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<strong>Sonnet</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong><br />

3 Select “Conformal” in the Fill Type drop list.<br />

4 Click on the OK button to apply the changes and close the dialog box.<br />

The polygon does not appear any different in the circuit. To see the difference, you<br />

need to use the Analysis ⇒ Estimate Memory command. When the Estimate<br />

Memory dialog box appears, click on the View Subsections button. Shown below<br />

is the subsectioning for the same spiral inductor. The circuit on the left uses<br />

rectangular subsections and the one on the right uses conformal subsections. Note<br />

that the rectangular subsectioning uses a much higher number of subsections for<br />

the spiral inductor than does the conformal meshing. Rectangular subsectioning<br />

was used for the feed lines in both cases.<br />

Spiral inductor with rectangular<br />

subsections. (Default)<br />

Spiral inductor with conformal<br />

subsections.<br />

If you chose Conformal meshing, then the subsectioning controls in the Metalization<br />

Properties dialog box - Xmin, Ymin, XMax, YMax and Edge Mesh - are disabled<br />

and ignored.<br />

Conformal Meshing Rules<br />

Not all conditions which may affect accuracy or processing time are automatically<br />

identified in the project editor. Below are some basic rules for using conformal<br />

meshing you may follow to prevent causing an error in the analysis engine, em.<br />

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