Assign the Initial Temperature Profile

We will now assign the steady-state temperature profile as the initial temperature for the transient heat transfer analysis.

1. Right-click the Analysis Type heading and select the Edit Analysis Parameters command.
2. Click the Options tab.
   1. Select the Steady-state analysis option in the Source of initial nodal temperatures drop-down list.
   2. Click the Browse button.
      • Navigate to the directory ...\Circuit Board.ds_data\1. This subfolder will be under the folder where the model is located.
      • Select the file ds.to.  Subfolder 1 contains the files associated with Design Scenario 1 and "ds.to" is the temperature output file produced by a steady-state heat transfer analysis.
      • Click Open. The Options tab of the Analysis Parameters dialog now shows the chosen path and filename in the Existing model field.

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Parent topic: Circuit Board Transient Heat Transfer Analysis