QCAD Bugtracker

  • Status Closed
  • Percent Complete
    100%
  • Task Type Bug Report
  • Category QCAD (main)
  • Assigned To
    Andrew
  • Operating System OpenSUSE Linux
  • Severity Medium
  • Priority Very Low
  • Reported Version 3.0.0
  • Due in Version Undecided
  • Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by Renaud GILLON - 02.01.2013
Last edited by Andrew - 03.01.2013

FS#739 - QCAD fails to open a DXF file generated by itself

QCAD does not manage to load an DXF file created by itself (presumably, I don’t remember excactly, could be the last 2.x version). When selecting File ⇒ Open on the file in attachment, QCAD shows a pop-up reporting the following error :

Cannot open file
»‘/home/gillonr/Documents/Projects/Familly/Br.../Chambre Parents/Plans/Plan-PaterNoster.dxf’.
» Please check your access rights, the file format and file extension.

The file permissions are OK, there is no issue of disk space on the volume where the file reside or where the QCAD distribution is installed or at any other critical location. The problem does not happen on other files created with QCAD, so it appears to be data dependent.

The file causing trouble in QCAD can be imported in LibreOffice 3.4.2 w/o reporting errors (but that application does not provide the suitable methods / tools to edit this format...).

(1) Is there a way to activate debugging when reading in data from a DXF ?
(2) Is there some tool (ev. 3rd party) allowing to check that the data is clean ?
(3) Can someone identify the cause of the problem (presumably some data construct or maybe corruption) ?
(4) In case it would turn out that the problem is a QCAD bug, is there a work-around (I need these drawings...).

Closed by  Andrew
03.01.2013 14:24
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  

Customer was running a release candidate

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Andrew commented on 02.01.2013 19:46

There appears to be an invalid entity in that file.

The latest release candidate of QCAD simply drops invalid entities when a file is loaded.

You can download the package from your usual download area:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/customer-area

→ QCAD 3 (Development Snapshot)

With the snapshot release you can load your file(s) and save them under a new name.

It's recommendable to keep the QCAD 3.0 stable release installed for production use.

Renaud GILLON commented on 03.01.2013 14:06

OK, I was running the QCAD 3.0.0-RC2. I upgraded to 3.0.0 and was able to open the file. Thanks.

As DXF is a text format, it would be nice to have some debugging capabilities... as minor bugs can be easily corrected manually.

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