Convert From GDS to LinearRing GDS is a common format for electronic circuit designs, MEMS and other technologies. At the moment I’m working on a project to convert from gds to a format for electron beam lithography. Whilst it might be possible to work directly with the gds files themselves, it made much more sense… Read More »
A simple Network Backup Script for windows. This script uses synctoy to backup data from your local computer to a remote network drive. Run this script every time you want to backup your data to your remote drive. Find out more about using synctoy Network Backup Script Copy the below script into a text editor… Read More »
Python is becoming more established for scientific data analysis and processing, but what python instrument control options are there? For me the benchmark instrument control software has to be LabView. It’s incredibly expensive and certainly has it’s quirks, but I’ve found that it can often make interfacing with hardware relatively painless. I’ve recently been exploring… Read More »
Finding the centre of of a polygon can be useful for many geomtrical analysis and processing techniques. This quick guide shows you how to find the centre of a polygon in python. The Centroid The centre of a polygon is also known as its centroid. It the arithmetic mean position of all the points that… Read More »
I’ve been working with the Shapely python package in python. This is a short guide for how to merge polygons in python. This guide is based on “cascaded_union.py” in the shapely examples. Find out how to install shapely in python here. How to Merge Polygons in Python Download the script for this guide here. In… Read More »