Export .cir file to MICROCAP

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helbertdesa
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Export .cir file to MICROCAP

#1 Post by helbertdesa » 25 Mar 2023, 06:29

Hello everybody
I would like to make a suggestion to the DIP-TRACE team. Perhaps many do not know the first and one of the best SPICE simulator software ever created, MICROCAP. It was the first electronic simulation software and started in 1980. It ran for 39 years and for me it is one of the best electronic simulation software ever developed. On 07/04/2019 SPECTRUM-SOFT, software developer, closed activities after 39 years and now MICROCAP is free. When I did my master's degree in 2009 in power electronics it cost $4995.00 (dollars). Today it is free and continues without a doubt being able to solve 99% problems and circuit simulations with SPICE.
I was looking, through notepad++, at the MICROCAP opening file, its extension is .CIR. And it was not possible to simulate the .CIR generated by the schematic in DIPTRACE because the probes (voltage, current) are not available in DIPTRACE. It seems to me that if the DIP-TRACE team improves this converter and exports the .sch schematic perfectly to this MICROCAP .CIR file and does the simulation in MICROCAP, that would be a differential. Similar to what is done with .dsn and sending to SPECCTRA/ELECTRA, which is perfect.

The SPECTRUM-SOFT website is already offline, but it is possible to see how it was before and its development history at web.archive, follow the link https://web.archive.org/web/20200111222828/http://www. spectrum-soft.com/index.shtm

Latest version download is here, v12.2.0.3
https://web.archive.org/web/20200111222 ... nload.shtm
or with multiple files, publications and projects


It's amazing how such powerful software can do so much with a 58M installer.
I see that the NOVARM developers are wanting DIP-TRACE to come and do SPICE simulations. However, I believe that this possibility of making a schematic in DIP-TRACE and sending it to MICROCAP, without fail, will be very interesting because MICROCAP does not make PCBs. The possibility of entering universities with a powerful DIPTRACE software interacting with MICROCAP, I believe it will be a very big differential and would spread DIP-TRACE a lot in universities, since simulation software is extremely expensive. Only now it has a free and extremely powerful.
NOVARM for a few hours and analyze this possibility, I believe you will be able to generate a differential. I remind you that ALTIUM does the same with SIMETRIX.

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