New LT Spice

OK, fixed it. Had to right-click the waveform area and click View/grid.

The background image thing is ugly.

The top bar is ugly. Looks like it was done in DOS or worse. Also, you can get the grid as you discovered, but the View drop down menu has a check box for the same and does not work on my computer.

Sad. How do I go back to the previous version?

Oops! The View drop-down menu is for the schematic panel only. My mistake.

John S wrote: snip

Install and run it on a different machine.

Thats a Greek coffie stain.

Cheers

I installed the new one (XVII) and both are on my PC desktop. I can run either. They each have their own libraries and such.

I created an empty all-white JPG file and aimed the program at that. I could do my company logo or something, too.

Looks like Analog Devices is warming up to LT Spice.

In my opinion, XVII sucks. The more I use it, the more problems appear.

John, maybe you could post one or two of your problem ASC files and we can take a look at it ?

I find that XVII works pretty well. I keep the older one (4) around though in case I need to compare but I find 17 is faster.

boB

It does seem faster although my simulations are mostly very simple. It is not the in the ASC file but in the interface where I was having a problem. I am not using it anymore, so I guess my complaint is moot.

Thanks for your reply, boB.

As annoying as I find LTspice (it causes me extra work to get model compatibility), the only "problem" I've encountered going from IV to XVII is that the .PLT file from IV doesn't always end up with the same X-axis scale when played on XVII. ...Jim Thompson

What problems are you seeing?

How'd you do that? When I just put a jpeg on the command line, it comes up trying to edit it as text.

I agree about the Antikythera Machine or whatever that ugly picture is supposed to be.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Never mind. Control panel -> operation -> background image.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Control Panel > Operation > Background Image. Choose one of the drop downs or point it to your own.

another question...

i like to tweek values in a sim and quickly see the change in the plot. Problem with LT spice is that after every sim, the plot auto scales. This makes it difficult to visualize the change.

My work around has been to save the plot settings to a .plt file and set a hotkey for reload .plt file.

This is a pretty good work but is there a better way?

Is there a default .plt file that is always used after a sim? Can I put some command in the .cir file that will invoke my .plt file automatically?

I want the plot scales to always be as I have defined them in a .plt file and to not change every time i run a new sim.

thanks

Mark

ps, i used to do this in pspice with a .cmd file. Mark