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

Hi,

as I saw in the svg file and tried it, the ‘stroke-dasharray’ parameter needed (with values) to show the line same as in the editor.

Example:
...

      <!-- Line -->
      <path d="M207452.1773,1518891.8208 L203034.0991,1518891.8208 " style="stroke:#808000;stroke-dasharray:200,300;stroke-width:25;" qs:layer="layer"/>

...

Thanks,
Soma

Hi Andrew,

I have added a PWM Laser post processor.

You can add it to QCAD’s post processor directory

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]

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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

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Homepage

Wikipedia

Flyspray

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Homepage

• add test for all kind of dimensions

New Tests

Improvements

Stuff that couldn't be tested

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

Support arrays of block inserts.

The script in the application directory only works when called from within this directory like that “./qcad”. I suggest below alternative, that can be called from any place, as above and also with an absolute path, eg “/opt/qcad-3.0.0-tp1-prof-linux/qcad”:

#!/bin/sh

EXE=${0##*/}
DIR=${0%$EXE}
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${DIR} ${DIR}/qcad-bin $@

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Can only post anonymously, Peter

Allow for multiple authors of one item.

This can be achieved by replacing the rs:author attribute of tag rdf:Description with:

 
 
    "John Doe"
    "Jane Doe"
 
 

Complete SvgImporter.js and SvgImport.js

1. Implement SvgImporter.prototype.importFile to import the SVG file with the given fileName. Reading only all path data without any attributes or transformations is fine as a first step. SvgImporter.prototype.importFile() currently imports one hard coded path data as proof of concept.
2. Implement SvgImport.prototype.beginEvent() to show a file open dialog that lets the user choose an SVG file to import.
3. Support SVG as file format for part library items through SvgImporter

This should be enough to import any SVG file in library/symbols

As of TP1, a script once loaded into the runtime, does reflect changes to the file it was loaded from only after a restart of the whole of QCAD. This adds a considerable time overhead to developing scripts. Therefore I want to suggest a reload mechanism, that works kind of like the one known from a web browser.

As there is no clear separation between users custom scripts and ribbonsoft supplied scripts, checking the modification time for every access to any script might prove a performance hit.

Possibly a user script can be written, to invalidate another certain script and have the runtime reload it from file? I could add that to my menu.

Or as some magic, that can be written to “MyAction.init()”?

Sample RDF File

'1.0'
<!-- copyright 2010 by RibbonSoft GmbH -->
"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#""http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rdf/library"
  "Public Domain"
 
      "en""Bike"
      "de""Fahrrad"
 
 
 
        "http://www.clker.com"
 
 
 
 
        "Giant"
        "MTB 327"
        "en_US"
 
      "en"
        "bike"
        "vehicle"
        "outline"
        "architecture"
 
      "de"
        "fahrrad"
        "zweirad"
 
      "de_CH"
        "velo"
 
 
 
 

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Table "keyword"

COLUMN_NAME	TYPE_NAME	
id	        INTEGER	
text	        VARCHAR	
locale_id       INTEGER

Table "locale"

COLUMN_NAME	TYPE_NAME
id	        INTEGER
text	        VARCHAR

Filename based Keywords

Switch on / off line width display (display mode between normal and draft)

Show area of closed polyline, hatch, solid fill in property editor.

In DXF world, as far as I know, colour 7 - white - is magic, in that it shows white in model space on a black background, possibly also black on a light background, and commonly black in paper space irrespectively of background colour. In my opinion, SVG should be considered paper space.

I propose, that white entities get rendered black in SVG files exported from QCAD. What do you think?

Snap to reference points does not work for arc entities as one would expect.
The four points on the arc at angles 0,90,180,270 should be reference points (like for circles).

The QCAD scripts, that contain a great deal of functionality in the QCAD framework, are so to say open source, in the limited, still powerful, sense that they can be read, inspected and single-handedly adapted to local needs. Wouldn’t it make sense to store these in a public source code repository?

So to allow closer tracking of development, eg. Of course, all of the scripts would then have to know which release of the /kernel/ they require as a support. But that should be a good thing anyways, as soon as a community of framework users arises, wasn’t it?

QCAD 3 TP1 cannot export to PNG (or any other bitmap format). QCAD 2 lets set width and height in pixels of the file to be created. The drawing is then scaled proportionally to fit that. Leaving the height value empty will crash QCAD 2. QCAD 2 will also pad the image with an unspecified value that gets (both absolutely and relatively) smaller when the size increases…

QCAD 2 interface is simple and should meet most users needs. It would be nice to calculate the missing value, if only width or height is set. Some padding might be necessary only when antialiasing is done on export.

Setting scale and DPI instead would require more thinking on users side…

Implement measurement (info) tools (see QCAD 2)

Limit preview shapes / entities by user configurable number

Explode blocks

Image: move reference points to scale

implement

• Save drawings on exit
• 10min time limit
• markers in
  • PDF export
  • BMP export
  • SVG export
  • printing

Make grid configurable.
Switch on / off grid visibility.

I’ve looked high and low and cannot find how the the Status Bar is toggled on/off as in QCAD2

qcad-trial-bin requires gcc-4.4.4, but I have gcc-4.4.5, so QCAD fails to start.

QCAD should require major GCC versions (gcc-4.4.x), and not revisions.

Support output of results in fractions for imperial units.

Unable to use space bar to focus on command line to type in commands etc as in Version 2. Need to click in the command line first in order to do so - much easier to use press space bar!

It might be an oversight from my side, but when I do Edit Block from reference, I don’t see how I can go back to the original drawing.

DWG files created with QCAD display really fine now in autocad. There are only two minor issues for ACAD users:

1) ACAD complains, that they were not created with a licensed application. One may not be able to work around that one...

2) ACAD complains, that the file does not specify a codepage. For this one, there should be a way around, shouldn’t it?

I am very happy with the compatibility in the new QCAD. Thank you very much for all the efforts that went into it!

Peter

Allow users to enter numeric values as fractions in the format ‘number numerator/denominator’, for example ‘7 3/4’.

Values might also be represented that way in the property editor and in other places of the user interface if desired by the user.

Provide option to hide scroll bars.

Disable grid snap for auto snapping or otherwise configurable auto snap.

Show / hide block references from block list (eye-icon)

Trial version: dockable with static web page (links, special offers, ...)

When many tabs are open, the name of contained drawing is not fully shown. One way that some mdi applications do, is to append the name of the active tab to the top window title, which is also useful in other ways. At least a tool tip with the full name of the file on the tab top was nice.

It was nice to specify the default Format for saving files. 2010 is too young for distribution to unknown users, better use 2004 or so...

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