Import error: invalid rotation angle

edited November 2011 in KLayout Support
I'm getting an error 'Invalid rotation angle (450 is less than -360 or larger than 360) (...)' on a file. I'm not sure the Gdsii stream spec limits the ANGLE to -360 to 360? (not in the spec I have). Anyway, maybe (dis)allowing this as a GDSII reader option or so?

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  • edited November -1

    Hallo,

    this is actually just a warning. It indicates that there may be something weired going on, but KLayout will reduce the angle to a range between 0 and 360 degree. I think it is worth mentioning strange angle values because that may indicate some other issue (i.e. a corrupt file). Still the file can be perfectly valid.

    Best regards,

    Matthias

  • edited November 2011

    I wanted to add that for text rotations, the angle is limited to multiples of 90 degree. The GDS spec allows any angle.

    Best regards,

    Matthias

  • edited November -1
    Well, KLayout gives this and when clicking the OK button, just exits. So it's not just a warning apparently.
  • edited November 2011

    Hallo,

    you're right, it's a warning for texts but an error for instances.

    I'll change it to a warning in the next release.

    If you're able to build KLayout, you can replace the error around line 894 of dbGDS2ReaderBase.cc by a warning:

     warn (tl::sprintf (tl::translate ("Invalid rotation angle (%g is less than -360 or larger than 360)").c_str (), angle_deg));
    

    instead of

     error (..., angle_deg));
    

    Best regards,

    Matthias

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