File

Manage Twin Builder project files and printing options.

Edit

Select, cut, copy, paste, and modify the contents of the active editor window; and undo and redo actions.

View

Display or hide desktop components and model objects, modify schematic editor visual settings, and modify the model view.

Project

Add a Twin Builder design to the active project, view, define datasets, and define project variables.

Draw

Draw primitive elements, ports, 2D reports, and wires, and to rotate and flip schematic and symbol elements.

Schematic

Set up the grid display, page display properties, perform ERC check, set rules for naming wires, edit the symbol for a circuit, push up and pop down through levels of a hierarchical schematic, and layout probes and stacking.

This menu does not appear unless you have an active schematic displayed.

Twin Builder

Set up and manage all the parameters for the active design. Most of these project properties also appear in the Project tree. You can also start an analysis, set up an optimetrics analysis, and create reports.

This menu does not appear unless you have an active schematic displayed.

Symbol

Manage the parameters for the symbols associated with components and to update the current project with changes made in the current symbol.

This menu does not appear unless you have an active symbol editor window displayed.

Netlist

Export the netlist for a design.

This menu does not appear unless you have an active netlist editor window displayed.

Script

Manage Java and Visual Basic scripts.

This menu does not appear unless you have an active script editor window displayed.

VHDL, C, and SML Model Editor

Manage the parameters for component models defined using either the VHDL, C, or SML modeling languages, and to update the current project with changes made in the current model.

These menus do not appear unless you have an active model editor window displayed.

Report2D and Report3D

Manage the parameters for modifying and updating the various report types available in Twin Builder.

These menus do not appear unless you have selected a report from the Results folder in the Project Manager.

Tools

Modify the active project’s material library, arrange the material libraries, run and record scripts, update project definitions from libraries, customize the desktop’s toolbars and keyboard shortcuts, and modify many of the software’s default settings.

Window

Rearrange the schematic windows and toolbar icons.

Help

Access the help system and view the current Twin Builder version information.