Has anyone else run into the problem of missing the “Import SPICE” option under the “File” dropdown menu? I am running Magic 8.3.485 on a Mac M1 and everything appears to have compiled fine, however I’m missing this command. See two screenshots below, one showing a screenshot of a video tutorial, and the other from my local machine:

@Dale Julson The

Import SPICE

menu item is not part of the magic installation, but rather included in the pdk. Try starting magic with

magic -rcfile $PDK_ROOT/$PDK/libs.tech/magic/$PDK.magicrc

Or alternatively, you can copy that file to

.magicrc

in your working directory.

@Mitch Bailey Thanks for the idea of copying to

.magicrc

. I just tweaked it a bit and added

source $::env(PDK_ROOT)/$::env(PDK)/libs.tech/magic/$::env(PDK).magicrc

to my

.magicrc

and now I can skip supplying

-rcfile

every time.

@Mitch Bailey that worked! Thank you. I didn’t know a configuration file could change a compiled program like that.

@Dale Julson: The GUI window isn't compiled; it's created from the Tcl/Tk interpreter. Since it's done through an interpreter, the GUI can be changed on the fly. Menus can be added, deleted, rearranged, etc.

@Tim Edwards Interesting! I’ve never programmed using tcl/tk before, so that is all new to me. Thank you for the insight.