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High Performance Layout Viewer and Editor for your Windows system

Latest Version KLayout 0.29.10 (64-bit)
Requirements

Windows 8 64/Windows 10 64

Updated December 06, 2024
Author Matthias Kofferlein
Category Imaging and Digital Photo
License Freeware
Language English
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Overview

KLayout support of GDS and OASIS file formats with automatic uncompression of zlib compatible formats. Easily load, visualize, and edit all your files. Although a comparatively simple piece of software, a layout viewer is not only just a tool for the chip design engineer. Today's design's complexity requires not only a simple "viewer". Rather, a viewer is a microscope through which the engineer looks at the design.

There are numerous viewers available, but sadly there are not many which satisfy a few basic requirements. Most of them are commercial and expensive. If there is a need for a simple, yet powerful viewer - here it is. Download KLayout 64 bit for Windows PC today!

Features and Highlights
  • Fast and accurate: fast loading and drawing
  • Full support of properties
  • Extensible and configurable to a large degree by custom Ruby or Python scripts
  • Integrated development environment for Ruby and Python scripts
  • Overlay capabilities: multiple layouts can be loaded into one window
  • Very flexible layer configuration: many display options including a choice of fill pattern and different frame and fill colors. Animation, transparency, dimming/highlighting
  • Layer grouping: the display properties of a group of layers can be changed at once
  • Advanced layer display attributes: layers can be named, they can carry additional transformations, select certain hierarchy levels, or select shapes by their properties
  • Copy and paste layer attributes to other panels
  • Drawing order: select the layer that is shown on top
  • Descend into a hierarchy: show a cell embedded in its context
  • Flexible rulers: unlimited count, flexible display styles. Multiple templates can be configured, rules can be edited (move, delete, copy & paste)
  • Shape and instance browsers
  • Bookmarks, various zoom modes, mouse wheel support, screenshot function
  • Undo/redo layer properties, for rulers
  • Save: save the layout or parts (cells, layers) of it to a different format, with scaling or a different database unit.
  • Image overlay capabilities: image files (i.e. jpg, png, gif) can be loaded and placed at an arbitrary position in the layout.
  • Marker browser: certain error report files can be loaded and a browser tool is provided.
  • Global transformation to flip/rotate image
  • Smart drawing functions with many options: angle constraints, grid
  • True, in-place editing in subcells, variant building function
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Smart partial editing function to stretch shapes, move edges or vertices
  • Copy and paste shapes and whole cells, even to other layouts
  • Many advanced editing functions: hierarchical operations, booleans, clip, corner rounding, sizing, alignment, layer operations
  • Support for external libraries dynamically bound to a layout
  • Parametrizable cells (PCells)



Previous versions More »

0.29.10 December 06, 2024 299 MB 0.29.9 December 03, 2024 299 MB 0.29.8 October 26, 2024 299 MB 0.29.7 September 25, 2024 299 MB 0.29.6 August 17, 2024 299 MB 0.29.5 August 02, 2024 298 MB