Customizing submodels

This section shows you how to customize Simcenter Amesim submodels with simple tutorial examples. However, before attempting to read this section and doing the exercises, you should have experience at using Simcenter Amesim and performing simple simulations with standard Simcenter Amesim submodels.

Name conventions

For generic submodels and supercomponents the following restrictions apply to the names:

• Names must be of 4 to 23 characters comprising uppercase letters and digits.

• The first character must be a letter.

For customized objects the rules are the same except that the characters "-" (minus) and "_" (underscore) are permitted. It is a good idea to use these freely so as to make customized objects distinctive.

Please note also that:

• In all the Simcenter Amesim libraries, standard submodels and supercomponents have the first digit in their name (if any) in the range 0 to 4, whether they are generic or customized.

• Hence, if you create your own customized objects with names that contain at least one digit and if the first digit is in the range 5 to 9, there will be no risk of name clashes with existing standard objects.