Structures

Structures are the geometrical contents of a component: the shapes that make the device’s physical layout. The 2D structures of the component can be converted into 3D ones by an extrusion process guided by the component’s technology.

2D Structures

• photonforge.Circle Circular primitives including circles, ellipses, rings and sectors.
• photonforge.Path Planar path object.
• photonforge.Polygon Polygonal geometric object.
• photonforge.Rectangle Rectangular geometric object.

3D Structures

• photonforge.ConstructiveSolid Constructive geometry based on combinations of solids.
• photonforge.Extruded Extruded volumetric object.
• photonforge.Polyhedron Triangulated volumetric object.

Utilities

• photonforge.boolean Compute the boolean operation between 2 sets of polygons.
• photonforge.envelope Create an envelope for the given structures.
• photonforge.heal Heal a set of polygons by removing small features.
• photonforge.intersects Check whether 2 sets of polygons share any point.
• photonforge.offset Dilate or erode a set of polygons.
• photonforge.text Create polygonal text.
• photonforge.tidy3d_structures_from_layout Convert a layout cell to Tidy3D structures according to a technology