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SACAMOS Pre-compiled for WINDOWS 10 – README.md
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This archive contains installation material for SACAMOS and any co-requisite applications:

  • SACAMOS Components, SW1 & SW2
  • gEDA [1]
  • gmsh [2]
  • Ngspice v27 [3]
  • Ngspice v28 [3]
  • gnuplot [4]

SW1: For the creation of Spice models for cable bundles

  1. Extract the contents of the archive SACAMOS.zip to a convenient place. It is important that the folder structure within is maintained.

  2. You can then create a shortcut to SW1, by navigating to the SACAMOS\BIN folder and right clicking on the file 'SW1.exe' and select 'create shortcut'. This will by default create a shortcut in the \BIN folder, but you can move it to a more convenient place such as your desktop.

SW2: Self contained Spice using Ngspice

Throughout the following and to prevent unpredictable behaviour please do not install any of the applications to within folder structures that contain spaces. Installing to the root of your hard drive will ensure success! i.e. C:.

In the following $PATH represents your chosen installation directory. e.g. if you chose to install to C:\ then replace $PATH with 'C:' in the following steps

  1. Extract and install gEDA-20130122.exe, choosing installion path to be:

    $PATH\gEDA

  2. Extract and copy contents of gmsh-3.0.6-Windows64.zip to:

    $PATH\gmsh

  3. Extract and copy contents of Ngspice_26 and or Ngspice_27 to:

    $PATH\Ngspice_26 and/or $PATH\Ngspice_27

  4. Extract and install gnuplot, gp522-win64-mingw.exe, it is OK to accept default installation path for gnuplot.

  5. The locations of these applications now need to be added to the Windows systems 'PATH' variable:

For Windows 10: a. In Search, search for and then select: System (Control Panel) b. Click the Advanced system settings link. c. Click Environment Variables. In the section System Variables, find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit. If the PATH environment variable does not exist, click New. d. In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable for each of the applications installed above. Click OK. the Value will be the installation locations chosen. e. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.

For Windows 7: a. From the desktop, right click the Computer icon. b. Choose Properties from the context menu. c. Click the Advanced system settings link. d. Click Environment Variables. In the section System Variables, find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit. If the PATH environment variable does not exist, click New. e. In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable for each of the applications installed above. Click OK. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.

  1. You can then create a shortcut to SW2, by navigating to the SACAMOS\BIN folder and right clicking on the file 'SW2.exe' and select 'create shortcut'. This will by default create a shortcut in the \BIN folder, but you can move it to a more convenient place such as your desktop.

Application sources:

[1] http://www.bibo.iqo.uni-hannover.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=english:geda_for_ms-windows [2] http://gmsh.info/ [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/ [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/?source=typ_redirect