Highlighting Specific Mesh Elements

The mesh highlight tool allows you to view areas of the mesh where specific model settings are applied.

On the 3D View contextual tabs set, on the Mesh tab, in the Tools group, click the  Highlight icon. From the drop-down list select one of the following:

• None

  No mesh elements are highlighted.

• Lossy metal

  Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires) with a metallic medium and thickness applied to it.

• Coating

  Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires, edges) with a coating (layered dielectric) applied to it.

• CFIE / MFIE

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with either a combined field integral equation (CFIE) or magnetic field integral equation (MFIE) applied to it.

• EFIE

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the electric field integral equation (EFIE) applied to it.

• Impedance sheet

  Highlight mesh elements (wires, faces) with an impedance sheet applied to it.

• Surface impedance approximation

  Highlight faces that bound a region set to the dielectric surface impedance approximation.

• Physical Optics

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the physical optics (PO) solution method applied to it.

• Physical Optics (Fock regions)

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the physical optics (PO) solution method applied to a Fock region.

• Ray Launching GO

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the ray launching geometrical optics (RL-GO) solution method applied to it.

• Uniform Theory of Diffraction

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) solution method applied to it.

• Faceted Uniform Theory of Diffraction

  Highlight mesh elements (faces) with the faceted uniform theory of diffraction (faceted UTD) solution method applied to it.

• FEM

  Highlight mesh elements (regions) with the finite element method (FEM) solution method applied to it.

• VEP

  Highlight mesh elements (regions) with the volume equivalence principle (VEP) solution method applied to it.

• Windscreen solution elements

  Highlight mesh elements (faces, wires) that are specified as windscreen solution elements (windscreen antenna elements).

• Aperture

  Highlight a slot or aperture in an infinite plane with the planar Green's function aperture applied to it.

• Numerical Green's Function

  Highlight mesh elements defined as the static part using the numerical Green's function.

Figure 1. On the left, a 3D view of a horn and a reflector with no highlighting applied. To the right, the reflector is highlighted in yellow to indicate that PO solution method is applied to the face.