QCAD Bugtracker

It would be useful to have an additional line tool that could be drawn tangent to an existing circle and perpendicular to a line.
see screenshot for the idea:

If we use a dash line type and set the overall linetype factor to 100 on a drawing (plan of 20metres x 20 metres approx) and then come to print it on A3, the linetype is not being scalled back from 20metres to suit the page extents.

So instead of lots of dashes we see just 2 strikes across the page. For now we set the linefactor low, which is good for printing, but now appears a solid line in the display unless we really zoom in.

When I open a saved document, the “Line Spacing Factor” it return to 1.

Tried several times, same result.

Carlo Couvert

Line tangent to ellipse with start point on the minor axis of the ellipse produces wrong result.

Line type scaling

See:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1599

In QCAD 2, line type patterns are scaled according to the print preview drawing scale, also in model space.
This is not the case in QCAD 3 and possibly needs a different solution.

Possible solutions:

• two different LTSCALEs for model space and print preview
• same behavior as QCAD 2

In V3RC3 (on Windows 7 -64)

In property editor lineweights and line types choices are unclear, e.g 0.00mm is reading as ... (3 dots only)

Also the lineweights are reading as m not mm!

Line types are very unclear too!

Regards

Clive

My QCAD setting for “Decimal Points” is “dot” instead of “comma”.
(Application Preferences, General, Coordinate Format, Decimal Point: Dot ‘.’(Default))

The new Line2PEx tool will only accept a comma - if I use a dot it will be automatically replaced by a comma.
The displayed angle in the drawing will use a dot.
No red Text font warning for using an invalid value.

I used a screen-shot with an additional coordinate option to make it a bit clearer:

I have a dimension layer on a drawing. I make only that layer visible and select all dimensions. Then from the property editor I set the Linear Factor. The dimension values change as expected, and I can print the drawing and have the new dimension values show up as expected. When I save and close the drawing, then re-open it, the dimension Linear Factor does not retain the value I gave it. I saved my drawing in the current R27 DXF format.

Sometimes the popup widget that lets the user choose the alignment point for positioning the rectangle does not close when the user clicks the desired point.

QCAD community edition.

I use this program to generate CAM data. Whenever I save a the same text in different layers - one of the layers saved has broken lines. I have to spend hours extending and trimming each segment to reattach them.

Duplicate problem:

New file
Add some text
Explode into lines
Add layer
Add same text to same location on new layer
Explode into lines
Save file

Very often I need to draw a tangent line through a point on the arc or circle. Currently I solve this by drawing the perpendicular in that point and then the perpendicular to that perpendicular. As this problem is solvable I set the severity to “Low”.

But I think linetangent should be able to draw such tangents. And I think this tool should firstly ask for arc or circle and only then for a point. Currently linetangent firstly asks for a point.

Line type rendering with drawing unit != mm

Linetypes should be sorted in linetype combo boxes.

I just installed qcad-3.7.0-pro-linux-x86_32 on my up-to-date debian sid system.
When I choose the “Pen” to be visible in the toolbar, the line type is not useable at all, because the drop-down menu is far too narrow.
After deleting QCAD3.conf the drop-down menu appeared wide after the first startup of QCAD. After the second startup it appeared narrow again.
Got the same result on another 32bit installation, a 64bit installation, all debian sid/kde and the windows version 32bit (only tried with wine).

The scale of the linetypes in model space not view same as in the print preview.

The preference

Edit > Drawing Preferences > General > Linetype > Scale of linetypes matches the scale of each viewport

should take the individual line type scale of entities into account.

All linetype patterns are displayed too large.

Reported in forum 2 times:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=9887&p=40202&hilit=bugtracker#p40202 https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=9916&p=40298#p40298

Most likely the issue exist since QCAD Vers. < 3.25.2.0 (3.25.2)

Import line type scales from QCAD 2 to display the same way as in QCAD 2 if possible.

See:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1599

Linux Mint - 64

I need to laser cut some dashed circles and in order to do this I need to change the lineweight to 0.00mm (this is the lineweight I use for all laser cutting), however when I do this the result I get is not acceptable.

Using a lineweight of 0.05 is fine but our laser cutters will only read a lineweight of 0.00mm.Normally I would use a linetype of continuous and would be no problem, but for this particular job I need to use the smallest Dash option here!
For now I can get around this problem but it would be good to be able to choose this lineweight and linetype choice at some stage.

I tried exporting a 297x210mm drawing to png with 2970×2100 pixels, lines had linewidth 2mm and resulting lines in png had only a few pixels (instead of the expected ~20 pixels).

Dependency possibly not needed?

See forum thread:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1902

• not reproduceable
• Linux vostro 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
• openSUSE 11.4 (i586)

1. new drawing
2. add new layer
3. save as DWG
4. File → Drawing Preferences → crash

/home/martin/workspace/rsframework/debug/qcad-bin [23943]	
	Thread [8] 23992 (Suspended : Container)	
		__kernel_vsyscall() at 0xffffe424	
		poll() at 0xb4f9703e	
		g_poll() at 0xb4b010bb	
		0xb4af0c46	
		g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4af0fce	
		QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents() at 0xb54a2741	
		QEventLoop::processEvents() at 0xb547131d	
		QEventLoop::exec() at 0xb54715aa	
		QThread::exec() at 0xb535e8ed	
		0xb544da4b	
		0xb5361b52	
		start_thread() at 0xb5177b05	
		clone() at 0xb4fa1d5e	
	Thread [7] 23954 (Suspended : Container)	
	Thread [6] 23953 (Suspended : Container)	
	Thread [5] 23952 (Suspended : Container)	
	Thread [3] 23950 (Suspended : Container)	
	Thread [2] 23946 (Suspended : Container)	
	Thread [1] 23943 (Suspended : Signal : SIGPIPE:Broken pipe)	
		__kernel_vsyscall() at 0xffffe424	
		send() at 0xb517f5b8	
		0xacd498b2	
		httpFlushWrite() at 0xacd49c21	
		0xacd4bcb8	
		cupsSendRequest() at 0xacd62470	
		cupsDoIORequest() at 0xacd62bc7	
		cupsDoRequest() at 0xacd62f0b	
		0xacd41d7f	
		cupsGetDests2() at 0xacd435d5	
		cupsGetDests() at 0xacd439a3	
		0xb5ad5153	
		0xb5a12133	
		0xb5a28344	
		0xb5a2b78c	
		QPrinter::init() at 0xb5a2d4ee	
		QPrinter::QPrinter() at 0xb5a2f01f	
		QtScriptShell_QPrinter::QtScriptShell_QPrinter() at 0xb02c9e29	
		qtscript_QPrinter_static_call() at 0xafe863ba	
		0xb6bd7f88	
		0xb6ac7c97	
		0xb6a91114	
		0xa7b3a4fd	
		0xb6a44262	
		0xb6a445f7	
		0xb6bb0f92	
		QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::ecmaInclude() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:1,015 0x8799f2d	
		0xb6bd813c	
		0xb6ac1f68	
		0xb6a9164c	
		0xa7b8e0f6	
		0xb6a44262	
		0xb6a445f7	
		0xb6bb0f92	
		QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::ecmaInclude() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:1,015 0x8799f2d	
		0xb6bd813c	
		0xb6ac1f68	
		0xb6a9164c	
		0xa7b91f81	
		0xb6a44262	
		0xb6a445f7	
		0xb6bb0f92	
		QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::ecmaInclude() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:1,015 0x8799f2d	
		0xb6bd813c	
		0xb6ac1f68	
		0xb6a9164c	
		0xa7b91c9f	
		0xb6a44262	
		0xb6a466c9	
		0xb6a8db4a	
		0xa7b9465c	
		0xb6a423e3	
		0xb6af06e0	
		0xb6ac201e	
		QScriptValue::call() at 0xb6bd2e67	
		REcmaShellActionAdapter::beginEvent() at REcmaShellActionAdapter.cpp:149 0x8c5981a	
		RDocumentInterface::setCurrentAction() at RDocumentInterface.cpp:290 0x8ef0094	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::createActionDocumentLevel() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:858 0x8798950	
		RGuiAction::slotTrigger() at RGuiAction.cpp:607 0x8f0e11f	
		RGuiAction::qt_metacall() at moc_RGuiAction.cpp:86 0x8f58cb1	
		QMetaObject::metacall() at 0xb5478c83	
		QMetaObject::activate() at 0xb5489134	
		QAction::triggered() at 0xb5869d99	
		QAction::activate() at 0xb586b48f	
		0xb5d550c0	
		0xb5d5b485	
		QMenu::mouseReleaseEvent() at 0xb5d5d65d	
		QtScriptShell_QMenu::mouseReleaseEvent() at 0xb0272feb	
		QWidget::event() at 0xb58da629	
		QMenu::event() at 0xb5d5aec4	
		QtScriptShell_QMenu::event() at 0xb027621b	
		QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper() at 0xb5871d7c	
		QApplication::notify() at 0xb58772c4	
		QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() at 0xb547215b	
		QApplicationPrivate::sendMouseEvent() at 0xb5875152	
		0xb59068fc	
		QApplication::x11ProcessEvent() at 0xb5905d26	
		0xb5932f04	
		g_main_context_dispatch() at 0xb4af0509	
		0xb4af0d10	
		g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4af0fce	
		QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents() at 0xb54a2741	
		0xb5932a55	
		QEventLoop::processEvents() at 0xb547131d	
		QEventLoop::exec() at 0xb54715aa	
		QCoreApplication::exec() at 0xb5473701	
		qtscript_QCoreApplication_static_call() at 0xb08dc4b7	
		0xb6bd813c	
		0xb6ac1f68	
		0xb6a9164c	
		0xb100d9e9	
		0xb6a44262	
		0xb6a445f7	
		0xb6bb0f92	
		QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::eval() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:743 0x8797fbc	
		RScriptHandlerEcma::doScript() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:739 0x8797ea0	
		RScriptHandler::init() at RScriptHandler.cpp:31 0x8f3a8ca	
		main() at main.cpp:176 0x8792007	

if possible, extend create_makeself script to create a tar.gz in addition to the executable installer, so we have both in the end.

This is not the only menu that didn’t work properly: moving the mouse cursor on the lower arrow made the list moving up; but is impossible to make the list moving down when I put the mouse over the upper arrow.
The only workaround (time consuming but effective) is to select the first upper paper size: selecting again the menu I can see tha current selection in the second position: I select the one above it; and so on, until I find what I need.

The script in the application directory only works when called from within this directory like that “./qcad”. I suggest below alternative, that can be called from any place, as above and also with an absolute path, eg “/opt/qcad-3.0.0-tp1-prof-linux/qcad”:

#!/bin/sh

EXE=${0##*/}
DIR=${0%$EXE}
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${DIR} ${DIR}/qcad-bin $@

–
Can only post anonymously, Peter

Fedora 21 - kernel 3.18.5-201.fc21.x86_64
QCAD exits immediately. This started with version 3.8.0.
3.7.7 is ok with respect to startup.

/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/qcad
Debug: RCamScriptsPlugin: init
Debug: RDwgPlugin::init: trial
Debug: RDxfPlugin::init
Debug: RHelpPlugin::init
Debug: RProScriptsPlugin::init
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/linetypes/metric/qcadiso.lin”
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/linetypes/imperial/qcad.lin”
Debug: TIMER: 107 ms - “loading add-ons”
Debug: TIMER: 567 ms - “initializing add-ons”
Warning: QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection ‘library_browser_connection’ is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
Warning: QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name ‘library_browser_connection’, old connection removed.
Debug: Rebuilding DB...
Debug: checking for QCAD Pro updates...
Debug: no updates available
Debug: “DWG” : disabling (> 100 runs)
Warning: WidgetFactory: File /home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/scripts/TrialExpiredDialog.ui does not exist
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: “TypeError: Result of expression ‘dlg’ [undefined] is not an object.”
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Debug: “Pro Tools” : disabling (> 100 runs)
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: “TypeError: Result of expression ‘dlg’ [undefined] is not an object.”
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Warning: At least one uncaught exception:
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Debug: “<global>() at -1”

qcad-trial-bin requires gcc-4.4.4, but I have gcc-4.4.5, so QCAD fails to start.

QCAD should require major GCC versions (gcc-4.4.x), and not revisions.

Affected OS: OpenSUSE, Ubuntu

1. File → New
2. File → Save As, name: “simple” (without extension, file type is DWG by default) → file is save as DXF instead of DWG

behavior under Mac OS X seems to be correct (file dialog adds extension based on chosen filter)

Printing segfaults under Linux after the printer dialog is shown.

On any version newer than 3.18.0 the LinuxCNC options under “Configuration” drop-down no longer work under CAM→CAM Legacy Export. As you can see in the attached screen shot, the menu line which would normally contain LinuxCNC is blank. Also, when LinuxCNC (Inch) and LinuxCNC (Millimeter) are selected, none of the Global or per-Layer options are available, it just says “No Global Options” and “No Layer Options” as you can also see in the screen shot. I think this is because both of these are derivatives of the main LinuxCNC configuration which is not working.

I have confirmed this problem with fresh installs (using the installer) on both Windows 10 and Debian testing

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=4249

Edit–>Application_Preferences–>Load/Save–>Templates: Click in add button....Crash

Loading QCAD 3 layer names with international characters fails in QCAD 2.

e.g. æøå

For example for ru language missing files on github:

scripts/Block/InsertBlockItem/ts/InsertBlock_ru.ts
scripts/Block/InsertScriptItem/ts/InsertScript_ru.ts
scripts/Block/ToggleBlockVisibility/ts/ToggleVisibility_ru.ts
scripts/File/NewFile/ts/New_ru.ts
scripts/Layer/RemoveLayer/ts/Remove_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/BlockExamples/ts/BlockExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/CommandLineExamples/ts/CommandLineExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/DrawExamples/ts/DrawExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/IOExamples/ts/IOExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/LayerExamples/ts/LayerExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/ListenerExamples/ts/ListenerExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/MathExamples/ts/MathExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/QtExamples/ts/QtExamples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Examples/ts/Examples_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscBlock/BlockFixNames/ts/BlockFixNames_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscBlock/BlockListAttributes/ts/BlockListAttributes_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscBlock/BlockListExport/ts/BlockListExport_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscBlock/ts/MiscBlock_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDevelopment/DevDebug/ts/DevDebug_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDevelopment/EcmaScriptShell/ts/EcmaScriptShell_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDevelopment/ts/MiscDevelopment_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/Cross/ts/Cross_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/LineBoxJoint/ts/LineBoxJoint_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/LineDove/ts/LineDove_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/LineRadicalAxis/ts/LineRadicalAxis_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/LineSimilarityAxes/ts/LineSimilarityAxes_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/PointPole/ts/PointPole_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/PointPowerCenter/ts/PointPowerCenter_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/ts/MiscDraw_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/XLineHorizontal/ts/XLineHorizontal_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/XLineVertical/ts/XLineVertical_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscIO/ImportPoints/ts/ImportPoints_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscIO/MolImport/ts/MolImport_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscIO/ts/MiscIO_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscModify/ArcChangeDirection/ts/ArcChangeDirection_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscModify/SplineToLine/ts/SplineToLine_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscModify/ts/MiscModify_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscSelect/SelectByHandle/ts/SelectByHandle_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/MiscSelect/ts/MiscSelect_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Tutorials/CommandLineTools/ts/CommandLineTools_ru.ts
scripts/Misc/Tutorials/ts/Tutorials_ru.ts

The same problem for all languages.

Property ColorSettings/BackgroundColor can contain localized color name in DXF.

Implement layer locking

Lock relative zero tool

New install of qcad 25.

Warning: RPropertyTypeId::generateId: property already initialized: 7RObject : “” : “Invisible” Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: RColor vs. int
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: int vs. RColor
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: Unable to detect a web browser to launch ‘https://qcad.org/doc/qcad/3.25.0/reference/en/index.html’ Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: RColor vs. int
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: int vs. RColor
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
/data/installation/qcad 12:02 > /usr/bin/qcad
Warning: RPropertyTypeId::generateId: property already initialized: 7RObject : “” : “Invisible” Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: RColor vs. int
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: int vs. RColor
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: RColor vs. int
Warning: old and new property values for property “DIMCLRT” have different types: int vs. RColor
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js
Warning: custom default action class not found: scripts/Pro/DefaultActionPro.js

Tool that trigger long operations (e.g. rotate with complex entities, angle 1, 359 copies) can sometimes not be terminated after the operation is finished.

When I press ALT + Left mouse click to select overlapping entities - afterwards the icons in the context menu become lost until I restart QCAD again!

Hi Andrew,

I am trying to ‘HP pen plotter’ a test file, created by AutoCAD 10.

Saving the in QCAD loaded file goes fine. However, the tool table is empty now.

Trying to make a new tool 1 Errors it exists already but does not show up in the tool table.

What do I miss?