QCAD Bugtracker

To reproduce:

1. File – New
2. Create a new layer (layer 1)
3. Draw an horizontal infinity line
4. Duplicate “layer 1” (layer 1 Copy)
5. Hide “layer 1 Copy” 6. Try to select the line in “layer 1”

What happens: It’s not possible to select the line in the visible layer (layer 1) if the line is present in the duplicated layer (layer 1 Copy) and that layer is either hidden or locked.

Expected: It should be possible to select the line, as the overlapping line in the other layer is hidden/locked .

A block with attributes inserted into Model_Space can’t be made completely invisible with the invisible switch (Eye icon) in the block list. It works for entities but not on attributes.

Snapshot release 3.23.0.2

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?p=24757

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.

If I use in an area with invisible Blocks the “rectangular selection” in “lower left to upper right” direction for a move/copy, mirror, clipboard etc. action - a warning window appear. Also the reference points of the invisible blocks are visible.

If I use the “rectangular selection” in upper right to lower left direction everything works as expected.

Invastiagte QPainter warnings when running QCAD in -no-gui mode

See forum:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1653&start=45

Inverting the current selection is significantly slower than select all, deselect all or other selection tools.

During saving file I’m getting information “Invalid Symbol Table name error”. Problem is already known so i tried to follow the instructions given to other users by you. I’ve tried to change spaces to _ symbol in the layers names or deleting polish specific letters but there was no change. I was able to find out that the problem is related only to four layers named: A_ciany... When I delete these layers I’m able to save file without error message. Can you tell me what’s wrong in these layers? I’ve tried to change names of these layers but problem still exists. Best regards.

Hello,

I have got a dwg file from architect, which I can open, but I get “Invalid symbol table name” when I try to save it. I do not know which software was used to create it.
I have tried to change all spaces and national characteds in block and layers names as advised elswhere, but that didn’t help.

Lp
Tomaž

Trying to build a hatch area sometimes results in “invalid hatch area”. It would be nice if QCAD could give a hint why / where the problem occurs (where is “line too long” or “not closed”).

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

QCAD3.ini may contain invalid positions for the main application windows, e.g.
[Appearance]
Position.X=-32000
Position.Y=-32000

This leads to an invisible main window after starting QCAD under Windows systems.

The intersection between an ellips and a tangent is not détected.
Demonstration

Using tool split 2.
When clicking on part 1 of the circle only part 1 is removed.
When clicking on part 2 of the elipse part 2 and part 3 are removed. The intersection with the tangent is not found.

Text font changes when saving and reloading the file.
Original text before saving:
ľščťžýáíé ôúäň
Text after reopening the file:
¾šèžýáíé ôúäò
See also attachments.

Help - Reference Manual does not have any effect on Windows.

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

After each update, I add a dot before the ~user/opt folder (and in the program launcher) created by QCAD to unclutter my file manager’s appearance. Would be easy, I think, to make the installer put the program directly in ~user/.opt, and nobody would miss that folder while browsing through daily used files.

And what about installing the program as root, so all users of a computer could use it without personal installs, and only personal setting files created by users would be kept in ~user/.opt/qcam.

Jean-Claude

To reproduce:
- Create a part library item with file name “Test1 .dxf” (note the space at the end of the base name)
- Insert this part library item into a blank drawing
- Try to save the drawing
- Error “Invalid Symbol Table Name” occurs

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

Insert Measurement / e.g. Point to Point fails within Coordinate (SX) dialog. It is offered for X and Y but I can’t find a way to use it. For a proper measurement with IP I need to use Autosnap etc. but that means I have to switch from Coordinate snap to an other snap with no way to return to use the d1 variable.

To reproduce the issue: Insert a Library item from the Library browser and the RZ point will stay where it is.

1. new file
2. insert (drag-n-drop or insert button) from library browser → segfault

Thread [1] 12403 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	RObject::getId() at RObject.h:92 0x8a11c82	
	RClipboardOperation::copy() at RClipboardOperation.cpp:66 0x8d4892a	
	RPasteOperation::apply() at RPasteOperation.cpp:30 0x8d4841a	
	RDocumentInterface::previewOperation() at RDocumentInterface.cpp:1,766 0x8de19bb	
	REcmaDocumentInterface::previewOperation() at REcmaDocumentInterface.cpp:4,711 0x889aaad	
	0xb6bd813c	
	0xb6ac1f68	
	0xb6a9164c	
	0xa83ced9f	
	0xb6a423e3	
	<...more frames...>	

Inserting certain DXF files with attribute definition entities crashes QCAD.

- Insert a block with block attribute definitions from a file (drag and drop or part library) into a new drawing into a layout block or another block that is not the model space block.
- Attributes that are created for the attribute definitions end up in model space instead of the correct block.

Insert block with attributes: third attribute input not working

Inserting a block with attributes into a drawing with a different unit results in wrongly scaled attribute entities.

Workaround:
Sync block attributes after insert.

Latin characters do not work in version 3.16.5 on Linux, such as ã, õ, é, à, the curious thing is that “ç-” works. If on your machine the Latin characters that do not work are not appearing follow a bitmap for visualization.

Open attached file, edit “outer” block in-place, click Save and close. The attribute of “inner” block disappears.

Version:
3.26.4.5 (3.26.4.5)

It would be extreamly useful to have an additional info tool to be able to find the centre of gravity (centroid) for an irregualr polygon.
For info please see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid

Actually a tool whicn gives an option for finding the centre and centroid of polygons would be good.

Info: area: display result in dimension display format

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?p=4810#4810

Select entities then type IS or select “total length of selection” from Info menu. No visible report of total length appears.

Add an option to measuring tools to add results permanently to the drawing (on current layer, with current layer attributes).

XP/32

Info Tools - Area: “Add measurement to drawing” doesn’t work as expected

Drawing preferences / dimension = Fraction

Info Tool, Polygonal Area shows decimal units instead of fractions.

3.0.8
Setting:
Application Preferences - Widgets - Command line - Show information as dialog: Ticked!

If I use the Info Tool Polygonal Area and decide to close it with a right mouse click the “Show information” dialog window pops up - just as expected.
If I close the Dialog window with the OK Button .... a “CAD Tools” Menu pops up. Not expected

By the way - any chance to control the number of digits after the decimal point in the Info dialog window? 15 decimal places are most of the time just to much!

Print “Command Line” and as “Add measurement to drawing” works as expected.

Selecting Info // Polyline area
And hovering over a drawing with all kinds of entities.
Does not find any polyline on the drawing hovering over them.
Nor clicking on them.

Not a locked layer issue.
All are visible.

no task description

Info arc area specified on drawing is no where near the same as shown in properties editor.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=7728

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