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  • Status Closed
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  • Task Type Bug Report
  • Category QCAD (main)
  • Assigned To
    Andrew
  • Operating System All
  • Severity Low
  • Priority Very Low
  • Reported Version 3.6.3
  • Due in Version Undecided
  • Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by Peter Kosmalla - 25.11.2014
Last edited by Andrew - 26.11.2014

FS#1129 - Options Toolbar not visible for Edit > Paste tool

Hello all,

copy of elements between layers does not work. I have added 2 additional layers to my dxf file. Then I have drawn a line with points, 1 rectangle, 2 rectangles. None of them worked. I do NOT want to move the element selection between 2 layers using the properties editor.

Version 1:
copy to clipboard from layer where drawn (is current layer)
switch to target layer (is now current layer)
insert from clipboard –> nothing happened

Version 2:
switch to target layer (is now current layer)
copy to clipboard from layer where drawn
insert from clipboard –> nothing happened

I am seeing such a misbeheaviour in a CAD system for the first time. All CAD systems I am aware of are able to do this task. I think that this error still exists in the most current version of QCAD because it had always been reported in 2013 in the forum http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2329&p=7571&hilit=move+layer#p7571. This article mentions a checkbox “To current layer” that does not exist.

OS: Linux Mint 17 Qiana based on Ubuntu

Best regards
Peter

Closed by  Andrew
26.11.2014 09:58
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Admin
Andrew commented on 25.11.2014 17:38

QCAD 3.6.3 (the version you have indicated you are using) definitely has the "To current layer" checkbox when pasting. Even QCAD 3.0.0 has that feature.

If you cannot see that checkbox, please attach a screenshot of how QCAD looks like after you choose "Edit > Paste". You most likely have a GUI related problem in that case (options toolbar too small or hidden away).
It should indeed look like in the forum thread you linked to.

Please indicate also if you are using QCAD Professional or the free QCAD Community Edition, so I can test under the same conditions. Thanks.

Peter Kosmalla commented on 26.11.2014 09:56

Hellow Andrew,

thank you very much for your advice. After taking the screenshot I did see the checkbox in the picture. I did check it and the copy worked. You can close this case.

BTW: I am really font of QCAD because I was always using real cad programmes years before. When I moved to an it company I was forced to use MS Visio what is the wrong tool for technical drawings. After starting QCAD I felt home again. Additional benefit, it runs on Linux.

Yours sincerely
Peter

Admin
Andrew commented on 26.11.2014 09:58

OK, thanks for the update and the feedback!

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