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1505 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | New feature - use info tools with scale | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When using the info tools, like the point to point measure it would be useful to be able to select a scale as well.
For example, when I scale a drawing say to 1:20, when working on the scaled drawing I can measure accurately with the measure tool in 1:20 also, without having to keep refering to the 1:1 drawing.
Regards
Clive
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1621 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | New Drawings in Draft Mode | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=5001
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792 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | New 'Match' properties tool | Assigned | |
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Task Description
To add a new ‘Match’ properties tool.
For example, I have a large drawing with lots and lots of entities on various layers and I want to select some entities (say 500 or more) which are all on different layers and change all these selected entities to match the properties of one other particular entity - but, but I want the ‘Matched’ entities to remain on their own layers.
OK, of course I can use the property editor for this and this is fine in most instances but I would first need to determine the the layer data for the properties of the entity I would like to match to (Color, Line weight and Line type) in the first place and then I need to remember these attributes in order to change things in the property editor in order to change all of my selection to match!
As I say mostly the above procedure would be fine to use but for convenience it would be great to have a new tool to do all this for me and cut out a few steps in the process.
A new ‘Match’ properties tool procedure could be something like this:
1. Select Match properties tool.
2. Select all entities to be matched.
3. Select entity to match to.
4. Tick or leave un-ticked - move to same layer.
5. Complete process.
* Actually, while writing this I`ve just thought of another useful addition which could be added to the Info tool set, ‘Entity’ properties info! Example - click on Info > Entity Properties and click on the entity in question and then the properties are displayed without going to the layer data for this! Just an idea ;)
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293 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | multi-select for blocks | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be nice if one could select multiple blocks in the block list at once (holding ctrl or ctrl+shift). Main purpose would be to delete them if they are not needed anymore. If possible, the same applies to layers.
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833 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Move number of copies into Options toolbar | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The Number of Copies (Delete Original, Keep Original, Multiple Copies) and whether to use the current layers attributes should be found in the Options toolbar of the active tool.
This way the option would be set before or during the operation (preview?)the popup window afterwards would be obsolete.
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822 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | move Freehand Line to Polyline Tools | Assigned | |
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Task Description
In order to be more easily editable after creation Freehand Line should produce a Polyline and should be moved away from Line Tools to Polyline Tools
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2537 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | More variants for converting element types could be use... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I don’t actually have any use for this idea currently, but am just posting it here to document it for consideration.
Basically, it occurred to me at least a few more useful conversions between shapes besides the existing ones could be useful.
For example:
Converting lines into axially aligned rectangles of a specified “radius” or “diameter” (with an option to delete or keep the original line geometry).
An option for the above (lines –> rectangles) that causes the intersections between the resulting rectangles to be automatically removed, like a kind of “automatic/magic wall creation tool” based on laying down lines instead of rectangles and then converting via this tool.
Converting circles/ellipses and rectangles back and forth between each other via their bounding volumes. It seems reasonably likely that people will sometimes want to convert circular design elements into rectangular ones and vice versa (e.g. deciding a rectangular column makes more sense than a cylindrical one and vice versa).
Converting any arbitrary selection into a corresponding bounding circle (not rectangle, which already exists) of sufficient size to enclose all points in the selection.
Basically, QCAD already has tools for converting shapes with operations that are a natural fit for the existing geometry, but has less tools for converting to entirely different geometry, but such uses could actually still be very useful potentially!
It seems likely to be common enough as a use case to merit inclusion, rather than just using scripting.
I don’t have any pressing need for these and I know that I could script them to create them if I really wanted to.
These are relatively minor ideas. I’m just putting this out here as more ideas for making this already wonderful software even better. :)
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2233 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | More selection options to select sheets for nesting | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I’m often in the situation that I have to select for nesting 50+ sheets. Currently is only a Shift + left mouse click selection possible. It would be nice if QCAD/CAM could get for the nesting / sheet selection additional a mouse rectangle area selection.
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1676 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Modify > Explode: explode lines / arcs with line patter... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4333
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836 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Merge different Offset tools into just two | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Merge Parallel Line(with distance), Concentric Arc(with distance), Concentric Circle(with distance) and Offset(Polyline) into one generic Offset with distance tool that if possible also works for ellipses and splines.
Do the same for the “through point” tools so that there also is just one Offset through point tool.
The Offset tools could be located with the Modification tools.
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1982 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | measure DIN 1356 | Assigned | |
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Task Description
To measure in the format DIN 1356 , Architect It is hard work to do this manual input with meta characters.
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604 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Measure and record X,Y coordinates tool - add to info ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Feature request See topic - http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2015
Just a thought, but one that could be useful for machinists in particular - a measurement tool that can snap to a point as per usual, but then just displays the drawing coordinates in X and Y. This could be expanded to the dimensions tool set, so that you can click on a point and print the coordinates next to it.
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1371 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Matrix - Modify, missing Flip Horizonatal and Vertical ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Matrix - Modify, add Flip Horizonatal and Vertical tools
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1005 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Making use of mouse buttons configurable | Assigned | |
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Task Description
According to the help, one requires a middle mouse to pan. Since few standard mice have middle buttons, this is a poor choice for this all important function. The default should be the right mouse button when ever the mouse is placed in an open area with nothing else to select. That way right click can still be used to invoke a pop down menu when ever the mouse is placed over an object that might have a need for pop down menu options. Additionally, the Pan mouse key should be alterable and selectable from a Preferences option, since if one does have a three button mouse, we should not prevent a user from employing this hardware if they have it. The same might be said for all mouse buttons to allow the user to configure the mouse operation to that which is most comfortable and efficient for their tasks.
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2530 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Make it possible to control the tooltip delay time when... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I noticed that every time I move my mouse from the main working canvas (schematic area) to the tool buttons on the left sidebar there is a delay before the first hover tooltip (which displays the tool names and hotkeys corresponding to each tool button) displays.
The tooltips remain fast (near instant) after that initial hover, but it it would be nice if there was an option field for controlling how long the tooltip delay is for that initial display delay.
Currently, on my Windows 10 machine, it takes about 1 full second for the tooltip to show, which may not sound like much but feels like a lot when trying to work faster.
Here is a link to the related forum discussion, which also discussed a different (and I’d say more useful/effective) idea as well.
I’m creating two separate Bugtracker submissions for that one thread though, to keep things clean.
Perhaps I should have created two separate forum thread for that to begin with.
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2226 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Very Low | macOS: support proxy icon | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Support proxy icon in title bar. This can be used to move the file to another folder using drag and drop.
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1229 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Load last project at start | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When starting QCAD it will open a new, untitled, page causing me to close that, click through the saving option to discard changes and then load up the project i’m working on. It would be nice to have the option for the program to start with the last used project. I checked the application preferences to see if this option was already possible as it’s common with other applications but couldn’t find it. In ‘Startup’ (the obvious place for it) there was only an option for the splash screen.
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1373 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Line From Angle - additional option to select exisitng ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Often I find myself clicking on an existing line to determine the angle from the property editor, then copying and pasting this info into the angle field, it would be so very useful to have an additional option in the ‘Line from Angle’ tool to be able to pick an existing entity which would automatically register and fill in the angle for me,then all I would need to do would enter the length required.
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719 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Library Browser additional Function ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be nice to get:
In the Create Library Item task → “Save as” a remember Function for the last chosen Path to save the Item ... or a default path what is the same like the settings in the Application Preferences. Right now you have to navigate again and again for every item what you will save in the same directory. If you have to save 20 items - it sacks
Also would it be nice for an easy “Clean up” to have the possibility to delete items directly in the Library Browser window. Right now you have to use extern Programs like the Windows explorer to move or delete items.
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1009 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Layer Order is Alphabetical vs the Order Defined Origin... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would appear that when QCAD imports a DXF, it reorders the layers into alphabetical order (at least when importing R2011). I have not tested this extensively but on other programs, the order is different from alphabetical. Ideally the operator should be given a choice to order the layers as exported (assuming the DXF format remembers that) or alphabetical. This is because a drawing may have a certain stack up of layers (like a printed circuit board) and then alphabetic ordering is not useful nor desired.
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1278 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Layer list: store layer state independently of parent l... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See: http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3755
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2340 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Layer List / Block List: Link minus icon to keyboard de... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Referring to Layer List / Block List: It would improve the workflow if the Delete key on the keyboard would be linked to the minus icon (Delete). The command ER is also ignored in both list.
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1701 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Layer List / Block List: add filter input | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add text filter for layer list, block list.
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1036 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Layer list - drop down menu option | Assigned | |
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Task Description
In the same way as the Pen tool has a drop down menu, would it be possible to have an option to configure the layer list in the same way. I am trying to create a bit more drawing space and it would be good if I could dock the layer list in the top of my window and only take up a single row space!
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628 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Improve workflow for entering tool parameters | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Provide keyboard shortcuts for options tool bar.
Under Linux, Windows Alt+Key shortcuts can be used. Mac OS X does not seem to support this.
See also suggestions at: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2053&view=unread#unread
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1844 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | HP/GL (PLT) import | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi Andrew
QCAD/CAM misses a hpgl.plt import. If gerber and G-code can, so should plt.
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787 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Hatch generator - plug in tool? | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Would it be possible to make a Plug in tool for a Hatch generator, so custom made hatches can be saved as .pat files?
I have a lot of up and coming future projects that I would like to make my own ‘custom’ hatches for.
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1826 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | guide lines when extending lines | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When using the SHIFT key while dragging the end point a perpendicular guide line is displayed (see attached screenshot). It would be very helpful if other guide lines with x=const. and y= const. are displayed when pressing SHIFT + ALT key together while dragging.
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1772 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Go back on right-click on shaded Tool button | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Right-click on the tools on the left-hand side of the screen brings you back in the hierarchy.
However, that does not work if you right-click while hovering above a button that that is shaded (inactive).
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601 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Für Berechnungen neu zu erstellende Elemente Werte von ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Es wäre schön wenn ich Werte wie zum Beispiel Längen von Linien direkt abgreifen könnte um diese weiter in Berechnungen verwenden zu können.
Beispiel: Ich habe eine Linie konstruiert wobei sich eine Länge y ergeben hat.
Nun möchte ich eine Linie zeichnen die 5 mal y sein soll.
Linientool → Wert 5* eingeben und y durch Auswahl mit der Maus von dem vorhandenen Elements übernehmen.
Natürlich könnte ich die Geometrie Info benutzen um den Wert abzulesen oder auch über die Zwischenablage zu benutzen. Ein abgreifen mit der Maus wäre aber schneller, direkter und wahrscheinlich auch mit weniger Fehlern (Human error) verbunden. Wahrscheinlich auch genauer da QCad, denke ich, mit mehr Nachkommastellen rechnet, oder?
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1332 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File > SVG Export: export DXF entity handles to SVG | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add handle attribute to exported SVG tags to identify exported DXF entities.
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1230 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File > PDF Export / SVG Export: export layers | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Dear Andrew, just in case you should ever run out of ideas for enhancements; As an advisor I sometimes get PDF files and recently, some CAD drawings contained layers, which is kind of nifty to reduce the clutter.
Sadly though, qprinter/qpainter seem to be unaware of OCG (Optional Content Groups, the PDF jargon for layers) at the moment, so my plea is for the back burner now. Probably in SVG though it can be done? Yet that is of a little less use, maybe…
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2378 | dwg2svg | Feature Request | Low | Export attributes on block references as namespaced XML... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
dwg2svg supports exporting the layer name (and probably others?) as namespaced XML attributes (`qs:layer`) which works well. However I’d like to export block attributes as well, as seen on the following screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/wUd0adE
(...so `ROOM_NAME` would become `qs:ROOM_NAME=”Eötvös terem”` on the respective XML element).
Thanks in advance.
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2398 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Excessive Autosave | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Autosave currently updates the backup file indefinitely regardless of whether the drawing has been modified since the last autosave. Request only update autosave following additional edits since last autosave.
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2287 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Very Low | Evaluate draw order for preference "Prevent white-on-wh... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The Application Preference setting “Graphics View - Appearance - Prevent white-on-white/black-on-black display” seems to be a global setting that doesn’t take the draw order into account. For example: With the setting enabled, it prevents creating a white hatch of a higher draw order on top of a larger, colored hatch with lower draw order (background). The preference does not seem to evaluate if the object is truly drawn as “white-on-white”.
With the preference enabled, setting the object color as “white” will set the “white” color label, but the object color actually stays black. Its hard to determine why it happens in that case.
Is it possible to let the global preference setting be applied to objects after evaluation of the draw order, and determine if the object actually is a true case of white-on-white?
My workaround: Disable the preference setting (I think it is default = on), and only enable it for ad-hoc checks of hidden and overlooked objects.
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1586 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Edit > Application Preferences: Use different color for... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add preference to use a single, configurable color for all locked layers.
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4879#p17953
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1920 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Very Low | Edit > Application Preferences: Add preference to disab... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=6447
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747 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | DXF import: dimension label | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add support for custom dimension labels created in 3rd party applications. Such labels may contain text that is stripped by QCAD.
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1542 | dwg2svg | Feature Request | Low | dwg2svg: add switch to show only given layer(s) | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Implement a command line switch to only show a list of given layers for dwg2* command line tools.
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1700 | dwg2pdf | Feature Request | Low | dwg2pdf: output multiple layouts | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add support to specify multiple blocks (layouts) to output (one per page).
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1824 | dwg2pdf | Feature Request | Low | dwg2pdf does not obey frozen layers in paper-space view... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
We currently have a paper-space using two viewports with different layers from the model-space frozen. Unfortunately in the pdf output the layers which are frozen show up. dwg2pdf should obey the specific frozen layer for each viewport
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1911 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | Drill Toolpath | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hallo Andrew
It would be more than conveniant, defining the drilling locations of the drill toolpath, by selecting a circle’s center point.
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1666 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Draw > Line > Relative Angle / Orthogonal: define lengt... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add option to define length (end point) using mouse pointer.
If reference point is “Middle”, extend line from middle in both directions to mouse cursor (?).
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=5205
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2337 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Distance information should be available in 2D and 3D | Assigned | |
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Task Description
As per https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=9089, I suggest to extend the distance information tools:
* show Delta Z (at least when any of the elements has Z information) * allow switching between 2D and 3D distance * maybe allow to show both * maybe change the text to distinguish between them (”Distance” → “Distance 2D/3D”)
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936 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Disproportional scaling of block references | Assigned | |
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Task Description
XP/32
... doesn’t works proper at circles and ellipses.
Circles: the scale works only proportional even though I have the options for x and y. Ellipses: The same but if I play around with the x, y fields it will freeze the scale possibility.
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622 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Disproportianal scaling of arcs, ellipses | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Support disproportional scaling also for arcs, ellipses, other entities, not only lines and polylines with only line segments.
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1510 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | dimensioning, rounded values | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Approximation value for dimensioning, i.e. for example: approximate to .5 measured valure 11.3456 > displayed value 11.5
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1698 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Dimensioning - add option to split dimensions | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Dimensioning - add option to split dimensions.
To have an option to split the extension lines if they run over other entities.
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1699 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Dimensioning - add option to insert text in the middle ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Dimensioning - add option to insert text in the middle of dimension.
To have an option to have text aligned in the middle of the dimension line, rather than above it.
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1697 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Dimensioning - add option for horizontal text alignment | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Dimensioning - add option for horizontal text alignment.
Basically an option in drawing preferences to align text horizontally instead of vertically.
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