QCAD Bugtracker

V3.19: In Drawing Preferences-Printing I cannot seem to get paper size change to remain. I change from A4 to A3, but this has no effect, seems stuck on A4.

I can change it in Application Preferences, but obviously this does not have an effect once I have started a new drawing.

Blank QCAD template used as the start drawing.

Application Preferences / Dimension Settings

Text hight doesn’t accept anymore input 3.5/25.4 and it will change that in a new drawing to “0” instead to show 0.137795

If I remember correctly: Marked for “Keep proportions” = unchecked in new drawing is desired behavior, correct?

My settings below Application Preferences:
Dimension Settings
Drawing Unit: Inch
Paper Unit: Inch
Measurement System: Imperial

Printing - Page
Page Orientation: Landscape
Paper size: ANSI A (Letter)
Paper width: 8.5” Paper height: 11”

Printing Colors
Color Mode: Black / white

Blank QCAD template used as the start drawing.

Issue in Layout Block

Printing Color Black/White changed to “Full Color Mode”,
Default setting to use ANSI A will change to ISO A4 in mm regardless that the Paper Unit is inch and size ANSI A.
Unit is unstable when you change the format a few times. It will switch between mm and inch what can lead to a 8.5 mm x 11 mm Paper size (then called customized!) or 210” x 297” ANSI A4,

Paper orientation preset to Landscape is then Portrait in Layout Block

Case

delete a Layout Block in Block List - name e.g. ANSI A P,
create a new Layout Block - try to use the deleted name (ANSI A P) again and it will be declined because the “Layout already exists.

Case:
Settings are:
General: Drawing Unit
Drawing Unit: Foot
Paper Unit: Inch
Measurement System: Imperial

Dimension Settings: Architectural

Issue:

I draw a horizontal line 12 units (foot) long,
Use then the Horizontal DIM tool and it will display a measurement of 1’ = false,

I draw a horizontal line of 2 units (foot)long,
Use then the Horizontal DIM tool and it will display a measurement of 2” = false,

I assume the input for the line length is handled from the DIM tool as inch and not as feet.

explicit drawing order of objects (such as sending hatch to back and bringing text to front) not respected when export to pdf used, the order of overlapping objects seems to use the order in which they were added to the drawing

this causes problems if we try to export a dxf to pdf and the hatching was drawn after some of the text

observed in Mac OSX El Capitan and Linux

... impossible to chose a scale in the DIM option bar.

Not sure: Bug or feature request. However - it’s right now confusing

It would be nice if the scale format list would respond to the “Measurement System (for line types and hatch patterns)” setting.

If my setting is Metric:

1:1

1:2

1:5 etc etc

If my settings is imperial:

1”=1”

1”=2”

1”=4” etc etc

When defining block attributes, the default text alignment is center.

I changed this to align left and copied an attribute (ctrl + C) and then pasted (ctrl + V) fourteen times.

As I opened each one up with the editor to change the tag information, I noticed that every copied/pasted attribute definition had changed to align right.

I purposely set the first one back to align left and copy/pasted it a few times. Each paste had the attribute text set to align right again.

OS: Linux Mint 18.3 [64-bit]
QCAD Pro: 3.19.1.0 [64-bit]

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5267

The Print Page Borders option does not switch to lay-out blocks

“check for updates” works at boot even though unchecked in application preferences.

On any version newer than 3.18.0 the LinuxCNC options under “Configuration” drop-down no longer work under CAM→CAM Legacy Export. As you can see in the attached screen shot, the menu line which would normally contain LinuxCNC is blank. Also, when LinuxCNC (Inch) and LinuxCNC (Millimeter) are selected, none of the Global or per-Layer options are available, it just says “No Global Options” and “No Layer Options” as you can also see in the screen shot. I think this is because both of these are derivatives of the main LinuxCNC configuration which is not working.

I have confirmed this problem with fresh installs (using the installer) on both Windows 10 and Debian testing

Case:
Line / Lineweight 2mm
Model_Space Print Preview off / previously used scale was 1:1
Viewport 1:10
Paper_Space Print Preview scale 1:1
I’ll use the Paper_Space for a print:
Works as expected. A 2 mm Line will be printed in 2 mm

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Line / Lineweight 2mm
Model_Space Print Preview off / previously used scale was 1:10 (closed Preview will keep it in memory),
Viewport 1:10
Paper_Space Print Preview scale 1:1
I’ll use the Paper_Space for a print:
Works not as expected! The Model_Space Print scale is used for scaling the 2 mm Line in the Paper_Space/Viewport. The Line will be printed with a 20 mm wideness.

QCAD hangs up in Scaling task when invalid value given: example .0.50
Inadvertently entering two decimal points hangs it up.

Tested with checked / unchecked button for proportional scaling - but it doesn’t matter.

QCad 3.19.2 Professional, 64bit, Liux Mint

Case:
1. Create some block with attributes.
2. Insert this bock into “Model Space” or “Paper Space”.
3. Edit this block. Rename some Attribute names (tag, prompt).
4. And when in “Model Space” or “Paper Space” Synchronize Attributes, we have in properties old and new attributes.

QCad 3.19.2 Professional, 64bit, Liux Mint

Case:
1. We have drawing with hierarchical layers.
2. When try for example to lock all layers from “Layer List Widget” by clicking to “Toggle lock” at Parent Layer. Then locked are all layers in this group. Same is with “Toggle snappable”, “Toggle plottable”, “Toggle frozen”. All works as expected. But “Toggle visibility” works only on this one parent layer.

QCad 3.19.2 Pro 64 bit. Windows 10, Linux Mint

All functions in context menu does not work with “Viewport entities” (Delete, Cut, Copy,etc).
But all same functions also work with keyboard shortcuts, from command line and buttons from toolbar.

Modify > Isometric Projection > Cylindrical throws exception / broken.

Exporting a monochrome bitmap with black background produces a black bitmap.

Affects File > Bitmap Export and dwg2bmp.

In Information → Arc/circle/ellipse area tool labels for Area of sector and Area of segment buttons are switched.

After changing the colours of the grid points and grid lines I noticed that when I draw a line exactly over a grid line the grid line masks the drawing line. When zoomed in the lines disappear all together. Please see attached images.

A nasty bug that I posted some time in the forum that prevents QCAD to read properly the content block associated with dimension.

Here’s what is happening:
- every dimension entity in DXF/DWG is stored with a block representing its contents (or in fact, anything else)
- QCAD ignores that block and instead renders the dimension using the various sizes and properties of the dimension

https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5133

Win 7
Q-CAD 3.19.2

R-Click in Layer list
With a selection, selecting by Layer adds the Items on that Layer to the selection.
With a selection, deselecting by Layer subtracts the Items on that Layer from the selection.
This is not a bug in casu because this can be the intention of the function. Adding or Subtracting.

Intuitively ‘selecting by Layer’ to retrict to that Layer solely has only the desired effect if no selection existed before.
Deselecting by Layer with no previous selection should mention there was none to start with.
Selecting by Layer from an empty Layer should mention that nothing is added.

Faults are prone to make.

Selecting a Layer uniquely would be an interesting additional feature.

Regards

Using Ubuntu GNOME, there are some untranslatable buttons strings on close file dialog. Screenshot attached.

QCAD V3.19
Error at copy with ref point and paste

Look at the video

for testing
I made a litte drawing, then select all
then make copy with refpoint, set refpoint
then insert it

Result: the copy is mirrored and with factor 1.2 greater then original

Autofit (-a) has no effect when converting a block or layout block (other than Model_Space).

Print option “Auto fit pages to drawing” broken.

... if other entities involved.

Testdrawing:
Please use the Auto Trim tool first with visible and then with invisible Block Countertop. The effect can change depending on where you click.

Is it possible to create “OVERKILL” command like in AUTOCAD

Thin lines are with sub pixel widths are not visible in exported bitmaps.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=5465

Deaktivating “for plotting” (German “plottbar”) while editing properties of a layer seems to change nothing. I expected, that in print preview (SVG, PDF) these layers are deaktivatet too.

Deaktivating in these cases make sense as when real plotting.

Hi Andrew,

Just a little thing I noticed recently.

My default is set to save as DWG and indeed it does, however the auto-save feedback tells me that the file is saved to DXF, although it actually does save to DWG - no big deal but is this correct feedback?

Many thanks

Clive

Please add script bindings for Qt 5.9.4, thank you.

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5507

Hi Andrew,

When placing a point in a layout it gives an incorrcet display, for example if I place a cross point style I get a rather strange shape in return!

Many thanks

Clive

Custom text position must be written as type flag (code 70, flag 128) as well as in style overrides as codes

1070
279
1070
2

Create text using “standard” font with color change (e.g. one letter in the middle red).

Load drawing
Switch to print preview
Ctrl-P / XD have no effect