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[Tianyu Liu]

Hi,

I'm a Lumerical FDTD user. We want to import a structure for our simulation. I see there're two options for the format, GDSII or STL, but what we have is txt. file. Is there a way to import a txt. file as a structure to Lumerical? or is there a quick way to convert txt. to STL or GDSII? Any recommendation is appriciated!

Thanks,

Tianyu

[Dev]

 

 

Hi, 

The preferred data format is in Matlab. Matlab preserves the original data and unit. 

Since your file is in .txt, you can try using combination of readdata – Script command – Ansys Optics and addpoly – Script command – Ansys Optics to import the geometry in FDTD. 

Thanks