User`s guide

Usin
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the Parts Utility to Edit Models 4
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Startin
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the Parts utilit
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To start editin
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an instance model
1
In the schematic editor, select one symbol on your
schematic.
2
From the Edit menu, select Model.
3
Click Edit Instance Model (Parts).
The schematic editor searches the model libraries for the
instance model.
• If found, the schematic editor initializes the Parts utility
with the name of the model library that contains the instance
model; the Parts utility opens the model library and reads in
the instance model.
• If not found, the schematic editor assumes that this is a new
instance model and does the following: makes a copy of the
original model definition, names it original_model_name-
Xn, and initializes the Parts utility with the new model
.
Savin
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local models
When you save your edits, the Parts utility writes the model
definition to
schematic_name.lib, which is already
configured for local use (see What happens if you don’t save the
instance model on page 4-22).
To save instance models
1
From the File menu, select Save to update
schematic_name.lib and write it to disk.
To find out how Schematics
searches the library, see
Changing Model Library Search
Order on page 4-45.
Actions that automaticall
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confi
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ure the instance
model file for
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lobal use instead
Instance model libraries are normally
confi
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ured for local use. However, if you
perform any of the followin
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actions, the
Parts utility confi
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ures this library for
g
lobal use instead:
• Save the model to a different library
usin
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SaveAs from the File menu.
• After savin
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the instance model, you
decide to create additional models
and save them to the same instance
model library
schematic_name.lib
.