The Gerber Rip engine now supports multi thread mode for faster rip conversion. User can define the number of threads the gbr2tiff.exe engine can use by running it with the proper command line options.

Running gbr2tiff.exe with no multi threading

In this example, we are running the gbr2tiff.exe engine with one thread. Our input file is l1.gbr, units of the file is MM, DPI is 8000, and raster TIFF output will be saved in file 8000.tif

C:\WCAD\GBRIP\gbr2tiff.exe l1.gbr -274x -mm -pack:8000.tif -dpi:8000 -aw 

Running gbr2tiff.exe with 2 threads

In this example, we are running the gbr2tiff.exe engine with 2 threads. Our input file is l1.gbr, units of the file is MM, DPI is 8000, and raster TIFF output will be saved in file 8000x2.tif

C:\WCAD\GBRIP\gbr2tiff.exe l1.gbr -274x -mm -pack:8000x2.tif -dpi:8000 -aw -engargs -thrnum:2

Running gbr2tiff.exe with 4 threads

In this example, we are running the gbr2tiff.exe engine with 4 threads. Our input file is l1.gbr, units of the file is MM, DPI is 8000, and raster TIFF output will be saved in file 8000x4.tif

C:\WCAD\GBRIP\gbr2tiff.exe l1.gbr -274x -mm -pack:8000x4.tif -dpi:8000 -aw -engargs -thrnum:4

Running the engine with two threads will be about 1.75 times faster than standard one thread mode.
Running the engine with four threads will be about 3 to 3.5 times faster than standard one thread mode.