Re: gEDA-user: Question regarding 1st LTSpice simulation

[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 16, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Robert Butts wrote:

>  I'm doing an LTSpice simulation and following Stuart's howto.  In the
> Running LTSpice with gEDA designs step 5 is:
>
> Create a link from your netlist "output.net" and a netlist in the  
> directory
> in which SwCADIII lives. Make the netlist suffix .cir. For example:  
> ln -s
> ${DESIGN_HOME}/output.net ${WINE_HOME}/.wine/fake_windows/Program
> Files/LTC/SwCADIII/MyDesign.cir
>
> My questions are these:
>
> 1.  Earlier in the howto I was directed to netlist my design and  
> name it
> design.cir.  This is the netlist in my design directory and it ends  
> in .cir
> not .net.  Should Stuart's howto read ${DESIGN_HOME}/output.cir and  
> not
> output.net?

LTSpice doesn't care whether the netlist is called .net or .cir.

> 2.  Did I miss something and I was supposed to copy the netlist to the
> directory in which SwCADIII lives or does the link create a phantom  
> netlist?

you can open the file from anywhere; it does not have to be in the  
SwCAD III directory.  However, SwCADIII has a ridiculous hard-coded  
library directory structure ...

-a



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