PLECS 3.1 Online Help

Configuring PLECS

The PLECS configuration parameters can be modified per user in the PLECS Preferences dialog. Choose the menu entry Preferences... from the File menu (PLECS menu on OS X) to open it.

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General

The language used by PLECS can be specified in the Language field. PLECS uses the language settings of your computer as default setting. Available languages are English and Japanese. To activate the new language settings PLECS must be restarted.

The setting Symbol format controls whether resistors and capacitors are drawn in DIN or ANSI style. The table below shows the different component representation for both settings.



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When the Grid setting is set to on a grid is displayed in the background of schematic windows for easier placement of components and their connections.

The Scope preset setting determines whether the PLECS scopes are drawn with a black or white background.

The maximum amount of memory that is used by PLECS during the simulation can be controlled with the setting Cache size limit. Once PLECS reaches the memory limit it will discard earlier computation results which may have to be recalculated later during the simulation. On the other hand the value should not be higher than about one third of the physical memory of the computer where PLECS is running, otherwise the simulation performance may be degraded due to swapping.

Libraries

To add custom libraries to the library browser add these libraries in the User libraries settings. All custom libraries must be located on the library search path, which is defined differently depending on the PLECS edition:

Thermal

The setting Thermal description search path contains the root directories of the thermal library. See section Thermal Library for more details.