Why Should We Learn Amesim Following Help
My Experience
When I was learning Amesim, I went through many tutorials, but after going around in circles, I discovered that carefully studying the help documentation yielded the greatest results. I believe that:
Learning Amesim through the help documentation might be the most efficient method, bar none.
No matter how many videos you watch, you'll inevitably end up referring back to the help documentation. So why not start with it right from the beginning? Once you thoroughly digest the help documentation, you'll naturally understand the software, your mind will be settled, and although it seems like you've chosen a more difficult path, it actually saves time and effort, preventing you from falling into the confusing process of searching for resources everywhere.
The Amesim help documentation is well-designed, containing many excellent examples. However, there are several aspects that are not beginner-friendly:
- Getting stuck for a long time just because of encountering an unfamiliar parameter, and failing to understand the case when three unfamiliar parameters are encountered.
- The difficulty span of the provided cases is too large. Sometimes the first case is very simple, but the difficulty suddenly increases in the third case, making it suddenly incomprehensible, which greatly dampens learning enthusiasm.
- Official cases often involve many knowledge points irrelevant to the current case in order to demonstrate software functions. Beginners usually lack the background of these related knowledge points, so seeing a pile of unclear concepts makes it easy to lose the will to continue.
- Some given examples do not provide models and setting parameters, so beginners find it difficult to replicate the examples and thus hard to learn the concepts explained in them.
Based on my own learning experience, I have conducted in-depth research on the help documents, sorted out the logic and difficult points, mainly including the following parts:
Learning Methods
Complete Operation Process of Examples
Follow my operation process, and I guarantee that you'll be able to get the examples running.
Key Parameter Explanations
Some parameters are self-explanatory, but others require in-depth research to understand. I look up help resources and materials, combined with case verification methods, to clarify the meaning of these parameters and then explain them to you.
Component Interpretation
Understanding the components in the examples helps you know how to use them. When you create similar examples later, you can quickly get started.
Example Extensions
After understanding an example, you'll find it surprisingly simple. You'll feel great joy and confidence, no longer fearing complex documentation and intimidating terminology.
Then, we expand our research into the physical phenomena, parameters, etc., of the examples, easily playing with them. This makes learning both solid and fast, avoiding the phenomenon of "from beginner to quitter."
Highlights and Analysis
Some aspects of the official examples are very ingenious, such as layout, typography, text descriptions, parameter settings, data processing, image rendering, etc., which are worth learning from.
One Case Leads to All
When you thoroughly understand one case, you'll find that no matter what problems you encounter later, they will feel familiar, and you can quickly find solutions - it's simply a matter of practice and experience.
Focus on studying cases in depth, and you'll naturally achieve the state where understanding one principle leads to understanding all.