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Philippe Pouliquen writes:
 > Hi Svenn,
 > 
 > > I have a gdsii file and wanted to use magic as a gdsii viewer for this
 > > file.
 > 
 > What you want to do is not entirely straightforward.  Every layout needs
 > to be viewed with an appropriate techfile, and you cannot arbitrarily read
 > in CIF or GDS written by another layout tool.
 > 
 > Perhaps some day, Tim will add a feature to automatically generate new
 > planes and tiles on reading in layouts (bleah! don't forget the
 > kitchen sink... :-)
 > 
 > 

remember that magic has the limitation of only 26 non-interacting
layers (planes).

actually, if all you want to do is VIEW a gds file, then just do a
free evaluation of the GDS viewer from:

GDSVU GDSII View_Plot Utility http://www.artwork.com/gdsii/gdsvu/gdsvuw.htm

they have both windows and unix versions.

/jeff

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