Exactly what I do as well. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.
In general I find it works pretty well and is crashes less frequently than its 32 bit predecessor.
In general I find it works pretty well and is crashes less frequently than its 32 bit predecessor.
I've never been able to plot currents in wires, nor can I see how it could work as the analysis is done on a netlist not the schematic, so details about particular wires (not dedicated to carrying current to a particular component) gets lost.
If you have your cursor over the wire then you will get an oscilloscope probe (voltage). If you move the cursor to a part, then the cursor shape will turn to a current probe. Never seen that?
Sure. The topic was plotting currents in wires, not in parts. Wires can be plotted for voltage but not for current.
Yes, but if you plot the current into a resistor then you will get the current in the wire to.What do you want to know besides that?
When you start designing circuits that consist of more than a battery, resistor and bulb, it becomes necessary to plot currents in wires without having to keep inserting dummy 1 mOhm resistors.
When I say you can't plot the current in a wire, I mean it doesn't work not that you can't. LTSpice plots the current in any wire under the cursor if you alt-click it. Look at the status bar when you do it, and you'll see the voltage probe turn into a current probe as well. It just doesn't work for me under Wine /Ubuntu
Cool, thanks - another useful feature discovered 🙂 The status bar shows the mathematics behind it too.
The difference is I'm running it natively on Win7. I have tried it on Ubuntu under Wine, years ago - what held me back then was the way too clunky screen refreshes.
The latest version is a bit buggy in Manjaro/Arch but runs solidly in Ubuntu for me. The i7 probably doesn't hurt.
Will have to try it when I get home. LTSpice would flat out stop responding under this Arch derivative, so current Ubuntu was less buggy in that respect.
Appears to be a Wine key mapping issue. Shift+alt click displays current on a wire, ctrl+alt click adds current to the waveform presently displayed.
This is probably a frivolous post about a frivolous thing, but on the latest update of XVII, I'm getting a black outline of a play button in the tray icon and in the upper left hand corner of the ltspice window.
Does anyone else see this and know what it is for?
Does anyone else see this and know what it is for?
Screen shot of what you are seeing and what you have to do to make it appear ?
I'm on Jan 3rd build and all looks the same as normal.
I'm on Jan 3rd build and all looks the same as normal.
Thanks Mooly. This has me kinda weirded out..
It's the Jan 3 version. Previous versions didn't have this..
It's the Jan 3 version. Previous versions didn't have this..
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Lol. Yeah I know that. The funky thing is the thin black outline of a "play button" that appears at the top left of the window over the LT logo, and also in the tray icon. This screen grab is of my linux machine. I have two windows boxes and they have the "button" in the window but not the tray icon, with the Jan 3 build.
No clue how or why it's there.
No clue how or why it's there.
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