QCAD Bugtracker

This isn’t a real task. You should close it and start opening some real tasks.

Take over settings from old, already installed QCAD versions, if possible.

Inside the application preference dialog:

• save settings (asks for a name)
• restore settings (picked from a list that contains all so far saved settings and some presets)
• export settings (to a file)
• import settings (from a file)

Export / import could be useful for companies to synchronize settings.

Provide context menu that shows “Change preferences”

1. opens the preference dialog
2. shows the appropriate page

E.g. for

• library browser (to set library sources)
• graphics view (to set colors)
• ruler (to set drawing unit)

OpenSUSE / Ubuntu / Kubuntu: After the first start, the property editor window is (unless the layer list) floated.

A single drawing has an array of options regarding dimension font-size, printout-scale etc. It would be nice to also save Quick SVG Export settings, as can be specified in the Advanced Export Dialogue or in the Application Preferences Dialogue, with each drawing.

It is common practice in MDI apps to use the title of the active tab for the main window. Right now this is always “QCAD”. It would be better if it reflected the name of the drawing in the currently active tab.

When I save a view for print i like that wiew remember the layers open and closed.

This feature could be improved with remember print scale, dimension text size and page size

It would be nice if one could not only change the icon size of the widget panel but also the icon size of the tool bars.

Choose number of copies when using ‘snap with distance to end’.

This might make sense for certain tools only.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1643

Edit–>Application Preferences–>Load/Save–>Templates

click Add, then Cancel ⇒ enabled Down button ⇒ click Down ⇒

Uncaught exception at C:/Program Files/QCAD Professional\scripts/Widgets/DirectoryList/DirectoryList.js:72: Error: QListWidget::insertItem(): could not find a function match; candidates are: insertItem(int row, QListWidgetItem item) insertItem(int row, String label)

• SEGFAULT when trying to add custom string property to a block reference

back trace:

Thread [1] 5622 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	malloc_consolidate() at 0xb50470e8	
	_int_malloc() at 0xb5048743	
	_int_realloc() at 0xb504a2d3	
	realloc() at 0xb504bbd3	
	qRealloc() at 0xb535a864	
	QVectorData::reallocate() at 0xb53c78ac	
	0xb58ddc9f	
	0xb5a3f96e	
	0xb5a361fd	
	0xb5a3989f	
	0xb5a39b1a	
	QRegion::operator+=() at 0xb5a3b283	
	0xb5acf62c	
	QWidgetPrivate::syncBackingStore() at 0xb58ca7e2	
	QWidget::event() at 0xb58daf74	
	QMainWindow::event() at 0xb5d2c6d5	
	RMainWindowQt::event() at RMainWindowQt.cpp:624 0x8e86f7d	
	QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper() at 0xb5871d7c	
	QApplication::notify() at 0xb5875b64	
	QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() at 0xb547215b	
	QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb5473457	
	QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb547363d	
	0xb54a2344	
	g_main_context_dispatch() at 0xb4aee509	
	0xb4aeed10	
	g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4aeefce	
	QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents() at 0xb54a2741	
	0xb5932a55	
	QCoreApplication::processEvents() at 0xb54738e9	
	0xb6930965	
	QScriptEngineAgentPrivate::atStatement() at 0xb6bc297b	
	0xb6a41232	
	0xb6a8d39a	
	0xaa2d721d	
	0xb6a423e3	
	0xb6af06e0	
	0xb6ac201e	
	QScriptValue::call() at 0xb6bd2e67	
	REcmaShellPropertyEditor::updateGui() at REcmaShellPropertyEditor.cpp:1,183 0x8d3b975	
	RPropertyEditor::updateFromDocument() at RPropertyEditor.cpp:226 0x8fb3f7d	
	REcmaShellPropertyEditor::updateFromDocument() at REcmaShellPropertyEditor.cpp:111 0x8d370ba	
	RMainWindow::notifyPropertyListeners() at RMainWindow.cpp:245 0x8f9de71	
	RMainWindowQt::event() at RMainWindowQt.cpp:568 0x8e86eb7	
	QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper() at 0xb5871d7c	
	QApplication::notify() at 0xb5875b64	
	QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() at 0xb547215b	
	QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb5473457	
	QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb547363d	
	0xb54a2344	
	g_main_context_dispatch() at 0xb4aee509	
	0xb4aeed10	
	g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4aeefce	
	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	
	0xb083e0f4	
	0xb6a44262	
	0xb6a445f7	
	0xb6bb0f92	
	QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
	RScriptHandlerEcma::eval() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:790 0x87d5a26	
	RScriptHandlerEcma::doScript() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:786 0x87d591f	
	RScriptHandler::init() at RScriptHandler.cpp:31 0x8fbbbc2	
	main() at main.cpp:256 0x87cf40a	

Select line tool (Line from two points).
Click once to start line
Click again to end line
Now press escape.
Line linking to mouse remains until mouse moved.
Should disapear when escape is pressed to show that the line has been cancelled.

With Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC, in the Property Editor the entries are aligned at the bottom and not in the center. The strange is that in your screenshots on the site everything is correct (http://www.qcad.org/img/qcad3_mac.png). Add a picture for the problem.

In the 2.2.2 version was possible to suppress the display keycodes in menus. You can also restore it in version 3?

See attach.

If in the file’s name I’ve “/” (for ex. 2012/02/10) QCAD substite with “:” (2012:02:10). Regard the file’s name in the tab of QCAD.

In the website → http://www.qcad.org/qcad3.html
lacks compatibility with Leopard 10.5.8 PPC. I chose QCAD for this ...

In the Application Preferences (but also in the Drawings Preferences) → Dimension → Default Dimension Settings → Label Format → Linear (and Angular) Dimension → Show Trailing Zeros, the example is wrong if the option is checked.

In the latest QCAD Community Edition source code (2.0.5.0-1-community), the wrong action is triggered for the “pa” keycode. Specifically, it triggers the basic draw line command. Here is the relevant code from qcadcmd/src/rs_commands.cpp, in RS_Commands::keycodeToAction:

  } else if (c==tr("li", "line")) {
      ret = RS2::ActionDrawLine;
  } else if (c==tr("pa", "parallel")) {
      ret = RS2::ActionDrawLine;

I believe this should instead be:

  } else if (c==tr("li", "line")) {
      ret = RS2::ActionDrawLine;
  } else if (c==tr("pa", "parallel")) {
      ret = RS2::ActionDrawLineParallel;

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).

Hi,
First of all, thanks for this wonderful product !

My issue : when I modify (at file level) some parameters like the number of decimals in cotations, or the linethikness of a calc, these modifications are lost after saving and reopening the dxf. It comes back to the default values. It is not the case for the colors for instance.

At your disposal for other informations.
Fred

Not a major thing in fact, but there is an error in the logo of QCad3.
Surrounded in red in the jpg.

Qcad3 have the feature to print in 3 ways: color, grey and black.

The missing feature is select some layers to preserve the original color in the black mode of print.

QCAD2 offered the user to specify in the program settings where these directories should be/go, and took the first one in each list as default; QCAD3 only offers to enter auxiliary library and template directories and has no provisions for defaults.

All associated data (scipts, templates, libraries, patterns, fonts) is stored under the program directory, exactly where it should not be. Windows 7 and higher default prevent modifying the programs directory by redirecting the writes.
An extra user-input during the Windows install process would be in order.

QCAD3 should offer the user to specify any and all data directories involved (including the auto save), and make it possible to specify a default for each.
This list could be initialised with the installation defaults, or default to the installation directories when empty.

Customer reports that TTF called “Magneto” is not shown properly.

The relative zero point mark appears on the print preview screen. I don’t know, if it also gets printed (my printer setup appears to be broken at the moment), but it does not get exported to PDF, so I guess it is only on the print preview.

On a side note, I think that the reset command (qq) should also clear this. The manual states:

The Neutral State of QCAD
Menu:    Edit - Reset
Keycode: QQ

After the start, QCAD is in its neutral state. That means that no special tool is active and QCAD waits for you to click a menu or tool button to start a tool and start doing something.

As there is no relative zero point just after startup, I think it should also not persist a qq.

While constructing around the lack of “Line tangent to a circle, perpendicular to a line” ( FS#881 ) which I hereby second :)), it struck me that it might be useful to have a tool that finds the center point of an existing circle/ellipse, or possibly more generally, the center point of an existing circular/elliptical arc.

I open anyting file dxf, the message pop-up : Grounded 0 recursive block references in blocks:

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2887&view=unread#unread

I am considering pushing the following diff:

--- a/src/core/RSPlatform.cpp
+++ b/src/core/RSPlatform.cpp
@@ -205,25 +205,6 @@ int RS::getCpuCores() {
     cores = sysinfo.dwNumberOfProcessors;
 #elif defined(Q_OS_UNIX)
     cores = sysconf( _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN );
-#elif defined (Q_OS_MAC) || defined (Q_OS_BSD4) || [...]
-    nt mib[4];
-    size_t len;
-
-    /* set the mib for hw.ncpu */
-    mib[0] = CTL_HW;
-    mib[1] = HW_AVAILCPU; // alternatively, try HW_NCPU;
-
-    /* get the number of CPUs from the system */
-    sysctl(mib, 2, &cores, &len, NULL, 0);
-
-    if (cores < 1) {
-        mib[1] = HW_NCPU;
-        sysctl( mib, 2, &cores, &len, NULL, 0 );
-    }
-#elif defined(Q_OS_HPUX)
-    cores = mpctl(MPC_GETNUMSPUS, NULL, NULL);
-#elif defined(Q_OS_IRIX)
-    cores = sysconf( _SC_NPROC_ONLN );
 #endif

(truncated list to manage size)

I see that most of this was put in there as a kind of a note-to-self originally, however _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN is implemented by every realistically possible targets anyway, so for all practical purposes, this is dead weight.

A couple of questions remain, though:

• #ifdef Q_OS_WIN32 should probably be Q_OS_WIN, so as to include win64 as well.
• Assuming the real purpose for this function is to determine how many parts a particular task is to be split into in the future, if and when QCAD gets the need to split expensive tasks among multiple CPUS, “core” probably shouldn’t be static - CPUs are hot-pluggable today, and while one probably doesn’t do that on a laptop, it’s not unfeasible in, say, a VDI environment.

Thoughts?

It would be a nice feature to be able to create an isometric projection of a bitmap.

This can be done as is in QCAD today, but a quick convenience UI bit would be much appreciated.

Suppose you are working off a bitmap image (transcribing old scan, or you got your apartment’s floor plan like this, because, uh, what tenant needs DXF). It has dimensions markers and everything, but fat chance it’ll be to actual CAD scale after importing.

So, to bring it to scale, you measure between two tick marks on the scale, compute ratio based on measurement and what’s written on the dimension line, and do a scale operation (you can also have QCAD compute the ratio by using math expression, whatever).

That works fine.

A purely just for convenience function to do that would be much appreciated: pick two points, enter what the actual distance between them is, poof bam, appropriate scaling operation is applied.

As a twist, there could be some other bitmap skewing options, like “the points I’ve selected are on a horizontal/vertical line/at an angle of X degrees, then the bitmap would also be applied this transform.

Font file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4339492/Entypo.dmg

Text not rendered:
ℹ
(\U+2139)

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3065

Optionally create an (anonymous?) block for the polygon and the text.

This one is purely cosmetic, instead of square reference points would it be possible to have the choice of either square or round with size?

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

Would be nice to have them removed.

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.

- enter the text A1 and format the “1” as subscript and with a different font size.
When you click OK, it will be something like: AH3.571431;
I have to manually edit it (source tab) to AH3.57143;S^1;

QCAD has a lot of features and buttons, probably more that the autocad I’ve been using. Therefore the learning curve is too slow. It would be a great boost for the program to have the possibility of having an Autocad skin, and it will attract many new users.

It’s wrong URL Librarie on QCAD 3.10

Actually the register is C:/name/etc (wrong write to acces a new library) could’you change the code for write a good URL ( C:\name\...) it’s very important to use QCAD

Open drawing and Auto Zoom will also use invisible Blocks for the displayed Zoom Factor.

Only getter that’s missing it in dl_attributes.h

Hi,

Using the Copy and Move command the [ ] Use current layer and attributes’ is confusing.

Perhaps [ ] change copy /moved set to current layers and attributes. is more suitable.

I experience long start delays. I’ve trace the problem to the fact that I have autofs automounting my home directories. However, an strace of qcad-bin shows the following:

execve("/opt/ribbonsoft/qcad/qcad-3.12.6/qcad-bin", ["/opt/ribbonsoft/qcad/qcad-3.12.6"...], [/* 87 vars */]) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x1eca000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fd6194ad000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/x86_64/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/x86_64/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/x86_64", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Since there is no “andrew” user here, I have to wait for automount to timeout which takes about 2m and is rather annoying.

After each update, I add a dot before the ~user/opt folder (and in the program launcher) created by QCAD to unclutter my file manager’s appearance. Would be easy, I think, to make the installer put the program directly in ~user/.opt, and nobody would miss that folder while browsing through daily used files.

And what about installing the program as root, so all users of a computer could use it without personal installs, and only personal setting files created by users would be kept in ~user/.opt/qcam.

Jean-Claude

There is no “X/Y of position” and “Y/X of position” snap function in Tool matrix.

If I launch the CE edition / do nothing with the empty default drawing and then try to terminate QCAD an unexpected warning pops up:

Do you want to save the changes you made in ‘Untitled 1’ ...

Hey - I haven’t change anything and there is nothing what needs to be saved ...

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!