have you been compacting it?
and yes the bitmaps can make thousands of little fills, maybe tens and
tens of thousands in your case
have you checked component info for a count of primitives?
you're going to have to zap a bunch of those puppies
Dennis Saputelli
Robison Michael R CNIN wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My PCB will no longer save now that it's hit 55MB. Is there
> a workaround or something I can do to make it save? I've got
> quite a few more planes to interactively route. This is not
> a problem with lack of hard drive space. I've got about 50GB
> of space left on it. I guess I should be a bit more specific
> than the "will no longer save" comment. When I click File and
> Save All, I immediately get a Popup that says something like
> "Backup of Mboard.pcb is too large". If I then close the pro-
> gram and reopen it, the size of the Mboard.pcb is 0 bytes.
>
> I imagine the file is so big because I have been converting
> bitmaps of old artwork into PCBs using the BMP2PCB program
> and then copying them to mechanical layers so I can easily
> see where the traces are supposed to go.
>
> And thanks to all who posted on my "guard" trace problem.
>
> Thanks, Michael Robison
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