You can place text on a schematic page as a means of providing comments or descriptions on the page.

Placing Text in Schematic Page Editor

To place text on a schematic page:

1. From the Place menu, choose the Text command.
   The Place Text dialog box appears.
2. Enter the text to place on the page.
3. Use the following options to modify the text that you are placing on the page:
   1. Use the Color drop-down list to specify the text color.
   2. Use the Rotation group box to specify the orientation of the text on the page.
   3. Use the Change button in the Font group box to change the font of the text.
   4. Use the Text Justification drop-down list to justify text as Default, Right, Center, or Left.
4. Click OK.
   The text is immediately attached to the cursor.
5. Click the schematic page where you want to place the text.
6. Select the selection tool or press ESC to complete placing the text.

Netlist Comments

When you start a comment with @PSpice:, it is netlisted to PSpice during the netlist creation process. This is done only when such a comment is placed in the root schematic. The concatenation of comments with @PSpice:,  from subcircuits is not done because that can create invalid netlists.

Examples of single-line comment and multi-line comment starting with @PSpice: are:


• Single-line comment
  

  @PSpice: R1 1 0 1k will be netlisted as R1 1 0 1k

• Multi-line comment
  @PSpice: .autoconverge ITL1=1000 ITL2=1000 ITL4=1000 RELTOL=0.05 ABSTOL=1.0E-6 VNTOL=.001 PIVTOL=1.0E-10 .TEMP 125
  will be netlisted as
  .autoconverge ITL1=1000 ITL2=1000 ITL4=1000 RELTOL=0.05 ABSTOL=1.0E-6 VNTOL=.001 PIVTOL=1.0E-10 .TEMP 125

Using Options or Flags not in Simulations Settings Window

To use options or flags that are not available in the Simulations Settings dialog box:

1. Open the design in Capture.
2. Choose Place – Text.
   The Edit Text window appears.
3. Specify the option using the following syntax:
   @PSPICE:
.options <option_name>=<value>
   OR
   @PSPICE:
.options <option_name> <value>

4. Specify the flag using the following syntax:
   .options <flag_name>

   This signifies that the options or flags that follow @PSPICE: are considered PSpice directives.

5. Click OK.
6. Run the simulation.
   The simulation will run using the options or flags set and you can view them in the .out file generated after the simulation.

Placing Text in Part Editor

To place text in the part editor:

1. From the Place menu, choose the Text command.
   The Edit Comment Text dialog box appears.
2. Specify the text to place on the part page.
3. Click OK.
   The text is immediately attached to the cursor.
4. Click the page where you want to place the comment text.
5. Select the selection tool or press ESC to complete placing the text.

Shortcuts

• Tool palette:
• Keyboard: T

In-place Editing of Text Objects

You can edit text objects, such as pin name, pin number, and property name, in the part editor canvas. Double-click any text object and modify the values in the input box that appears.

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