Farfield3dIntegrate function not working in optimization sweep

- January 19, 2023 at 4:41 pm
  
  Mike Neville
  Subscriber
  
  Hi all, I am trying to use the farfield3dintegrate function as part of a figure of merit for the FDTD optimasation feature, but am getting a message saying this is not a valid function despite it working fine in the script environment. The code i am using is below.
  
  E = farfield.E2;
  E=pinch(E);
  ux = farfield.ux;
  ux=pinch(ux);
  uy = farfield.uy;
  uy=pinch(uy);
  NA=0.3;
  acceptangle = asin(NA) *360/(2*pi);
  
  out =1;# farfield3dintegrate(E, ux, uy, acceptangle);
  out1 = farfield3dintegrate(E, ux, uy, 90);
  
  powernorm= abs(power);
  
  fom = powernorm * (out/out1);
  
  Farfield is defined as a result in the optimization fom environment. Can anyone suggest why this function may not be working?
- January 20, 2023 at 4:54 pm
  
  Guilin Sun
  Ansys Employee
  
  Did you use those script inside Optimization ? it only holds certain script to work there. The best way to do this is in the "model". Then you choose its output as the FOM during the optimization. Please try.

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