Description of Update
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Comment
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Scheduled Completion
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Increase Vertex Count to 64K
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Required to handle complex files such as leadframes where we have seen
examples with up to 30K vertices (segments, not arcs...).
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Antonio to Schedule
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Line/Arc Linking without fracturing Arcs
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Currently the linking routine fractures arcs prior to linking. This change would enable
the linker to handle arcs and create a boundary that is not fractured. Reason: some very
complex shapes with hundreds of radii would be described much more compactly in MIC and
would create the most precise possible database.
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Antonio to Schedule
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Add/Improve Support for Splines
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Splines are used by customers building optical waveguides. Need to support B-splines
along with some type of quality factor.
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Antonio to Schedule
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Intelligent Hatch
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AutoCAD 14 introduced intelligent hatch where the hatch is now a description of
boundary entities and island entities; the fill is a mathematical description. Need
to support solid hatch and also to support islands.
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Automatic Paint/Scratch based on Polygon Embedding Level
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This function would sort out all closed boundaries (after linking) and sort
them by embedding level. Entities with embedding level 0,2,4,6 would be mapped
as filled polygons to MIC and entities with embedding level 1,3,5... would
be mapped as empty. Some end users (especially in Japan) are drawing various
types of masks in this fashion. This option will require R&D committment.
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Block to MIC Cell Mapping
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In general, AutoCAD blocks will be exploded during processing. This option would
enable the user to specify that an AutoCAD block would be mapped into a MIC cell.
This should only be used for blocks that are stepped to form an array - result:
a much smaller MIC file.
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Improved Line Linker
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This will include user adjustable search radius tolerance and elimination of lines which
fold back a angles near 180 degrees (see illustration); a primary reason that lines under
lines cause linking problems.
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