Problems in 3D view on Electric 9.05

[Estevao Teixeira]

Hi,

I have downloaded the latest version of Electric (9.05) and I tried to download the Java 3D in order to get 3D views of my designs. However, at the Window menu, I cannot see the 3D View option. In fact, when I check for pluguins at Help/About Electric, it show that Java 3D is not installed.

I thank to anyone that can help me,

Regards,

Estevao

[Steven Rubin]

Is Java3D installed properly? If Electric does not show the 3D view pulldown command, then it believes that Java3D is NOT installed.

Note also that 3D is not essential to Electric's operation...all design can be done fine without it.

   -Steven Rubin

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[Gavin Abo]

You can see if the attached file helps or not.

[Estevao Teixeira]

Gavin,

Your document helped me a lot. I'm grateful.

Have a nice 2015!

Estevao

[Estevao Teixeira]

Hi Gavin and all:

Did you installed the IRSIM simulator with Electric 9.0.5? I installed successfully the 3D viewer, but IRSIM simulator remains disabled, although is expected that it comes within the software extras electricSFS-9.05.jar. In fact I can see the IRSIM library files in the archive, but it does not work.

I had no success applying  the steps suggested on the cmosedu.com page.

Thanks,

Estevao




Em terça-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2014 23h52min01s UTC-2, Gavin escreveu:

[Gavin Abo]

Yes, I have installed IRSIM with Electric 9.05.  I just started Electric with the shortcut that I created as described previously (in Electric Install.pdf), and it seems to work.

I tried lab5_Hathaway.jelib from http://cmosedu.com/jbaker/courses/ee421L/f13/students/hathawa6/lab5/lab5.htm, and it looks like it is giving me the expected inverted signal on the output:

On 1/4/2015 12:46 PM, Estevao Teixeira wrote:

[Gavin Abo]

There should be two different options:

1) You need to change the Target of the shortcut on the desktop from

%programfiles%\Java\jre1.8.0_25\bin\java.exe -classpath
"electricBinary-9.05.jar;electricSFS-9.05.jar" com.sun.electric.Launcher

to

%programfiles%\Java\jre1.8.0_25\bin\java.exe -classpath
"C:\Electric\electricBinary-9.05.jar;C:\Electric\electricSFS-9.05.jar"
com.sun.electric.Launcher

As you can see, you have to give the full path (C:\Electric) to the jar
files.

or

2) You can use the shortcut (without C:\Electric in the Target), but
copy the jar files (electric-9.05.jar and electricBinary-9.05.jar) also
to the desktop with the shortcut.

On 1/13/2015 7:07 PM, Estevao Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>

> It is an elementary doubt, but how can I run this shortcut from the
> Desktop? I copied the shortcut to Desktop and when I execute it,
> nothing happens.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Estevao

[Mehmet Vurkaç]

Hi, everyone

I've tried everything recommended (both with .jar files copied to the desktop and with the full path, along with all the previous steps from the PDF file), but I still can't run Electric from the shortcut, and the regular Electric (run from its .jar) doesn't have 3D (naturally).

Is 3D viewing no longer an option or is there something else that needs to be done in 9.07?

Thanks,

Mehmet

[Vitor Oliveira Kuribara]

Greetings Mehmet. To install the Java 3D plug-in, you need to add the archive (in my case: j3dcore-ogl.dll) to the System Variables. Access the CLASS_PATH and select "edit", after that, add the location of the file and save it.

To run the plug-in with Electric, you need to execute a CLASSPATH, so open the CMD if you're using windows, find the folder with the main Electric jar (including the plug-ins) and type the following command: 

java -classpath "[name of electric main jar];[name of the j3d files]" -mx1000m com.sun.electric.Launcher

Here's an example of the command on my machine:

java -classpath "electricbinary-9.07.jar;j3dcore-ogl.dll;j3dcore.jar;j3dutils.jar;vecmath.jar" -mx1000m com.sun.electric.Launcher

It is very important to type the exact same name of the file WITH the correct extension.

To avoid this process, you can create an .bat file with the exact same command.

Best regards

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[Gavin]

Following the old Win 7 shortcut creation instructions in "Electric Install.pdf" at

https://groups.google.com/g/electricvlsi/c/w4beIvW1wX8/m/PUkAxjnkgMMJ

I was able to create a working shortcut in Win 10 as seen in the attached "Creating Win 10 Electric Shortcut.pdf".