Running GDS_RIP Windows in batch mode

This page describes the command line you can use to run convert GDSII files to Tiff in batch mode. This is useful when you need to create many Tiff images of small windows of the GDSII file rather than one Tiff file for the full extents of the chip.
In this case, you can create a batch file that will run our gds2tiff software many times, each time for a different window, and each window will be saved to a different Tiff file.

In this example, we will convert 4 different windows from demo5.gds to Tiff with 0.5 micron pixel size (that translates to a DPI of 50800).

C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\gds2tiff_win C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\EXAMPLES\demo5.gds TOP +4 -ram:64 -pixelsize:0.5 -dbs:4000000 -thrnum:1 -extents:1000,1000,1100,1100 -nbuff:1 -out:win1
C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\gds2tiff_win C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\EXAMPLES\demo5.gds TOP +4 -ram:64 -pixelsize:0.5 -dbs:4000000 -thrnum:1 -extents:1100,1000,1200,1100 -nbuff:1 -out:win2
C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\gds2tiff_win C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\EXAMPLES\demo5.gds TOP +4 -ram:64 -pixelsize:0.5 -dbs:4000000 -thrnum:1 -extents:1200,1000,1300,1100 -nbuff:1 -out:win3
C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\gds2tiff_win C:\wcad\GDS_RIP\EXAMPLES\demo5.gds TOP +4 -ram:64 -pixelsize:0.5 -dbs:4000000 -thrnum:1 -extents:1300,1000,1400,1100 -nbuff:1 -out:win4

Raster Tiff File

Run your batch file and after a few seconds the 4 Tiff files will be saved to disk.
At this point, you can also preview your Tiff file with a viewer of your choice.
Here is an image of two adjacent windows.