Managing Setups and Sweeps

[Devin-Crawford]

👋 Welcome!

The solution setups and sweeps (i.e. frequency sweep) are very powerful, flexible, but still complicated to use and access. Is there a better way to do this in PyAedt? Here are some thoughts and it would be great to get feeback:

1. Make the application-specific Setup a subclass of Setup and also access the specific setup as a dict property of the application.
2. Make sweeps a dict property of the setup instance.
3. Also put the .update() method into the __setitem__ method for the sweeps dict. That way the sweep is added to the HFSS project without explicitly calling udpate()

For example

>>> hfss.create_setup("this_setup")

Creates a setup that can be accessed by the key "this_setup" hfss.setup["this_setup"]

>>> hfss.setup["this_setup].add_sweep(name="sweep1")

creates a sweep associated with the setup: hfss.setup["this_setup"].sweep["sweep1"]. Now the sweep knows the adapt frequency so the automatic sweep setup can be assigned correctly be default. Another sweep can also be added by key and arguments like sweep type passed as arguments. Again, default sweep values are based on known properties of the application:

>>> frequencies = ["65GHz", "70GHz", "75GHz"]
>>> hfss.setup["this_setup].add_sweep(name="sweep2", sweeptype="Discrete", frequencies=frequencies)