LayerSpec¶

class photonforge.LayerSpec(layer, description, color=None, pattern='')¶

Layer specification.

This class is mainly used to create layers for a Technology.

Parameters:

layer (tuple[int, int]) – Sequence of 2 integers describing layer and datatype (or texttype) numbers.
description (str) – Layer description.
color (str | tuple[int, int, int] | tuple[int, int, int, int] | None) – Layer display color. It can be a string of hexadecimal values in the formats ‘RGBA’ or ‘RRGGBBAA’ (with an optional ‘#’ prefix), or a tuple with 3 or 4 non-negative integers for each component. A random color based on layer will be used if set to None. A random variation of a basic color can also be used by when set to ‘red’, ‘orange’, ‘yellow’, ‘green’, ‘cyan’, ‘blue’, ‘purple’, ‘magenta’, ‘gray’, or ‘grey’.
pattern (str | None) – Hatch pattern used to display the layer. Must be one of ‘solid’, ‘hollow’, ‘\’, ‘\\’, ‘/’, ‘//’, ‘-’, ‘=’, ‘x’, ‘xx’, ‘+’, ‘++’, ‘.’, ‘:’, or “” (random selection).

Example

>>> layer_spec = pf.LayerSpec((1, 0), "Silicon layer", "blue", "//")

See also

Methods

Create a copy of this layer specification.

Attributes

color¶

Layer display color.

copy()¶

Create a copy of this layer specification.

description¶

LayerSpec description.

layer¶

Layer and datatype tuple.

pattern¶

Layer display pattern.

properties¶

Object properties.