# Eneroth Reference Manager

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**Category:** Extensions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/eneroth-reference-manager/66309 "2018-04-12T11:18:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_drivenupthewall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@john\_drivenupthewall](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/john_drivenupthewall)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/eneroth-reference-manager/66309/34 "2019-12-01T16:06:51Z")

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Julia, the most ‘robust’ way on mac is to use the API method `Sketchup.open_file(path)`…

with OS X being application centric, this simply opens an additional document taking into account whether the user is using tabbed or separate documents…

john

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