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  • Thanks for the suggestions and comments. My case in point is reconstructing a single hierarchical design when essentially the same design has been streamed into layer subsets from multiple databases in a foreign design system. In this case, append…
  • I forgot to revisit and say thank you Matthias. Thank you!
  • Hi Matthias, Yes, just getting to grips with KLayout's DRC... In general it seems pretty fast at doing conditional selection (as above) or single layer dimension checks, but very slow at doing layer-to-other-layer dimension checks - is that what y…
  • Okay, sorry, this seems to work quite efficiently: checkedLayer.interacting(otherLayer).not_inside(otherLayer)
  • Hi Matthias, thanks for that - it's brilliant for flicking between the panels / tabs / sheets / whatever-you-want-to-call-'ems ;)
  • Hi Matthias, I get it - it was my user error/misunderstanding. In Cadence there was a ring of five views. Next was always available. If you reached the most recent view then pressing "Next" again would jump to a location five views old…
    in Ease of use Comment by bigbren June 2012
  • Ah! I just found differing x and y grids can be specified in Editor Options, Other Grid... e.g: 0.95,0.6. Thank you! Could x,y grids could be incorporated into global grid list in Setup as well, e.g. 5,1,(0.95,0.6),0.5,0.25,?
    in Ease of use Comment by bigbren June 2012
  • Matthias, Thank you for your quick replies. KLayout Windows recall: better than my recall - I must be getting old - but not quite there? Previous State (zoom_menu.last_display_state) works reliably, but Next equivalent seems broken. Sometimes it…
    in Ease of use Comment by bigbren June 2012
  • Hi Matthias, Okay, understood thanks. For one moment I thought maybe you had actioned an earlier request (to allow toggling of layer and datatype display to be temporarily displayed in addition to the regular aliasses)... Cheers, Brendan.
  • Hi Matthias, I was thinking mainly of a convenience option, instead of rotating the monitor or using a mirror to show something to a colleague. Many tools have a similar convenience feature, but they don't all agree on what items are affected by l…
  • Hi Matthias, Yes, I think global options would be worthwhile. I hope it isn't too difficult to implement. I guess it would affect the drawing of everything including overlay pictures, so there's probably a lot to think about. Best regards, Brend…
  • Hi Matthias, Aha, I thought I'd seen it somewhere. I think what I was hoping for was a simpler global setting, like the other programs have, so you can just flip and rotate the entire universe (=present window), rather than flipping or rotating pa…
  • Hi Matthias, That works relly well, especially because of the way KLayout's selections can span hierarchy etc. I will pass it on to my colleagues. Thanks!
  • Hello Matthias and Hans, This thread is quite exciting, and the idea of a boolean approach, with the intention of also achieving the realism of Hans' famous program, seems very promising. Yes Hans, it is who you think it is, and I would be happy t…
  • Me too please - as realistic as practical, which means a good few masking operations and polygon re-shaping methods, plus a fairly complex technology description - a huge task unless you can find an ally... ;-)
  • Would all this be overcomplicated? On Windows you can already use drag-and-drop to load layout(s), load a layer properties file onto a layout, load a layout and layer properties file together, or even to load session files... I have have various l…
  • Brilliant! Thanks for posting this.
  • Hello, good luck with this forum. Hopefully it will help KLayout become even better and help users to make the most of it.
  • Drag and drop is very handy. Simply drag and drop a gds2 file, perhaps in .gz format, and a .lyp file, together at the same time - the layout opens straight away with chosen layer properties. Neat :-)
  • Editing mode is pretty useful, but the rounded corner feature in editor mode is brilliant, outstanding and amazing ;-)