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xschem can't load the raw sim data on startup as its path is wrong. After running simulation, the path is fixed and it can load it

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you can see it is looking in ~/.xschem/simulations for some reason

then after I run the simulation this is corrected to ./simulation

as in the xschemrc file in the local directory I have: `set local_netlist_dir 1`

would be nice to load the raw data at startup - is this a bug?

where did you specify to load raw file on startup?

the location to look for simulation files is ~/.xschem/simulations by default, it can be changed in xschemrc for example by setting `set local_netlist_dir 1`, if you want to load some raw files at startup *after* all the xschemrc settings have been applied use this command in the `xschemrc` file:

```set postinit_commands {
  set rawfile $netlist_dir/[file rootname [xschem get current_name]].raw
  xschem raw read $rawfile tran
  xschem redraw
}```

when I control left click the arrow that loads the data. The first time I click it after startup it fails with the above error

then I run simulation and the raw file is regenerated in ./simulations

then the control left click starts working

so it seems the path is wrong at startup, but is fixed by running simulation

the location for raw files should be ./simulations because I have `set local_netlist_dir 1` set in the local xschem  init file

I think not, I know where the problem is and will fix in 1 min.

<@U0172QZ342D> can you please check if you have a definition for netlist_dir (`set netlist_dir ...`) in your xschemrc that *follows* the `set local_netlist_dir 1` ? In this case you overwrite the netlist_dir destination. If this is the case comment the `set netlist_dir` line.

<@U0172QZ342D> I have tried to load waveforms immediately after loading your testbench and it just works. I have also tried to roll back the xschem to some older commits, still can't see problems.
```schippes@asus:~/.xschem/xschem_library/tt06-analog-r2r-dac/xschem$ xschem testbench.sch 
Warning: PDK_ROOT env. var. not found or empty, trying to find an open_pdks install
open_pdks installation: using /home/schippes/share/pdk
SKYWATER_MODELS: /home/schippes/share/pdk/sky130A/libs.tech/ngspice
SKYWATER_STDCELLS: /home/schippes/share/pdk/sky130A/libs.ref/sky130_fd_sc_hd/spice
setup_tcp_bespice: success : listening to TCP port: 2022
xschem [~/.xschem/xschem_library/tt06-analog-r2r-dac/xschem] Raw file data read: /home/schippes/.xschem/xschem_library/tt06-analog-r2r-dac/xschem/simulation/testbench.raw
points=27777, vars=80, datasets=1 sim_type=tran```
If you can after calling xschem testbench.sch try to do this in the xschem terminal:
```puts $netlist_dir
/home/schippes/.xschem/xschem_library/tt06-analog-r2r-dac/xschem/simulation```
Do you get the correct directory  (simulation/ under the xschem directory) ?