This section is designed to highlight one or two features per issue that may be overlooked
among all the capabilities of Micro-Cap.
Localize command:
Ever had to send a circuit to a colleague and had trouble sending the necessary files?
Well there's an easy way to do it using the Localize command.
First some background: When you select an analysis, Micro-Cap accesses electrical modeling
information for any parts in the circuit that require models. How does it do this? It searches
for the modeling information (model parameter lists, model statements, subcircuits, or macro
statements) in the following order:
Local Search within the circuit:
• In the grid text or text area
• In the file named in the File attribute (if the device has one).
• In one or more files named in a .LIB filename statement.
• In any files named in the NOM.LIB of the folder specified for the last used LIBRARY path.
• In any files named in the NOM.LIB statement found in any path from a .PATH LIBRARY
command within the circuit.
Global Search using library paths:
• In any files named in the NOM.LIB statement found in any path from File menu / Paths / Model
Library and Include Files. If more than one path is specified, it searches them in left to
right order.
For example, consider this path:
C:\Micro-Cap\LIBRARY ; D:\OTHER ; E:\ELSEWHERE
In this example, the search starts in C:\Micro-Cap\LIBRARY, then proceeds to D:\OTHER. Finally
E:\ELSEWHERE is searched.
Because Micro-Cap first searches locally in the circuit, you can use the Localize command to place
the needed model data within the circuit making it easier to send the circuit in a single file to
your colleague.
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