BlenderGDSII

If you want to have presentable 3D images of your microfabrication layout use this! This is a GUI for opening GDSII files in Blender.

What can it do?

• convert your layout to STL files
  • these can be deselected and selected for Blender
• open the stl files in Blender
  • add selected materials
  • add selected thickness
  • produce proper eevee-render settings
• save sessions
• load sessions
• delete saved sessions

Works with most GDSII files produced in KLayout,L-Edit or similar software.

This GUI uses the gdsiistl built by Daniel Teal: https://github.com/dteal/gdsiistl

The beautiful tkinter GUI was customized by Tom Schimansky: https://github.com/TomSchimansky/CustomTkinter

All the code was integrated by Niels Burghoorn in this package: https://github.com/SwaggerNiels/BlenderGDSII

Interface

This is the example layout that can be loaded directly:

Pictures

Installation

Installation is very easy!

• Make sure you have Blender installed: https://www.blender.org
• On this github page go to the Releases tab.
• Here you can download the zip-file, unpack it, and run the BlendGDSII.exe