QckBool was developed to aid designers to manipulate their GDSII mask data. It does this performing boolean operations on polygons such as UNION (joining overlapping or touching polygons), Intersection (creating just the overlap area) and XOR (creating new polygons of just the areas that do not overlap).

QckBool includes basic functions which can be combined by the user to achieve a wide variety of results. The program is configured from a dialog box; however a user can define multiple "jobs" that can be run in batch mode.

QckBool Operations

Union (OR)

Intersection (AND)

Not the Intersection (XOR)

Reversal

Clip

Sizing

Cropping a Circuit Out of an Array

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BoolCompare2Files
The script, BoolCompare2Files, compares two GDSII files, layer by layer and outputs a difference file.

Using GDS Compact for faster boolean operation on array data.
Describes how to run gdscomp engine from the command line for fast boolean operation on GDSII files that only have non overlapping arrayed data.

Using QckBool to Create Derived Process Layers
An example of how you would use QckBool to create derived layers for an IC design.

QckBool and boolw32f Command Line Syntax
Describes how to run the QckBool engine from the command line. Useful for anyone who wants to run the engine from their own application or framework.

Converting an ASCII list of Vertices to GDSII
Describes how to convert an ASCII list of vertices into a GDSII file using ASCII2GDS and Artwork's De-embedding engines ...