Kfactory is a gdsfactory-like tool. It is built with KLayout as a backend instead of gdstk, but aims to offer the similar features.
[!CAUTION] KFactory is still experimental Expect API changes without notice (even though we try to keep it to a minimum!). The core should be fairly stable with the exception of the all-angle router. It is likely to change in future releases
It is suggest to pin the version of KFactory in requirements.txt or pyproject.toml with kfactory==0.21.11 for example.
Features similar to gdsfactory:
Notable missing Features:
New/Improved Features:
kfactory is available on pypi
pip install kfactory
At the moment kfactory works only on python 3.10 and above
A development environment can be installed with
python -m pip install -e .[dev]
It is defined in pyproject.toml. For committing pre-commit should be installed with pre-commit install.
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KLayout API implementation of gdsfactory
We found that kfactory demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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