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• Uups, 3 lines only - just read this lines. I updated my code. Thanks Matthias ! And also for this great piece of SW. Best Regards

  in The results are different for "Adjust Origin" between GUI and pymacro Comment by andyL July 2022
• Hello Rima, I use the following procedure inside Klayout: import pya layout = pya.Application.instance().main_window().current_view().active_cellview().layout()def adjustOrigin(layoutB,topcell): bbox= topcell.bbox() trans = py…

  in Adjust Cell Origin using the Python API Comment by andyL October 2021
• Perfect if dragging would be possible - thanks a lot for sharing.

  in Proposal for new ruler variation (Arc) Comment by andyL October 2021
• Hello Matthias, We use circles to measure the correct radius - an arc ruler is always on top of our designers wish list. All our BJT and MOS use radius and this is our main working area for klayout. Best Regards, Andy

  in Proposal for new ruler variation (Arc) Comment by andyL September 2021
• RH7 still supports qt4 but Python only pyqt5. Usually it works with the qmake from anaconda but now certain files (ld error) occur. It would be much easier to use the pre-compiled build and link additional libraries. We use a lot of customizat…

  in CentOS7 build-in python Comment by andyL August 2021
• Wow - works like before ... Thanks Matthias. We could run quick drc checks again (Checking for tiny holes =, etc ...). Thanks a lot for building Klayout - we build now a complete custom tool chain and the user feedback is great. Klayout is used on…

  in DRC engine change _finish ? Comment by andyL August 2021
• Hello Matthias - I just tried a docker using a cpmplete Ubuntu release. I'm pretty convinced that this is the right direction into future devlopment. In an ideal case you setup a complete project env in a container and copy one for each user. I fina…

  in Klayout bin-release Comment by andyL December 2020
• Wow - overseen it. Thanks a lot, this save saves me a lot of work. Now the DRC requirement is fulfilled. Again - Thanks !! Andy

  in Text pcell sizing Comment by andyL December 2020
• Fresh setup on Centos 8, new python anaconda distribution. Python itself works standalone. Klayout see the correct Python installation starting the compilation. Thanks Matthias

  in Klayout bin-release Comment by andyL December 2020
• Hello Dick, thanks for your feedback. Your solution describes my issue with partial select. I tried this menu first to avoid the array selecting. That's the reason for this post - Arrays are independent from instance selections in partial mode. Cr…

  in Partial select Comment by andyL June 2020
• Thanks for your feedback Matthias, I'll try the code from github. I build a complete Mask Generation and WaferMap tool out of all pre-releases you published of the standalone python module and it works fantastic. Best Regards, Andy

  in Live Drawing Comment by andyL April 2020
• Hello Rambir, The DRC engine use Ruby so you could use a transformation. I attach 2 functions here (but it's in python) so you need to translate. At least you see how you could change the origin. Best Regards, Andy def adjustOrigin(layoutB,topce…

  in DRC:moving cell origin to a point (let's say 0,0) Comment by andyL April 2020
• Thanks Matthias, Hot your point - Best way would be to make the people aware of and if to switch more over to Oasis usage. Have a nice weekend, Andy

  in VERY IMPORTANT: gds exported from K layout not working on Cadence at foundry Comment by andyL April 2020
• Hello Matthias, Thanks for your feedback. I know the option - it works perfect. Unfortunatly it's every time new enabled you restart KL. I was looking to disable it in settings but can 't found an option. Would it makes sense to add it to the writ…

  in VERY IMPORTANT: gds exported from K layout not working on Cadence at foundry Comment by andyL April 2020
• Hello Matthias, We now quite often run into the issue that $$$CONTEXT_INFO$$$ creates problems with a simulator we import the GDS into. The problem here are the $$$ let the simulator fail. A solution to switch complete to OASIS is yet not always a…

  in VERY IMPORTANT: gds exported from K layout not working on Cadence at foundry Comment by andyL April 2020
• Hello Matthias, thanks for your feedback. Your solution worked very well but I decided finally to use the X,Y coordinates. Reason is that I need a solution where I could store the values into a config file. For the program I use for viewing and dire…

  in Receive xy coordinate of selected instance of a cell Comment by andyL March 2020
• Hello Matthias, thansk for the update - seems obvious. It works now. The change was with the latest release, it worked before. Glad to see regular updates and very interesting new features (LVS, Antenna ...) Thanks for providing such great progr…

  in DRC holes command issue in 0.26 Release Comment by andyL October 2019
• Hello Matthias, Congrats for the great python module - it works awesome inside anaconda ! I'm on the way too finalize now a larger project for Mask Generation and WaferMap optimization. I use the python standalone module to run all the different st…

  in python module Comment by andyL July 2019
• Hello Matthias, sometimes it's the obvious we don't see ... Thanks a lot. My main target is to create a bunch of 'super' commands to ease the shape generation. Those macro language is stored in the python directory and imported as a module into p…

  in Show as new top model in python Comment by andyL January 2019
• Hello Matthias, Thanks a lot for your support. My mistake was a quite ordinary one - I used globals()['layout']=layout to store a layout object as a global var in another part. This was in conflict with my layout object used in another ....python …

  in script : how to update layout view Comment by andyL December 2018
• Got it - required to reset the active_cellview().layout(). Best Regards, Andy

  in script : how to update layout view Comment by andyL December 2018
• I finally get my GUI updated but if I run a flatten command on the Array the original x,y position is taken. Do I miss a step to update the new x,y position the database? My steps are: trans = pya.DCplxTrans(newX,newY) inst.transform(trans) #…

  in script : how to update layout view Comment by andyL December 2018
• Hello Matthias, it works perfect - Thanks a lot for your expertise and feedback. Klayout is really awesome. A very good integration too is the Salt package manger. We now use it to distribute different Technologies and DRC rules local. Best Regar…

  in smart way to get gds file properties Comment by andyL November 2018
• Thanks a lot Matthias, there should be no conflict but your right - there might be a risk better to avoid. I tried your suggestion but run into an Error (latest release): Unexpected object type - expect class cell ... using the move_tree command.…

  in smart way to get gds file properties Comment by andyL November 2018
• Here the final script to run a quick-drc: include RBA app = RBA::Application.instance mw = app.main_window view = mw.current_view cv = view.cellview(view.active_cellview_index) layoutView=view.active_cellview().la…

  in DRC Radius check with perpendicalur segments Comment by andyL June 2018
• Hello Matthias, thanks a lot for your feedback. The sep check provides me the same result as used in a 3rd party tool - this is great! Target was to migrate the rules into KL and the Radius check was a critical one missing. Especially the combinati…

  in DRC Radius check with perpendicalur segments Comment by andyL June 2018
• Thanks a lot Matthias, works perfect ... Reason for this implemetation is that the klayout user would like have a quick way to add a layer name and changing the datatype. You could do this with KL functionalty but only layer per layer. The followi…

  in Build layer index on empty layout Comment by andyL March 2018
• Hello Matthias, Thanks for your update, I got it up and running as expected by the designer. Also congrats to the new release. With the major improvments introduced in 0.25x Klayout becomes an even more outstanding SW - Thanks for this. Best Regar…

  in Start klayout from command line and review drc results Comment by andyL March 2018
• Thanks a lot for your feedback - I spent 40 minutes trying different markdowns ... They basic request I face is to run a vertex merge (because of a reason mention in another discussion this forum). In case the customer missed to use OASIS they wan…

  in Error Message merging shapes Comment by andyL February 2018
• Good evening, The issue sound familar to me - we've encountered an issue with a GDS viewer reading in a gds design layouted with klayout. Reason was that the nuber of vertex when you save a gds file was set to 8000 while the gds reader we used in t…

  in VERY IMPORTANT: gds exported from K layout not working on Cadence at foundry Comment by andyL February 2018
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