farfields.
• Fixed frequency sweep convergence check after increasing the frequency range, e.g. from a partial to the global range.
• Fixed discrete ports on unit cell boundaries.
• Fixed check for existing and complete solver results when automatic samples are defined.
• Added validity check for dispersive materials.
• Result templates now correctly show the mesh adaptation passes.

Eigenmode solver

• Added the external Q-factors to the result window.
• Added a VBA command in order to access the external Q-factor.
• Fixed wrong magnetic power loss density monitor.
• Fixed problem in the estimation frequency calculation of AKS solver.
• Fixed problem in port mode calculation, if many conductors are present in the port.
• Result templates now correctly show the mesh adaptation passes.

EMS solvers

• Fixed problem with size of calculation domain in combination with coils.
• Solid specific energies can now be calculated by the TET SH and SE-solvers.
• Solid specific losses and energies can now be calculated by the TET LF-solver.
• TET-LF-solver does not stop anymore if a non-linear material is defined.

Postprocessing

• SAR: time saving limitation of calculation volume enabled via VBA.
• SAR: added VBA command "GetValue".
• SAR: added output numbers "point SAR" and "SAR related to 1W(rms)" accepted power.
• SAR: improved plots and maximum position.
• Fixed unnecessary error message when combining results on tetrahedral grids.
• VBA: LoadPlainFile method of Result1D now again appends the project base name automatically.
• VBA command "evaluate field on face" now delivers maximum and minimum with positions.
• Energy, Loss and SAR fields 3d maximum coordinate output is now in the center of grid cells.

PBA matrix calculation (hexahedral)

• Fixed some matrix generation problems for particular examples.
• Fixed problem when switching back and forth between TD and FD solvers with TST cells at the ports.
• Fixed problems with port mode solutions (impedances, mode classification)
• Improved detection of TST cells by PBA acceleration mesher.

Tetrahedral mesh generation

• Fixed mesh generation for unit cell structures when discrete ports are touching the periodic boundaries.
• Fixed problem with the unit cell port mesh extraction for some specific port locations.
• Fixed mesh inconsistency with model simplification involving conducting walls.
• Fixed mesh generation for PEC sheet within a waveguide port.
• Fixed incorrect start of mesh generation when deleting all results after viewing a field.

Macros and Result Templates

• External Q-factor can be saved through 0D template "3D Eigenmode Result"
• New macro "File / Get Customer-ID and Host-ID"
• Bugfix in file loading inside macro "Time Signal Processing / Eye diagram"
• Farfield templates can now store "Maximum = 0 dB"
• TDR template works for discrete ports with arbitrary impedance
• Fixed some backward compatibility issues for the ADS import.

The most important changes in SP2 of CST STUDIO SUITE™ 2006
(compared to SP1)

General / Environment

• Potential crash after closing worksheet while progress running fixed.
• Letters used as shortcuts could not be entered in text boxes inside canvas.
• Results referenced by result file maps were not always deleted together with their map.
• Crash when selecting Smith plot for user-defined result, disabled now.
• MWS results were not updated during parameter sweep inside DS.
• Farfield calculation failed for antenna with differential ports.
• Different units in sub-model were ignored.
• Fixed abnormal termination of network MOR.
• Zero S-matrix for MWS block based on FD results for a sub-range of the frequency range set in MWS.
• Studio did not close after running parameter sweep via command line option.

Distributed computing

• Front end was still locked when no further front end license could be checked out.
• Result cache was not written when distributing a parameter sweep.
• Fixed problems when running DC with more than one network card.
• Fixed problems with running more than one solver server at the same time on one computer.

Import

• Vias are correctly imported when using gerber import (multiple layers).

Modeler

• Improved handling of discrete elements consisting of two edges.
• Added support for differential SPICE netlist generation.
• The align direction for the layer stacking can now be inverted.
• Partly update of history list is now possible again.
• Voltage monitors are no longer invisible. Revised draw routines of wire structures.
• Fixed bug: 'Material changes color after parameter update'.
• Transparency slider in material dialog is updated correctly during dialog opening.
• New mesh VBA-commands implemented (grid point based): GetNp, GetClosestPtIndex, GetXPos.
• Fixed phase sign in evaluate field on curve file output.
• Removed check for existing component in command 'CreateShapeFromFaces'.
• Postprocessing messages were not displayed in the message window but as a message box.
• Limited number of points for evaluate field on curve to 1 million per curve.

Visualization

• Farfield plot 1D: Reloading of old data and indeterminable phase center in following 3D plot fixed.

Frequency domain solver

• Fixed occasional Tet-FD solver freeze in SP1 when a single adaptation frequency was defined with the adaptation turned off.
• Fixed convergence problem in HF HEX FD solver if high conducting areas are included.
• The FD solver did not properly detect a parameter sweep over the unit cell scan angle when the templates were used.
• Fixed problem with the user abort for the Tet-FD solver during the calculation of the first two samples.
• The Tet-FD excitation defaults were incorrect for unit cells with no ports other than the Floquet ports.
• Fixed Tet mesh creation for FD with open boundaries, indicated by a warning about not considered "sheets with normal or anisotropic material".
• Fixed a problem with the Tet-FD port overlap calculation: "Overlap polygon with points not arranged in a counter clockwise fashion".
• Fixed bug in linear equation solver for periodic boundaries.
• Fixed crash of the tet-fd solver when the low frequency stabilization was used with first order.
• Wrong error message about unsupported internal ports is no more shown for Hex-FD and Eigenmode solvers.
• The Tet-FD curvature refinement of open structures no more strongly depends on the "add space before mesh generation" special solver setting.
• Added more meaningful error message for the Tet-FD mesh verification of zero volume or negative orientation checks.

Eigenmode solver

• Inaccurate AKS results in combination with TST resolved.

Postprocessing

• Fixed return code evaluation as well as progress and status text after frequeny domain transmission line network extraction.

PBA matrix calculation (hexahedral)

• Problem with electrically open, solid modelled bond wires resolved.
• Fixed TST detection if using PBA acceleration.
• Crash when calculating feature matrices for AKS-solver resolved.

Tetrahedral mesh generation

• User abort shows now just a warning, no additional misleading error message
'...entirely filled with PEC...' anymore.
• Added calculation of the smallest Tet edge.

Интересно сравнение с каратом по быстродействию и возможности решения самосогласованных задач (в cst вроде еще не включено, только обещают).

А что умеет делать Карат ? Он 3D ? Можно посчитать, например, самовозбуждение резонатора

Most important changes in SP 3 of CST STUDIO SUITE™ 2006

General / Environment

• Fixed automatic restart of license manager at startup or during license change.

Distributed computing

• Result cache with parameter sweep did not save the results.
• S-parameter symmetries are now calculated properly.

Import/Export

• Visualization of the cutting plane for structure and field data in conjunction with voxel data import has been repaired.
• Gerber import has been improved.
• Check button 'scale to current unit' in 3D import dialogs is considered correctly now.
• Touchstone-Export for single-ended S-Parameters enabled (without re-normalization).

Modeler

• Results are no longer deleted during project opening in combination with solid wires and layer stacking.
• Fixed bug, fast model update causes missing objects.
• Fixed bug in 'UpdateBounds' in combination with addopenspace.
• Fixed false dependency check for command 'setautomeshstepwidthtet'.
• Fixed missing lumped element update if no points are picked for the element.
• Transformation of a curve without changing the bounding box does no longer invoke the delete result question.
• Calibration lines for waveguide ports are updated correctly when using parameters.
Visualization
• 2D scalar field visualization inside voxel material repaired.

Transient solver

• Added final check for un-allowed characters of excitation label before closing TD solver dialog box.
• Fixed restart problem with two port structures and symmetries.
Frequency domain solver
• Re-meshing of tetrahedral grid prevented when starting the frequency domain solver.
• The Tet-FD waveguide port reflection is now more accurate for first order calculations.
• The Tet-FD solver could not be started properly from the job control for unit cell parameter sweeps over the scan angle or phase.
• Changed calculation of the maximum number of iterations for the Tet-FD port mode solver.
• The Tet-FD port mode solver sometimes did not stop after reaching the maximum number of iterations.
• Fixed accuracy problem with the tetrahedral mesh for unit cells with large absolute lattice vector magnitudes, larger than a few thousands.
• Fixed Tet-FD tolerance for a port mapping check.
• Added warning for unsupported U/I recording for lumped elements and probes in the frequency domain solver.

Eigenmode solver

• Crash when using mesh adaption with staircase mesh and eigenmode solver resolved.
Post processing
• Energy error message during template based post processing or update user-def. watch was displayed by message box instead of message window.
• Fixed wrong calculation of initial poles for SPICE MOR.
• Fixed touchstone export for single frequency.
• Fixed H and P monitors at periodic boundaries.
• 0D Result Templates Tables not cleared during parameter sweep anymore.
• Fixed combine results for scalar monitors.

VBA/Macros

• VBA command for DFT now agrees with the Parseval-Placherel formula.
• VBA command OpenFile for MWS project did not work from within environment's IDE.
• New macro for Combine 1D Results (probes and voltages).
• Improved macro for Touchstone Export of Single-Ended S-Parameters.
• Improved macro Touchstone + SPICE / Touchstone Reduction.
• New DS macro for Groupdelay computation.
• Initialization of a Result1D object with a large number crashed.
• OpenFile macro command did not work any more without extension like former versions did.
• New VBA-command for discrete port: GetElement2ndIndex .

sp2 on FTP
sp3 ?

CST Studio Suite 2006

aplac use valid FlexID ( or MACaddress)

add for APLAC


1 Install ( from EFA licensegen) sentinel emulator,reboot,affirm the flexid 7-36c71805 is valid.

2 Save the next lines as license file,and set lm_license_file env to point this license file,done!

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This list provides an overview of some of the most important changes in Service Pack 4 of CST ICROWAVE STUDIO®2006.

General / Environment


The VBA-command '#uses will be executed correctly now.

The history list is now refreshed when switching back to the main view.

The tree does no longer loose the focus if a 1D curve is deleted.

Shortcuts F7,Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V also work when parameter list edit field is active.

Application did not terminate when running the optimizer by command line.


Distributed computing

Front end did not exit after parameter sweep with distributed computing started via command line.

Not all results were merged after distributed solver run.

Fixed problem on terminal servers when logging off from Windows while DC calculates a job.

Solver messages where not send to front end after reconnect.

Reduced memory consumption of Main Controller and Solver Server while sending large files.

Solvers did not store results to cache properly when using DC.


Import / Export

Added improved arc recognition to GERBER import.

DXF and GDSII imports can now be executed as macro again.

Problem with units for IGES and Step Import/Export repaired.

ASCII-Export for surface loss plots enabled.

ASCII-Export of surface currents: added column for area.


Modeler

New error message in command tracefromcurve if resulting solid edges are self-intersecting.

Fixed problems during fast history updates in combination with monitors.

Repaired problem if a closed current path or a closed wire happened to be outside the mesh due to a symmetry.

A mesh is no longer deleted after editing a curve if the bounding box does not change.

Plane rotation in mesh view now takes the center of bounding box if selected instead of origin.

Suppressed opening of frequency range dialog after clicking on Mesh Control if no solid is defined.

Deletion of a user defined view works again.

Fixed problem during parameter sweep, in combination with parameterized imports and fast model updates.

Problem with incomplete dispersive material settings has been repaired.


Meshing / Matrix calculator

Problem within the matrix calculator for structures with very small gaps resolved..
The tetrahedral preview mesh was not invalidated when the "add space before mesh generation" in the solver specials changed.


Transient solver

Improved accuracy of inhomogeneous boundary check for plane wave excitation.

Re-normalization was not applied for models with two ports any more if only one port was excited.


Frequency domain solver

An attempt to free memory for the tetrahedral frequency domain monitor calculation did not succeed.

Fixed mismatch between the tetrahedral frequency domain excitation number and the order of discrete ports, if the ports were not sorted by name.

Parameter sweep watches, result templates and optimizer results were missing for the resonant frequency domain solver.

Resonant frequency domain solver did not start within the optimizer if Calculate modes only is used.

Fixed convergence problems for low frequency applications of the hexahedral frequency domain solver.


Post processing

The adaptive hexahedral mesh refinement did only store the last adaptation pass in the result cache.

Clamp to Range option does not produce inconsistencies (color ramp labels vs. info text) anymore.

For farfield with tetrahedral mesh the radiation efficiency with more than one defined monitor has been corrected.

Fixed field magnitude and radiation efficiency for discrete ports with symmetries.

Improved passivity calculation of Network MOR.


VBA / Macros

Implemented VBA command Pick.ExportFaceTriangles.

Привет всем!

На сайте _fxp.pcbtech.net появилcя каталог "CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006 By Crocos" с файлами
CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006.mdf и CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006.mds

Может ли кто-нибудь просветить, что это такое?

Образ диска это. Алкоголь 120% вам поможет.

Интересно, что там внутри этого образа, если размер файла *.mdf всего 53.19 Мгб.
Проверить смогу завтра, т.к. скаченные файлы на работе.

На сайте _fxp.pcbtech.net появилcя каталог "CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006 By Crocos" с файлами
CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006.mdf и CST_STUDIO_SUITE_2006.mds

Доброе время суток!
В чем может быть проблема? В CST 5.0 все было нормально, а вот в CST 2006 кнопка "Freqency domain solver" вообще не активна.
Удачи.

Уверены, что есть лицензия на "Freqency domain solver" ?

Тут все больше разговор верется о CST_STUDIO_SUITE. А где можно сегодня взять только CST Microwave Studio 2006

А если CST_STUDIO_SUITE - то сколько он занимает.так как канал не безлимитный и где его можно сейчас скачать???

Размер ISO 1.77Гб, есть в eMule.

У кого лицензия есть?