User Guide

User interface features for waveform analysis
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Moving cursors
To move cursors along a trace using menu commands
1 From the Trace menu, point to Cursor, then choose
Peak, Trough, Slope, Min, Max, Point, or Search.
To move cursors along a trace using the mouse
1 Use the right and left mouse buttons as described in
Table 2
below.
To move cursors along a trace using the keyboard
1 Use key combinations as described in Table 3 below.
Table 2 Mouse actions for cursor control
Click this... To do this with the cursors...
cursor assignment
Left-click the analog trace
symbol.
Associate the first cursor with
the selected trace.
Right-click the analog trace
symbol.
Associate the second cursor
with the selected trace.
cursor movement
Left-click in the display area. Move the first cursor to the
closest trace segment at the
X position.
Right-click in the display
area.
Move the second cursor to
the closest trace segment at
the X position.
Table 3 Key combinations for cursor control
Us this key combination... To do this with the cursors...
C
+
l
and
C
+
r
Change the trace associated with the first
cursor.
V
+
C
+
l
and
V
+
C
+
r
Change the trace associated with the
second cursor.
l
and
r
Move the first cursor along the trace.
V
+
l
and
V
+
r
Move the second cursor along the trace.
For more in
f
ormation a
b
out t
h
e cursor
commands, refer to the online Help in
PSpice.
For a
f
ami
l
y o
f
curves (suc
h
as
f
rom a
nested DC sweep), you can use the mouse
or the arrow keys to move the cursor to one
of the other curves in the family. You can
also click the desired curve.
To place a label, click Plot, point to Label
and then choose the desired type of object
you want to place.
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