Film too Small

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1. Mario Irigoyen 


This is most likely due to some object(s) outside of the visble workspace.
First, try changing the film size: 
Open the Gerber dialog (File-Fabrication Outputs->Gerber Files) 
Click on the Advanced tab 
The default film size is 20000mil (20 inches) x 16000mil(16 inches), make them both larger, something like 36000 x 24000.

If that doesn't work. 

Try this:

Open the PCBList panel. 

In the upper left corner click on View and change to Edit, the rest of the blue text should read 'non-masked objects' Include 'all types of objects'. 

Reset the origin (Edit-Origin>Reset) 
The workspace extents are (X)100000 x (Y)64000. 

In the List panel click the column header 'X1' to sort on that column. 
Look for objects with negative values or values larger than X100000 
Repeat for the column 'Y1', look for negative or values larger than 64000

If you find objects with negative or values greater than the extents you can enter new values in the List panel to bring the objects into the workspace or dbl-click to open the properties dialog of the object.

2. Mike Harrington CID+ 

You may have an object (usually text) much outside you visible area on the PCB. Use select Edit-Outside Area and draw a box around your legitimate PCB and texting. Then look at you "PCB List Panel" - "All Objects" and look at the X - Y dimesions for something you can see in your workspace. Or just hit delete and blow away what is outside, but I like to know what it is and modify my X-Y to bring it back in to view.

This issue is very common with Altium, also the fix when the tool crashes during the use of a variety of commands.