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1287 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Information tool shows absolute units in print preview | Assigned | |
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Task Description
With that new feature the information tool shows the absolute paper units in the print preview mode instead of drawing units. So you can determine the exact size of an entity in the printout without manual calculating with the drawing units and the scale factor.
See also http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=3793
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1051 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Info tool, polygonal area, possibility for a postfix la... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
... would be nice.
If I use the Info tool “Polygonal area” with the option “Add measurement to the drawing” I always have to edit the Value to make clear that we now looking to an area value like m² or ft².
I was thinking that a pre labeling (prefix/postfix) like the normal Dim tools could save me a couple extra steps ...
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1502 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Info tool / Setting for Font and Size ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be nice if the Info Tool / Add Measurement to drawing option would use the same settings like the “Dimension settings” for Font and Text height. It’s a kind of similar function in a drawing and should have the same style. Maybe with an on/off switch?
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703 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Info function -> contour for Hatch not closed ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Task: If I like to make a hatch and the contour isn’t closed I get a Grey circle Info where the contour isn’t closed. Nice!
But ..... I have this Info only for ONE not proper connection and only for the moment when the mouse pointer is over the Hatch Tool Symbol.
If I have to zoom into the Problem - I will lose the Info where the problem is
To get the “Problem Info” back I have to select it again - but for that I have to zoom out ...............
It would be nice to have this “Problem Info” longer in the drawing - maybe until I solved all problems.
And it would be nice to have ALL Infos for not connected lines at the same time. It is not really helpful to repeat this function 20times if I have 20 connection problems ... ;)
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2555 | QCAD/CAM | Suggestion | Low | Include tool description when selecting a tool. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
At present QCAD/CAM the tool drop-down box displays tool number and diameter between brackets.
It would be more appropriate to display if it is a mill or a drill and/or the description of such. In a further stage of development ball-nose ... Conical ... And so on.
I have several specialized mills with the same diameter. End-mills, roughing mills, routing mills, face mills ....
Tools 1(ø6mm) or 2(ø6mm) don’t say much if tool 1 is a side-mill and tool 2 is a high speed drill for metal.
Related forum topic: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10722
Regards, CVH
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2371 | QCAD (main) | Suggestion | Low | Include more properties for polylines in the Selection ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
Not OS or Version depending.
We can’t filter on some specific properties of polylines.
Handy would be: - Global Width - Orientation
Specific: - Polyline Pattern But I don’t really search for them ... For some post-op I just need them all to be set to ‘No’. - # of vertices Filtering the complex from the more simple ones. - Including Bulges or not To seperate polylines with arc segments form others. There some operations that don’t really work with bulging. - Z values and/or global Z This would make sense for some but filtering on Z is not common under QCAD as it is 2D.
Regards, CVH
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2506 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | Include arc segmentation for 'milling' On-Path. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Related forum topic: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=10468
For ‘milling’ on path it doesn’t consider
this.arcInterpolation = true
in the custom postprocessor nor the checked option in the CAM Configuration Dialog.
As far as detected the CamArcInterpolation checkbox of the CAM Configuration Dialog is unrelated to the this.arcInterpolation in the postprocessor.
Regards, CVH
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2418 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | Include a GroupCustom widget in CAM Toolpath dialogs. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
Unrelated to OS or QCAD version.
In the postprocessor configuration dialog there is a group box called ‘GroupCustom’. One can add custom widgets to that, rename it and so on.
Such is not provided in CamProfileToolpathDialog.ui or CamDrillToolpathDialog.ui
It should be possible but we aren’t really able to mix up things with the ‘Message’ QLabel ... A reserved QGroupBox would do the trick.
Related topic: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=9647
Regards, CVH
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645 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Inch - Layerdata / Linewight still in mm ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Drawing Unit is in “Inch” but the Layer Data (Line wight) is in “mm” ....
I like it ... but maybe I’m the only one
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628 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Improve workflow for entering tool parameters | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Provide keyboard shortcuts for options tool bar.
Under Linux, Windows Alt+Key shortcuts can be used. Mac OS X does not seem to support this.
See also suggestions at: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2053&view=unread#unread
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1323 | QCAD (main) | Suggestion | Low | Improve command line support in QCAD | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi,
As a typical command line draftsman (still using acad10 for dos, since microsoft doesn’t supoort Win NT anymore), I noticed a severe lack on command line acces in QCAD.
For example I find the icon and pixel selecting methods within qcad very confusing and rude.
With the normal cad Select command I can select exactly what en how I want it.
I intend not to be rude, but I find my drawing screen littered all over with all kind of very specialist menu’s, tools and options. Sorry, I just want to make a drawing at the natural intuitive way, as with a pencil. So I use command line Commands, such as Move, Copy, Change, Select, a.s.o. For a ‘Command scripting’ user (-batching is a different tool!-), it seems to me logical these basic commands should be accessable.
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1185 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Importing Tables (CSV) | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Import tables in CSV format and display them in the drawing as lines and text.
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2428 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Implement reversing Leader entities on creation or afte... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Andrew,
Usually I point to something to start with. Sometimes I want to point away from here but then the arrow is where I just clicked.
An option on creation would be nice. The capability to reverse the Leader orientation afterwards is another method to get it pointing the intended way.
A Leader entity is stored similar as a polyline. I think it would not be difficult to reverse the basic polyline and update the dimension shape accordingly.
Regards, CVH
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1203 | dxflib | Bug Report | Low | Images not saved (dxflib) | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I am doing a bit of landscaping and using a (big) ortophoto as one of my layers in order to sanity-check on the ground measurements.
The layer contains a point and the image and nothing else.
The image is a 8MB file: “PNG image data, 4200 x 2980, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced” and it is scaled to 210 coordinate units (meter) horizontally in the drawing.
With approx 50% probability the image disappears during Save, as see for instance in this diff of the DXF file:
@@ -158699,28 +153057,6 @@ AcDbXrecord
90
6
0
-IMAGEDEF
- 5
-A1
-100
-AcDbRasterImageDef
- 90
-0
- 1
-/critter/HTV10/Ortofoto/ortofoto201502f.png
- 10
-210.0
- 20
-149.0
- 11
-1.0
- 21
-1.0
-280
-1
-281
-0
- 0
ENDSEC
0
EOF
The point in the same layer does not similarly disappear, the bug only seems to affect images.
I have seen this bug from version 3.7.5.0 to git as of yesterday (63e06c778926a803bdfbffdf27b8c24d41511072).
I have not been able to correlate the bug with anything.
Looking closer at the DXF file (attached), there seems to be some residuce of attempts to insert images in protected/invisible layers, so this may be some kind of refcounting issue.
(Any chance of getting FreeBSD into the “Operating System” field ?)
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1844 | QCAD/CAM | Feature Request | Low | HP/GL (PLT) import | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi Andrew
QCAD/CAM misses a hpgl.plt import. If gerber and G-code can, so should plt.
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763 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Hatching with just one click | Assigned | |
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Task Description
My task: To hatch an area.
Right now, if I want to fill an area with a hatch pattern, I have to select all the enclosing objects (lines, arcs) and then I can select the hatch tool. That can be under some circumstances a tedious task. To illustrate this, I created a simple example (see Attachment 1: Hatching.png).
Step 1: Create a rectangle. Step 2: Draw four vertical lines. Step 3: Select the four lines surrounding the first area. –> Problem! The horizontal lines are too long. Step 4: Divide the long horizontal lines of the rectangle where the vertical lines touch. Now the lines surrounding the three areas can be selected. Step 5: Hatch the selection. Done.
Just for fun try recreating my second example (see Attachment 2: Hatching2.png)
Therefore I would like to suggest a far more simple approach.
Step 1: Select the Hatch Tool. Step 2: Click inside the area you would like to be hatched. Done.
Of course that would mean that the hatch style is already pre-defined and can be changed later, if needed.
In this way productivity can be increased by ... [fill in you own estimate] ... times.
Example 2 would need only 13 clicks to hatch all the areas (including the hatch tool button).
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2264 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Hatching segment selection stops at entity - hatch patt... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
QCAD Professional Windows7 pro WinInstaller Version: 3.26.4.5 (3.26.4.5) Internet: QCAD.org Build Date: Jul 20 2021 Revision: e596276 Qt Version: 5.13.2 Architecture: i386 Compiler: Unknown
In the example given by ‘turtle’ .. why_is_this_not_closed-v2.dxf https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&p=34157#p34153
Selecting hatch boundary segments of the horizontal polyline segment at (1169.933593;274.432562)-(1089.933593;274.432562)
Segment selection stops where the AR-CONC hatch pattern touches the horizontal segment. Such intersections points where already no longer regarded as snappoints. See :
FS#2090 : https://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=2090. Related topic https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?&t=7340&p=28414#p28414
Regards, CVH
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1972 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Hatch import fails for boundaries with many very small ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6648
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787 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Hatch generator - plug in tool? | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Would it be possible to make a Plug in tool for a Hatch generator, so custom made hatches can be saved as .pat files?
I have a lot of up and coming future projects that I would like to make my own ‘custom’ hatches for.
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1826 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | guide lines when extending lines | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When using the SHIFT key while dragging the end point a perpendicular guide line is displayed (see attached screenshot). It would be very helpful if other guide lines with x=const. and y= const. are displayed when pressing SHIFT + ALT key together while dragging.
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839 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Grid / Meta Grid info + Drawing Unit Info ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
At our QCAD Drawing window, below right corner, we have the Info displayed what are the Grid / Meta Grid settings. It would be nice to have additional the Info for the drawing unit ...
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1112 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Gradients | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I would very much like to ask for the option to Hatch/Fill with a gradient of one or two colours.
Many Thanks
Clive
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1772 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Go back on right-click on shaded Tool button | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Right-click on the tools on the left-hand side of the screen brings you back in the hierarchy.
However, that does not work if you right-click while hovering above a button that that is shaded (inactive).
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927 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Further options for the 'Add Measurement' tools | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Absolutely love the new options for adding the measurements in the current drawing.
I would like to see an additional option for only adding the text and not the lines also, maybe a simple check box would suffice here.
Of course at the moment I am able to use the property editor to select only the lines and move to a new layer and hide!
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601 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Für Berechnungen neu zu erstellende Elemente Werte von ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Es wäre schön wenn ich Werte wie zum Beispiel Längen von Linien direkt abgreifen könnte um diese weiter in Berechnungen verwenden zu können.
Beispiel: Ich habe eine Linie konstruiert wobei sich eine Länge y ergeben hat.
Nun möchte ich eine Linie zeichnen die 5 mal y sein soll.
Linientool → Wert 5* eingeben und y durch Auswahl mit der Maus von dem vorhandenen Elements übernehmen.
Natürlich könnte ich die Geometrie Info benutzen um den Wert abzulesen oder auch über die Zwischenablage zu benutzen. Ein abgreifen mit der Maus wäre aber schneller, direkter und wahrscheinlich auch mit weniger Fehlern (Human error) verbunden. Wahrscheinlich auch genauer da QCad, denke ich, mit mehr Nachkommastellen rechnet, oder?
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2252 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Freeze / crash when selecting clamped splines (not crea... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8531
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2014 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Focus on Options Toolbar fails | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Scenario: e.g. Tools Move/Copy and Rotate switched to “use without dialog.
Launch within a drawing Move/Copy, use the Keyboard keys CTRL + Space to focus on the Option Bar - the field for Numbers is Highlighted and I can change it. Further navigation with keys on the keyboard depends on remembered option (copy yes/no etc what make a navigation possible or not. It looks like the navigation with the Arrow keys is focused on the canvas and sooner or later the courser will jump to the Command Line or Property editor. Same behavior with the Rotation tool.
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=6828
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2450 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | Flip Block with Attributes horizontaly fails | Assigned | |
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Task Description
A block with Attributes can’t be flipped (Option bar) horizontally. The Attributes will be rotated 180° instead of been mirrored. Other entities in the block flip correctly. Same block flipped vertically works as expected (Mirrored Attributes). Same block flipped with FH or MI works as expected. (Mirrored Attributes).
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2391 | QCAD Community Edition | Bug Report | Low | Fix Dark Theme for Linux | Assigned | |
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Task Description
The dark theme for Linux is broken:
- Some icons have dark background (expected) and black foreground color (that should be replaced by white of very light gray) - Some icons have light background (not cohesive with the theme). - The command history shows dark blue font on dark gray background. - The grid’s ruler shows black font over dark background for the numbers. - The icons folder is missing in the GitHub repository, but other themes have that folder. - The general icons (open, save, and so on) are not dark theme friendly. A better approach for maybe all the themes would be to use something like the breeze icons pack for LibreOffice, and it will have the added benefit of making the app look more modern.
The icons issue is the biggest problem. They should probably replace the black color for white or very light gray. Even the red accent color is not ideal for dark themes, is not the main issue.
Attached is an image that show the problems and another that shows LibreOffice with the Dark Breeze theme for reference.
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1067 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Filling an area with a bitmap | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Being able to fill an area with a bitmap would be a nice addition to the already impressive feature list of QCAD.
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2351 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File Thumbnail Preview | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Could we please implement the ability to display file contents in the file explorer. This would make it easier to decide which files to open.
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586 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File open dialog with preview | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Since this is not supported by Qt anymore, this would likely have to be implemented from scratch.
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1332 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File > SVG Export: export DXF entity handles to SVG | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add handle attribute to exported SVG tags to identify exported DXF entities.
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1230 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File > PDF Export / SVG Export: export layers | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Dear Andrew, just in case you should ever run out of ideas for enhancements; As an advisor I sometimes get PDF files and recently, some CAD drawings contained layers, which is kind of nifty to reduce the clutter.
Sadly though, qprinter/qpainter seem to be unaware of OCG (Optional Content Groups, the PDF jargon for layers) at the moment, so my plea is for the back burner now. Probably in SVG though it can be done? Yet that is of a little less use, maybe…
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2483 | QCAD (main) | Bug Report | Low | File > Open: MLeaders with text not imported | Assigned | |
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Task Description
See also: https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10159
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1471 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | File > Open file location | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When working with several files is normal also to work in several folders, this can be confusing, expecially in the case where there are different folders with equal file names. I propose the creation of a “Open file location”. This, probably under the main menu, “File”, when clicked would open the standard “file explorer” with the folder that contains the current file already selected. It would be quite similar to the windows 8/10 “Open file location”.
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1663 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Feature Request: Export Layers as New Drawing | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hi!
in many tasks in qcad I ended up exporting one or several layers into individual files for some cnc jobs or further processing. So the steps I usually do are:
select all elements on the layer
paste into new drawing
sometimes rename layer names or attributes
adjust dimension settings
save and give name for drawing
Sometimes I have up to 100 layers I need to export like this, so an automatic export for all would be time saving too. But very often a “single click” export method would also help a lot. (e.g. inside the layer list an entry in the right click menue like “save as new file”). Also a multiple selection would be handy if more that one layer should end up in the new file. (e.g. select the three layers that need to be in the new document, then right click and save as new file). Maybe this is too much of changes needed inside the layer list - so something like a separate layer export dialogue would make sense.
When exporting many layers some variables for automatic naming of layers and filename would make sense e.g. user can specify basename_%L.dxf to get the basename_layername.dxf or just an increasing number.
For layers and attributes it is often needed to give a layer a certain name or color for different cnc processes (e.g. engraving and cutting for lasers) or to put everything on layer “0” because of some old CAM software that only supports content on layer 0.
probably many more details would make sense that I didn’t think of yet...
kind regards Martin
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638 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Feature request- text find/replace function | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Feature request- text string find/replace
Scope: entire drawing/selected objects set/chosenlayer only
Functionality:
‘find’ with ‘zoom to’, first, next, previous, last
‘replace’ with ‘next’, ‘undo’, ‘all’
This functionality is very useful when using QCad for system diagrams and the like.
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467 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Feature request for new Arc tool option to add to Arc s... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
For and behalf of mandrena
To add another Arc tool option in Arc tools set:
1.Specify Start point for Arc. 2.Specify End point for Arc. 3.Specify “Tangent” direction (without being restricted in input field) so you can visually select a point on your desired Tangent line!
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788 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Extra option to detect duplicates only in user defined ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be very useful to have an extra option to only detect duplicates within a user defined area.
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951 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Extra Option for Block attributes ... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
It would be nice to have the possibility to control the automatic Text orientation in Block attributes. Something what would work like the DIM restriction: I can read the text horizontal and/or from the right side of the drawing sheet.
Right now I have the feeling that the Text orientation is dependent on the tool what I even use. Different tools = different outcomes.
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776 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Extra ' isometric' buttons for using Line from Angle. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When working with the isometric grid (in any projection - Top, Right, Left) and drawing from ‘scratch’ as it were, without using the projection tools - I find myself using ‘Line from Angle’ the most.
It would be extreamly useful to be presented with two extra buttons when using this tool, a 30 degree button and a -30 degree button, this way I wouldn’t need to keep typing in the angle difference here.
Regards
Clive
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2446 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Extending dimension line beyond extension line when usi... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
I would like the ability to extend dimension lines beyond the extension line when using tick marks. Images are attached and posted here: https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=9785
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2191 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Extend the functionality of the Reorder tool | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Add functions to the Reorder tool, similar to the functions of the counter tool, undo last step and start at any number, allowing corrections and restarting the tool part way through.
See the discussions at https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8170
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1526 | QCAD (main) | Suggestion | Low | Exporting block attributes to CSV | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Two useful commands make it necessary to
1-”delete all the history of the command lines without terminating QCad” ; and
2-”export attributes to the CSV file as exported to the Blocks List”
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1090 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Export only selected layers to SVG and/or export each l... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
When exporting to SVG it would be helpful if there was a selection of layers to export. E.g. when selecting only layer A in the SVG export dialog, only the objects located/displayed on layer A would be exported to SVG.
As an alternative or additional export feature, there could be an option to export each (non-empty) layer to a separate SVG in one step. The layer names could be used as (part of the) default file names during the export. E.g. Layer A of file XYZ would be exported to “XYZ_A.SVG” while layer B would be exported to “XYZ_B.SVG” etc.
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1555 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Export list of points. | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Hello It would be great when you can add a function to export a selected object as a list of points. Is it possible to add?
Autodes DWG TrueView 2017 has this function and it is very useful. Here you can see a screenshot of this function.
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2378 | dwg2svg | Feature Request | Low | Export attributes on block references as namespaced XML... | Assigned | |
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Task Description
dwg2svg supports exporting the layer name (and probably others?) as namespaced XML attributes (`qs:layer`) which works well. However I’d like to export block attributes as well, as seen on the following screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/wUd0adE
(...so `ROOM_NAME` would become `qs:ROOM_NAME=”Eötvös terem”` on the respective XML element).
Thanks in advance.
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173 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | explode text to letters | Assigned | |
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Task Description
implement
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2398 | QCAD (main) | Feature Request | Low | Excessive Autosave | Assigned | |
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Task Description
Autosave currently updates the backup file indefinitely regardless of whether the drawing has been modified since the last autosave. Request only update autosave following additional edits since last autosave.
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