Thursday 24th March 2022
Whenever I try to open a GDS file with Layout Editor, the program crashes. It's the same for a lot of difference GDS files, so I know that the files aren't corrupted. For some reason, DXF files open fine still.
I tried this on version 20200801-mac-osx, and had this problem. I then uninstalled that and tried on version 20190820-mac-osx, and the same problem occurred (for context I just got a new work computer, so I had to reinstall Layout Editor - I believe I was using version 20190820-mac-osx before, but I'm not certain).
Has anyone else had this issue or does anyone have any ideas I could try to debug this?
Jürgen LayoutEditorFull Thursday 24th March 2022
Have you tried the most recent LayoutEditor release? Mac system have changed a lot over the last years and older releases may not run on the newest version of Mac OS. Also the processor has changed from an intel to a Apple Silicon.
Ben
Thursday 24th March 2022
I just tried the newest release, and unfortunately the same problem occurs. LayoutEditor still crashes when I try to open any GDS file.
I'll mention that if I open a new LayoutEditor window and draw a few polygons and save it as a GDS file, **that** file will open up with no problem when I try to re-open it.
I find it hard to believe the issue lies with the files though because I was able to open up all of these GDS files with LayoutEditor with no problems on my last computer (and my coworkers can actively open them as well on versions of LayoutEditor I have tried thus far).
Jürgen LayoutEditorFull Friday 25th March 2022
That sounds confusing. First of all the LayoutEditor should not crash i any case when it opens even a corrupt file. It should result in an error message. Other other computers open these file it must be something specific to you system. Have you tried to reset your LayoutEditor settings?
Also you can try to run the LayoutEditor in debug mode. It then should output more informations to find the issue on your system. You can do that by start the LayoutEditor from command line and add the option '--debug'. On mac this should be something like ```/Applications/layout.app/Contents/MacOS/layout --debug```