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A method of creating charged beam drawing data used for a charged beam drawing apparatus to draw a pattern on a drawing area of a sample by irradiating a charged beam onto the sample, the method comprising:selecting a charged beam drawing apparatus which divides the drawing area into two or more hierarchical fields including a plurality of main fields, a plurality of subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of main fields and a plurality of unit fields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields, and draws a pattern using the unit field as a drawing unit, as the charged beam drawing apparatus to draw the pattern;dividing design data corresponding to the pattern to be drawn on the drawing area into a plurality of first design data corresponding to the plurality of main fields, dividing each of the plurality of first design data into a plurality of second design data corresponding to the plurality of subfields, and dividing each of the plurality of second design data into a plurality of third design data corresponding to the plurality of unit fields;evaluating quality of resist resolution to a predetermined dimension on each of the plurality of unit fields;creating a table which relates the plurality of unit fields to the quality of the resist resolution based on an evaluation result acquired by the evaluating the quality of the resist resolution;judging whether or not each of the plurality of third design data corresponds to data having the predetermined dimension and corresponds to a pattern falling in the unit field which the quality of the resist resolution is rejectable based on the predetermined dimension and the table; andconverting data judged to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into first drawing data after performing a coordinate conversion so that the data fall in the unit field which the resist resolution is acceptable, and converting data judged not to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into second drawing data without performing the coordinate conversion. 2. The method of creating charged beam drawing data according to claim 1,wherein the hierarchical fields are two hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields, or three hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields, subsubfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields. 3. A charged beam drawing method using a charged beam drawing apparatus to draw a pattern on a drawing area of a sample by irradiating a charged beam onto the sample, the method comprising:selecting a charged beam drawing apparatus which divides the drawing area into two or more hierarchical fields including a plurality of main fields, a plurality of subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of main fields and a plurality of unit fields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields, and draws a pattern using the unit field as a drawing unit, as the charged beam drawing apparatus to draw the pattern;dividing design data corresponding to the pattern to be drawn on the drawing area into a plurality of first design data corresponding to the plurality of main fields, dividing each of the plurality of first design data into a plurality of second design data corresponding to the plurality of subfields, and dividing each of the plurality of second design data into a plurality of third design data corresponding to the plurality of unit fields;evaluating quality of resist resolution to a predetermined dimension on each of the plurality of unit fields;creating a table which defines a unit field having an acceptable resist resolution and a unit field having a rejectable resist resolution among the plurality of unit fields based on an evaluation result acquired by the evaluating the quality of the resist resolution;judging whether or not each of the plurality of third design data corresponds to data having the predetermined dimension and corresponds to a pattern falling in the unit field which the quality of the resist resolution is rejectable based on the predetermined dimension and the table; andconverting data judged to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into first drawing data after performing a coordinate conversion so that the data fall in the unit field which the resist resolution is acceptable, and converting data judged not to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into second drawing data without performing the coordinate conversion. 4. The charged beam drawing method according to claim 3,wherein the evaluating the quality of the resist resolution to the predetermined dimension on each of the plurality of unit fields is performed in real time based on a shape of the charged beam which is irradiated from the plurality of unit fields. 5. The charged beam drawing method according to claim 3,wherein the hierarchical fields are two hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields, or three hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields, sub-subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields. 6. The charged beam drawing method according to claim 4,wherein the hierarchical fields are two hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields, or three hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields, sub-subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields. 7. A charged beam drawing apparatus to draw a pattern on a drawing area of a sample by irradiating a charged beam onto the sample, the pattern being drawn using a unit field as a drawing unit, the charged beam drawing apparatus comprising:a first dividing section configured to divide the drawing area into two or more hierarchical fields including a plurality of main fields, a plurality of subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of main fields and a plurality of unit fields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields,a second dividing section configured to divide design data corresponding to the pattern to be drawn on the drawing area into a plurality of first design data corresponding to the plurality of main fields, dividing each of the plurality of first design data into a plurality of second design data corresponding to the plurality of subfields, and dividing each of the plurality of second design data into a plurality of third design data corresponding to the plurality of unit fields;a resolution evaluating section configured to evaluate quality of resist resolution to a predetermined dimension on each of the plurality of unit fields;a table creating section configured to create a table which relates the plurality of unit fields to the quality of the resist resolution based on an evaluation result acquired by the evaluating the quality of the resist resolution;a judging section configured to judge whether or not each of the plurality of third design data corresponds to data having the predetermined dimension and corresponds to a pattern falling in the unit field which the quality of the resist resolution is rejectable based on the predetermined dimension and the table;a coordinate converting section configured to convert a coordinate of data judged to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into a coordinate so that the data fall in the unit field which the resist resolution is acceptable,a first data converting section configured to convert the third design data whose coordinate is converted by the coordinate converting section into a first drawing data;a second data converting section configured to convert data judged not to correspond to the data among the plurality of third design data into a second drawing data without performing the coordinate conversion; anda drawing section configured to draw the pattern by referring to drawing data including the first and second drawing data and irradiating the charged beam onto the sample, the drawing section drawing patterns in the subfields by referring to the first drawing data using the unit field as a drawing unit for each of the plurality of subfields, and in a case where there exists a pattern not being drawn in the subfields, the drawing section drawing the pattern not being drawn on a desired position in the subfields by referring to the second drawing data and by moving the sample, or by referring to the second drawing data and by adjusting a deflection position of the charged beam on the subfields. 8. The charged beam drawing apparatus according to claim 7,wherein the resolution evaluating section performs the resist resolution evaluation in real time based on an a shape of the charged beam which is irradiated from the plurality of unit fields. 9. The charged beam drawing apparatus according to claim 7,wherein the hierarchical fields are two hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields, or three hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields, sub-subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields. 10. The charged beam drawing apparatus according to claim 8,wherein the hierarchical fields are two hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields, or three hierarchical fields including the plurality of main fields, the plurality of subfields, sub-subfields which are lower in layer than the plurality of subfields and divided subfields as the plurality of unit fields. 11. A semiconductor device manufacturing method comprising:preparing a sample including a substrate and a resist film formed on the substrate; anddrawing a pattern on the resist film by a charged beam drawing method according to claim 3. 12. The semiconductor device manufacturing method according to claim 11, further comprising:forming a resist pattern by developing the resist film on which the patterns are drawn; andetching the substrate using the resist pattern as a mask.