Simulation Spice

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Hello,
my name is Rino and i new user to Kicad.
I could not find complete information about spice simulation in Kicad.
I would like to know how to use the command “simulator run” and “command simulator”, indicate in the photo.
Libraries with component models, where do they take it?

My system is windows 10 and Kicad version 4.0.6.

Than kyou so much,
Rino.

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Spice simulation is not finished yet in the (Stable) version of KiCad.
On youtube you can find a Fodem Talk (Feb 2017) with an announcement of KiCad 5 “somewhere this summer”…

So for experimenting with Spice Simulation:
First install the development builds.
Folow one of the Spice tutorials for Kicad on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kicad+spice

Edit:


http://mithatkonar.com/wiki/doku.php/kicad/kicad_spice_quick_guide

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The kicad 5 release will most definetly not come this summer. The feature freeze has not yet been announced. (If the timescale is anything as it was for the 4.x release, after the feature freeze there will be half a year of bugfixing until the first stable release. So if the feature freeze happens tomorrow then we might expect kicad 5 at the beginning of next year.) In other words: Kicad 5 might be longer away than any of us hoped. (The good news is that it will get more features than we feared.)

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There are two different ways of running spice simulations.

  1. Generate a .cir file from the meno @Rino showed and start ngspice with the .cir files as an argument.
  2. In the nightly builds there is a new feature to start ngspice (as a library!) directly from EEschema, as others have replied above.

The two ways of working are different, but both work. It is whatever you prefer.

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