Re: Export gds?

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