Defining Mixed Sim Preferences for Altium Designer
Created: January 11, 2018 | Updated: February 28, 2018
| Applies to versions: 18.0 and 18.1
Now reading version 18. For the latest, read: Defining Mixed Sim Preferences for Altium Designer for version 21
The Simulation - Mixed Sim page of the Preferences dialog
Summary
The Simulation - Mixed Sim page of the Preferences dialog is used to configure options for the location of SimCode models and the display of detailed information about the simulation process.
Access
The Simulation - Mixed Sim page of the Preferences dialog is accessed by clicking Mixed Sim under the Simulation folder in the main Preferences dialog (accessed by clicking the 
button in the top right corner of the workspace).
Options/Controls
Directories
- SIMCODE Output - use the browse folder icon to search for and specify the folder to where you want the compiled SimCode models to be written.
Options
- Always load error files - enable to always load the error file when there are errors during simulation.
- Create compiled SIMCODE output file - enable to generate the compiled SimCode model file after simulation. The model is written to the folder defined in the SIMCODE Output field.
- Show hints - enable to show hints in the Messages panel during simulation.
- Show warnings - enable to show warnings in the Messages panel during simulation.
- Show locations of models found - enable to show in the Messages panel where the models were found during simulation.
- Default SimView Setup - use the drop-down to select the default setup configuration. Choices are:
- Keep last setup
- Show active signals
- Show active probes
- Show active signals / probes