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Creating a waveform in Modelsim

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Hi, 

 

I'm attempting to use Modelsim for the first time. I'm following the tutorial "Introduction to Simulation of VHDL Designs Using ModelSim Graphical Waveform Editor" found here ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/altera_material/11.1/tutorials/vhdl/modelsim_gui_introduction.pdf 

 

Everything seems to go fine until i attempt to actually create a waveform in the Wave window by right clicking on an object and clicking 'Create Wave'. For some reason the 'Create Wave' option doesn't appear like it says in the tutorial as shown here in my screenshot showing what i get http://s9.postimage.org/l0gv5hptb/modelsim.jpg. I assumed that they might have changed 'Create Wave' to 'Add Wave' since creating the tutorial but when i click this, the 'Create Waveform Wizard' window doesn't appear. The object does get added to the Wave window but it seems the only waveform that i can create is a clock, as shown in this screenshot showing what i get when i right click on the object in the Wave window http://s1.postimage.org/8xs2pr5nj/modelsim_2.jpg 

 

If i put clock signals on to the objects in the Wave window and continue the tutorial, everything else seems to work as it demonstrates. So i feel that i must be doing something ever so slightly wrong that the tutorial doesn't mention. 

 

I've attempted to follow a number of tutorials over the past week and i remember that once, i did manage to get the 'Create Waveform Wizard' to appear once but i can't remember what i did and at the time i had no idea on how to simulate the waveform with the Verilog file. 

 

I'm working with Quartus II V12.1 and Altera-Modelsim Starter edition V10.1b on a Windows 7 machine. 

 

 

Any help is very very much appreciated.
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