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Sonnet User's Guide - Sonnet Software

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

You should look at your geometry and, if necessary, divide it up into Manhattan<br />

and non-Manhattan polygons using the Edit ⇒ Divide Polygon. Then set the Manhattan<br />

polygons to staircase fill and the non-Manhattan polygons to Conformal<br />

fill. For example, the spiral conductor shown below contains Manhattan sections<br />

in the feed lines and non-Manhattan sections in the circular spiral. It should be divided<br />

up such that the feedlines are represented by polygons set to staircase fill,<br />

and the circular spiral is another polygon set to Conformal fill.<br />

Conformal<br />

Staircase Fill<br />

The exception to this rule is when relatively small Manhattan polygons are between<br />

conformal mesh polygons. In that case, the inefficiency of switching so frequently<br />

between staircase and conformal mesh outweighs the gain of using<br />

Manhattan polygons. In that case, conformal mesh should be applied to all the<br />

polygons. An example is shown below.<br />

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Normally, these polygons would use staircase fill, but because they are<br />

relatively small areas and in between polygons on which you would use<br />

conformal mesh, it is more efficient to apply conformal meshing to these<br />

Manhattan polygons.<br />

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