On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:06 AM, Steven Rubin wrote:
At 07:14 AM 12/3/2007, you wrote:
I hoped to use electric to convert dxf to gds. I am able to import
the
dxf but am unable to export to gds.
I'm a very new user, any help/advice would be appreciated!
In what way is Electric "unable" to export GDS? Is it giving an
error message? Is it producing GDS that is incorrect?
Electric needs to know how to associate everything in the external
file formats (DXF, GDS, etc.) with things in its own database. The
DXF and GDS preferences handle this. One potential problem is that
DXF input creates "Artwork" objects in the Electric database.
However these Artwork objects are unknown in GDS, and so you may
export an empty GDS file. The solution (if this is what is
happening) is to set GDS layer numbers for the layers in the Artwork
technology.
-Steven Rubin
Thanks for the reply. I spent a week stumbling through the interface
before developing sufficient understanding for how to do this simple
task ... by that time, I'd forgotten about my posted question.
Ben
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