This section is designed to highlight one or two features per issue that may be overlooked because they
are not made visually obvious with a toolbar button.
Localize Command
If you've ever had to send a circuit file to a colleague or a client, you probably remember the hassle of also sending
along the necessary modeling information.
The Localize command makes this easy by incorporating all of the necessary model statements, macros, and subcircuits
within the circuit. All your colleague has to do is run the circuit. There are several options in the dialog box.
You can select whether to add or simply update and you can select the type of model information to add or update. The
Localize selected parts only option does just that, it adds or updates model info only for components that have been
selected in the schematic.
Model statements and subckts are added to the Model page. Macros are placed in their own pages and new tabs are added
to identify them.
The Localize command is called that because it reads all of the globally available model information required to run
the circuit and then "localizes" it by copying the information into the circuit so that the circuit is self-contained.
This works because Micro-Cap always searches the circuit file first for model information and only if it can't find
something does it look in global libraries.
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