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default settings for ViVa waveform viewer

vivkr

Is there any way to change/define default settings for ViVa waveform viewer? I usually start my simulations with a script instead of directly via ADE-L and view the results using the standalone ViVa viewer.

As I typically want to save the plots for embedding in reports, I need to make the traces fatter ("bold") which is very painful if one has to do it by hand for all the curves. 

How can I change this so that the traces are plotted bold by default? I'd also be glad to know what other settings I can modify at ViVa startup.

Thanks,

Vivek

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  • Jeff Sonntag said:
     It is clear that the defaults for this tool were selected by someone that doesn't need to use this tool. 

     

    Sounds a bit odd. I use this tool a lot, and the defaults are generally reasonable for me... 

    Not clear which version you're talking about, but if you have an issue, then you should contact customer support. Maybe there's an issue where we are not taking into account your environment properly.

    Note that the y0-y9 layers (or rather the packets used by those layers) are used to draw the traces for signals plotted as outputs in ADE. This is so that lines on the schematic are probed with the same color/style as the graph. Waveforms plotted as a result of calculator expressions don't use y0-y9 but should be more guided by the cdsenv defaults.

    As for the settings, as Shawn said, some haven't been implemented (some are there historically still because of the Java version of ViVA). For example, the viva.axis background hasn't been implemented - instead you need to use:

    viva.rectGraph       background      string  "white"

    If that's set, you can set the viva.axis foreground to black. You could set the axis foreground to some other colour, but there is automatic sense in there to stop you plotting black on black or white on white. So setting the rectGraph background to white will automatically make the axis labelling black.

    The lineThickness works OK for me.

    I don't think the major/minor grid colours can currently be changed, That's one for customer support if it's not to your liking.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Jeff Sonntag said:
     It is clear that the defaults for this tool were selected by someone that doesn't need to use this tool. 

     

    Sounds a bit odd. I use this tool a lot, and the defaults are generally reasonable for me... 

    Not clear which version you're talking about, but if you have an issue, then you should contact customer support. Maybe there's an issue where we are not taking into account your environment properly.

    Note that the y0-y9 layers (or rather the packets used by those layers) are used to draw the traces for signals plotted as outputs in ADE. This is so that lines on the schematic are probed with the same color/style as the graph. Waveforms plotted as a result of calculator expressions don't use y0-y9 but should be more guided by the cdsenv defaults.

    As for the settings, as Shawn said, some haven't been implemented (some are there historically still because of the Java version of ViVA). For example, the viva.axis background hasn't been implemented - instead you need to use:

    viva.rectGraph       background      string  "white"

    If that's set, you can set the viva.axis foreground to black. You could set the axis foreground to some other colour, but there is automatic sense in there to stop you plotting black on black or white on white. So setting the rectGraph background to white will automatically make the axis labelling black.

    The lineThickness works OK for me.

    I don't think the major/minor grid colours can currently be changed, That's one for customer support if it's not to your liking.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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