L-Edit How to Export a GDS File L-Edit, part of the Tanner Tools suite of circuit design software uses it’s own ‘tda’ file format. If you want to send your designs to other people for review or pro...

How to Do L-Edit GDS Import GDS is a common data format for dealing with layout files. L-edit is a very powerful software package, but unfortunately for a new user even simple tasks like importing ...

How To Plot Data On A Map With QGIS One of the most useful things you can do with a GIS software package like QGIS is plot numerical data on a map. This post shows you how to plot data on a map wit...

Imagemagick is a command-line based image processing suite. It’s hugely powerful with all kinds of functions and features, and I can never quite remember how to use my favourite commands. There is ...

Map of World War 2 Air Ferry Routes During the World War 2 air ferry routes were used to safely transport equipment, personel and supplies across the globe. The wikipedia articles for the main rou...

How to Plot Polygons In Python This post shows you how to plot polygons in Python. When you’re working with polygons it can be useful to be able to plot them - perhaps to check that your operation ...

How to Get Around the Missing ENDEL Error in ECP Get around the GDS ENDEL Error: “GDS Error: Missing ENDEL!” in ECP by first flattening your gds file. ECP - Exposure Control Program I use the ECP C...

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 electr...

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 yo...

One of the useful features of Origin is its ability to easily fit functions to data. Unfortunatly atan isn’t one of the functions built in to origin. In this guide show you how to make and fit your...