Projects

Create a new project

File - New project …

Select a project folder and name. The application initializes a SLiCAP project and creates the folder structure. This is displayed in the “Project” panel.

The created folders are:

+ project folder          # Project root directory for python scripts and jupyter notebooks
+-- cir                   # Directory for netlists ('.cir' files)
+-- csv                   # Directory for csv files generated or imported by SLiCAP
+-+ html                  # Directory of standard SLiCAP html project report
| | - index.html          # Main html report page
| +-- css                 # Standard SLiCAP html report CSS
| |   - Grid.png          # Background for standard SLiCAP html report
| |   - SLiCAP.css        # CSS file for standard SLiCAP html report
| +-- img                 # Standard SLiCAP html report images
+-- img                   # Image files generated by SLiCAP
+-- lib                   # Default directory for project-specific libraries
+-- results               # Inventory (json format) of simulation result variables displayed in the "Design data" panel
+-- sch                   # SLiCAP and NGspice schematics
+-+ sphinx                # Root directory for Sphinx project report
| | - make.bat            # MSWindows batch file for compiling Sphinx project report
| | - Makefile            # Linux (MacOS) make file for compiling Sphinx project report
| +-- SLiCAPdata          # Directory for storing SLiCAP generated rst snippets
| +-+ source              # Directory for storing rst project report files
|   | - conf.py           # Sphinx configuration file based on ``Sphinx book style``
|   | - index.rst         # Root rst project report file
|   +-- img               # Directory for storing rst project report images
|   |   - colorCode.svg   # svg image with color-coded resistors
|   +-- _static           # Sphinx directory for style information
|   |   - custom.css      # Sphinx custom css files
|   |   - html_logo.png   # Sphinx report html logo
|   +-- _templates        # Sphinx user templates
|       - layout.html     # Example of a user template
+-- tex                   # Root directory for LaTeX project report
|   - preambuleSLiCAP.tex # Preambule with default SLiCAP LaTeX formatting dfinitions
|   +-- SLiCAPdata        # Directory for storing SLiCAP generated LaTeX snippets
+-- txt                   # Directory for text files to be included in standard html output
- SLiCAP.ini              # SLiCAP settings for the project
- main.py                 # File that executes the instructions

Self-contained projects

SLiCAP projects are self-contained: everything a schematic or netlist references lives inside the project tree, addressed by relative paths — never by an absolute path into another project or machine. A project therefore survives being moved, renamed, archived, or handed to someone else, as-is.

The tools enforce this rule rather than assume it:

Netlists reference libraries project-relatively (.lib lib/<name>.slicap_lib, .include "lib/<name>.spice_lib").
Symbols and styles are frozen into the schematic’s sidecar files, so a drawing renders identically on another machine (see below).
Placing a subcircuit from another project copies its complete package (library, block symbol and schematic) into this project’s lib/. The import is a snapshot, not a live link: descending into the block and editing it afterwards changes only the local copy — the originating project is never touched.

Open an existing project

Opening an existing project reads the SLiCAP.ini file in the selected project folder and creates missing folders and files (see above).

Save and close the project

Saving a project saves the open schematics and instructions, closing it closes the project panel brings the GUI to the opening state.