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1567 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Add support for separate window | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi, for multi-screen hosts it would be very useful to have additional windows while running the single QCad instance. Other applications like Palemoon, Evolution, Gimp are providing that already. That would help a lot when working on multiple files and copying blocks between.
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2299 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Add support for multi line attributes | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Multiline attributes can contain linefeeds and formatting like MTEXT.
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1159 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Add preference for button option instead of drop down m... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
For some tools like the Horizontal or vertical line, it would be good to have button options (similar to infinite and ray line buttons) instead of the drop down menus.
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695 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Add more dimension arrow styles (e.g. dots) | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add more dimension arrow styles (e.g. dots).
See forum thread: http://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2185
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2164 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | Add ability to pan the 3D view with a modifier key and ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
With a Mac (and no external mouse) there’s no middle button so it’s not possible to pan the 3D view (that’s what they tell me in the forum). It would be useful if one could use command-drag or control-drag to pan around the 3D view.
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2192 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Add "Define angle using mouse cursor" to Move and Rotat... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The “Define annge using mouse cursor” of the Rotate tool would be useful in the Move and Rotate Tool
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1887 | dwg2bmp | Feature Request | Low | Add "-max-lineweight" option for dwg2bmp | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi there,
A friendly request to add the option to set a maximum lineweight for raster conversions via dwg2bmp.
Depending on the LW configuration of the CAD file, rasterization operations sometimes yield terrible results (see attachment). This would also mirror the similar “-min-lineweight” options available on “dwg2svg” and “dwg2pdf” (although not on “dwg2bmp”).
See also: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=6298
Thanks!
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1473 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | "Partial" circular/radial dimensions | Assigned | |
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Task Description
This is kind of related to FS#952, or rather a superset of it.
Consider the situation in the attached image. There is a perfectly good, albeit really shallow arc, making the radius somewhere in the vicinity of 600 millimeters, and the radial dimension being drawn accordingly.
Considering the other dimensions of the part, this is completely unusable, even to work with, really, but definitely so when it needs to be put on paper.
It would be nice to have some sort of “partial” (for my lack of a better word) radial/diametric dimensions where the dimension length can be adjusted.
Considering that this can be done with Leader, maybe a better (more generic) solution would be for Leader type dimensions to have options so they could automatically generate labels for various dimensions of a selected entity – sort of like having the Prefix/Tolerance/Scale options the other dimensions have, and have some additional fields there for selected entity and maybe dimension type (for example, radial or diametric for an arc-type entity).
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681 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | 'Plug-in' for Gear generator | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Feature request for a ‘plug-in’ for generating different types of gears, like - Ring, Spur, Sprocket, Rack, etc... etc... To produce 2D templates for all sorts of projects.
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1541 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | View > Zoom > Zoom In/Out: Make zoom factor configurabl... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4729
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1133 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | View > Add View: save layer state | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Save layer state (visibility) with each added view object (optional?).
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724 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Useless reference point entering when moving relatively | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi, this is a usability feature request:
If you want to move an object relatively to any point (e.g. by entering @x;y in commandline) it does’nt make sense to enter a starting reference point. Of course this is possible by clicking to any location on the screen. But it’s difficult to change between mouse and keyboard so often.
It should be possible to enter a “don’t care” or “any” reference point by pressing a keyboard shortcut (e.g. enter like in AutoCAD).
Thx
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779 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Turning detailed view on/off | Assigned | |
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Task Description
My system: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz and 8 GB of RAM and NVIDIA GT218 (GeForce 210)
For a normal drawing displaying it in all detail is a good thing and the performance of my quad-core system is more than adequate.
But I discovered (or rather experienced) that when putting a large collection of individual drawings of gears onto one big sheet (960 mm x 600 mm - preparation for laser cutting), the performance was so bad that I had to wait several seconds (>10 sec) for each step in the process of arranging all the parts on the layer.
Request: It would be a big help and performance booster if you could disable the detailed view of each part/layer and only draw a rectangle to visualize the outline of the part.
Please take this in consideration. Attached you find an example of how that could look like. (Actually when pasting a drawing from the clipboard you already do that.)
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784 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Turn text into hatched polylines | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Would it be possible to add a feature which turns selected text into solid fill hatched polylines?
That would make it possible to migrate the drawing from one computer system to another without having to worry whether the used font is installed on both systems, like when sending a drawing to a manufacturer for laser engraving.
Right now I can do it by hand, letter by letter, and that is a rather labour-intensive task.
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596 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Tool "Lengthen" mit "Total" erweitern oder .... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Eine oft Hilfreiche Zeit/Klick sparende Erweiterung wäre eine “Total” Option bei dem “Lengthen” Tool.
Aktuell ist es mit dieser Funktion möglich ein Element zu verlängern oder zu verkürzen um den Amount X. Der Referenzpunkt (von welchem Ende) kann bestimmt werden.
Die Erweiterung die ich mir wünschen würde wäre auch ein “Total” um ein Element auf eine bestimmte Länge zu bringen ohne einen Taschenrechner benutzen zu müssen. Referenz (welches Ende oder Mitte) sollte (muss) dafür wählbar sein.
Die Funktion “Property editor” stellt bereits über die Geometry Eigenschaften die Möglichkeit zur Verfügung einen “Total” Wert zu manipulieren. Leider bin ich aber hierbei nicht in der Lage zu bestimmen welcher Element Referenzpunkt dafür benutzt werden soll. Könnte ich die Referenz wählen (welches Ende oder Mitte) wäre auch dies dann durchaus akzeptabel
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708 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | To re-introduce Tile and Cascade window options | Assigned | |
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Task Description
To re-introduce Tile and Cascade window options like as before in QCAD 2.2.2.
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979 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Text dialog: insert special characters in simple text m... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The Omega button to insert special characters is only available in rich text mode. Make it available in simple text mode as well.
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1407 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Splines: add support for knot weights, start-, end tang... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Attached DWG/DXF files are incorrectly read by QCAD. They contain splines drawn using ZWCAD and saved as DWG/DXF version 2000. Above splines are polylines created with autolisp routine which converts spline to polyline, so you can see how splines should actually be drawn.
First spline is created with fit points: 2,2 4,4 6,2 Then copied and applied weight of 2 on central control point. Then copied again and applied weight of 0.5 on central control point.
Second spline is created with fit points: 6,2 8,4 10,2 with vertical start and end tangent. Then copied and applied fit tolerance of 1 for fit points.
Third spline is created with fit points: 10,2 12,4 14,2 with horizontal start and end tangent.
Fourth and fifth spline are correctly drawn by QCAD.
Link to bitmap (converted to png) export: External Link
Versions QCAD version: 3.13.1.0 Date: Mar 17 2016 Qt version: 4.8.4 Compiler version: gcc 4.4.3 Build Date: Mar 17 2016 Revision: Architecture: x86_64 OS: Linux OS version: Unknown
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1878 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Snap > Distances from 2 Points: snap to point with give... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=32&t=6211
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2338 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Show non-QCAD custom XDATA optionally | Assigned | |
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Task Description
QCAD (before version 3.27?) used to show some custom XDATA, e.g. tag 1000, even for application names that are not “QCAD”, which for me was useful, so it’s somewhat of a regression. (I think it was broken when selecting multiple items, maybe that’s why it was removed.)
I suggest to bring that feature back, but maybe show it only when a single element is selected if that’s easier.
(As a workaround/hack I guess it would be possible to rewrite the required information as QCAD compatible XDATA externally I guess.)
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566 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Shortkey for rectangle text rotation | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I would like to get a shortkey like ‘+’ to rotate text at 90° clockwise.
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1755 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Selecting standard rotation angles by mouse click for M... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
This would be nice. It will save a lot mouse - keypad changes for me.
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2448 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Scale lineweight display on model space | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Currently, the model space can display lineweights at scale 1:1 It’s very convenient when drawing small objects that will be printed at scale 1:1 : it makes it easy to anticipate the final aspect of the printed drawing. But this feature is unusable for architects or users who draw large objects.
Therefore, it would be very useful to have a factor to multiply lineweight display in model space. For example : if i know my drawing will probably be printed at scale 1:50, i set the value of the lineweight factor to 50. Then every line would be displayed 50x thicker in model space.
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1903 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Saving layer settings, e.g. visibility status, associat... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
In a medium complex drawing it may be too much details to have all layers in a drawing visible at once.
Instead a number of views would be created that saves not only zoom level and position but also what layers are visible and not (as appropriate for the purpose of that particular view). This is very cumbersome (to the extent it is not really realistic) to achieve today and requires a lot of duplication of both model and layers.
The advantage of adding this is the ability to have only one model (with multiple views) and avoid duplication of work and the risk of inconsistency inherent with many copies of the model.
As a further (and natural extension to this) would be the ability to used this functionality with view-ports to be able to create (possibly many) paper-spaces from a single model. This would however require view-ports to be aware of what view they are a window into. A single change in the model would then propagate to all defined view-ports and paper-spaces.
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2195 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Saved views include memory of block | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When saving a view, it would be great if the view also saved which block (model space, layout block, or any other block) that was active at the time the view was saved and when the view is later re-activated, the corresponding block would re-activate.
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2301 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Rotate preview on/off | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi,
I believe prior QCAD version 3.22.0.0 there was no rotating preview. The rotating preview shows the outcome regarding to the chosen center point. I know that it is also common for move/copy. However, for me it is very confusing and difficult to chose the correct center point for a rotation if I’m constantly been distracted by the most of the time overlapping preview of my selection. This said if the drawing is very detailed I have to zoom in extremely to be able to snap to the right entity. That wouldn’t be necessary without the preview. Additional rotate a large drawing selections will compromise the performance - CPU is going like crazy.
It would be nice to have an option to turn this preview on/off.
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2540 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Retain original handle when Hatch properties are change... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
When we alter about any property of a Hatch entity it seems to be recreated with a newer/higher handle. This doesn’t influence the drawing order in direct. But already changing the drawing order of a Hatch it is recreated as a new entity.
It starts to matters in drawing order when there are multiple entities with the same drawing order and that after save/reload. Entities with the same drawing order then receive a new drawing order based on the original but sequentially increasing based on handle.
Because a Hatch is recreated with a newer/higher handle each time a property changes it will thus always end up above the others with the same order even when the original was created earlier.
This is more pronounced when copying/pasting entities from a source to a target drawing. The original Hatch drawing order is retained but it will always be above existent entities with the same drawing order in the target drawing after save/reload.
Most other entities are probably just updated in situ. It is unsure to me at this point if merely updating a Hatch is even possible. And perhaps this is related to the addObject ForceNew flag what is false by default.
Regards, CVH
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2370 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Retain global width / segment widths when reversing pol... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
Changing orientation of a polyline with RV or by changing it in the Property Editor clears the global width value.
Single line pieces as polyline default to CCW. Still the global width is cleared when trying to set them CW.
I didn’t update since 3.27.0 but reading this topic I suppose it still is valid. Related: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=9362
Regards, CVH
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1027 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Rectangle with a 3 point determination ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Many times I’m faced with the situation that I have to use a rectangle related to other entities. Dimensions/Angle = unknown.
We have in QCAD a rectangle tool with a two point diagonal determination but this is limited to two points and it will only work in a horizontal and vertical direction.
My feature request is based on the idea to draw a rectangle with 3 points - regardless the angle.
1. First point: start
2. second point: determination of the first side (width?) and it will also provide the angle for the rectangle
3. third point: determination second side (height?)
I’m asking for an additional new tool? No - just as an option to the existing rectangle tool ...
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995 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Property editor: add 'edit block' button | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add a button to edit the block beside the block combo box that is shown when showing the properties of a block reference.
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1104 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Printing: Add support for page range | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When printing from the preview mode a standard Windows popup shows, letting me select the printer, number of copies and a page range. Unfortunately QCAD (or Windows) ignores the page range - it always prints all pages. So right now I always have to copy the parts I want to print, page them into a separate document and print that instead - even though I got all my stuff nicely lined up for printing on multiple pages.
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1288 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Print Preview Scaled Rulers | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Would be nice, if in print preview QCAD rulers would switch to paper dimensions. Chat here http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3793
After all, print preview is not just the drawing on white, isn’t it? Everything else should stay in drawing units. Just the rulers, maybe a preference?
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1172 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Print Preview - Add 'Place Paper Option' tool | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Often in print preview I need to move the paper around and position it with the ‘Move Paper Position’ tool, which is useful, but what would be an additional extra useful option would be a ‘Place Paper Here’ tool.
Then I could simply use this tool first and then use the ‘Move Paper Position’ tool afterwards to fine tune things!
If you look at the attached image you will see that in this students file they have got their drawing spread out all over the place:(
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519 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Press tab to access first control in options tool bar | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1867
Apparently this was possible in QCAD 2 due to the default behavior of Qt.
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1577 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Postfix for DIM / Remember last DIM Label ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi,
unfortunately I need to use from time to time different Units in a drawing. It works nice with the Scale possibility but to keep my drawing readable I need to label then the DIM accordingly. Sadly I don’t have a Postfix option so I work with a workaround what means I use <>”, or <>’ and <>mm in the Prefix field. If I then terminate the DIM tool and start it again I will loose my settings except the Scale Factor.
May I ask for an additional Postfix option or/and a remember functionality of those fields?
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922 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Possibility to control the order in the Property editor... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be nice and helpful if we had the possibility to control the order of Attributes - shown in the property editor. I found a solution for myself with using numbers in the Attribute definition tag - but that isn’t really a nice solution. If I could hide my numbering ... everything would be fine for me ....
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612 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Plot math functions | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Input:
X axis min/max or choose line (?) or center (for polar functions)
function: y = f(x) / polar function: r = f(a)
Output:
function plot
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2390 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Please add U.S. Survey Feet to the Unit / convert list | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Yes I’m aware that the U.S. survey foot has to be discontinuing December, 31, 22. However - as we’ve learned in the past it takes decades until a unit will disappears for good.
See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9493&p=38245#p38245
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859 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Persistent selection button added to tool set. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be useful to have a persistent selection button added to the ‘selection’ tool set.
This would allow the user to set persistent selection as and when needed for the current drawing one is working on, rather than going the long route through the ‘Application’ preferences dialog.
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866 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Paste block reference: add third option to rename paste... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Scenario:
Drawing 1: Blockname X is part of a selection, I copy this selection into the clipboard to use it in an other drawing.
Switch to Drawing 2, this drawing has also a Blockname X but with a different content.
Use the clipboard paste function - the clipboard content will be modified (only the Block) by the drawing 2 block content.
No warning pops up - it just happens!
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1928 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Optionnally 'Auto clean up' after generation of NaN / N... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Some functions / methods can generate some sort off entity or part with NaN / Null / Null-lenght ... props. Some explicitly don’t and test their actions with isNull().
As these serve a purpose in some processes, trails of them can be part of the results. For some users Null / Null-lenght are meaningfull, for other users these produce errors down the line. In a few cases its a desirable feature eg. controlpoint spline. (Allthough there are no Null props involved with equal successively controlpoints)
Many problem post on the forum are related to Null - Zero and so on.
In some cases it can’t be undone by re-editing the drawing. https://qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=1925
If it can’t be undone by Undo/Redo it is a bug. https://qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=1757
In some cases there is a difference noticed after file save-close-open.
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1464 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Option button to access finer grid to snap | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi,
I use eagle cad for pcb designs and I like its ability to snap to finer snap to grid when pressing option button (ALT in windows). I am fine with auto grid setting, however, it would be good to also have a way to access finer grid when pressing down option button.
For example, when zoomed out, grid is 100mm apart. When pressing down on the option button (ALT in windows), grid switches to finer 10mm. This will save me time, zooming in to access finer grid to snap to.
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775 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Note book tool for QCAD | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be really cool to have a Note book tool for QCAD!
For example I am often working on a draft and at the same time scribbling notes down on a separate piece of paper relating to the drawing I am working on, could be anything e.g. add a block,add a dimension etc. etc... all sorts of things to remind myself about - all related to a particular drawing.
Of course I could use any number of other programs for this but a simple dedicated tool inside QCAD (could be called the ‘QCAD scribbler ;)) would be much better, especially one that can save the notes to a particular file, then when I open up my drawing again - my notes are there too!
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1926 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | No negative coordinate values ? (DO command) | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Just starting with QCAD, for some hours now - really excellent user interface (compared to other low budget CADs, like DCAD, or BeckerCAD...) !
Surprisingly, point coordinates - entered via the command line, and shown with correct positions on the drawing- are not displayed correctly with the ‘dimordinate’ (DO) command. There are no negative values, even when the center point (0;0) is right in the middle of the drawing, so points left and below should have !
GW.G
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1362 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | new layer tool: Toggle visibility all | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi,
I use a lot of “temp” layer to keep my drawing organized during a design session. Ad the end of the day (or week or month ...) I need to get rid of this “garbage” but unfortunately there is no easy way to delete all this layer in one go. Most of the time those layer are invisible. The “important layer” are visible. If I could toggle all layer from visible in invisible in one go with a switch like “Toggle visible layer all” and then use “Select all” / delete / Purge unused layer I’m able do get rid of this stuff with just a few clicks.
The same tool would help to improve the workflow in the case that I just have to switch between all visible / invisible layer for testing / double checking / cleaning or what ever. Currently I have to toggle every single layer to get this done and if I work with many layer I need to have a perfect working memory (or a piece of paper with many notes!) to be able to restore the same desired working order.
And I’m confident - there are many more useful scenarios for a tool like this one ...
pics: “Toggle visibility all” with one click:
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1440 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | New Drawing in Simple API | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Could it be possible to add a simple function to add a new empty drawing (like File > New) to Simple.js ? Thank you. (PS, this simple.js API is awesome, btw :D)
( I already have my own to simplify my scripts, but it does not seem to work correctly if I set action.setRequiresDocument(false); in the init functions See more at http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4203#p15203 )
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2087 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | More options for "Paste along Entity" [PE] | Assigned | |
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Task Description
“Paste” has already the options: To current layer, Overwrite layers, Overwrite blocks.
Would be a nice time saver to have the same options for “Paste along Entity” too.
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512 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Modify stretch and Restrict ortho | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The modify stretch tool wants first and second corner, start and end point, then starts afresh. When I turn on restrict horizontally eg to align two points between start and end, the restriction sticks and I have to call restrict none, to be able to perform the next iteration, set the first corner then.
So, in the quest for a comfortable user interface, it was nice, if the modify stretch first/second corners parameter setting was not affected by current restrict/ortho etc. settings. Actually, that does not make any sense at all anyways, does it, a rectangle is defined by two degrees of freedom, isnt it?
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1430 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Modify > Round: one-click fillet | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=4256
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2316 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Modify > Detect Duplicates: implement for infinite line... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Headline should already explain the issue ...
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