QCAD Bugtracker

Hi,

if I have an arc and use the Property Editor to get the Geometrical information I always miss the total angle of the arc.

Yes - I have the Start and the End angle but to get the Total angle I have to draw construction lines to be able to use the Angular Dim or Info angle tool /or I need to use a pocket calculator ...

It would be nice to have this calculated by QCAD - I assume it can’t be that difficult to design an extra field which will display, based on the start and end angle, the total angle of an arc.

What do you think?

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

Hi,

I have a nice minimally reproducible bug on QCAD v3.7.4 on Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
QCAD will segfault whenever I take the following steps:

1. Open a new document
2. Create a leader object (D,E) in the default ‘0’ layer. Leave its style and color defined by the layer, as per default.
3. Create a new layer, with a non-default line style or color. The line weight & layer name do not matter.
4. Select the leader object previously create
5. Open the property editor and assign the object to the new layer just created.
Every time, this will cause QCAD to segfault on my machine. The crash report is attached.

Another minimally reproducible path to the same error is to do the following:
1. Open a new document
2. Create a leader object (D,E) in the default ‘0’ layer. Give it a custom color and line style that over-ride the layer defaults.
3. Create a new layer, with a non-default line style or color. The line weight & layer name do not matter.
4. Select the leader object previously created.
5. Open the property editor and assign the object to the new layer just created.
6. Still in the property editor, switch the leader object’s color back to ‘By Layer’.
The same segfault will occur.

It seems that the crash is triggered by the action of changing a leader object’s color (and/or line style) in a manner that requires the object to check the containing layer’s default color and style. You can achieve this by either changing the object’s layer, or switching the color and style from being custom defined to ‘by layer’, as long as the selection requires the line’s appearance to change.

Any thoughts? My machine’s crash report is attached.

Dan

Would it be possible to add Xline (infinite line) draw via ‘Parallel Line’ tool?

Exception in BreakOut.js

Would it be possible to use the Split command on Ellipse or on Spline curve?

Now it works on lines, arcs and circles only.......

Hello!

Would it be possible to add a new tool to create polylines from a selection?

A new toolbar that shows the last 5, 10 or so commands buttons used would be useful to do repeated tasks on a lot of drawings.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create new drawing and fill it with some contents that’s easy to distinguish, for example text “DRAWING 1”.
2. Save it as dr1.dxf
3. Close it
4. Open dr1.dxf
5. Edit it, for example change text from “DRAWING 1” to “DRAWING 2” 6. Save changed file as dr2.dxf
7. Close it
8. Open dr1.dxf (it should have content “DRAWING 1”)
9. Open dr2.dxf (it should have content “DRAWING 2”)
10. Close tab dr1.dxf
10.1 Qcad will ask you to save changes.
10.2 Press “Yes” –> nothing happens, dialog doesn’t disappear.
10.3 Press “Discard” –> dialog disappears, tab gets closed
10.4 Tab that has content of file dr2.dxf (”DRAWING 2”) remains open but gets title “dr1.dxf” (!)
11. Close tab
12. Press “Yes” in dialog that asks to save changes

Results:
1. Open dr1.dxf
2. Open dr2.dxf
As you can see, both files have equal contents (”DRAWING 2”)

Expected results:

1. Files have their own contents.
2. Dialogs asking to save files disappear when checking “Yes”, “Cancel” or “Discard” 3. Tabs don’t change titles and associated file names when other tabs are closed.

Up to know it´s impossible to draw a circle by the given combination:

point, tangent and radius.

I would like this to be added to the circle options.

“Zoom to selection” shows no effect on vertical and horizontal lines: Message: “No selection found”.

Recognizable at:
vertical lines, horizontal lines,
Rectangle, Rectangle with size,
Polygon Center Point, Polygon two corner (only in the case that you have vertical/horizontal lines),

Shapes as a polyline - no problem.

If I want to draw circle with poin and raduis and write to radus window formula 4^2, Qcad calculates 4+2 not 4².

... except reference points I can’t anymore snap to any line on a Dimension. To make a proper alignment I need to use the Grid or other entities.

At closed Polygons: Chamfer / Bevel / Round tools are not proper working at the Start/End corner transition.

see also: http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3192&p=11358#p11358

Graphics View: ‘right click’ to deselect entities not working.

I will also test on Windows.

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?

A new tool to align text around an arc would be good.

I seem to have a persistent ‘saving’ feedback message in the status bar, always happens after executing the save command from menu or button.

It doesn’t seem to affect performance in any way and it is the same with any drawing I work on.

Zoom to selection not working.

See attached screenshot and test file- selecting longer line fails for zoom to selection, but selecting smaller line works?

Setting to show Large Cross Hairs fails, even after a restart.

Hello!

I would like to suggest a small, but yet important improvement to usabilty.

When adding a new layer the currently selected layer should be default for parent layer.

Currently a new layer is by default a top level layer, and so the user has to select the parent layer for each sub-layer, again and again.

Thanks,
Christian

I think Husky may have found a bug, please see topic:

http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3239&p=11643#p11643

@Husky, hope you don’t mind me adding this for you.

Aligned dimensions are not displayed correctly after loading. Definition point and text position are set to NaN.

Paste Along Entity, now that we have this great tool it would be good to have a button for it also, to sit alongside the existing paste button.

The new tool “Paste along entity” is very useful! But I work mostly in mechanical engineering and would like to see more options to determine where it has to start with the first insert item.

Screenshot:

1. That is how it works right now - no chance to get it started on both ends of an line.

2. If I need to have my items also on the ends I have to use additional the normal “Paste” function.

3. If I could tell the “Paste along entity” that there is a start and end “Base” dimension then I’m a big step further.

I could tell the tool that it has to start at “0” or at “25” and the rest is just regarding the calculation. Correct?

However - you need many times in mechanical engineering etc. a hole pattern which will start at:

0,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,0

or

25, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 123.5, 25

It would be very nice to have this also in combination with the “Paste along entity” tool

Please see last few posts here:

http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3227&p=11777#p11777

1. Modify > Divide
2. choose circle or ellipse
3. choose first dividing point
4. exception occurs

(I’m running on FreeBSD, but that was not an option in the selection for Operating System)

When importing a SVG file in version 3.7.5, it qcad turns polylines into polygons.

I’m attaching a trivial .SVG file showing this, it should *not* render as a rectangle,
but as a “rectangular upper case C”.

And many thanks for making good quality CAD software available to the FOSS community.

Just installed (31 jan 2015) on Win 7 64 bit. Two bugs are immediately apparent...

 bug 1 : Network drives are not listed in the file open or import dialogs - no way to access files stored on networked drives. (This is not a windows configuration error- all my other apps work perfevtly ok.)

 bug 2 : After about 5 minutes of initial exploration immediately after installation a window pops up... Trial Expired: The trial add-on CAM is no longer active (restart required).

Note: I do have neither of these problems on Windows XP (32 bit) which I installed yesterday

Files which don’t contain any entities cannot be loaded (bulk load of spatial index library fails with exception).

When paper unit being change to other values (other than default “Milimeter” or “None”), the paper borders are wrongly displayed in print preview.
The attachment screenshot images is for example.
1, Edit →Drawing Preferences →Drawing Unit →Pager Unit, choose the value “Centimeter”.
2, Edit →Drawing Preferences →Page →Pager →Paper size, choose the value “ISO A4”.
3, File →Print Preview, the displayed print borders are wrongly displayed as a very narrow rectangle, which is obviously wrong.
Thanks for any help.
Reeve

Starting with 3.7.7 I noticed, that some parts in drawings are missing: affected are some circles and (some) closed splines. These were created with earlier releases of qcad3.

Attached a file that has two circles, only one of them showing at first (drawn in 3.8.0); set line-display “screen” (NL command) to see the other (drawn earlier). From the dxf serialization (dxflib or teigha does not matter) I do not see where that should stem from or how to fix this.

At zero degrees there is a little dot though, and also, only certain dashed line-types “hide” the (outer only) circle.

Filed under Ubuntu, not tested on windows etc.

Fedora 21 - kernel 3.18.5-201.fc21.x86_64
QCAD exits immediately. This started with version 3.8.0.
3.7.7 is ok with respect to startup.

/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/qcad
Debug: RCamScriptsPlugin: init
Debug: RDwgPlugin::init: trial
Debug: RDxfPlugin::init
Debug: RHelpPlugin::init
Debug: RProScriptsPlugin::init
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/linetypes/metric/qcadiso.lin”
Debug: loading patterns from file: “/home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/linetypes/imperial/qcad.lin”
Debug: TIMER: 107 ms - “loading add-ons”
Debug: TIMER: 567 ms - “initializing add-ons”
Warning: QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection ‘library_browser_connection’ is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
Warning: QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name ‘library_browser_connection’, old connection removed.
Debug: Rebuilding DB...
Debug: checking for QCAD Pro updates...
Debug: no updates available
Debug: “DWG” : disabling (> 100 runs)
Warning: WidgetFactory: File /home/wrsturm/opt/qcad-3.8.1-linux-x86_64/scripts/TrialExpiredDialog.ui does not exist
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: “TypeError: Result of expression ‘dlg’ [undefined] is not an object.”
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Debug: “Pro Tools” : disabling (> 100 runs)
Warning: RScriptHandlerEcma::eval: script engine exception: “TypeError: Result of expression ‘dlg’ [undefined] is not an object.”
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Warning: At least one uncaught exception:
Warning: “<anonymous>()@:scripts/Cam/Widgets/TrialExpired/TrialExpired.js:276”
Debug: “<global>() at -1”

Snap to “Intersection manual” is only working in dependency on Line/Polyline orientation.

Two Polylines (not each other crossing): doesn’t works.

One Line, one Polyline (not each other crossing) works only in dependency on entity orientation.

- Draw polyline
- Modify > Offset (through Point)
- Choose option to offset whole polyline
- Click polyline
- Click point

No offset polyline is created.

Complex linetypes not shown in line type choice

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

Would be nice to have them removed.

I compile git/trunk on FreeBSD, and the print dialog does not come up.

I tried the obvious fix in scripts/File/Print/Print.js:

  if (RS.getSystemId()==="osx" || RS.getSystemId()==="linux" || RS.getSystemId()==="freebsd") {

But that didn’t work.

Maybe the test is better if reversed ?

  if (RS.getSystemId()==="win") {
      // slot 'dummy' is never called:
      Print.printDialog.open(this, "dummy");
  } else {
      Print.printDialog.exec();
  }

(PS: This should be “Operating System = FreeBSD” but that’s not in the pull-down menu)

I have spent a couple of days banging my head against this.

If I print the attached drawing in landscape mode to my printer, the drawing is not rotated, and the paper only contains ~2/3rds, oriented the wrong way.

If I print to PDF-File, open in gv(1), and change the size field from “Automatic” to the chosen papersize, same thing happens.

If I print to Postscript-File, open in gv(1), change the size field to the chosen papersize, the rotation is correct.

Many PDF viewers will autodetect missing rotations and other such stuff, and you will never notice a mistake like this, but gv(1) does it the “old-school” way and shows the mistake.

The crucial bit of the Postscript output is:

  /pageinit {
  % 210 *297  mm (landscape)
   90 rotate 0.060000000 -0.060000000 scale } def

Something similar is missing in the PDF and the output to the printer.

PS: This is also on FreeBSD, but I doubt that matters at all for the “print to file” operations.

I would like to see the installer not stop because there is already a version of QCAD installed. This is the only product that I have used in recent history that requires the prior version to be uninstalled before the new version can be installed.

Please consider removing this requirement and let the installer do an update.

Thanks
Jim

Draw radius dimension
Switch dimension settings to use “Architectural ticks” Radius dimension is still displayed with arrow

- Create drawing in unit other than Millimeter (Centimeter, Inch, etc)
- Project part of the drawing (Isometric, Orthographic, ..)
- Scale of result is off

This is not the same as  FS#782 .

Is it possible to have referenced fonts embedded in the exported PDF files somehow? Sort of like producing PDF/A (not really, but at least with the fonts referenced being included)?

I have played around a little with QPrinter::setFontEmbedding(), but it didn’t really produce any results (pro or con). I am not sure it can even be done, as looking around there are numerous references (rather questions and RFEs) for creating PDF/A-3 format PDFs with Qt, but I am yet to bump into a resolution. I almost have a feeling that generating PDF/A-1 files is possible, but I have not found any definite guidelines or ways to that either.

The use case is obvously when you don’t have a particular font installed on the system you are printing your designs on, for example.

Default settings (Application preferences) for “Printing colors” shows no effect on a “Grayscale” or a “Black and white” setting.
Regardless the setting a new drawing is always presented with a “Full color” adjustment.

26 April 2015

I have the Library browser set up per instructions from website. The following is about as good an explanation as I can come up with for now.

When I open the program the software keeps trying to update the library index at start-up regardless of whether “Update search index on start-up” is checked or unchecked (this happens when there are items installed into the library and show up in the browser window). However, if I have no library components installed and open the program the software does not try to update the index and immediately opens the main program window (when the index at start-up is unchecked). I can use the manual method to update the index at that time. However after doing that, same thing happens. When I close out and restart the program again the software will want to update the index before the main window opens up (with the index at start-up unchecked).

I have uninstalled the program and reinstalled it again to no avail. It still does the same thing. Therefore I have to wait around 30 sec to 1 minute to wait for and update of the index depending on what I have in the library browser at any one time. Most times I open the program I don’t need index updating as there are no new items to add to the library.

I have some blocks with multiple attribute lines to name equipment represented by the block. When an attribute is left empty and printed to paper (and/or SVG) the print out is as expected. Alternatively when I print to PDF QCAD (Qt) seems to put a phantom period (.) where the attribute is.

This is prevalent on Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21.

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3394

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3395

Printers do not appear in QCAD unless you modify the default cups to create a /etc/printcap file

https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=3247

Is a work around

This is the only application on the platform this has to be done for.

I am guessing it affects any Linux with the printcap not set.

Preview always shows maximum number of previewable rows instead of configured number of rows.