Reply To: Circular array of a cell from a gds file – how to do it?

[Ronald]

Dear Cameron,

GDS natively supports arrays on cell instances that span two vectors (dx1, dy1) and (dx2, dy2), not circles. For a circular array you have to place cells simply on a circle.

from math import sin, cos, pi
import nazca as nd

cell = nd.load_gds(filename="my.gds", cellname="my_cell_name")

with nd.Cell('circle') as C: 
    N = 20
    radius = 500
    for i in range(N):
        cell.put(radius*cos(i*2*pi/N), radius*sin(i*2*pi/N), 0)
 
C.put()
nd.export_gds()

For a native cell array check out the gds arrays tutorial.

Ronald