PLECS 2.0 Online Help

Configuring PLECS

The PLECS configuration parameters can be modified per user in the PLECS Preferences dialog. Choose the menu entry Preferences... from the File menu (PLECS menu on OS X) to open it.

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The language used by PLECS can be specified in the Language field. PLECS uses the language settings of your computer as default setting. Available languages are English and Japanese. To activate the new language settings PLECS must be restarted.

The setting Symbol format controls whether resistors and capacitors are drawn in DIN or ANSI style. The table below shows the different component representation for both settings.



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The setting Thermal description search path contains the root directories of the thermal library. See section Thermal Library for more details.