Tools

Powerful Geometry Tools

LinkCAD includes a comprehensive set of geometry tools to clean up, repair and transform your drawings.

Shape Operations

Edit and Repair

Merge Overlapping Polygons

Merge overlapping polygons into one geometry. Prevents over-exposure when generating lithographic masks. Optionally keeps original polygon boundaries.

Convert to Polygon Outlines

Explode wires, circles and donuts into polygon outlines. Import complex drawings into software that only supports polygon entities.

Convert Quasi-Circles to Circles

Scan drawings for circular polygons and turn them into true circles. Cleans up the file and reduces its size.

Connect Adjacent Wire Segments

Join broken wires into continuous segments. The fast algorithm lets you specify the maximum distance between endpoints.

Auto-Detect Holes (De-embedding)

Detect and create holes from overlapping areas. Perfect for ground planes on PCBs or negative text labels.

Boolean Operations

Merge (OR), subtract, intersect (AND) and XOR operations on any two drawing layers.