Hello everyone. Is there a better way to get the design layouts images than just take a screenshot?

I think there is a klayout update where you can print the gds nicely (3D)

I've managed to print the GDS, but with a low quality and after some "hacks". I'm not used to work with klayout. The tapeout job initiated at the efabless website creates the full chip layout GDS, including the metal fill layer. I opened it with klayout and it has a cell for the full chip and another only for the metal fill. Then I saved the chip only cell as a separate GDS, opened it and printed it.

(1) We know that the lack of data transfers out of Open Galaxy is an issue; it was done that way for security but we know we have to do something about it. If you can grab an efabless staff member (hint, hint), they can do it for you. Just don't abuse the privilege. (2) Magic has much better plots than any other tool, courtesy of a bit of code written by Rajit Manohar. The command is

plot pnm

, and PNM being an uncompressed format, you'll want to use the

convert

command to convert it to something like

png

. It does pixel-by-pixel antialiasing and so produces output that looks like a photomicrograph.

My problem with magic plot command is that it doesn't render the layers as seen in the GUI. Some layers, as the MiM capacitors and vias, are rendered as pitch black.