A Few Issiues
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:16 pm
I used QCAD 3 for my first project today, and I have some mixed feelings about it. Quite a few things that IMHO work perfectly in the older QCADs were tampered with.
That said, it runs quite stable of both Windows and Mageia Linux - the latter which is not supported.
Bugs as follows:
1. Move and Rotate function moves, but does not rotate.
2. Text sizes are not remembered. One has to type in the text size after each pressing of the text function.
3. The properties box of the the "Text" function does not honour if one changes the "Text" value.
Observations:
1. There seems to be little or no improvement in speed. In fact, I find QCAD 3 quite a bit more lazy than QCAD 2 when opening drawings or when zooming in on big drawings. I was under the impression that this would get some particular attention.
Good Things tampered with and with all of these changes, I cannot see the logic or benefit in the change. QCAD is IMO now worse off and in all the cases, it is minor little things that made QCAD so fluent to draw with:
1. Printing is now a real chore. Why is the automatic centre and automatic fit functions removed? That was an extremely handy function and on some drawings I am not able to even find the page to move it to the right position.
2. The "Application Preferences" is still in the menu, but "Drawing Preferences" is now gone and only available once the "Print Preview" is activated.
3. While the new menu buttons looks a bit different, the old style true buttons looks, was a lot more clear. Now there are different styles, but none that gives the "button" look back.
4. With the new "properties" window on the side, consistency was lost. In the old QCADs, all the functions parameters - including the "text" function - the toolbar with the fields that could be changed, was there.
5. It seems that the function for "persistent selections" are gone. Once gain, why on earth omit it?
Now the main function: DWG support. I could open many DWG files fairly well and this support is certainly super! But it is slow.
Also, while an attempt was made to have "viewport" support, I am stunned that "layout" support was not included. I mean it is all there - the layouts items reflects as blocks in QCAD. Is it really so much effort to support that. Layout support alone will give QCAD a lot of appeal since that is a core feature of Autocad, but combined with the intuitive interface of QCAD it can only be a winner.
That said, it runs quite stable of both Windows and Mageia Linux - the latter which is not supported.
Bugs as follows:
1. Move and Rotate function moves, but does not rotate.
2. Text sizes are not remembered. One has to type in the text size after each pressing of the text function.
3. The properties box of the the "Text" function does not honour if one changes the "Text" value.
Observations:
1. There seems to be little or no improvement in speed. In fact, I find QCAD 3 quite a bit more lazy than QCAD 2 when opening drawings or when zooming in on big drawings. I was under the impression that this would get some particular attention.
Good Things tampered with and with all of these changes, I cannot see the logic or benefit in the change. QCAD is IMO now worse off and in all the cases, it is minor little things that made QCAD so fluent to draw with:
1. Printing is now a real chore. Why is the automatic centre and automatic fit functions removed? That was an extremely handy function and on some drawings I am not able to even find the page to move it to the right position.
2. The "Application Preferences" is still in the menu, but "Drawing Preferences" is now gone and only available once the "Print Preview" is activated.
3. While the new menu buttons looks a bit different, the old style true buttons looks, was a lot more clear. Now there are different styles, but none that gives the "button" look back.
4. With the new "properties" window on the side, consistency was lost. In the old QCADs, all the functions parameters - including the "text" function - the toolbar with the fields that could be changed, was there.
5. It seems that the function for "persistent selections" are gone. Once gain, why on earth omit it?
Now the main function: DWG support. I could open many DWG files fairly well and this support is certainly super! But it is slow.
Also, while an attempt was made to have "viewport" support, I am stunned that "layout" support was not included. I mean it is all there - the layouts items reflects as blocks in QCAD. Is it really so much effort to support that. Layout support alone will give QCAD a lot of appeal since that is a core feature of Autocad, but combined with the intuitive interface of QCAD it can only be a winner.