Install and first simulation
The video above walks through install and first-run setup. The written steps below cover the same content.
Download and run the installer
RayRF Studio is a desktop application for Windows and Linux. Download the installer for your platform from your account dashboard: the .exe on Windows, or the .AppImage on Linux. On Windows the app appears in your Start menu as RayRF Studio. On Linux, mark the AppImage executable (chmod +x) and run it directly.
Sign in
Sign in at the prompt that shows up on first launch. The prompt offers two methods: sign in through RayRF, which opens your browser to approve the machine, or paste a license key from your account dashboard. You can also continue with the viewer-only license, which is always free for looking at old designs and simulation results, but does not let you edit projects or run simulations.
If you pick the browser method, your account page opens with an approval card for this machine. Approve to send the license to the desktop app, which then signs in automatically.
Welcome dialog
After sign-in, and on every later launch, the welcome dialog opens. The bottom panel lists recent projects. The top left starts a blank project. The top right opens the patch antenna example.
Run the 5.8 GHz patch antenna example
The patch antenna example is a fully built project for seeing how everything fits together. Pick it from the welcome dialog and it opens. Unlike other projects, the patch antenna example needs to be saved once before you can run a simulation. Press Ctrl + S or use File in the menu bar.
Open the Simulate tab at the top and click Run Simulation. No extra setup is needed for this example. When the run finishes, open the S-Parameters and Radiation Pattern tabs to look at the results.