QCAD Bugtracker

Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by ecke - 15.05.2026
Last edited by andrew - 18.05.2026

Hi,

I remember that in earlier versions of QCAD the field type of Referenced Block: in the Property Editor used to be a dropdown list, which used to be populated with all blocks. The selected referenced block was of course the selected item in this list. With this dropdown list it used to extremely easy and efficient to swap out a block in the drawing by simply picking another block from the list. I'm sure this dropdown list was still present in QCAD version 3.25.2.

In newer versions of QCAD - at least since release 3.32.3 - the field type of Referenced Block: in the Property Editor has changed to a simple text input field. To swap out a block in a drawing one does now have to know the exact name of a block and type that name correctly into the field. If the name of a non existing block is entered, the entire field is cleared and the original block is removed from the drawing as well.

For me this is clearly appears like a bug, maybe introduced with an update of the QT library?

Would be great if the old, logical and efficient behaviour could be restored!

Thanks and best regards
Patrick

BTW, I'm using macOS Sequoia (15), which is missing from the OS picker in the QCAD Bugtracker. Also, the dropdown has two entries for Mojave (10.14), where one of them should likely be High Sierra (10.13), which is missing, too