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I have file /home/test/test.dxf . When i try open file from terminal (qcad test.dxf), i have warning “File not found”. When i write full path (qcad /home/test/test.dxf), the file opens.

Without any selection.
Entities on a locked layer can be selected after choosing:

Asumed wrong
- Modify DI
- Modify B2
- Modify D3
- Modify MT

Questionable
- Modify RM
- Modify CH
- Modify RN Less severe
- Modify OF
- Modify OH
- Modify SS

Regards

Re-entering dividing problem from  FS#1757 

Divide the poly selecting near segment 1 at the segment crossing.
> A new node is inserted on the crossing and made start and end node.
Divide the poly again selecting near segment 2 at the segment crossing.
> no division appears to be done.

One can’t divide the second segment at the crossing

Presumed intended behaviour like  FS#1750 

Regards

Not served with the degration to ‘Suggestion’  FS#1759 .
Demanded closing  FS#1759  & re-entered

Locking entities (by layer) to avoid selection,eg. nearby,very close by or on the same spot, does not have the intended influence.

Asumed wrong:
- Modify DI
- Modify B2
- Modify D3
- Modify MT
These 4 need a single entity to be selected and selection of a locked entity is allowed.(=questionable)
The action will allways leed to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)

Questionable:
- Modify RM
- Modify CH
- Modify RN
These 3 need a pair of entities.
RM: Selection of a locked limiting entity is allowed (=questionable), enity to trim not.(=correct)
The action will trim unlocked entities to the locked limiter.(=questionable)
CH & RN: Selection of a pair of entities is allowed.(=questionable)
Trimming if ‘trim’ is on will not occur because locked and leeds to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)
The creation of the bevel or rounding on an active locked layer will not occur because locked and leeds to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)
The creation, except for polyline segments (because locked themself), on an active unlocked layer will be done.(=correct)

Less severe but still questionable: (because these don’t necerally act on the locked entities themselves)
- Modify OF
- Modify OH
- Modify SS
OF: Selection of a locked base entity is allowed.(=questionable)
The preview is casted only if the active layer is unlocked.(=correct)
The creation is only done on an active unlocked layer.(=correct)
OH: Selection of a locked base entity is allowed.(=questionable)
Selection of point references from entities on locked layers is allowed.(=questionable)
The preview is casted only if the active layer is unlocked.(=correct)
The creation is only done on an active unlocked layer.(=correct)
SS: Selection of point references from entities on locked layers is allowed.(=questionable)
Strechting is only done for unlocked entities. (=correct)

Win 7 32 bit QCAD 3.20.1

Ofsset of a base-line with arcs results in massive ammount of errors.
Most of them occur as a cluster of very tiny segments and are part of the offset. (zoom far in at the red circles)
Mostly they occur where the offsetted arcs should merely be trimmend pairwise.
Some occur as detached entities or as detached strings of entities very near the offset (strings not documented).
Spooks occur at opposite site when base-line is not closed.
360° curls can occur with R = Offset.
Null-entities may occur (not documented, hard to find and not able to copy).

The base-line is checked and sound and has mixed tangentially or not tangentially connected arcs.
Offsetting the mother base-line of the base in the file has similar effect but not all and/or different ones.
Also encountered with offseting polys from fonts.
Used to define pocket paths for CNC.
Detected because the CNC driver will not accept Self-crossers, Null-entities or open ends depending on the settings.

Work arround is to explode and select small entities but this does not solves the issues.
1) Choosing the tolerance large enough will detect small segments that should stay.
2) Recombining will generate new ones at the place where the main segments remain crossed.
Cleaning up the paths is a daunting process with some thousand segments for several offsets.

I assume this has an infuence on the CAM part of QCAD too unless the offset method is different.

On print mode, the arrow not appear in the dimension

Quit Menu Item disabled after opening preferences.

System: OSX 10.13.6
Qcad version: 3.21.2.0

How to repeat:

1. Open QCad
2. Open preferences dialogue “QCad Pro → Preferences”
3. Close dialogue
4. The menu item “Quit QCad Pro” is now disabled. See attached screenshot

Repeatability: 100%

“Drawing Preferences / General / Linetype / Scale of linetypes matches the scale of each viewport” is checked by default for new drawings, however the option is not applied until you open the “Drawing Preferences / General / Linetype” screen and click OK – no need to change anything, just opening the screen and clicking OK is sufficient.

formatValue returns “0” instead of “+0” for negative values that round up to 0 with the configured decimals.

1. Search the Tool Settings for “View” and you will only find “Overlays” without the submenu information.
2. Check View manually without a search will provide the submenu information.

Switch “Overlay” Toolbar to visible below:
View/Toolbars and Widgets/Toolbars/View/Overlays, place the Toolbar in GUI, restart QCAD and the Toolbar is back to invisible.

Create and insert a block with entities on layer “0” and layer “1”.

Switch off layer “1”.

Auto zoom zooms to block boundary of all entities, including those on layer “1”.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6336

File > Bitmap Export does not export non-plottable layers.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=6364

Win7pro Qcad Pro 3.22.1.2

In property editor
properties of an Ordinate Dimension

Without Show Z
DefPoint is displayed in order YX?

With Show Z
Origin is displayed in order XZY?
DefPoint is displayed in order YZX?
LeaderEndPoint is displayed in order ZXY?

Regards

(sorry for duplicate task, cannot remove it now)

It would be nice if QCAD spit some kind of warning message when trying to render a layer with a name that doesn’t exist (and perhaps render nothing), rather than silently rendering an empty image. :D

See https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6453

“Help→Check for QCAD Pro Updates” fails to discover new version. Tested on OSX and Linux versions.

If I create a dxf in Pro and open it in CE (or vice versa) the block order can change strange and a new Layout Block is occasionally added. Looks like dxf version (R15 etc.) doesn’t matters.

Versions:
QCAD Pro 3.24.2.0
QCAD CE 3.24.0.0

FlexPainter works in the Pro version of QCad but not in the Comunity one.
If it’s not supposed to works in the latter, maybe, it would be better to remove it from the menu (Misc > Script Examples > Mathematics).

See the steps to reproduce in the attached drawing.

QCADpro 3.25.2.1 / win7pro 32 bit / 4GB / 1e generation i7 2.6Ghz / HDD GeForce GT 520

The method PE casts the clipboard on individual hatch segments.
Hatches should be considered as a single complex entity not allowing certain actions.

Discovered while:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&p=30008#p30008

Not that it matters: In doing so the scaling is off too.

Regards,
CVH

From this Topic:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7818

Trial 1 doesn’t gives the intended result.
Trial 2 includes manual altering back and forth the Format field what gives the intended result

Regards,
CVH

QCAD Professional

Version: 3.25.2.4 (3.25.2.4)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Nov 18 2020
Revision: 40f4475
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

Orphan Hatches (without a *.pat file installed) are no longer visible in a viewport

Topic: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7830
Original topic: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7340
File: #2 https://qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=2063

Regards,
CVH

QCAD Professional
Win installer 32bit
Version: 3.25.2.4 (3.25.2.4)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Nov 18 2020
Revision: 40f4475
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

With the attached file:
Viewing Layout1
Changing ON/OFF or Frozen state of layers in the Layer List

The view doesn’t update immediate.
Selecting an entity: Yes
After QQ Yes
Switching to another Application and reverting the focus back to QCAD: Yes
Using zoom / pan or the Zoom functions: No
Changing the display modes: Yes
Starting an action: No

In the Application Preferences>Draw>Text dialog, when first opened, the Uncheck all and Check all buttons are not disabled if the Show font preview in font controls check box is checked. If you click on the Use reduced selection of fonts check box twice the buttons become disabled.

That would ease this task:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8000

Correct surface area included.
CVH

QCAD Professional
Win installer 32 bit
Version: 3.25.2.13 (3.25.2.13)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Feb 12 2021
Revision: cad2d36
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

Andrew,
While enhancing DrawFromCSV: Forum Link.
I had a peek at the new command line tool: dwg2csv

I would never come up with 115 columns.
That wouldn’t be efficient to generate entities from.
Although this way it is very complete and one could use specific lists to filter.
One downside is that the ‘-list’ switch return is far too vast for the windows command line.

Remarked that:
Only the first alphabetically custom property is listed under:
QCAD:Line & QCAD:Reference (columns 114-115).
And that the last encountered is persistent for all entities that follows.

Maybe this originates from a multiple entity selection ...
... what also retains the last encountered custom properties in the property editor.
Should I add a seperate task for that?

Also had an exception thrown:
Debug: dropped global XDATA (no res buf): “ViewportCenter”.
Discarted that as this very basic test drawing hasn’t even a Viewport.

Regards,
CVH

Added: Snippet from DrawFromCSV code (merely a test case)

CSVcomma/semicolon
Offset;50;50
Point;39,789355;-0,815325;+[Custom;Reference:101];
Point;38,49526;4,014304;+[Custom;Reference:102;Line:56]

The two points, and only those two points, are casted with custom properties
QCAD|Reference|101
QCAD|Reference|102 & QCAD|Line|56

Added: The dxf file
Added: The csv file (change to the comma/semicolon style)

QCAD Professional
Win7 installer 32 bit
Version: 3.25.2.13 (3.25.2.13)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Feb 12 2021
Revision: cad2d36
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

In the file provided one would expect *VARIES* in the property editor under custom properties when selecting 2 or more entities.
The key list is reduced to what keys are common to the multiple selection. (Here 3)
The values displayed are inconsistent depending the selection.

Select All » 3 custom properties of line 3
Select the 3 vertical » 3 custom properties of line 2
Select the first vertical and the diagonal » 3 custom properties of line 1
Select all but the first vertical » 3 custom properties of line 3
And so on ...

Regards,
CVH

I’d like to change the f5 shortcut from rotate counter-clockwise to move/copy.

I started with a fresh QCAD3.conf

In the preferences window: general: tool settings

First time I remove f5 from rotate counter-clockwise qcad crashes.
Second run it seems to work.
I add the shortcut f5 to move/copy and restart.
The shortcut doesn’t work. And tool settings has a notice that there are conflicts.
When I change it to f3 it works.

btw the shortcut column don’t show any shortcuts. See screenshot.

When I use poly.appendVertex(vector, bulge) the polyline is finally created with NAN widths

This, while the signature explains that bulge, width1 and width2 default to zero.
https://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/developer/class_r_polyline_entity.html#a9ee706e50d6cc267fc84a85b7c81d5e6

Regards,
CVH

Andrew,

Reading:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?&t=8286

Can you update addSimpleText() as Text.Width is fixed =100

What is the noTextWidth value?

As far as I can detect ...
PrintPreviewImplPro.prototype.addDecorations uses value 1.
CrankWheel.js uses value 1.
ExText.prototype.beginEvent uses value 2.
ExDrawFonts.prototype.beginEvent uses value 1.
Counter.prototype.getOperation uses QCAD.ini or default zero.
TextAlong.prototype.getTextData usses the width of the textData from the dialog.

Regards,
CVH

Insert block with multiple instances of the same attribute definition (same tag).
Attributes combo box shows multiple entries for the same attribute.

If a file is opened whose filename contains an ampersand, the filename will be rendered correctly in the application titlebar, but the tab bar and the Window menu will not display the ampersand.

If, however, the ‘alt’ key is pressed, the ampersand will result in an underscore appearing beneath the character immediately following it in the filename string. This applies both to the titlebar and the Window menu.

Interestingly, this can be “exploited” by a user to quickly switch between tabs by pressing ‘alt’ and the character which follows the ampersand simultaneously. Likewise, a user can swap between windows using the Window menu in a similar fashion, by first pressing Alt+W, then Alt and the same key as before.

The expected result is that the ampersand is rendered, the underscore is not rendered, and the ‘alt’ key shortcuts don’t work.

It would appear that this is a simple case of failing to properly escape the ampersand in filenames before passing the filename string to various Qt methods.

The parsing for the -min-lineweight option of dwg2svg is broken, only -w or the undocumented -minlineweight options work.

This is due to a typo in the Dwg2Svg.js script around line 225:

      properties["minLineweight"] = getArgument(args, "-w", "-min-lineweight");
      if (isNull(properties["minlineweight"])) {
          properties["minLineweight"] = getArgument(args, "-w", "-minlineweight");
      }

This should be:

      properties["minLineweight"] = getArgument(args, "-w", "-min-lineweight");
      if (isNull(properties["minLineweight"])) {
          properties["minLineweight"] = getArgument(args, "-w", "-minlineweight");
      }

Note the case minlineweight vs minLineweight.

This has the consequence that the value parsed form -min-lineweight is always replaced with the value from -minlineweight, which is usually undefined.

Since the short option -w is parsed in both cases, it is not affected from the bug.

Polyline from segments (OG):

The StatusTip reads:
“Create polyline from existing, connected line and arc segments”.

The CommandPrompt and LeftMouseTip both read:
“Choose line or arc segment or polyline”.

The tool let us pick 4 types of entities:
... A line, an arc, a polyline and also a spline entity.

If the picked entity is not one of these 4 types we get the warning message:
“Entity is not a line, arc or polyline.”

The tool prepends/appends 4 types of entities:
line, arc and polyline entities and also spline entities approximated by arcs.

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate if the tool mention all 4 types?

e.g.
StatusTip:
“Create polyline from existing, connected lines, arcs, polylines and splines”

CommandPrompt, LeftMouseTip:
“Choose line or arc segment or polyline or spline”

Warning:
“Entity is not a line, arc, polyline or spline.”

Regards,
CVH

Please refer to:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&p=35080#p35080

Can this be implemented as a GUI metod?
Two feature requests: See  FS#883 ,  FS#1449 

Regards,
CVH

Hi Andrew

The Icons are missing on the Quick Modify Toolbar..

Cheers
John

QCAD/CAM
Version: 3.27.1.0 (3.27.1)
QCAD.org
Build Date: Dec 13 2021
Revision: 2726424
Qt Version: 5.8.0
Architecture: x86_64
Compiler: gcc 4.8.1

PS Also missing on windows version 3.27.1
See Forum Post below.
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=9220

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=9274

OS: Linux, Mint 20 Cinnamon 4.6.7, QCAD 3.27.8

According to: https://www.qcad.ch/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=3944 it should be possible to do Alt+Click on overlapping lines to bring up a small context menu to allow resolving the selection ambiguity. In the current version of QCAD I find it necessary to do Ctrl+Alt+Click.

Andrew,

I don’t seem to be able to locate the ‘Draw Order’ sub-menu of the Modify menu.
Reported version 3.27.6 and 3.27.8 (I use them side by side)
Tested on Win7 32 bit and Win10 64 bit.

I am aware that MF & MB were relocated out of the Modify menu.
Two additional PRO tools were added and all four were listed in a sub-menu.
(MO: version 3.21.3; MC: information missing in changelog)

MF, MB, MO and MC are displayed in the Modify Toolbar, in the Modification Tools panel and in the Tool Matrix.
This is even more curious because DrawOrder.init() only initiates DrawOrder.getMenu();
All three DrawOrder.getToolBar() & DrawOrder.getCadToolBarPanel() & DrawOrder.getToolMatrixPanel() are ruled out.

DrawOrder.getCadToolBarPanel() lists WJ as shortcut QKeySequence but that will bring up the Projections Tool Panel.

In the QCAD Reference Manual (menu Help > Reference Manual) the ‘Draw Order’ icon list is only the Modifying Tools icon.
For all four the tools the manual list up: Menu: Modify > Draw Order > ...

Under App.Prefs. > General > Tool Settings MF and MB are listed but not in a sub-menu like for example “Detection“.
Seemingly under Modify but they remain visible when Modify is collapsed.
MC and MO are listed lower than Help when this is collapsed.

I thought I understood how to implement menus and tools.
All this makes me doubt whether I had understood it in its entirety.
Could you elaborate in a few words why the menu fails but the Toolbar and Panels work even when these are excluded ...

Regards,
CVH

Andrew,

For the dutch translations:

- The tooltip for the close icon of a tab is “Close tab”

“Sluit tab”.

- When the drawing was changed the confirmation dialog second option is “Discard”

“Verwerpen” or “Niet opslaan”.
... Reading several discussions the latter is the better translation.

- Found in the Drawing Prefs and also used in the App.Prefs (DIMLUNIT):
> Bewerken
.> Tekeningsvoorkeuren
..> Bemating
...> Bematingsvoorkeuren
....> Tekstformaat
.....> Liniaire bemating

This must be “Lineaire bemating”

Regards,
CVH

Related topic: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=91&p=43078#p43076

Reason:
LaserBase.js should not only make CamPlungeRate and CamPlungeRate_Label invisible, but also set a default value, such as zero.

Temporary fix: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=91&p=43078#p43078

hello. if i use the tool on my own drawing, no problem, but on an element coming from the library, the blue selection square appears, it moves but the chosen shape doesn’t follow. i’ve tested several ways and even by creating a block. cordially

bonjour. si j’utilise l’outil sur mes propre dessin, aucun Souci, mais sur un élément de venant de la bibliothèque, le carre de sélection bleu apparait, ce déplace mais la forme choisi ne suis pas. j’ai teste plusieurs manière et même en créant un bloc. cordialement

See attached.

In the “layer list” header qcad uses a pencil icon for “edit layer”.
But the exact same symbol means something different just below.
In the layer list the pencil seems to mean “current layer”, and it not clickable,
though the eye icon next door is.

In short: it’s confusing that clicking the pencil in the layer list does not, say, edit the layer.