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Note: In cases where L-Edit fails to invert a pattern, LinkCAD will usually work.
Invoking:
LinkCAD can be run via RemoteApp from either the CNF Windows workstations or CNF Thin. On CNF Thin, open a terminal and type in:
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linkcad |
is available on all CNF Windows systems... double click the LinkCAD icon on the Desktop.
Capabilities:
Convert between GDS, DXF, bitmap (image) and EPS files
Perform logical operations including: AND, OR, XOR, NOT
- Display the loaded drawings in the built-in CAD viewer, measure distances, and highlight broken polylines
- Support for GDS-TXT, a human-readable version of the GDS-II format that can be opened and edited in a text editor
- Support for Gerber RS-274X
- Extract 2D planar geometries from various 3D CAD file formats
- Merge overlapping polygons
- Convert wires, circles, and donuts to polygone outlines
- Convert quasi-circles to circles
- Connect adjacent wire segments
Documentation:
AutoCAD allows unclosed polygons, zero-width lines, hatching, more than 200 vertices in a polygon, self-intersecting polygons, but these structures are not supported by the GDS format. If you are converting AutoCAD DXF files to GDS, follow the design rules at the URL below and summarized here:
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