Smith chart for PCB Antenna Designer and Antenna Designer App

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Is there a Smith Chart visualization for the Antenna Designer or the PCB Antenna Designer? Seem like the only Smith Chart available in Matlab is under the RF toolbox. The apps are creating the impedances and plotting but lack a Smith Chart. Why? Does Mathworks think antenna designers dont use Smith Charts? Not only do we use them but they are critical tools for designing antennas. This seems like a critical over sight and should be fixed.
To be clear, I can export the antenna object from the Antenna Designer as a script and access the Smith tool plot. But I have to do this for every variation of parameter. The object of a microstrip antenna for example is read only. I cannot vary the object parameters once exported as a script. There is not way to export the impedance.
The PCB Antenna Designer does not every let me export as a script. Very limited export capabilities. No way to plot smith chart in the app although again it plots impedance. Just not on a smtih chart.

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Charu
Charu 2025-6-18
Hello Robbin,
The Antenna Designer and PCB Antenna Designer apps display impedance plots, but don’t have a built-in Smith Chart view. However, you can still use Smith Charts with a couple of workarounds:
In Antenna Designer, export the design to a script and use:
imp = impedance(antenna, freq);
smithplot(freq, imp)
This lets you visualize the impedance on a Smith Chart outside the app.
In PCB Antenna Designer, if you can export S-parameters as a Touchstone file, you can use:
s = sparameters('filename.s2p');
smithplot(s)
These steps allow you to view Smith Charts using the RF Toolbox functions
Here is the documentation link for the used functions:
impendance:
smithplot:
sparameters:
Hope this helps!
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Robbin Roddewig
Robbin Roddewig 2025-6-18
Thanks yes I was using the Smith plot. However, when I am trying to do iterations on an antenna design and need to plot on the Smith Chart every iteration the approach you outline (which I was intially using until it quickly grew impractical) is well not practical. I recreated the design in HFSS and was able to design the antenna there.
If Matlab wants to offer a tool that practicing engineers will pay for they need to change the app. What they have now is not usable for real designs and designers.
Thanks!

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