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QCAD introduction Book

User Reference Manual

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			The paste command inserts
			the entities previously copied to the
			clipboard. Paste is
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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]

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

Make grid configurable.
Switch on / off grid visibility.

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.

Angle dimension shows always arrows instead of architectural ticks.

Library browser not in View - Toolbars menu

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

Snap to ellipse / ellipse intersections

Trim ellipses

Break out segments of ellipses

Hide layer / block should deselect entities on it

If spline boundary has fit points, hatch is loaded with visible inaccuracy.

Handle situation in which DB file is locked (from previous crash, ...).

Currently, the debugger is shown repeatedly.

A polyline or polygon created from segments always ends up in layer 0, shouldn’t it stay in the same layer as the segments have been?

Polylines may consist of lines and arcs. The SVG PG exporter writes them as all straight lines. A better mapping than polyline then was path, as is done with arcs now.

Starting qcad Beta 3 with command line argument -always-load-scripts will bring up debugger:

Uncaught exception at /opt/qcad-3.0.0-beta3-prof-linux/scripts/library.js:2: RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded.
2 include(”sprintf.js”);

The labels of dimensions in PG exporter are moved half text-height. Thats a bit much, and actually, no such movement looks more true to the display of same in QCAD itself.

--- SvgExporterPG.js.orig	2011-10-15 18:57:29.994666881 +0200
+++ SvgExporterPG.js	2011-10-15 18:57:39.284666834 +0200
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
         //debugger;
         var angle = this.text.getAngle();
         //this.text.setAngle(entity.getAngle());
-        var offset = RVector.createPolar(this.text.getHeight()/2, angle + Math.PI/2);
+        var offset = RVector.createPolar(0, angle + Math.PI/2);
         this.text.move(offset);
         this.textColor = entity.getColor();
         this.exportText();

Add license header for all ECMAScript files.

In QCAD 2, line type patterns are scaled according to the print preview drawing scale, also in model space.
This is not the case in QCAD 3 and possibly needs a different solution.

Possible solutions:

• two different LTSCALEs for model space and print preview
• same behavior as QCAD 2

The capability of running headless, ie. without GUI, is a very welcome addition to QCAD. I suggest one more improvement:

When an exception occurs in a script (running from autostart) and no-gui was opted for on the command line, QCAD should not try to bring up the debugger ever (regardless of any preferences), but print the message of the exception and possibly a backtrace instead.

Otherwise all errors will produce the same message…

Layer renaming: changing name from lower case to upper case

Print preview: auto center / scale

Text tool: options tool bar with text, angle, text height.

Preference for persistent selections

PDF Export: from file menu

when editing text which contains the degree symbol the proper escape sequence is \U+00B0
Qcad 3Beta3 replaces \U+00B0 with %%[dD]

1. For some reason on the Window machine, the snap toolbar buttons are doubled for all functions. I therefore have two buttons for each type of snap and cannot access the bottom snaps unless I undoc the toolbar.

For some reason, this is still fine in the Linux Beta 3. Single buttons like always.

Reported by: koosjr

1. When selecting the Scissors function, it deactivates after the cut is done. One can therefore not continuously select lines and cut it at the selected point. Each time the function has to be activated from the start.

Add layer: new layer should be active one

Some tool bars (e.g. ‘Block’ tool bar) contain tools without an icon (empty button).
Not all tools are available in tool bars.

Set up fixed grid without any auto scaling or adjusting or meta grid at all.

Simple text tool does not create simple text but mtext.
When changed to simple in property editor, position does not work

- New from template
- Choose template
- File - Save

→ Template is overwritten instead of the “Save As” dialog being shown.

Default paper might be configured as 210×297 inches if inch is chosen as default unit.

Auto fit to paper fails with some drawings in inches

e.g. Bathroom mod 2.dxf

1. File - New
2. File - New
3. Draw line
4. Quit
5. Cancel
6. Switch to first tab

Ctrl-P not working in print preview

Linux only.

Loading QCAD 3 layer names with international characters fails in QCAD 2.

e.g. æøå

Text: non-breaking spaces (\~) at beginning of line does not indent.

See aeg_koe_1_H0_A.dxf

Text: white text shown as white on white in text dialog

See: aeg_koe_1_H0_A.dxf

Text: alignment: simple text starting with spaces or ending in spaces is not aligned correctly.

Text: empty lines do not cause enough line spacing

Dimension: moving label when label is beside dimension line not possible with drag and drop.

Scrolling with arrow keys

Exception when disabling splash with non-english UI language

See also:
http://ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?p=5172#5172

'splash'"Loading plugin translations...""\n"

Uncaught exception at C:/Program Files/QCad Professional\\scripts/Edit/DrawingPreferences/GridSettings/GridSettings.js:40: TypeError: Result of expression \’GridSettings.widgets[\”GridSpacingXUnit\”]\’ [undefined] is not an object.

After the closure of qt debuger another message then qcad finally start
It\’s only at the first start of qcad.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1746

The red and green lines on the attached drawing, created in 3.0 RC3 under WinXP SP3, don’t show as dashed lines. I have verified this under Linux version 3.0RC2. Opening the file in Qcad 2.2.2.0 under WinXP or Linux ver shows dashed lines.

Vista 32bit, SP2

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1767

Import line type scales from QCAD 2 to display the same way as in QCAD 2 if possible.

See:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1599