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CATS™ Standard Features

Standard Features

  • Fastest fracture available!
  • Simple, powerful interface
  • High-speed, Intuitive Graphics
  • Detailed record-keeping
  • Flexible set-up
  • Macro capability
  • "Black Box" automation capability
  • Easily automated operation
  • Interactive & batch processing
  • Data compaction
  • Data figure biasing
  • Four biasing algorithms
  • One address count biasing
  • Two-sided biasing
  • Pattern border control during biasing
  • Continuous scaling capability
  • Rotation & mirroring
  • Reverse toning
  • Boolean combination
  • Healing & overlap removal
  • Definable data blocks or "stripes"
  • Automated bulk-and-sleeve
  • Pattern Extraction
  • Conditional Figure Assignment (CFA)
  • Prune structure(s) during fracture
  • Determine number of figures & area covered
  • Determine "root" structure
  • Generate complete "tree" listing
  • Generate histogram of figures
  • Analyze input file for errors
  • Analyze input file for offgrid data
  • Geometric figure selection
  • Intuitive mouse-driven graphics
  • Node-locked or "floating" graphics
  • Zoom, pan & pick graphic operations
  • "Snap-to-data" measuring technique Fast graphic draw & hardcopy
  • Overlay graphic reference grid
  • Simulate output before fracture
  • Solid fill & pen modes for display
  • Mark tiny figures for easy location
  • Overlay input/output files
  • Long & short distance measure
  • Figure "picking"
  • Merge libraries together
  • Generate simple data using ascii
  • User-definable menu for macros
  • Complete on-line "help" facility
  • and much more....

Standard Input Formats

  • GDS-II Stream™
  • Applicon™
  • AutoCAD™ ASCII DXF
  • Cal Tech Intermediate Format (CIF)
  • CATS' Text File Format
  • Cambridge EBMF™
  • Hitachi™
  • JEOL™
  • MEBES™
  • Philips EBPG™
  • Varian ALF™
  • Electromask™
  • Mann 3000™, 3600™