I’m trying to print a large cad drawing at 1:1 scale. However, when I go into preview to select tile button, it doesn’t exit. First image is my screeen capture, the 2nd is from the online tutorial regarding printing and the button that is missing.

wrong objects are selected while selecting region with mouse.
Actions:Trying to select small rectangle area using mouse while holding left mouse button. (ScreenShot_1.png)
Expected result: only objects inside selection rectangle (text, lines, rectangles) are selected.
Factual result: objects inside selection rectangle are selected as well as other objects which are farther away (marked with purple arrows in ScreenShot_2.png)

Englisch:
A text that ends with a line break is displayed incorrectly.

I think the \P should be passed to the program to create the line break. Unfortunately it is taken over directly into the text.

See attachment

Deutsch:
Textbox erzeugt falschen Umbruch

Ein Text der mit einen Zeilenumbruch endet, wird falsch dargestellt.

Ich denke mal das \P sollte an das Programm weitergegeben werden um den Zeilenumbruch zu erzeugen. Leider wird es direkt in den Text mit übernommen.

Siehe Anhang

All linetype patterns are displayed too large.

Hi,
Recently I found out that tabs (CAM module) are only visible on layer 0. If I turn this layer off, all tabs will disappear. It is very inconvenient for someone who create a drawing using multiple layers. Im my case, layer 0 contains the frame and the info table only. When the drawing is ready and verified, I add a layer with a copy of the drawing just for g-code generation. I do it in that way because the drawing sometimes has to be modified for cnc purposes. Please correct this problem.

Tested on: QCAD/CAM Pro 3.27.6
PC with Windows 10.

In order to type a diacritical letter (e.g. with ' (é) or " (ö)), MacOS does not repeat the letter when a key is pressed continuously. Instead a dialog appears which allows the user to select one of the diacritics related to the letter of the key pressed. In QCAD and presumably QT, keeping the key pressed starts typing the letter repeatedly while after the first letter is typed the selector for the diacritical letters appears. So you can still the select e.g. the ü but you have to delete all the u’s that were typed before you were able to release the key.

A stop gap measure is to minimise the ‘key repeat delay’ setting in keyboard preferences so that its easier to stop the repetition in time, but that influences other programs as well.

I suppose this is a QT dependency and hase less to do with QCAD. Still, I wanted to let you know.

Its an ‘acceptable’ nuisance

J

Hi

Long time no see - so long that I’ve had to reregister. I must be getting a bit better (though I only do pretty basic stuff).

I often have to trace an actual paper drawing, so I scan it in as a jpeg and insert in the usual way. For a while now, this has become difficult to do because however often I send the image to back or bring the polyline to the front, just moving my mouse over the photo (not selecting it) makes the line disappear and I’ve got a bit fed up with trying to work around this (I don’t think it was always like this?)

I’ve attached my current example (there’s only a single image in it at the moment), and thank you in advance for your patience and help.

Jackie

Layer groups are not present. See attached screenshot and link.
In screenshot....3.28 is on the left, 3.29 on the right.

File > Open should not preselect the dxflib filter but All Files.

Caused by changed order of loading plugins.

Add PDF export from print preview.

QCAD introduction Book

User Reference Manual

done

<p>
			The paste command inserts
			the entities previously copied to the
			clipboard. Paste is
...

var actions = RGuiAction.getActions()

BiLibrary.createAndSaveButton(iconSvgFile, pngFile);

<h2>[Title]</h2>
<b>Toolbar:</b>
[icon]
<b>Menu:</b> [Top menu] - [Menu entry]
<b>Hotkey:</b> [two letter code or hotkey]

Context: Needed to set color settings for book images.

"GraphicsViewColors/BackgroundColor""GraphicsViewColors/MetaGridColor"

QCAD3.conf:

BackgroundColor=@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\aRColor\0\x1\xff\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x2)
MetaGridColor  =@Variant(\0\0\0\x7f\0\0\0\aRColor\0\x1\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xfe\xfd\xfd\0\0\0\x2)

Setting the alpha channel value and the color mode for RColor doesn’t change anything.
Using view.setBackgroundColor() instead works for the background color, but not for other colors such as the meta grid color.

The numbers in the book don’t match with the bookmarks numbers in the PDF as shown in Acrobat Reader.

Open

Postponed

Done

Open

Postponed

Not Planned

Done

Script code (SvgExporter.js):

245 // only export entities on main block "*Model_Space":
246 if (realEntity.getBlockId() == this.doc.getBlockId("*Model_Space")) {
247   RFileExporterAdapter.prototype.exportEntity.call(this, entity, false);
248 }

Script debugger exception:

Uncaught exception at /home/martin/workspace/rsframework/scripts/File/SvgExport/SvgExporter.js:246:
Error: :-1:-1: RExporter: Argument 0 is not of type REntity*.
<native>(RLineEntityPointer(0xb6fb158), false) at -1
<anonymous>(entity = RLineEntityPointer(0xb6fb158), preview = false) at
/home/martin/workspace/rsframework/scripts/File/SvgExport/SvgExporter.js:246
<anonymous>() at /home/martin/workspace/rsframework/scripts/File/SvgExport/SvgExporter.js:211

Workaround: Used exportEntity() with ID as argument instead. However there may be other cases where no alternative method is available.

RFileExporterAdapter.prototype.exportEntity.call(this, realEntity.getId());

Sometimes the popup widget that lets the user choose the alignment point for positioning the rectangle does not close when the user clicks the desired point.

1. before save: copy existing file (drawing.dxf) to temporary file, e.g. “drawing.bak”
2. save()
   • no crash → remove recovery file
   • crash → file has size of 0 byte now
     1. restore recovery files on next start

for each file in recent files
  if file size == 0
    rename temporary file to actual file name
end

Required for extreme units such as Nanometers or Kilometers. See also FS#20

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

Open

Homepage

Wikipedia

Flyspray

Done

Homepage

Disable

Adjust Version

Application

Deployment

Don't forget

Check List

Ports

• add test for all kind of dimensions

• copy actual drawing to required (Tab “Results” context menu)

Print prints always to A4, regardless of paper size chosen.

Iterate through all drawings in a directory and create PDFs from them using the same mechanism as for printing.

Verify ECMAScript code with:
http://www.javascriptlint.com/download.htm

"dummy"

Thread [1] 23305 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	RLayer::getLinetypeId() at 0x898faae	
	operator<<() at RLayer.cpp:141 0x8df7ce4	
	REcmaSharedPointerLayer::toString() at REcmaSharedPointerLayer.cpp:1,885 0x8b1ab59	
	0xb6bd913c	
	0xb6ac2f68	
	0xb6ac3058	
	0xb6b09fb5	
	0xb69ed8e7	
	0xb6b083d5	
	0xb6a5a992	
	<...more frames...>	

bold / italic check box for main font has no effect

Print preview marks drawing as modified

Fails if drawing was modified and user wishes to save drawing.

1. open text dialog
2. select some characters (for coloring)
3. click on the “color” button → a pop up windows appears showing all colors
4. don’t choose a color, but click somewhere outside the pop up window

'chosenAction'"color"

Remember last used settings (text size, font, ...)

Text entities show a field “Font Name” in the property editor. This should offer a font combo box to change the font.

Hatch entities show a field “Pattern/Name” which should offer a combo box with pattern names.

Done

1. load “scripts/Draw/Polyline/PolylineFromSegments/Tests/lines.dxf”
2. choose Polyline → Create from segments
   • the conversion isn’t done
   • the tool can be cancel with right click, but QCAD stays in strange stage using 25% CPU permanently
   • quit leads to segmentation fault

Thread [1] 20083 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	0xb693148a	
	QScriptEngineAgentPrivate::atStatement() at 0xb6bc397b	
	0xb6a42232	
	0xb6a8e39a	
	0xa9b50ac0	
	0xffffffff	
	0x5	
	0xfffffffe	
	0xdc	
	0xfffffffe	
	<...more frames...>	

New Tests

Improvements

Stuff that couldn't be tested

Rename Courier.cxf font, correct courier in imported QCAD 2 files

openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
Linux vostro 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thread [1] 6487 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	strncmp() at 0xb4f4789a	
	__xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename() at xmlIO.c:2,525 0x9116d31	
	xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename() at xmlIO.c:2,559 0x9116dc2	
	xmlNewInputFromFile() at parserInternals.c:1,549 0x90d9c0f	
	xmlDefaultExternalEntityLoader() at xmlIO.c:3,881 0x9118b75	
	xmlLoadExternalEntity() at xmlIO.c:3,941 0x9118c6e	
	xsltDocDefaultLoaderFunc() at documents.c:85 0x907f651	
	xsltParseStylesheetFile() at xslt.c:6,726 0x907931b	
	RXslt::parseStylesheet() at RXslt.cpp:14 0x906725f	
	REcmaXslt::parseStylesheet() at REcmaXslt.cpp:190 0x8c8a0e2	
	<...more frames...>	

Quick SVG Export suggests file name “Untitled 1 [*].svg”

Remove [*] (comes from window title).

...display nothing (see auto generated example drawings)

• File → Quit right after start.
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Linux martin-VirtualBox 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Debug:    autostart.js: main(): end. 
*** glibc detected *** release/qcad: double free or corruption (out): 0x0b18d7d0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6c501)[0x2dc5501]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6dd70)[0x2dc6d70]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0x2dc9e5d]
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(+0x19d63)[0x55fd63]
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1(FcPatternDestroy+0x6d)[0x56002d]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN18QFontEngineMultiFTD0Ev+0x62)[0x23da702]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(+0x3cab2c)[0x22f7b2c]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(+0x3cad9a)[0x22f7d9a]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(+0x3cd8a5)[0x22fa8a5]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN18QThreadStorageData3setEPv+0xb1)[0x2af72e1]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(+0x3c6988)[0x22f3988]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN5QFont7cleanupEv+0x17)[0x23d4247]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(+0x1ecda6)[0x2119da6]
/home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN12QApplicationD2Ev+0x478)[0x2099538]
release/qcad(_ZN19QtSingleApplicationD1Ev+0x1a)[0x875d26c]
release/qcad(main+0x596)[0x875cbca]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x2d6fce7]
release/qcad[0x875c5a1]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-003b1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 152383     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtScript.so.4.7.3
003b1000-003bc000 rw-p 002a0000 08:01 152383     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtScript.so.4.7.3
003bc000-003cc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
003cc000-003e1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 134689     /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so
003e1000-003e2000 ---p 00015000 08:01 134689     /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so
003e2000-003e3000 r--p 00015000 08:01 134689     /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so
003e3000-003e4000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 134689     /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so
003e4000-003e6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
003e6000-0040a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131677     /lib/libm-2.12.1.so
0040a000-0040b000 r--p 00023000 08:01 131677     /lib/libm-2.12.1.so
0040b000-0040c000 rw-p 00024000 08:01 131677     /lib/libm-2.12.1.so
0040c000-00426000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131308     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
00426000-00427000 r--p 00019000 08:01 131308     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
00427000-00428000 rw-p 0001a000 08:01 131308     /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
00428000-0042a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131676     /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so
0042a000-0042b000 r--p 00001000 08:01 131676     /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so
0042b000-0042c000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 131676     /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so
0042c000-00434000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658308     /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
00434000-00435000 r--p 00007000 08:01 658308     /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
00435000-00436000 rw-p 00008000 08:01 658308     /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
00437000-0052a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 149112     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtOpenGL.so.4.7.3
0052a000-00531000 rw-p 000f2000 08:01 149112     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtOpenGL.so.4.7.3
00531000-00544000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131423     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4
00544000-00545000 r--p 00012000 08:01 131423     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4
00545000-00546000 rw-p 00013000 08:01 131423     /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4
00546000-00574000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658548     /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4
00574000-00575000 r--p 0002d000 08:01 658548     /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4
00575000-00576000 rw-p 0002e000 08:01 658548     /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4
00576000-00579000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 656212     /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2600.1
00579000-0057a000 r--p 00003000 08:01 656212     /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2600.1
0057a000-0057b000 rw-p 00004000 08:01 656212     /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2600.1
0057b000-0057d000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658282     /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0
0057d000-0057e000 r--p 00001000 08:01 658282     /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0
0057e000-0057f000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 658282     /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1.1.0
00582000-005db000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 149090     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtSvg.so.4.7.3
005db000-005dd000 rw-p 00059000 08:01 149090     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtSvg.so.4.7.3
005dd000-005eb000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658286     /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
005eb000-005ec000 r--p 0000d000 08:01 658286     /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
005ec000-005ed000 rw-p 0000e000 08:01 658286     /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
005ed000-005ef000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658273     /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
005ef000-005f0000 r--p 00001000 08:01 658273     /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
005f0000-005f1000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 658273     /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
005f1000-0073b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 149100     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtNetwork.so.4.7.3
0073b000-0073f000 rw-p 0014a000 08:01 149100     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtNetwork.so.4.7.3
0073f000-00746000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 135002     /lib/librt-2.12.1.so
00746000-00747000 r--p 00006000 08:01 135002     /lib/librt-2.12.1.so
00747000-00748000 rw-p 00007000 08:01 135002     /lib/librt-2.12.1.so
00748000-0076b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131378     /lib/libpng12.so.0.44.0
0076b000-0076c000 r--p 00022000 08:01 131378     /lib/libpng12.so.0.44.0
0076c000-0076d000 rw-p 00023000 08:01 131378     /lib/libpng12.so.0.44.0
0076d000-00774000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658265     /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
00774000-00775000 r--p 00006000 08:01 658265     /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
00775000-00776000 rw-p 00007000 08:01 658265     /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
00776000-0078b000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658244     /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
0078b000-0078c000 r--p 00014000 08:01 658244     /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
0078c000-0078d000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 658244     /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
0078d000-0078f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
0078f000-00791000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 666313     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
00791000-00792000 r--p 00001000 08:01 666313     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
00792000-00793000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 666313     /usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so
00793000-00852000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 152327     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtScriptTools.so.4.7.3
00852000-00857000 rw-p 000bf000 08:01 152327     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libQtScriptTools.so.4.7.3
00857000-008b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 149107     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libphonon.so.4.4.0
008b2000-008b4000 rw-p 0005b000 08:01 149107     /home/martin/opt/qcad_3_0_tp1/release/libphonon.so.4.4.0
008b4000-008b8000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658288     /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
008b8000-008b9000 r--p 00003000 08:01 658288     /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
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008bb000-008bc000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]
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0092c000-0099e000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 655834     /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.0
0099e000-009a2000 r--p 00071000 08:01 655834     /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.6.0
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009a3000-009a7000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 658324     /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
009a7000-009a8000 r--p 00003000 08:01 658324     /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
009a8000-009a9000 rw-p 00004000 08:01 658324     /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
009aa000-009f0000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 662734     /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2
009f0000-009f1000 ---p 00046000 08:01 662734     /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2
009f1000-009f6000 r--p 00046000 08:01 662734     /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2
009f6000-009fb000 rwxp 0004b000 08:01 662734     /usr/lib/mesa/libGL.so.1.2
009fb000-009fd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
009fd000-00adc000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 659125     /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14./qcad: line 2:  1970 Aborted                 release/qcad

Create some CSS to display the user manual in a professional way, similar to web site.

File - Save As has no hotkey under Linux (should be Ctrl-Shift-S)

Fix warning on start:
Warning: RGuiAction::getByScriptFile: no action found: “scripts/Snap/Coordinate/Coordinate.js”

Affected OS: OpenSUSE, Ubuntu

1. File → New
2. File → Save As, name: “simple” (without extension, file type is DWG by default) → file is save as DXF instead of DWG

behavior under Mac OS X seems to be correct (file dialog adds extension based on chosen filter)

example file generator: adjust the print settings automatically, so the example file can be immediately printed to the chosen paper format / orientation without having to adjust the scale / offset

ECMAScript engine (garbage collector) crashes on Mac OS X and Linux 64bit if QCAD binary is compiled as a 64bit binary.

Print preview settings are not saved if one change the drawing without closing the preview

1. create 2 new drawings
2. switch both to print preview
3. set the scale in the actual drawing to 1:5
4. switch to the other drawing
5. switch back
6. the scale is still 1:1