LayoutEditor

LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM), Chip-on-Board (COB), Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, …. It has sophisticated functions like all angles, font generator, macros, boolean operations, design rule checker, OPC, netlist driven layout and LVS. The Calma GDSII file format is used as the primary file format. Also OASIS (Open Artwork System Interchange Standard), DXF, CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form) and Gerber (RS-274X) are full supported. Alliance, Lasi file can be imported. The LayoutEditor is crossplatform compatible and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms.

New Features

• Autosave feature
• Remove rotated arrays
• Option to ignore datatypes in BuildConnections

File Formats

• Gerber:
  • User units and database units are stored in the Gerber macro
  • Option to disable to save regular polygons as circle
  • Layer names containing or /
  • File extension for designs with only one layer
• DXF:
  • Correct scale for exporting circles
  • POLYLINES with different layer in VERTEX and POLYLINE section
• IPC2581:
  • Support for import
• KiCad:
  • Fix problems with file names containing spaces

Macros

• Add new method to class setup:
  • Int setup::autosaveTime
  • Bool setup::gerberSaveCircle
  • IntList setup::getNetlistNotUseDatatype()
  • Void setup::addNetlistNotUseDatatype(int)
  • Void setup::clearNetlistNotUseDatatype()
• Add new method to class drawingField:
  • Void drawingField::removeRotatedCellArrays()

Bug Fixes

• Format selection in the 3d export
• Handling files with double extension on OS X
• ModifiedCorners on special polygons
• Quoted file names in EditComponent dialog
• Path handling of components using package layouts
• Macro parsing of -0.000