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multiple instances of Eagle open at the same time OSX

SouthernAtHeart

I'm running OSX Maverick, with the latest Eagle software.  Sometime I want to copy, view, compare, etc, 2 of my schematics.  But when I open the second, it always closes the first.  Is there a way to have 2 instances of a .brd file or .sch file open at the same time?

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    I do this all the time on linux.  I start a second instance of ealge,

    sometimes specifying the project file eagle.epf.  As a matter of fact, I

    have associated eagle with the .epf file extension specifically for this

    purpose.

     

    Newer versions of eagle now use the window manager's paste buffer,

    making it possible to copy a group from one schematic running in one

    instance of eagle to another running in a different instance of eagle.

     

    Since OSX is pretty close to unix and linux, you should be able to run

    eagle directly from a shell, each time pushing it to the background.

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

     

    On 06/18/2014 12:42 PM, SouthernAtHeart wrote:

    I'm running OSX Maverick, with the latest Eagle software.  Sometime I

    want to copy, view, compare, etc, 2 of my schematics.  But when I open

    the second, it always closes the first.  Is there a way to have 2

    instances of a .brd file or .sch file open at the same time?

    thanks

     

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  • 0 in reply to dukepro

    I Haven't figured out how to get eagle to have a second instance. no matter whether I click on the Eagle App icon, or click on a different eagle project file, it opens the same one. What did you mean by 'shell'?

  • 0 in reply to SouthernAtHeart

    Yes, OS X includes a lot of FreeBSD, a modern version of the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix.  (The main reason I like OS X...)

     

    In Mac terms, you can think of "shell" as being a "Terminal".  You can find Terminal in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

     

    To get multiple copies of EAGLE running, open up a Terminal, and then use the "cd" command to go to something like /Applications/Eagle-5.12.0/EAGLE5.app/Contents/MacOS (modify for your particular installation) and type "./EAGLE &".  Then repeat the "./EAGLE &" for a second copy of EAGLE...

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    Yes, OS X includes a lot of FreeBSD, a modern version of the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix.  (The main reason I like OS X...)

     

    In Mac terms, you can think of "shell" as being a "Terminal".  You can find Terminal in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

     

    To get multiple copies of EAGLE running, open up a Terminal, and then use the "cd" command to go to something like /Applications/Eagle-5.12.0/EAGLE5.app/Contents/MacOS (modify for your particular installation) and type "./EAGLE &".  Then repeat the "./EAGLE &" for a second copy of EAGLE...

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