Simulate the circuit
USER: Press the function key F9 to open the main dialog of the simulation (also with the menu actions or the icon bar).
USER: Check the messages in the bottom window "Online help".
INFO: You can ignore the warning "KL1 (3 pin clamp) has no model" (i.e. ideal clamp, thus no resistances, capacities etc.).
Add an analysis command:
USER: Click the button Commands and select the menu item Add in the appearing popup menu.
USER: Select the item Transient-Analysis in the sub menu (AC and DC are further analysis).
TARGET: The dialog for the transient analysis will appear.
USER: Enter the parameters (help directly in the dialog) for the transient analysis (e.g. endtime=400m, maxstep=500u).
Add a save command (In PSpice this command is called probe!):
INFO: All standard voltages/currents will be stored, if no probe command is used.
INFO: The probe command is not necessary, if the results should only be shown in the interactive elements (see Interactive elements in the schematic entry) of the schematic.
USER: Click the button Commands and select the menu item Add in the appearing popup menu.
USER: Select the item Probe in the sub menu.
TARGET: The dialog for the probe command will appear.
USER: Press the right mouse button in the window.
TARGET: A popup menu will appear.
USER: Select the item Add\"Voltage against ground" in the popup menu.
TARGET: The probe dialog will be minimized to the probe panel and the cursor will be changed.
USER: Click successively on all signal wires, whose voltage against ground should be stored.
USER: Maximize the probe dialog.
INFO: Currents are only "measurable" at pins, thus click on a pin to save a current.
The signals in the probe can also be specified for monitoring:
INFO: The graphs for monitoring will be shown/updated during the simulation! Thus the simulation/computation can be observed (breaked, if something looks false).
USER: Click on an item in the list with the right mouse button and select "Show immediately (monitoring)" in the popup menu.
INFO: The graphs can also be switched visible after the simulation with the graph calculator.
Interactive projects should be simulated with a "Quick start" (Interactive elements in the schematic entry and Interactive examples)!
Create simulation file Target.Cir:
USER: Click the button "Create Target.Cir".
TARGET: The (spice text)circuit file will be generated, which contains all data that the simulator (Sim.Exe) needs.
USER: Recheck the online help, because new messages could be listed.
Start simulation:
USER: Click the button "Start simulation".
TARGET: The simulator will be started and supplied with the simulation file.
TARGET: The oscilloscope will appear and the computation will run (The simulation progress will be shown at the bottom left).
USER: Analyze the simulation results with the post processor (oscilloscope) (see Analyzing the simulation results with the post processor (oscilloscope)).