- Status Closed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Feature Request
- Category QCAD (main)
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Assigned To
Andrew - Operating System All
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version Development
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
Undecided
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Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - 06.11.2013
Last edited by Andrew - 17.11.2015
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - 06.11.2013
Last edited by Andrew - 17.11.2015
FS#968 - Option to divide by half numbers etc..
Would it be possible to change the Divide tool, so that one can divide by e.g. 4.5 or 7.75 etc...? Instead of just whole numbers, like it is at present.
Closed by Andrew
17.11.2015 10:40
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:
17.11.2015 10:40
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:
Dividing a length into N equal parts
where N is not a whole number does not
work. Perhaps a new feature request can
be created which describes what tool is
required (e.g. split entities into
segments of equal length + a shorter
segment for the rest, etc.)
Thanks for the suggestion. Can you elaborate on your use case a bit?
Note that if you divide a line into four equally long segments, there is only one possible solution:
With 4.5 segments, there are two possible solutions:
or:
So this would either be implied (always use the first solution, starting from start point) or interactive.
Please forgive me the ASCII-art ;)
Hi - in this example I would ask you for an interactive fife solution tool ...
I'm right now not sure what Clive is looking for.
Does he like to have the possibility to use fractions for Parts (your two possibility example) or does he like to have the possibility to divide a line just in equal segments.
I'm so sorry guys - I mean the 'Split Entities tool', not the Divide tool.
What I'm asking isn't really logical...but this is what I am looking for here.
For example if I have a line that is 12MM long, I can use the split entities tool and choose to split it up into 4 equal segments...giving me 4 x 3MM long segments.
Lets say I want to split the same line into equal segments but enter 4.5 in the parts field! Currently I cant do this - but if I could type in 4.5 instead into the parts field and maybe select an additional option to have equal segments - then I wonder could I get 4 x 2.66MM long segments.
I hope I have explained this properly here (probably not) but I hope you get the idea.
Yes, I got that :)
That seems like a contradiction though. 4.5 parts cannot result in N equal length segments. E.g. 12mm / 4.5 = 2.666, for example:
4 x 2.666 = 10.666, so the length of the total length would change. I.e. do you want to delete the last (half) segment in that case?
What the tool would need is an option to set the length (e.g. 12MM)to be divided by 4.5 (not parts)then set the number of parts, so in fact extra input fields would be required here.
I am just thinking this out as I go along really! I was faced with a similar task at work today and something like this in QCAD would be invaluable.
So maybe the Divide tool is the one to have the extra fields in order to do this after all!