PSpice Probe Crashes

[Bob Penoyer]

I often add labels to plots in Probe for reports, etc. Often, however,
after spending maybe 5 minutes carefully adding text, arrows, lines,
etc., when I attempt to print (typically to a Adobe Acrobat) Probe
crashes. This means I have to restart Proble, reload the date file,
and carefully add all of the labels all over again. This a pain in the
neck!

Is there a way to avoid the crashing when attempting to print? I'm
using some flavor of Version 9 of PSpice.

 

[Jim Thompson]

I often add labels to plots in Probe for reports, etc. Often, however,
after spending maybe 5 minutes carefully adding text, arrows, lines,
etc., when I attempt to print (typically to a Adobe Acrobat) Probe
crashes. This means I have to restart Proble, reload the date file,
and carefully add all of the labels all over again. This a pain in the
neck!

Is there a way to avoid the crashing when attempting to print? I'm
using some flavor of Version 9 of PSpice.

I vaguely remember a crash like that. Were you doing any "cursor find
peak" operations?

I believe it was fixed in v10.x

Write down every step right up to the crash and I'll try it here.

(How much RAM, CPU speed, etc.?)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Bob Penoyer]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:37:06 -0700, Bob Penoyer



I vaguely remember a crash like that. Were you doing any "cursor find
peak" operations?

Not necessarily, although I frequently do that.

I believe it was fixed in v10.x

If my employer ever gets us v10, I'll try it. I'm using 9.2.3.

Write down every step right up to the crash and I'll try it here.

It would be impossible to describe everything I do to the plots. But I
can tell you that the problem typically doesn't happen on the first
run of data. For example, if I plot some data, mark it up, and print
it (typically to Adobe Acrobat) everything will be okay. But if I run
a new set of data, and mark it up ... or a third set, THEN I will
often have problems. I am suspicious that zooming in and out again
contributes to the problem.

If you are willing to investigate, try to plot some data, do some
zooming, add text, arrows, and lines. You might try freezing and
unfreezing the cursor also. Those are the sorts of things that have
gotten me into trouble.

(How much RAM, CPU speed, etc.?)

512MB, 2.8 GHz.

Thanks for any advice you might provide. Your comments and council on
PSpice is always appreciated.

Bob Penoyer

 

[Jim Thompson]

Not necessarily, although I frequently do that.


If my employer ever gets us v10, I'll try it. I'm using 9.2.3.


It would be impossible to describe everything I do to the plots. But I
can tell you that the problem typically doesn't happen on the first
run of data. For example, if I plot some data, mark it up, and print
it (typically to Adobe Acrobat) everything will be okay. But if I run
a new set of data, and mark it up ... or a third set, THEN I will
often have problems. I am suspicious that zooming in and out again
contributes to the problem.

If you are willing to investigate, try to plot some data, do some
zooming, add text, arrows, and lines. You might try freezing and
unfreezing the cursor also. Those are the sorts of things that have
gotten me into trouble.


512MB, 2.8 GHz.

Thanks for any advice you might provide. Your comments and council on
PSpice is always appreciated.

Bob Penoyer

I tried and tried to crash Probe but didn't succeed.

These PCR's were fixed in v10.x...

802372 Pspice crashes when you try to evaluate Goal functions over
X-axis.

803628 PSpice crashes while macro creation.

655410 PSpice enters into infinite loop error message

470165 Probe crashes during plotting in performance analysis mode

Maybe one of these was causing you trouble.

...Jim Thompson