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When opening a .dxf file saved by QCAD with a name containing a special characters (tested with diacritics), it fails with the following message:

Cannot open file
'E:/tèst1.dxf'
Import failed.

How to reproduce:
1 - Save a file (content doesn’t matter, it’s the same with an empty file and a file containing data) using the name “tèst1.dxf” 2 - Try to open the file
3 - Error message

What is expected:
The file open.

Note that the problem doesn’t lie in the “save” step: the same file, once renamed to “test1.dxf” opens fine.

I have file /home/test/test.dxf . When i try open file from terminal (qcad test.dxf), i have warning “File not found”. When i write full path (qcad /home/test/test.dxf), the file opens.

Hi,

One thing not in the v3 (but in the v2) is the ability to assign a layer to an entity by double click on the layer name (in the layers list)

On V 2 :
1 - Select entity
2 - Double click on the layer’s name

> then le entity is in this layer

On V 3 :
1 - Select entity
2 - Double click on the layer’s name

> nothing change

It’s useful to change it by this way, please make it possible in v3.

Please can you provided a worked example for scripting (I can’t find anything similar in the Help/Book)?

I have a 2D drawing that has a segmented circle that is divided into 12/16/20 segments etc.

I want to show this in a side 2D view e.g. there are 6/8/10 segments visible to fill in a rectangle.

I can manually calculate the distance to draw vertical “fill” lines by calculating the angle of the end of each segment. With the option to rotate the position of the lines by half/third of a segment.

A simple example with only 2 segments visible, it’s 0, 50% and 100%.
With 4 segments, it’s tan(22.5), tan(45), -tan(45) and 90 degrees that’s approximately 41%, 50%, 59% and 100%.

So the task, is to receive the coordinates of the area e.g. a rectangle, divide the rectangle into unequal smaller rectangles.

I imagine that a 3D program can do this, but I want to do something similar. Perhaps this is more easily applied - I’m new to CAD and QCAD.

Under Linux the quantity is not correctly interpreted.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=7784

If I want to draw circle with poin and raduis and write to radus window formula 4^2, Qcad calculates 4+2 not 4².

1. Click line tools button
2. Click button to draw lines with 2 points
3. Draw line
4. Right click
5. Click back button in CAD tool bar
6. Click Circle tools button

Circle tools not shown

CAD Tool Bar: Back button should go back one menu. Possibly use two buttons, one to go back to the previous tool bar, one to go back to the main tool bar.

CAD font styles not saved (except standard)

Hi Andrew,

Cabinet projections are usually drawn at 45 or 30 degrees, having drawn up many furniture configurations over the years, would it be possible to add options for 45 and 30 degrees at all?

Regards

Clive

C++ plugin interface to add functionality from existing C / C++ libraries to QCAD.

With multiple files open 4 of the 5 buttons of the Layer List Widget are acting on an other file that is open instead of acting on the file in focus.
in this condition only Add Layer YA acts on the file in focus.

Not easy to reproduce.
Encountered it more frequent
after copy with ref and pasting.
with more then 2 files open.
with similar drawing file names.
Did reproduce after several hopping between files.
Usually acts on the first open file but this can be different as in the example.

workarround none; save all; close all; close Qcad; reopen and redo.

Insert Block:

If I use the “Flip Block” option (Horizontal and/or Vertical) the Buttons doesn’t remains Highlighted. It should remain Highlighted ...

As came up towards the end of  FS#892 .

What happens is a change in src/3rdparty/dxflib/src/dl_dxf.cpp does trigger a rebuild of release/libdxflib.a, but this does not, in turn, trigger a re-link of plugins/libqcaddxf.so, a (the?) consumer of libdxflib.a.

This causes partial rebuilds to be broken (I think I got puzzled by this earlier too).

How to reproduce: on a fully built tree, `touch src/3rdparty/dxflib/src/dl_dxf.cpp’ then `make’. Nothing but libdxflib.a gets rebuilt.

Linux, gcc:

make[4]: Entering directory '/home/ice/w/qcad/qcad/src/scripting/ecmaapi'
g++ -c -include release/qcadecmaapi -pipe -O2 -w -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x000000 -DQCAD_DLL -DQCADECMAAPI_LIBRARY -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_LIB -DQT_HELP_LIB -DQT_UITOOLS_LIB -DQT_DESIGNER_LIB -DQT_UIPLUGIN_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_SCRIPT_LIB -DQT_SCRIPTTOOLS_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_XMLPATTERNS_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQDESIGNER_EXPORT_WIDGETS -I. -I../../core -I../../core/math -I../../grid -I../../snap -I../../gui -I../../entity -I../../operations -I../../scripting -I../../stemmer -I. -Igenerated -Iadapters -I../../io/dxf -I../../spatialindex -I../../3rdparty -I/home/ice/w/qcad/qcad/src/zip -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtPrintSupport -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSvg -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtOpenGL -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtHelp -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtUiTools -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtDesigner -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtUiPlugin -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtScript -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtScriptTools -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtSql -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtXmlPatterns -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtXml -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -Irelease -isystem /usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o release/RScriptHandlerEcma.o RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp
In file included from RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:372:0:
generated/REcmaZip.h:15:26: fatal error: RZip.h: No such file or directory
                 #include "RZip.h"
                          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile.Release:3622: recipe for target 'release/RScriptHandlerEcma.o' failed
make[4]: *** [release/RScriptHandlerEcma.o] Error 1

Seems to have been introduced in 854baacb, it seems.

Just installed (31 jan 2015) on Win 7 64 bit. Two bugs are immediately apparent...

 bug 1 : Network drives are not listed in the file open or import dialogs - no way to access files stored on networked drives. (This is not a windows configuration error- all my other apps work perfevtly ok.)

 bug 2 : After about 5 minutes of initial exploration immediately after installation a window pops up... Trial Expired: The trial add-on CAM is no longer active (restart required).

Note: I do have neither of these problems on Windows XP (32 bit) which I installed yesterday

Spotted a bug with Polyline > Offset (OQ)

On the attached file (png image, link : http://nikel.ovh/~tukuyomi/oq_bug.png ), the white entity is a polyline (1 line, 1 arc, 1 line).
Using Polyline > Offset (OQ) with a big value (1100 in my case), I expect to get the green polyline.
What I have is the red one (also CPU is maxed for some seconds every time I move the mouse.)

If in the file’s name I’ve “/” (for ex. 2012/02/10) QCAD substite with “:” (2012:02:10). Regard the file’s name in the tab of QCAD.

Windows 8.1

Layers lost when using Isometric Projection tool

Test case

1.Set up layers.
2.Draw shape (I used a square).
3. Select shape and use Isometric tool (PJ).
5. Layers are lost as soon as reference point is selected.

please see screenshots:

Please see topic:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2445

Windows 7-64

Please see attached a simple test to demonstrate the problem.

Breakout tool

1. When selecting the top half of the circle - the top half of the circle ‘breaks’ out as expected.
2. When selecting the bottom half of the circle - the whole circle disappears!

Autotrim tool

1. When selecting the top half of the circle - the trim seems to work.

2. When selecting the bottom half of the circle - no trim happens at all!

Break out segments of ellipses

See fs731.dxf

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3005

break out for top segment of arc broken

Make sure that block references of hidden blocks cannot be selected.

Using the bold function (button) in the text editor causes transaction fail on new text entries. Emboldening selected text on existing text shows bold in the editor but this does not carry through to drawing or print preview views.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=6377

Regression caused by fix to  FS#1899 .

It would be nice ...

- to be able to use " and / in Block names what is really helpful in the Inch and Fraction world ...

- the ability to overwrite an existing Block what is often much easier/faster than editing a Block

- After selecting a Block you get the info of the Block name in the Property Editor (Geometry / Referenced Block).
If I need to edit this Block I have to go to the Block List - have to search for this name because it is not marked .... and of course it is a long long list.
It would be nice to have a “Edit this Block” Button in the Property Editor / Geometry / Referenced Block dialog ...

Eine Zählfunktion die erfasst wie oft ein Block in einer Zeichnung vorhanden ist.

Hintergrund ist das es damit eine Unterstützung gäbe die das erstellen von Stücklisten etc. erleichtert würde.

Die Anzahl der Blöcke könnte z.B in der Block List eingeblendet werden wie z.B.: “Schraube M6x40 (17x)” oder auch in einer extra Text Liste.
Zudem könnten so auch nicht (oder nicht mehr) benutze Blöcke ermittelt werden wie z.B. “Schraube M6x20 (0x)” welche dann aus der Zeichnung entfernt werden könnten.

Siehe auch:

http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1920

Blöcke aus dem Editiermodus direkt in der Library speichern zu können wäre eine erheblicher Arbeitsersparnis.

Wenn ich persönlich einen Block in einer Zeichnung erstelle überlege ich mir natürlich gleich ob ich diesen nicht auch in anderen Zeichnungen verwenden könnte. Somit erhalte ich leicht eine Umfangreiche Library die mein Leben leichter macht ....

I create a number of library items to create parts assemblies..

I will build a component in a drawing that has other components in its own layer then isolate the component and only select it. I then use Block→Create Library Item to create a component, set it origin and save the item.. When I open the item, there apears to be a set of duplicate lines generated. I have to select all the components and do a detect duplicates then delete them before doing anything else with the drawing.. I found this issue by trying to create a cutaway view then adding a crosshatch. The crosshatch tool does not like lines on top of lines..

XP32 / QCAD 3.0.5

Block with Circles - can’t snap to “Reference”, Intersection.

disable for now or implement

3.23.02 Block toggle switch for visibility fails.
3.23.0 Block toggle switch for visibility works.

Files imported from other CAD applications might contain blocks that are mirrored if the block reference uses an inverted extrusion direction.

Drawing preferences have no effect on point type when printed or in print-preview for block reference points.
Notice in “print output”, the “Dot” (Block reference point) is displayed (drawing preferences are ignored).

See attached photos.

Block references to blocks with an origin other than 0,0 are not selectable.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4063

If I create a dxf in Pro and open it in CE (or vice versa) the block order can change strange and a new Layout Block is occasionally added. Looks like dxf version (R15 etc.) doesn’t matters.

Versions:
QCAD Pro 3.24.2.0
QCAD CE 3.24.0.0

- Select a block in the block list.
- Toggle the visibility of another block or add a block, etc.
- Selected block changes

Block list: blocks disappear when showing hatch dialog

The block hierarchy is lost after saving. Only one item appears in the block after reload, and it is doubled outside, too.

attached file:

Tried to put the four patches and the bar in a “Pzeile” block, this works, but after save and open, only the bar is in the block and is doubled to layer “0”.

The attached file is the destroyed version with removed doublette.

The blocks that are included in drawings by version 3.16.4 do not obey the rule “select attributes along with block references” while in version 3.15.5 in the same drawings and for the same blocks the rule is obeyed.
Note: Blocks already included in the previous version will enforce this rule in the new version.

The characters in Portuguese such as “ç é â ... etc ...” are replaced by codes starting with version 3.16.x
Files created with versions of QCAD 3.15.x whose characters were correct in the Properties List when opened by QCAD 3.15.x appear in this strange way when opened in versions 3.16.x.
However, in the screen and in the extraction of the list of attributes the characters are correct.
Apparently the error only occurs in texts on the Block Properties List and Attributes.
However, you can use correctly the characters in a file created from version 3.16.x

Exemplo: “dormitory’ in portuguese is “dormitório” it’s appear like “DORMIT\U+00d3RIO” when file is opened on QCAD 3.16.x

Create block reference with attribute
Copy block reference and attribute
Paste

The copied attribute is now associated with the first block reference instead of the second.