Editing GDSII (section)

== GDSII utilities ==

As the GDSII stream format is a de facto standard, it is supported by nearly all EDA software. Besides the commercial vendors there are plenty of free GDSII utilities. These free tools include editors,<ref>LayoutEditor, a free GDSII editor http://www.layouteditor.net</ref><ref>"KLayout" is a free GDSII, LEF/DEF, OASIS, Gerber, DXF, CIF editor with DRC http://www.klayout.de</ref><ref>Glade, a free GDSII, LEF/DEF editor http://www.peardrop.co.uk/glade {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327030431/http://www.peardrop.co.uk/glade/ |date=2013-03-27 }}</ref> viewers,<ref>"nanoViewer" is a free GDSII viewer, {{Cite web |url=http://www.wxnanotech.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-10-09 |archive-date=2012-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119053116/http://www.wxnanotech.com/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> utilities to convert the 2D layout data into common 3D formats,<ref>gds2pov easily convert GDSII data into a nicely rendered 3D view. http://www.atchoo.org/gds2pov</ref><ref>With GdsViewer tool, any portion of GDSII artwork can be exported to 3D [[VTK]] file. The latter can be viewed and manipulated with [[VTK]] compatible viewers, e.g. [[ParaView]] http://www.gbresearch.com/gdsviewer</ref> utilities to fly through a 3D version,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-12 |title=GDS3D |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/gds3d/ |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=SourceForge |language=en}}</ref> utilities to convert the binary format to a human readable ASCII format<ref>GDS Utilities can convert binary GDSII files to ASCII representation, http://www.gbresearch.com/gdsutilities</ref> and program libraries.<ref>Ruby GDSII Library for reading, manipulating, and writing GDSII data in the [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] programming language http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/gdsii {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024204036/http://rubyforge.org/projects/gdsii |date=2007-10-24 }}</ref><ref>Python GDSII Library for creating and manipulating GDSII files with [[Python (programming language)|Python]] http://gdspy.sourceforge.net/index.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151651/http://gdspy.sourceforge.net/index.html |date=2015-04-02 }}</ref><ref>Octave and MATLAB toolbox for reading and writing GDSII layout files https://sites.google.com/site/ulfgri/numerical/gdsii-toolbox</ref>