[solved] Open Two Windows at Once (on Mac OS)

[alex_holden]

Is there any way to have two simultaneous QCAD Pro windows open at once on Mac OS? The reason is that I have two monitors and I'd like to be able to have a drawing on each of them at the same time. Right now I spend a lot of time flipping between two tabs while the second screen sits idle. I tried making a duplicate of the .app folder and opening both copies at once but the second one doesn't start. In theory I could run a second copy inside a VM, but that seems a bit of a hack and there would be problems with copy-pasting between the two.

[CVH]

Hi,

Indeed, one can open QCAD more than once ...
See: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... ces#p33285

Regards,
CVH

[Husky]

Is there any way to have two simultaneous QCAD Pro windows open at once on Mac OS?

I'm not a "Mac'ler" but you can do that in Windows. So, I assume it's possible in Mac too.

... and there would be problems with copy-pasting between the two.

I doubt that that will work. That is not how the QCAD clipboard works ...
Please enlighten me in the case that I'm wrong ...

[CVH]

... and there would be problems with copy-pasting between the two.

I doubt that that will work. That is not how the QCAD clipboard works ...
Please enlighten me in the case that I'm wrong ...

Husky is right ... There is a separated clipboard for each GUI!
So, Copy/Paste only works between tabs in one GUI.

Regards,
CVH

[alex_holden]

Indeed, one can open QCAD more than once ...
See: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... ces#p33285

Thank you! I just tried it and it works on Mac too, but you have to launch the second instance from a Terminal window using a command like this:

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/Applications/QCAD-Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/QCAD-Pro -allow-multiple-instances

Alternatively you can create an application in Automator that uses the "run shell script" action to run the above command, then add it to the dock to launch extra QCAD instances with one click.

I doubt that that will work. That is not how the QCAD clipboard works ...
Please enlighten me in the case that I'm wrong ...

Indeed you are correct.