Re: gEDA-user: Error, too many apertures needed for Gerber file

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>> "Error, too many apertures needed for Gerber file."
> 
> We added a global aperture cache to work around some problems with
> certain fabs.  The table has 256 entries.  Your board has 315 unique
> apertures (that means, 315 total of line widths, pad widths, pin
> diameters, etc).
> 
> If you want a work-around, just edit globalconst to change this:
> 
> #define GBX_MAXAPERTURECOUNT	256
> 
> To have a larger number.  Of course, this assumes that your fab
> supports that many apertures.

Without looking at the code to see the implications of this, perhaps 
this is a good thing to be an export time option.  Something like a 
boolean for limited or unlimited apertures.



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