User Guide

Chapter 4 Creating and editing models
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Starting the Model Editor
To start editing an instance model
1 In Capture, select one part on your schematic page.
2 From the Edit menu, choose PSpice Model.
The schematic page editor searches the model libraries
for the instance model.
• If found, the schematic page editor starts the Model
Editor, which opens the model library that contains
the instance model and loads the instance model.
• If not found, the schematic page 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 starts the Model Editor
with the new model loaded.
Saving design models
When you save your edits, the Model Editor saves the
model definition to DESIGN_NAME.LIB, which is already
configured for local use (see What happens if you don’t save
the instance model on page 4-103).
To save instance models
1 From the File menu, choose Save to update
DESIGN_NAME.LIB and save it to disk.
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