QCAD Bugtracker

A new tool to align text around an arc would be good.

I seem to have a persistent ‘saving’ feedback message in the status bar, always happens after executing the save command from menu or button.

It doesn’t seem to affect performance in any way and it is the same with any drawing I work on.

Zoom to selection not working.

See attached screenshot and test file- selecting longer line fails for zoom to selection, but selecting smaller line works?

Setting to show Large Cross Hairs fails, even after a restart.

Hi!

I just installed QCAD v3.7.5 and it works like a charm.

Then I installed the DoveTail-script (http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/download/file.php?id=623) and after that QCAD won’t start anymore.

This is the output on the command line in Linux:

Debug: RDwgPlugin::init
Debug: RDxfPlugin::init
Debug: RHelpPlugin::init
Debug: RProScriptsPlugin::init
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/opt/qcad-3.7.5-pro-linux-x86_64/linetypes/metric/qcadiso.lin”
Debug: shape found: “ZIG”
Debug: shape found: “BAT”
Debug: shape found: “TRACK1”
Debug: shape found: “BOX”
Debug: shape found: “CIRC1”
Debug: shape found: “RIGHT_ARROW”
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/opt/qcad-3.7.5-pro-linux-x86_64/linetypes/imperial/qcad.lin”
Debug: TIMER: 67 ms - “loading add-ons”
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: “TypeError: Result of expression ‘action.addToWidget’ [undefined] is not a function.”
Warning: “<anonymous>()@/opt/qcad-3.7.5-pro-linux-x86_64/scripts/File/../EAction.js:1180”
Warning: At least one uncaught exception:
Warning: “<anonymous>()@/opt/qcad-3.7.5-pro-linux-x86_64/scripts/File/../EAction.js:1180”
Debug: “<global>() at -1”

Don’t know whether that is a bug in the script or in QCAD, so I am reporting it here.

Christian

Hello!

I would like to suggest a small, but yet important improvement to usabilty.

When adding a new layer the currently selected layer should be default for parent layer.

Currently a new layer is by default a top level layer, and so the user has to select the parent layer for each sub-layer, again and again.

Thanks,
Christian

I think Husky may have found a bug, please see topic:

http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3239&p=11643#p11643

@Husky, hope you don’t mind me adding this for you.

Aligned dimensions are not displayed correctly after loading. Definition point and text position are set to NaN.

Paste Along Entity, now that we have this great tool it would be good to have a button for it also, to sit alongside the existing paste button.

The new tool “Paste along entity” is very useful! But I work mostly in mechanical engineering and would like to see more options to determine where it has to start with the first insert item.

Screenshot:

1. That is how it works right now - no chance to get it started on both ends of an line.

2. If I need to have my items also on the ends I have to use additional the normal “Paste” function.

3. If I could tell the “Paste along entity” that there is a start and end “Base” dimension then I’m a big step further.

I could tell the tool that it has to start at “0” or at “25” and the rest is just regarding the calculation. Correct?

However - you need many times in mechanical engineering etc. a hole pattern which will start at:

0,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,0

or

25, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 25

It would be very nice to have this also in combination with the “Paste along entity” tool

Please see last few posts here:

http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3227&p=11777#p11777

1. Modify > Divide
2. choose circle or ellipse
3. choose first dividing point
4. exception occurs

(I’m running on FreeBSD, but that was not an option in the selection for Operating System)

When importing a SVG file in version 3.7.5, it qcad turns polylines into polygons.

I’m attaching a trivial .SVG file showing this, it should *not* render as a rectangle,
but as a “rectangular upper case C”.

And many thanks for making good quality CAD software available to the FOSS community.

Just installed (31 jan 2015) on Win 7 64 bit. Two bugs are immediately apparent...

 bug 1 : Network drives are not listed in the file open or import dialogs - no way to access files stored on networked drives. (This is not a windows configuration error- all my other apps work perfevtly ok.)

 bug 2 : After about 5 minutes of initial exploration immediately after installation a window pops up... Trial Expired: The trial add-on CAM is no longer active (restart required).

Note: I do have neither of these problems on Windows XP (32 bit) which I installed yesterday

A regression? In my script I draw stacked dims (depth d):

    var c = RVector.getAverage(a, b); // Zentrum der Messung
    var dim = new RDimRotatedData();
    dim.setExtensionPoint1(a);
    dim.setExtensionPoint2(b);
    c.x = a.x + d * 50 + ( d > 0 ? 50 : -50 );
    dim.setDefinitionPoint(c);
    dim.setRotation(Math.PI / 2);

Curiosly, this would work in 3.7.5 but fail in 3.7.7: the DefinitionPoint would be ignored then, but only in vertical ones, not in horizontal ones!

More curiously still: The DIM gets drawn right as soon as I move the setRotation call before the setDefinitionPoint call!

PS: the debugger proved very helpful again :)

Files which don’t contain any entities cannot be loaded (bulk load of spatial index library fails with exception).

With dxflib, QCAD cannot open any file with Chinese file name or path name, it popups a “Important Error” dialog.
But the writing (”Save As” command) with Chinese file name or path name is of no problem.
Does it mean dxflib can only handle single byte characters file name/path name?
WinXP, QCAD 3.8.0

When paper unit being change to other values (other than default “Milimeter” or “None”), the paper borders are wrongly displayed in print preview.
The attachment screenshot images is for example.
1, Edit →Drawing Preferences →Drawing Unit →Pager Unit, choose the value “Centimeter”.
2, Edit →Drawing Preferences →Page →Pager →Paper size, choose the value “ISO A4”.
3, File →Print Preview, the displayed print borders are wrongly displayed as a very narrow rectangle, which is obviously wrong.
Thanks for any help.
Reeve

Starting with 3.7.7 I noticed, that some parts in drawings are missing: affected are some circles and (some) closed splines. These were created with earlier releases of qcad3.

Attached a file that has two circles, only one of them showing at first (drawn in 3.8.0); set line-display “screen” (NL command) to see the other (drawn earlier). From the dxf serialization (dxflib or teigha does not matter) I do not see where that should stem from or how to fix this.

At zero degrees there is a little dot though, and also, only certain dashed line-types “hide” the (outer only) circle.

Filed under Ubuntu, not tested on windows etc.

Info arc area specified on drawing is no where near the same as shown in properties editor.

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”

Snap to “Intersection manual” is only working in dependency on Line/Polyline orientation.

Two Polylines (not each other crossing): doesn’t works.

One Line, one Polyline (not each other crossing) works only in dependency on entity orientation.

“Paste Along Entity”

- Menü/Bearbeiten,
- Applikationseinstellungen/Werkzeugeinstellungen,
- QCAD Benutzerreferenz/Bearbeiten,
- Werkzeugleisten/Symbol, Alt text,

“Recent files history size” Applikationseinstellungen/Zuletzt geöffnete Dateien

“Default lineweight for new layers” Applikationseinstellungen/Layer/Layer hinzufügen

“Hide internal blocks” Applikationseinstellungen/Widgets/Blockliste

- Draw polyline
- Modify > Offset (through Point)
- Choose option to offset whole polyline
- Click polyline
- Click point

No offset polyline is created.

Complex linetypes not shown in line type choice

Yes - it is only cosmetic but it is also stealing space in the Toolbar.

Would be nice to have them removed.

I compile git/trunk on FreeBSD, and the print dialog does not come up.

I tried the obvious fix in scripts/File/Print/Print.js:

  if (RS.getSystemId()==="osx" || RS.getSystemId()==="linux" || RS.getSystemId()==="freebsd") {

But that didn’t work.

Maybe the test is better if reversed ?

  if (RS.getSystemId()==="win") {
      // slot 'dummy' is never called:
      Print.printDialog.open(this, "dummy");
  } else {
      Print.printDialog.exec();
  }

(PS: This should be “Operating System = FreeBSD” but that’s not in the pull-down menu)

I have spent a couple of days banging my head against this.

If I print the attached drawing in landscape mode to my printer, the drawing is not rotated, and the paper only contains ~2/3rds, oriented the wrong way.

If I print to PDF-File, open in gv(1), and change the size field from “Automatic” to the chosen papersize, same thing happens.

If I print to Postscript-File, open in gv(1), change the size field to the chosen papersize, the rotation is correct.

Many PDF viewers will autodetect missing rotations and other such stuff, and you will never notice a mistake like this, but gv(1) does it the “old-school” way and shows the mistake.

The crucial bit of the Postscript output is:

  /pageinit {
  % 210 *297  mm (landscape)
   90 rotate 0.060000000 -0.060000000 scale } def

Something similar is missing in the PDF and the output to the printer.

PS: This is also on FreeBSD, but I doubt that matters at all for the “print to file” operations.

When rounding the fourth corner of a rectangle, with trim checked or unchecked, instead of the corner being trimmed to a radius, the rectangle itself disappears leaving only the corner with the rounded off portion intact.

I would like to see the installer not stop because there is already a version of QCAD installed. This is the only product that I have used in recent history that requires the prior version to be uninstalled before the new version can be installed.

Please consider removing this requirement and let the installer do an update.

Thanks
Jim

Draw radius dimension
Switch dimension settings to use “Architectural ticks” Radius dimension is still displayed with arrow

When making an offset of a polyline with ‘round join’ enabled, and making a small offset of 0.0015 inches, no arcs are made, only coarsely interpolated line segments.
Further tests show that this is true until the offset is increased 0.040 inches; then the offset begins to create arcs.

The creation of arcs in a polyline offset with such small distances did work in QCAD 2.x.

- Create drawing in unit other than Millimeter (Centimeter, Inch, etc)
- Project part of the drawing (Isometric, Orthographic, ..)
- Scale of result is off

This is not the same as  FS#782 .

Is it possible to have referenced fonts embedded in the exported PDF files somehow? Sort of like producing PDF/A (not really, but at least with the fonts referenced being included)?

I have played around a little with QPrinter::setFontEmbedding(), but it didn’t really produce any results (pro or con). I am not sure it can even be done, as looking around there are numerous references (rather questions and RFEs) for creating PDF/A-3 format PDFs with Qt, but I am yet to bump into a resolution. I almost have a feeling that generating PDF/A-1 files is possible, but I have not found any definite guidelines or ways to that either.

The use case is obvously when you don’t have a particular font installed on the system you are printing your designs on, for example.

Default settings (Application preferences) for “Printing colors” shows no effect on a “Grayscale” or a “Black and white” setting.
Regardless the setting a new drawing is always presented with a “Full color” adjustment.

26 April 2015

I have the Library browser set up per instructions from website. The following is about as good an explanation as I can come up with for now.

When I open the program the software keeps trying to update the library index at start-up regardless of whether “Update search index on start-up” is checked or unchecked (this happens when there are items installed into the library and show up in the browser window). However, if I have no library components installed and open the program the software does not try to update the index and immediately opens the main program window (when the index at start-up is unchecked). I can use the manual method to update the index at that time. However after doing that, same thing happens. When I close out and restart the program again the software will want to update the index before the main window opens up (with the index at start-up unchecked).

I have uninstalled the program and reinstalled it again to no avail. It still does the same thing. Therefore I have to wait around 30 sec to 1 minute to wait for and update of the index depending on what I have in the library browser at any one time. Most times I open the program I don’t need index updating as there are no new items to add to the library.

I have some blocks with multiple attribute lines to name equipment represented by the block. When an attribute is left empty and printed to paper (and/or SVG) the print out is as expected. Alternatively when I print to PDF QCAD (Qt) seems to put a phantom period (.) where the attribute is.

This is prevalent on Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21.

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3394

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3395

Printers do not appear in QCAD unless you modify the default cups to create a /etc/printcap file

https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3247

Is a work around

This is the only application on the platform this has to be done for.

I am guessing it affects any Linux with the printcap not set.

Preview always shows maximum number of previewable rows instead of configured number of rows.

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

Windows paths are expected to be consistent, but aren’t (slash / backslash mixup) which can lead to QCAD thinking that a source was removed even if it wasn’t.

- using the Polygon (2 points of side) tool create a triangle based on points 0,0 and 10,0
- using the 3 Tangents tool create the incircle of the triangle
- measure from each vertex to each point of tangency

Instead of getting 5 as a result for each you get either 4.99999993, 5.0000001 or 5.00000007.

Dongxu Li says:

“the problem is that inscribed circle is generated correct up to relative precision of 1e-8, while the tangential points are test at a precision level of 1e-10. Therefore, the inscribed circle actually intersects with one line.”

https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues/523

I have marked this as critical because I work with tangent circles a lot, and need these measurements to be accurate.

Linetypes should be sorted in linetype combo boxes.

Anonymous blocks (with names starting with *, imported from other software) can be mixed up on writing.

- Select line
- Modify > Explode

see:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3466

Windows XP, QCAD Pro 3.9.4.0 (3.9.4)
Multi-page drawing, 3 columns on american tabloid landscape (11 inch x 17 inch).
Current view is top right quadrant of page 2, Print current view prints top left quadrant of all 3 pages. Last full print was all 3 pages in full.

It would be great to be able select a print style (Page size, printer), and apply it to a batch of .dxf files to do a batch print of a multi-drawing job with separate files. I used this feature a ton in ACAD in my previous job.