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ADE ViVA Plotting Template: Where is it stored and how to edit?

StephanWeber

Hi,

I want to make more use of plotting templates. However, I wonder, where are templates stored? Can I use them easily in the next design proj?

And most, can I edit them manually in a text editor?

If the syntax is easy to understand, then manual modifications in a text editor are likely much faster than loading the results, modifying setup in GUI and store again.

The Save as CSV function for output setup is cool, hope the plotting template becomes as useful as this, because some plotting defaults are very weird in ADE, like plotting a signal puts AC, DC & TRAN into one plot, or different tests go to different tabs, so that e.g. comparing Vout for pre-trim and post-trim is hard (or almost impossible because after manual copy both have likely the same style, name, color, etc.).

Bye Stephan

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  • StephanWeber said:
    However, I wonder, where are templates stored?

    Within the maestro view, because they are specific to the tests and outputs in the view.

    StephanWeber said:
    And most, can I edit them manually in a text editor?

    You could, although this is not recommended. The syntax is not documented. The intention is that it's generally fairly easy to arrange the results graphically as you want them and then capture that rather than this being a scripted way of plotting results.

    StephanWeber said:
    some plotting defaults are very weird in ADE, like plotting a signal puts AC, DC & TRAN into one plot, or different tests go to different tabs, so that e.g. comparing Vout for pre-trim and post-trim is hard (or almost impossible because after manual copy both have likely the same style, name, color, etc.).

    That's exactly the point of plotting templates. The defaults are what they are - and changing them is always going to upset someone (it wouldn't put AC, DC and TRAN into one plot though, because they have different axes/different units, so that's a bit surprising). The plotting template is intended that you can arrange the graphs as you wish once and re-use them.

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  • StephanWeber said:
    However, I wonder, where are templates stored?

    Within the maestro view, because they are specific to the tests and outputs in the view.

    StephanWeber said:
    And most, can I edit them manually in a text editor?

    You could, although this is not recommended. The syntax is not documented. The intention is that it's generally fairly easy to arrange the results graphically as you want them and then capture that rather than this being a scripted way of plotting results.

    StephanWeber said:
    some plotting defaults are very weird in ADE, like plotting a signal puts AC, DC & TRAN into one plot, or different tests go to different tabs, so that e.g. comparing Vout for pre-trim and post-trim is hard (or almost impossible because after manual copy both have likely the same style, name, color, etc.).

    That's exactly the point of plotting templates. The defaults are what they are - and changing them is always going to upset someone (it wouldn't put AC, DC and TRAN into one plot though, because they have different axes/different units, so that's a bit surprising). The plotting template is intended that you can arrange the graphs as you wish once and re-use them.

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