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Gerber to GDS

My customer has provided an art gerber file.  I am able to open it as a gerber 
file in a gerber viewer, but I had not previously seen this sort of 
gerber file.  Unfortunately, it seems that customer used lines to fill areas and these lines are not useful in GDS.  I want just the polygons for the outlines, and do not want the lines used to fill areas.
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From what I understand you need "polygons" instead of lines which are typically used in Gerber files.  Here's a sample tutorial movie showing how the use the ACE 3000 command "Merge Overlapping Objects" which converts those lines into Polygons which can make the conversion to GDSII more easier.

http://www.screencast.com/users/Numerical/folders/Jing/media/97988812-6f7e-47a2-8c60-bc02fdb09fd9


Let me know your thoughts, and if you can provide me a sample "art" file we can perform the conversion for you and provide a movie tutorial showing exactly how to convert your files to GDS.
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