Hi!
I Am making some architectural drawings of my house and have some surfaces that are interrupted with blocks (windows in walls, etc.). The walls should be hatched with the windows appearing over and masking the hatch.
I know that I could use solid fills to fill the blocks, but this will be time consuming as some of the many window shapes are quite complex and contain multiple areas. So converting all of their constituent lines to polylines and polygons would be time consuming.
Does qcad professional contain anything similar to the Autocad WIPEOUT function or are solid fills my only option?
Mask hatch with block without using fills
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Learnincurve
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Re: Mask hatch with block without using fills
Wipeouts are not supported currently. I had a brief look at the DXF spec and wipeouts are relatively straight forward, so there's a good chance they will be added in the future. In any case, I've created a feature request at:
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... sk_id=1106
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... sk_id=1106
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Learnincurve
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Re: Mask hatch with block without using fills
Hi and thanks for submitting that as a feature request. I practiced my polylines and can create enclosed geometries by a combination of new polylines and creating them from existing segments, then setting the enclosed geometry flag from the properties dialog. But even if I fill them with solid colour they still appear behind any pattern hatching I apply to the area around them and neither sending the hatching pattern to the back nor bringing the objects to the front helps me.
What is the accepted workflow to create windows on a hatched wall?
Cheers!
What is the accepted workflow to create windows on a hatched wall?
Cheers!
Re: Mask hatch with block without using fills
Send to back / Bring to front should indeed do the trick. Can you attach (the relevant part) of a drawing?
Please indicate also what version of QCAD are you using and what operating system you are on. Thanks.
Please indicate also what version of QCAD are you using and what operating system you are on. Thanks.
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Learnincurve
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Re: Mask hatch with block without using fills
Thanks.
My bad.
I tried a proof of concept again to send to you and could send the pattern-hatched surface to the back, behind the solid filled area, so don't know what I had missed last time.
My version info is:
QCAD Professional
Version: 3.6.4.0 (3.6.4)
Build Date: Aug 25 2014
Qt Version: 4.8.4
Compiler: gcc 4.4.3
Using Linux Debian sid 64 bit, kernel 3.16-3 default gcc=(Debian 4.9.1-15) 4.9.1
Cheers!
--Marius--
My bad.
I tried a proof of concept again to send to you and could send the pattern-hatched surface to the back, behind the solid filled area, so don't know what I had missed last time.
My version info is:
QCAD Professional
Version: 3.6.4.0 (3.6.4)
Build Date: Aug 25 2014
Qt Version: 4.8.4
Compiler: gcc 4.4.3
Using Linux Debian sid 64 bit, kernel 3.16-3 default gcc=(Debian 4.9.1-15) 4.9.1
Cheers!
--Marius--