mtline model "Display Cross Section"

Sohaib,

Ashish already pointed out that this was fixed in ISR2. Since you can only load the latest hotfix (ISR12) from downloads.cadence.com (although a couple of previous ISRs are available if you pick the hotfixes in InstallScape) - but you might as well use the latest.

There is no "updated base file". The whole point of a Base release is that it stays static...

Andrew.

Sohaib,

Ashish already pointed out that this was fixed in ISR2. Since you can only load the latest hotfix (ISR12) from downloads.cadence.com (although a couple of previous ISRs are available if you pick the hotfixes in InstallScape) - but you might as well use the latest.

There is no "updated base file". The whole point of a Base release is that it stays static...

Andrew.

Andrew,

in IC 6.1.8

after I have filled the Edit Object Properties form:

and clicked Display Cross-section button the CIW replied:

What is a reason?

Eduard

... and nothing happened. No window popped up. 

Hi Eduard,

Probably would have been best to start a new thread rather than on the end of an old thread from 8 years ago (for a specific bug which was fixed in IC615). My guess is that this is due to some missing library, but let's see. Try this:

First create a file called (say) input.rlgc which contains:

;  lmgNumLines = 1
;  lmgNumLayers = 1
;  lmgDielectricLossType = tangent
;  lmgNumGndPlanes = 1

Then in the terminal window type:

lmgUI input.rlgc `cds_root lmgUI`/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl

(note, those two quotation marks are back-quotes). Alternatively, in the terminal type:

cds_root lmgUI

and then see what the result of that is and pass the full path to lmgUI:

lmgUI input.rlgc /export/home/apps/IC618_isr10/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl

Let me know if it reports anything or whether the UI appears.

Thanks,

Andrew.

I have copied and pasted to create a file called input.rlgc (4 commented lines in it) in my current directory:

;  lmgNumLines = 1

;  lmgNumLayers = 1

;  lmgDielectricLossType = tangent

;  lmgNumGndPlanes = 1

Then in the terminal I typed:

cds_root lmgUI

and got the reply:

/tools/IC618

When I typed:

lmgUI ./input.rlgc /tools/IC618/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl

No reports, no UI – silent reply.

By the way the file /tools/IC618/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl exists.

Are there any wrong actions?

Thanks.

Eduard

Hi Eduard,

Hmm, odd. Can you try two things:

1. virtuoso -W
2. wish /tools/IC618/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl input.rlgc

I'm interested whether the second launches the UI.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Hello Andrew,

user@dell:~/tsmc65$ virtuoso -W
sub-version IC6.1.8-64b.500.2

wish /tools/IC618/tools.lnx86/dfII/etc/tlg/displaylmg.tcl input.rlgc
bash: wish: command not found

which wish
/usr/bin/which: no wish in ... ("$PATH")

kind regards,

Eduard

Hi Eduard,

Ah, that's the issue. It seems that the cross section UI (which calls lmgUI from the button on the mtline form) requires Tcl/Tk to be installed on the system and "wish" to be in the path.

On my machine:

UNIX> rpm -q -f /usr/bin/wish
tk-8.5.7-5.el6.x86_64
tk-8.5.7-5.el6.i686

This is on a RHEL6.5 machine - it may need to be a different RPM on your machine. Essentially for me it's in /usr/bin/wish.

So I think you'll need to get that installed. I think this is a pretty common package to have installed on Linux, so I'm a little surprised that it's not installed (I can't believe you wouldn't have /usr/bin in your path).

If I remove wish from my path, I see the same symptoms that you do. Strictly speaking it just looks for "wish" in the path - so if you have wish elsewhere, you could use that. Whilst we do have Tcl/Tk in some of our releases, we don't have the wrappers set up to set up the shared library paths.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

yes, that works. I have upgraded 2 rpms (tk and tcl ones) and UI has appeared.

Thanks.