How do I divide a line into equal length sub lines?

[bwallum]

Hi

I would like to divide a line to give me equal lengths of line, e.g. I have a line that I wish to divide into 5 equal length lines.

How do I do that?

[andrew]

There's no special tool for that in QCAD 2, so you'll have to construct or calculate that.

QCAD 3 will have such a tool under Modify -> Split Entities.

[bwallum]

There's no special tool for that in QCAD 2, so you'll have to construct or calculate that.

QCAD 3 will have such a tool under Modify -> Split Entities.

Great news, when will QCAD 3 be released?

[andrew]

A QCAD 3 Beta version with the mentioned tool has been released today. Please access your download area to download QCAD 3 Beta. For more details, please refer to:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad3.html

[bwallum]

A QCAD 3 Beta version with the mentioned tool has been released today. Please access your download area to download QCAD 3 Beta. For more details, please refer to:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad3.html

Excellent news Andrew. Thank you for the advice.

Unfortunately I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 64bit and the advice is that QCAD 3 Beta does not work with this OS version.

Should I look towards changing OS or is there likely to be a resolution within the near future?

Kind regards
Bob

[andrew]

Unfortunately, it's an issue with Ubuntu 11.04 64bit which is not providing
32bit variants for all of its libraries. They say they will not
fix this issue (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/783155).

As a workaround, you can start QCAD with a non-GTK theme:

E.g.:
./qcad -style plastique
./qcad -style cde
./qcad -style cleanlooks
./qcad -style motif
./qcad -style windows

[bwallum]

Unfortunately, it's an issue with Ubuntu 11.04 64bit which is not providing
32bit variants for all of its libraries. They say they will not
fix this issue (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/783155).

As a workaround, you can start QCAD with a non-GTK theme:

E.g.:
./qcad -style plastique
./qcad -style cde
./qcad -style cleanlooks
./qcad -style motif
./qcad -style windows

Thanks for the really quick response Andrew. I'll have a play using your advice and see how far I get. One last question:-

If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

Kind regards
Bob

[andrew]

If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

They share no files at all, so you can run them both, even simultaneously.

I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

Thanks. One way to contribute is to sponsor a feature you've always wanted:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rs_donate.html

Sorry about the annoying spam filter - but we'd get close to a hundred spam posts per day without it, so it's the lesser evil I guess.

[bwallum]

If I download QCAD 3 beta and install will it over write any QCAD 2.* files or will it make an entirely new file structure so that I can run both?

They share no files at all, so you can run them both, even simultaneously.

I'm really enjoying QCAD by the way, it takes me back to a program called DesignCad that unfortunately lost it's way. I wish you every success for the future and would be pleased to make another phi nan tial (I'm trying to get past the spam filter you have) contribution towards the ongoing work if there is a method to do this.

Thanks. One way to contribute is to sponsor a feature you've always wanted:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rs_donate.html

Sorry about the annoying spam filter - but we'd get close to a hundred spam posts per day without it, so it's the lesser evil I guess.

Donation (small, I'm nobody grand) done I hope. I'll leave it to you to allocate as you have appeared to have implemented my earlier request. Thanks again.

[andrew]

Many thanks!

[bwallum]

Many thanks!

and the same to you. QCAD3 beta now running in Ubuntu 11.04 64bit using your work-around. Split entities just what I wanted!

EDIT
Just to follow through I have QCAD beta 3 running in 64bit Ubuntu 11.04. I downloaded and unpacked the linux beta file to my home directory. I'm Bob. The start up script, qcad, therefore sits in the folder /home/bob/qcad-3.0.0-beta-prof-linux

To make it run from a Desktop launcher I created a launcher by right clicking on the Desktop, selecting Create Launcher and where asked for a command I used:

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sh -c 'cd /home/bob/qcad-3.0.0-beta-prof-linux && ./qcad -style plastique'

(You need the single quotes in the command). For the icon I chose the new qcad_icon.svg file. I now launch QCAD beta 3 with a single click on the launcher icon. If using Unity with the nice icon column then simply drag your launcher into the launcher icon column.