LayoutEditor Portable

Made as the portable counterpart of LayoutEditor, this is an advanced and approachable piece of software designed to help you put together layouts for MEMS, IC, MCM or PCB fabrications.
It's capable of reading most schematic formats and features a font generator, macros, boolean operations, design rule checker, and OPC, among others.

Portability advantages

Since there is no installation involved, you can extract the program files anywhere on the disk or on a removable storage unit to directly launch LayoutEditor on any PC. More importantly, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings.

Comfortable interface with straightforward options

Wrapped up in a user-friendly interface, the application lets you work with multiple layers, view them as blocks, toggle the visibility of any layer, or edit properties.
It's possible to draw paths, boxes, polygons, cells, cell arrays and text, as well as copy, move, rotate, mirror or merge objects.

Manage and export layers

The layer manager lets you pick the preview color, hotkey, fill style, type and 3D settings. What's more, you can generate technology macro, as well as export layer settings to file and import them later.
Attachable files can be imported from a wide range of formats, such as Calma GDSII, OASIS, OpenAccess, CIF, DXF, Gerber, LEF, DEF, Lasi, SVG, CSV, PNG, Alliance, ODB++, EDIF, and Qucs. Plus, the design can be saved as an image with the PNG, BMP, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PPM, TIF, TIFF, XBM or XPM extension.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that LayoutEditor didn't hang, crash or display error messages. Its impact on the overall performance of the computer was minimal, since it used low CPU and RAM.
Taking into account its approachable interface and options, LayoutEditor should meet the requirements of most users looking to seamlessly put together layouts.