Thanks, Dennis.
Your question about compacting is interesting. I thought it
compacted automatically when saved. Should I be performing
some special compacting operation? I don't see anything like
that in the File menu.
And yes, you are right. The bitmaps convert into very big
pcb files, with around 100,000 objects per PCB, and with 10
layers, that's tremendous. I guess I can delete a mechanical
layer after I lay it out. That's an obvious option, but I
hated to do that before I finished the board in case I needed
to go back and redo something or search out an unrouted con-
nection.
Thanks again, Miker
Dennis Saputelli wrote:
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
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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