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Multiple Sheets in Eagle ECAD software

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Normally when using Eagle Light, you only get to see one sheet, and you can not add additional new sheets to a schematic file.

Eagle Light Right Click to add more sheets
Eagle Light Right Click to add more sheets – oh look you can’t…

However there is a sneaky trick…

Open the eagle .SCH file in your favourite text editor…
Open the eagle .SCH file in your favourite text editor… and copy pasta the sheets section up to the number of sheets you want.

Here I have demonstrated it with a few sheets:

Two Sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows 7.1
Two Sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows 7.1

And with a little bit more copy pasta:

Ten Sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows 7.1
Ten Sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows 7.1
However you can not make any edits on the additional sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows
However you can not make any edits on the additional sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Windows
and you can not make any edits on the additional sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Mac
and you can not make any edits on the additional sheets in Cadsoft Eagle for Mac

My Blank 10 page eagle schematics file is available for download here. I will be looking to see if there is a sneaky work round the limit and if I can copy pasta new sheets into position one…

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