LTspice Tutorials now available

Jan 22, 2014 34 Replies

And: there is a checkbox for reversing the direction of the scroll wheel; another pet peeve of mine. Scroll-up to zoom out is just a wrong-way default that can be fixed in one click, Yay!

Every other program that has anything to do with drawing that I have ever used does it like this: roll the wheel up == zoom in.

Wow, so much better now ...

PSpice is classic A,B,C,D,E sizes, PLUS the ability to make a custom-sized sheet, which I often do for chip toplevels... an E-size, but portrait orientation. ...Jim Thompson

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F7 drags the wire by itself.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

I can kind of drag wires,either a point or the whole straight line.

"By itself" implies it "moves". Does F7 drag the wires while retaining their connections? ...Jim Thompson

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Drop by sometime and I'll demo a REAL schematic capture >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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A thought just occurred to me... is there some way to make your own video of what's happening on your screen so you can distribute it later? ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Thanks for the invitation! I'd get to see the final on that dining room. uh, don't know where you moved to.

Is your PSpice anything like OrCAD version 9.2 Schematic Capture? v16 really improved some features.

No, F8 drags the wires while leaving them connected. The detailed behaviour is a bit strange, so if you're doing anything fancy such as rotating an IC, it's usually easier to just delete the wires, move the parts, and wire them again.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

PSpice Schematics =/=/=/= OrCAD ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Just set your GPS for San Tan Valley... intersection Gary Rd and Silver Stream Way... the rest doesn't exist yet... too new even for FedEx and UPS >:-}

...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Control Panel - Drafting Options - Hot Keys.

Customize to whatever you like.

Ctrl-Z is already in use in the default setup (Zoom area).

"Design is the reverse of analysis" (R.D. Middlebrook)

Who wrote PSpice Schematics? was it original MicroSim?

As far as I know, yes. Probably the best schematic capture I've ever used. ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Having been using Cadence Virtuoso all this past week I can guess where the obtuseness in LTspice came from. What a piece of unruly organization... every activity requires a pull-down menu and a non-intuitive action to get what you want.

And Virtuoso is the CAD of choice in the semiconductor industry :-( ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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