How to duplicate a PCB in Eagle?

[urakhai911]

Hello World,

I have a PCB in eagle which has been already routed in a previous project. I need to create a two copies of this same board in the same PCB. I tried making a duplicate of the schematic, however, the parts show up stripped and not routed. Any ideas on how I would go about this? Are there scripts which can carry out this operation?

-Jason Bourne

 

[keith1200rs]

Re: Eagle PCB Duplicates

There should be other threads explaining the process but if you don't care about the component references, simple close the schematic and cut and paste the PCB - it will copy the tracks as well as the components but the component references will change to avoid duplicates.

If you want the component references to remain the same, run the ULP called panelize I think it is called. That will copy the component references to another layer so when you copy the PCB they don't change. You must modify the CAM job to use the new layers for the silk screen.

Keith