Re: Export gds?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:06 AM, Steven Rubin wrote:

At 07:14 AM 12/3/2007, you wrote:

I hoped to use electric to convert dxf to gds. I am able to import  
the
dxf but am unable to export to gds.

I'm a very new user, any help/advice would be appreciated!

In what way is Electric "unable" to export GDS?  Is it giving an  
error message?  Is it producing GDS that is incorrect?

Electric needs to know how to associate everything in the external  
file formats (DXF, GDS, etc.) with things in its own database.  The  
DXF and GDS preferences handle this.  One potential problem is that  
DXF input creates "Artwork" objects in the Electric database.   
However these Artwork objects are unknown in GDS, and so you may  
export an empty GDS file.  The solution (if this is what is  
happening) is to set GDS layer numbers for the layers in the Artwork  
technology.

  -Steven Rubin


Thanks for the reply. I spent a week stumbling through the interface  
before developing sufficient understanding for how to do this simple  
task ... by that time, I'd forgotten about my posted question.

Ben


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