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Text on dimension disappeared on linux version. => Solved

Post by totoetsasoeur » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:59 am

Dear Sir,
I did a small drawing with a few dimensions on QCad-pro 2.2.2.0 for linux. Everything went fine.

Then I saved my drawing and quit QCad.

When I open the drawing again, all dimension value (the text over the arrow) had disappeared!!!

I thought my file got a problem, so I launched QCad on windows_XP and actually all the text on dimensions were here. Then the file is alright.

Would you please tell me what is going wrong on my linux QCad and point out any workaround?

Thank you for answering.
Best regards.
Stephane
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Post by andrew » Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:04 am

Please refer to our FAQ at:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad_doc_faq.html#11

11. I can create dimensions but they show no label

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Post by totoetsasoeur » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:27 pm

Thank you for so fast answering.

When I launch Qcad with:

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~$ /usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86/qcad
Qcad displays text on dimensions as expected. Exactly what you are saying on your faq #11. :D

However, I thought that adding to my PATH variable the path of qcad would do the same. Here is a part of my ~/.profile:

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PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86/
export PATH
Then I can launch directly qcad from my home directory with:

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~$ qcad
But the text on dimensions are NOT displayed in this case. :shock:

Would you mind telling me what am I doing wrong with my PATH variable?
Thank you
Stephane

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Post by andrew » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:45 pm

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/usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86/qcad
Is OK, since QCAD can 'see' the full path it was started with and therefore knows where its resources are.

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cd /usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86
./qcad
Also OK. Resources are in the current working directory of QCAD.

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PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86/
export PATH 
qcad
Not OK. QCAD has no way of knowing where the fonts, hatch patterns and other resources are.

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Post by totoetsasoeur » Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:44 pm

Eventually I added the following alias in my ~/.profile:

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~$ vi ./profile
...
alias qcad='/usr/local/qcad/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86/qcad'
...
Which gives the expected results:
- launch qcad from my home directory.
- qcad knows where its ressources (fonts, etc...) are.

Thanks for your help.
Best regards.
Stephane

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