QCAD Bugtracker

Split from  FS#465  by Stefan:

Copy+Paste with paste in a new drawing results in Z=-13.6... which caused the problems of pattern-hatch and select-impossible.

I have 3 DXF files and I want to merge them all into 1 single file, so I copy/paste the first, copy/paste the second but for the last it’s impossible because QCAD paste the wrong copy. More I try and more the result is weird

See discussion at:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2614

Hi,

often I’m in the situation that I have to create an additional Layer mostly based on the settings from an already existing Layer. Just a question of organization. This new Layer has then everything identical except the name and one(?) Attribute. This could be that only the color or the Line weight deviates.

Example:

Existing Layer

Layer name: Lot 47 area existing

Attributes

Color: Red

Lineweight: 0.35

Linetype: Dashed

New Layer

Layer name: Lot 47 area proposal

Attributes

Color: Blue

Lineweight: 0.35

Linetype: Dashed

Unfortunately if done manually it happens in an blink of an eye that the human imperfection (me!) makes a mistake and (e.g.) a “Center (.5x)” finds it way into the Linetype Field instead of a “Center (.2x)” ....

The workaround for a few User is to use in cases like this the Property Editor / General Property and customize single Attributes. In my opinion the first step to lose the control over your own drawing ...

A “Copy Layer” / Copy Layer Attributes” function would speed up this task and eliminate to a minimum the “human imperfection” factor.

I could imagine that a right click (like copy block) on the Layer triggers the “Add Layer” function and the dialog is already prefigured with the Settings of the Source Layer ...... ready for editing.
The new Layer itself is “empty” like any other new Layer.

Would it be possible like in AutoCAD and Draftsight, to copy (from CSV or TXT) into the command line of qcad a table with
vectorpoint to built up a Spline in QCAD ?

Sample:
Spline
10.5,10(LR+CR)
20.8,20.4(LR+CR)

and so on

this text would than paste into the command line, and works like a macro.

Will be very helpful to generate a Spline where the vectorpoint had been calculated with for example “Excel”

Kopiere ich Bemaßungen/Leader in die Zwischenablage und möchte diese dann wieder in die Zeichnung einfügen passen die Vorschau Proportionen nicht mit dem eingefügten Ergebnis überein. Eigentlich nur ein Schönheitsfehler aber es erschwert die korrekte Positionierung und die benutzung der Optionen wie skalieren, rotieren etc ...

Copy / paste: convert units

- copy: copy drawing unit to clipboard
- paste: convert pasted entities from clipboard unit to drawing unit

The coordiantes (in the lower left corner) freeze while mouse is moving. Updates as soon as the mouse is stopped.

This slows me down considerably. I have to stop, wait (too see the coordinates), move, stop, wait, move back, stop, wait, move, stop wait... This gotta be a bug?

MacOS 10.12.6

To have a tool that could convert splines to polylines would be useful, particularly for laser cutting work where a nice steady flow is needed, otherwise you can get an erratic ‘jumpy’ movement when cutting..
Maybe a ‘two’ step procedure;
1.First convert to arc/line segments.
2. Then if needed convert to a continuous polyline.

If you select (line) segments in a visible yet locked layer and choose “convert segments to polyline” (OG), the segments are deleted, but inserting the polyline fails.
So you can easily destroy locked layers by mistake which contradicts the idea of locking layers.

Select a polyline
Right click on it to show context menu
Set new position of start point
Tool stays active and does not properly terminate

Context menu does not show an entry to “Delete Node” for the first node of a polyline.

Using context Menu - Break Out Gap not working

Tools not working from context menu in paper space.

Context Menu suddenly stopped working ?

Yep, tried everything I know of, can’t get it back.

Unicode is inserted instead of symbol from line edit context menus.

Construction lines (’infinite’ lines).

Configurable icon size for top toolbars

Enable / disable individual snaps for use with auto snap.

Complex linetypes not shown in line type choice

Complex blocks: moving with drag and drop shows whole block as preview (slow)

Complex blocks: moving does not update spatial index correctly

I am following the instructions for compiling qcad from source

http://www.qcad.org/en/component/content/article/78-qcad/111-qcad-compilation-from-sources

I am using fedora 24 and qt4

git clone https://github.com/qcad/qcad

cd qcad
qmake-qt4 -r this step ok
make release this step fails

RSettings.cpp: In static member function ‘static QStringList RSettings::getPrinterNames()’:
RSettings.cpp:722:12: error: ‘availablePrinterNames’ is not a member of ‘QPrinterInfo’

   return QPrinterInfo::availablePrinterNames();
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~

RSettings.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString RSettings::getDefaultPrinterName()’:
RSettings.cpp:726:12: error: ‘defaultPrinterName’ is not a member of ‘QPrinterInfo’

   return QPrinterInfo::defaultPrinterName();
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~

Makefile.Release:2505: recipe for target ‘release/RSettings.o’ failed
make[3]: *** [release/RSettings.o] Error 1

This has been in for a couple of revisions now

RS.cpp: In static member function ‘static bool RS::compare(const QVariant&, const QVariant&)’:
RS.cpp:204:30: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘int’
     if (v1.type()==QVariant::Bool && v2.type()==QVariant::Bool) {
                              ^
RS.cpp:204:30: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’

g++ 4.8.1, Qt 4.8.4, Ubuntu 12.10.

If the order of blocks in a DXF R12 file is:
- block 1
- block 2
And ‘block 1’ references ‘block 2’, the import fails since ‘block 2’ is not defined at the time ‘block 1’ is imported.

A new toolbar that shows the last 5, 10 or so commands buttons used would be useful to do repeated tasks on a lot of drawings.

Hello,

since 3.17.1 (also on 3.17.2.0) it’s impossible to insert “@” in commandline, so it’s impossible to work with relative coordinates in all funktions like rectangle, line etc.
Please do a fast Bugfix, I need that functionality for workflow urgently

Regards

Andreas

Linux Mint 64bit
Cinnamon
Kernel 4.11.6

QCAD 3.17.2.0

Unable to use space bar to focus on command line to type in commands etc as in Version 2. Need to click in the command line first in order to do so - much easier to use press space bar!

Many times, after pressing the space bar to access the command line, accidentally an space character is added at the start of the line. It’s very difficult to see it.

The result is an error like this:

Invalid coordinate or distance ' @20,20'.

The request is for the command line parser to just ignore leading spaces.

Thank you.

@ sign cannot be entered into command line on German keyboards on which Alt-Q has to be pressed to enter @.

This is a Qt/Linux bug which interprets Alt-Q as part of a shortcut starting with Q.

Workaround: change shortcut of Reset tool from QQ to something else, not starting with Q.

Command line tools may not have permissions to create bat_log. Windows error:

Access is denied.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Could Not Find C:\Program Files (x86)\<tool>\bat_log

The -block argument should allow layout names instead of block names (which are not persistent for layout blocks).

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8347

Andrew,

Usage states:
“Default is to explode everything into points, lines, arcs and circles”

In this Forum Topic 10358 you explain to use an exclusion list:
“dwgexplode is geared towards exploding everything. You’d have to provide a list of all entity types that are acceptable (i.e. don’t need to be exploded)”

Your example list includes the entity type ‘Splines’.
Marking splines entities as acceptable or not contradicts that they are never exploded.

But in the code itself is stated:
“explode texts to splines, arcs, lines”

TTF text is indeed exploded in mostly splines and some arcs or lines if that is appropriate.

All depends on the intended behavior ...
Related forum topic:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10767

Regards,
CVH

Speziell gedacht für den Mobilen Einsatz wie z.B. auf einen USB-Stick um bei wechselnden PC Einsatzorten immer wieder die einmal gemachten Einstellungen für QCad benutzen zu können.

Siehe auch hier:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?p=5888#5888

Crash when launching QCAD with -quit option:

./qcad -quit

When opening or closing QCAD the command line isn’t staying active.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4235&start=15

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4235&start=15