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                                2015/04/22 10:06 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    That's a good question!   It's straightforward enough to paste together geometric primitives, but when you get to best practices for creating global geometric entities, multiple instances, boolean combinations, adjustments like filleting and rounding, it would be nice to have simple examples, at least.  The example library is great but it tends to be on the complex side, like the complicated comb structure from Steve Senturia's book. 
I was creating structures with Sentaurus Structure Editor, which exports AutoCAD-compatible SAT files which can be imported with the CAD import module.  This is nice if you're good with the Sentaurus Structure Editor, because it's script-driven and you can thus (if you can deal with ELK/SCHEME) do relatively complex structures like (in my example) a lumpy surface characterized by a particular autocorrelation function and randomized Fourier coefficients, but the parameterization provided by COMSOL's built-in structure model is really attractive for structure optimization. 
                                                
                                                
                            That's a good question!   It's straightforward enough to paste together geometric primitives, but when you get to best practices for creating global geometric entities, multiple instances, boolean combinations, adjustments like filleting and rounding, it would be nice to have simple examples, at least.  The example library is great but it tends to be on the complex side, like the complicated comb structure from Steve Senturia's book. 
I was creating structures with Sentaurus Structure Editor, which exports AutoCAD-compatible SAT files which can be imported with the CAD import module.  This is nice if you're good with the Sentaurus Structure Editor, because it's script-driven and you can thus (if you can deal with ELK/SCHEME) do relatively complex structures like (in my example) a lumpy surface characterized by a particular autocorrelation function and randomized Fourier coefficients, but the parameterization provided by COMSOL's built-in structure model is really attractive for structure optimization. 
                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                                            
                            
                                                                                        
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                2015/04/22 10:21 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hello Gaoteng,
I would recommend Chapter 7 in the Reference Manual (page 371-479 in version 5.1 of that manual), accessed through File>Help>Documentation. It is quite detailed and includes examples.
Best regards,
Jeff                                                
                                                
                            Hello Gaoteng,
I would recommend Chapter 7 in the Reference Manual (page 371-479 in version 5.1 of that manual), accessed through File>Help>Documentation. It is quite detailed and includes examples.
Best regards,
Jeff                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                                            
                                                
    
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                2015/04/24 7:12 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi, Jeff Hiller
Thanks a lot!
Best regards!                                                
                                                
                            Hi, Jeff Hiller
Thanks a lot!
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                                2015/04/24 7:14 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi, Daniel Connelly
Thanks a lot!
Best regards!                                                
                                                
                            Hi, Daniel Connelly
Thanks a lot!
Best regards!