Info tools show too many ticks which leads to slow down / crash.

 FS#1604  was issued because of non-intuitive hierarchy of the preferences for the Explode function.
The task comment recieved explains the funcionallity in details not found elsewhere.

Indentation of the phrase ‘Spline Segments:’ suggest hierarchy.
Graying out the drop down box for the number of spline segments establish hierarchy.

Incorrect rendered faltering types of lines with the dwg2pdf tool.
Some of them: “DOT”, “DOT2”, “CENTER2”, “BORDER2”, “DASHDOT2”, “DIVIDE2”, “DASHED2” and others.
Lines are drawn by the “compressed”.
But when exporting through the menu “File” → “PDF Export”, lines are drawn as expected!
I attach two files as an example.

P.S.
Excuse me and “Google Translate” for my English :)

In Printpreview. Scaling the print does not scale the drawing smaller, but the paper -size larger. This is unexpected.

One should scale the drawing down to available paper size, not the other way.

Scaling is not done at the natural intuitive analog manner, with surprising results.

When scaling, all visible attributes becomes smaller; lineweigth too

See added pdf.

Seen
https://github.com/qcad/qcad/commit/302010556a077f71b3de6c3c0f8f3df0282a5da9 And that all entries are a division by 1000

It is exactly 9 460 730 472 580 800 meter
To return a correct factor to meters the value must be a factor 1000 larger.

131 return 9460730472580800000 / 1000;

More info:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9506&p=38295#p38295

Kind regards,
CVH

See QTBUG-69955 which affects QCAD on Mojave:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69955

Hello

So, I think .. that when the dark scheme has been chosen
the eye color for the active layers should be white
(similar to the list of blocks).

Best regards
Jacek

Editing text in QCAD leads to line feeds that are incompatible with some other products (\p instead of \P).

include() should raise exception if file not found.

This is actually the case but does not seem to work properly.

Additional to  FS#2425 

Include scale option in Option Toolbar for Arc Length Dimensions.
Include scaling RDimArcLengthData by linear factor.

Regards,
CVH

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

I noticed a bug while editing blocks in place. When I opt to edit in place, most of the surrounding blocks fade out properly, but some don’t. Although I can’t edit them, as they are not faded, It can be tricky to identify what is in the current block or not while editing a bigger assembly.

Another suggestion is to add a keyboard shortcut command to the “save and close”.

Otherwise, this is a fantastic feature that really enabled me to buy the QCAD and start using it professionally. In place editings are a key feature for my projects and drawings.

Thanks in advance.

IMG 1 shows my drawing

IMG 2 shows a block being edited “not in place”

IMG 3 shows a surrouding block being edited “not it place”

IMG 4 and 5 shows the in place edit of the block shown in IMG 2 and the surrouding blocks not being properly faded.

In Blöcken kann am Kreis kein Reference Punkt als Fang benutzt werden. Alle anderen Punktbestimmungen scheinen zu funktionieren.

The Linetype Names in the pull-down menu for Layer are hardly readable - it seams to me that the description is used twice (in different ways) in each row.
Till 3.6.4 the Information was short and clear.

For inch, foot, .. the grid info display should for example display “1/128” instead of 0.0078125

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=4566

I use version 3.0.8

By accident I stumbled across a minor bug.

I wanted to connect two arcs seamlessly with a third arc. (Image 1)

So I drew two straight lines at right angles at the end of each arc, and at the crossing I put the center point of a circle. (Image 2)

Out of curiosity I zoomed in to the end of the second arc and discovered that the circle did not go through the end point of the arc, even tough I snapped it to the end point. (Image 3)

I could trim the circle to the wanted arc and the arc is displayed without any displacement.

So it seems that only the display of the circle is faulty, not the internal representation of it.

- Import drawing from other CAD application with dimension blocks (*D..)
- Save file with QCAD
- Dimension blocks are exported to drawing file but are empty which can break compatibility with other products

... despite the fact it was successful.

Load QCAD 2 drawings, including:

• print preview settings, drawing scale, etc.
• hatch patterns
  • fix name
  • fix scale
  • fix angle
• dimension labels (tolerances)

Greetings,
I am a user of Alibre Design. When I export the dxf or dwg from alibre the dimensions are shown outside the sheet models.
I tried with different 2D CADs and only QCad and LibreCad give me this type of error.
Is this something known? Do I need to attach more files to understand the problem?
Thanks for your attention,
Greetings,
Francesco Ricci

When importing dxf-file or pasting dxf-drawing from other window old content from a previous import is pasted. This seems to be connected to the opened file and can not be replaced, thus making it impossible to add new parts to the drawing. Clipboard Display shows correct part, not the same as what is pasted.

Version:
3.25.2.0 (3.25.2)
Webbsida:
QCAD.org
Byggdatum:
Sep 4 2020
Revision:
4a61501
Qt Version:
5.13.2
Arkitektur:
x86_64
Kompilator:
MSVC++ 14.0 (2015)

Import 3D polyline as 2D polyline from DXF/DWG

Like QCAD 2.

Drawing inch / imperial

If I add a Viewport imperial scales for that Viewport like 1” = 32’ are not accepted. Accepted are only metric scales like 1/100.

Please see also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9206

Changing image path in property editor does not update image

Image file paths coming from Windows might contain mixed slash and backslash notations which is not correctly parsed under Linux / macOS.

Image: move reference points to scale

Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit.
Image imported into drawing in layer ‘pictures’.
Layer ‘pictures’ hidden.

QCAD 3 beta displays the image when zoomed out so that the whole drawing is visible within the working window.
It ‘disappears’ when the zoom is taken in such that the drawing exceeds the window display.

When the layer ‘pictures’ is visible the image behaves as expected, i.e. always visible.

Preview when inserting image slow

If I like to import a Bitmap in my drawing I have no possibility to choose a file by a thumbnail bitmap preview. In many cases it is really helpful and I assume it is a sort of standard ....

1. insert a bitmap
2. open a file (PNG, width 262, height 320)
3. change the width where “keep proportions” is enabled
   • try to enter “100”
   • as soon as the key “1” is pressed, the value is adjusted to “0.999997”, the cursor is set to the end of the number

Implement RImageEntity and related classes.

DONE

POSTPONED

In scripts/Draw/Image/Image.js, while building the filter for the file dialog, constructs like this are used:

var formats = QImageReader.supportedImageFormats();

for (var i=0; i<formats.length; ++i) {
    var format = formats[i];

        if (format==="jpg" ||
            format==="tif") {
            continue;
        }

=== also checks for type equality, and since format is actually an object, it will never match. The result is that duplicates are not filtered from the list as the code suggests they were intended to be filtered, nor are formats that are not intended to be there.

The following patch fixes this:

diff --git a/scripts/Draw/Image/Image.js b/scripts/Draw/Image/Image.js
index 0a6400e..cc58c98 100644
--- a/scripts/Draw/Image/Image.js
+++ b/scripts/Draw/Image/Image.js
@@ -91,23 +91,23 @@ Image.prototype.getFileName = function() {
         var formatAlt = "";
 
         // ignore format aliases:
-        if (format==="jpg" ||
-            format==="tif") {
+        if (format=="jpg" ||
+            format=="tif") {
             continue;
         }
 
         // ignore unsupported formats:
-        if (format==="ico" || format==="mng" ||
-            format==="pbm" || format==="pgm" || format==="ppm" ||
-            format==="svg" || format==="svgz" ||
-            format==="xbm" || format==="xpm") {
+        if (format=="ico" || format=="mng" ||
+            format=="pbm" || format=="pgm" || format=="ppm" ||
+            format=="svg" || format=="svgz" ||
+            format=="xbm" || format=="xpm") {
             continue;
         }
 
-        if (format==="jpeg") {
+        if (format=="jpeg") {
             formatAlt = "jpg";
         }
-        else if (format==="tiff") {
+        else if (format=="tiff") {
             formatAlt = "tif";
         }
 

I use gcode ripper for some of my jobs. (see here: https://www.scorchworks.com/Gcoderipper/gcoderipper.html) This is a large python script that I use to wrap flat code around a cylinder for engraving. What I would like to see is a way to run it from my own custom post processor that I wrote for my machine. Maybe some kind of keyword that allows me to specify an arbitrary external command with some parameters. It would be very helpful to me. I create a lot of ad-hock jobs to run.

Thanks,
Chuck Tilbury

when printing only a white page is generated. Also when pdf generation, a corrupted file is generated. I enclose my dwg file.
Also It takes more than 20 seconds for most of the task, like selecting, zoom in or out, and I own a 16Gb RAM and i7 8Gen processor....
It sucks...

Hi, I set Qcad with two viewports and now I can’t modify that setting, except when I open another drawing

I can not print and I can not export to “pdf” file.
I use the latest professional version of Qcad with windows 10.
Thank you

Hi Andrew,

I was fiddeling around with a copy of the hpgl postprocessor, and has it adapted, up and running for a HP7580 penplotter. You may add this to QCAD if you like.

Poking and peeking in the other postprocessor files, I found enough information to generate a very acceptable hpgl.plt file now, including the required pen changes.

The purpose of a ‘bracket-field’ (as [S] ) is clear to me. Where are [S#] and [S!] used for?

Highlight color of entity can match background color, making an entity ‘disappear’ on mouse over.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1719