QCAD Bugtracker

If a file is opened whose filename contains an ampersand, the filename will be rendered correctly in the application titlebar, but the tab bar and the Window menu will not display the ampersand.

If, however, the ‘alt’ key is pressed, the ampersand will result in an underscore appearing beneath the character immediately following it in the filename string. This applies both to the titlebar and the Window menu.

Interestingly, this can be “exploited” by a user to quickly switch between tabs by pressing ‘alt’ and the character which follows the ampersand simultaneously. Likewise, a user can swap between windows using the Window menu in a similar fashion, by first pressing Alt+W, then Alt and the same key as before.

The expected result is that the ampersand is rendered, the underscore is not rendered, and the ‘alt’ key shortcuts don’t work.

It would appear that this is a simple case of failing to properly escape the ampersand in filenames before passing the filename string to various Qt methods.

The -block argument should allow layout names instead of block names (which are not persistent for layout blocks).

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8347

Insert block with multiple instances of the same attribute definition (same tag).
Attributes combo box shows multiple entries for the same attribute.

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8334

When scaling linetypes the scale will change to proper size, after selecting the line again the line reverts to solid (or improper scale). Select the line a third time returns to proper scale.It appears the linetype scale is not functioning properly in 3.26.1.I have attached example files of the issue in both the 3.25.2 pro version (work correctly) and 3.26.1 pro (does not work properly) as well as the linetype file I created.

Also see the forum post:
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8329&sid=81596c5817d508fed9370f5fccc561bd

(CU) Convert Drawing Unit (inch, mm etc) to none fails with the message “Warning, Unit “None” selected. Nothing to be done”.
In the same drawing I can change the Drawing Unit below “Drawing preferences/ Drawing Unit” to None without any problems.

Andrew,

Reading:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?&t=8286

Can you update addSimpleText() as Text.Width is fixed =100

What is the noTextWidth value?

As far as I can detect ...
PrintPreviewImplPro.prototype.addDecorations uses value 1.
CrankWheel.js uses value 1.
ExText.prototype.beginEvent uses value 2.
ExDrawFonts.prototype.beginEvent uses value 1.
Counter.prototype.getOperation uses QCAD.ini or default zero.
TextAlong.prototype.getTextData usses the width of the textData from the dialog.

Regards,
CVH

When I use poly.appendVertex(vector, bulge) the polyline is finally created with NAN widths

This, while the signature explains that bulge, width1 and width2 default to zero.
https://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/developer/class_r_polyline_entity.html#a9ee706e50d6cc267fc84a85b7c81d5e6

Regards,
CVH

Switching CAD font creates wrong space to previous text block.

Example:

A\FStandard|c0;B

Space is too large for small texts, too small for large texts (does not scale with text height).

First reported at:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8289

Rectangle area selection doesn’t work on ALL Ordinate dim’s.

Related to?
https://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=2214

A block selection in Model_Space with the rectangle area selection tool fails because the block reference is located at an unexpected location. If I catch by accident the reference point or do a simple mouse click selection it will work.

I’d like to change the f5 shortcut from rotate counter-clockwise to move/copy.

I started with a fresh QCAD3.conf

In the preferences window: general: tool settings

First time I remove f5 from rotate counter-clockwise qcad crashes.
Second run it seems to work.
I add the shortcut f5 to move/copy and restart.
The shortcut doesn’t work. And tool settings has a notice that there are conflicts.
When I change it to f3 it works.

btw the shortcut column don’t show any shortcuts. See screenshot.

Using block library and inserting a block automatic snapping is broken id the block is mirrored.

Attached is one of the blocks causing the error and a screengrab.

Tried this on another machine with 2.6.2 with same bug

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=2204

Circular ellipse arcs are exploded correctly, however, almost circular ellipse arcs are not.
Tolerance issue.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8251

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6493

see https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8227&sid=6a935d92bc5b141f951f9489fd57a76d

QCAD Professional
Win7 32bit wininstaller
Version: 3.25.2.13 (3.25.2.13)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Feb 12 2021
Revision: cad2d36
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

Andrew,

Break out Manual (B2) on Arc and open Polyline results
seems to depend on the breakpoint picking order.

A segment is broken out when the picking order is in the entity orientation.
The intended behavior.

That differs when the picking order is opposite the entity orientation.
One would expect that the picking order matters when removing
a segment between the picked points.

Example file included

Noticed while merging code to PolyLineBreakSymbol.js
https://github.com/qcad/qcad/blob/master/scripts/Misc/MiscDraw/PolyLineBreakSymbol/PolyLineBreakSymbol.js Line 300-312 orders cut points on distance from start.
Otherwise, the results where inconsistent.

Regards,
CVH

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8237

Sporadically, when I open a file, everything in it has rotated 180 degrees from when I last edited that file.

no Idea ehat this is about, definately a bug.

BR

Ola, Sweden

I was editing a block using the “Edit block in-place” and then (because I was exploring QCad a little) tried the “Purge unused blocks” option. I suspect that the purge removed the block I was editing, since when I now click “Save and close”, I get “Original block not found”. Also when I click “Cancel”, I get “Original block reference data not found”.

Recreating an empty block with the same name fixes this, and “Save and close” seems to work as expected again.

This is probably very much a corner case which is not really important, but I wanted to report it just so it is known.

All linetype patterns are displayed too large.

Block contains a polyline with customized width

Works flawless with 3.25.0

Reported by claudioarch
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8205

It would be nice if we could use the length of a polyline as a search criterion too.

Selection Filter, Property for Polyline, “Length” Comparison: same like Line?

Thanks.

Andrew,
This is bugging me for over a year now.
I filed it as a feature request as it is dismissed twice as a possible bug on the forum.
In both cases the advice is to only use Specific Scale 0 for Leaders.
(... and adapt all other dimensions to that)

I am aware that an arrow head has to fit twice on the first leg of a Leader Entity.

The size is set global in the Drawing Preferences under Dimension Settings: ‘Text Height’.
Under Dimension Settings, there is also a global ‘Size scale factor’.
And every dimension entity has a Specific Property called ‘Scale’ that supersedes this global ‘Size scale factor’.

Proof of concept: Dim size 5 and for any regular dimension.
1) Size scale factor 1, Specific Scale 0 » text height & arrow length = 5 units.
2) Size scale factor 2, Specific Scale 0 » text height & arrow length = 10 units.
3) Size scale factor 2, Specific Scale 1 » text height & arrow length = 5 units.
4) Size scale factor 1, Specific Scale 2 » text height & arrow length = 10 units.
5) Size scale factor 10, Specific Scale 0.5 » text height & arrow length = 2.5 units.
6) Size scale factor 99, Specific Scale 0.1 » text height & arrow length = 0.5 units.
→ Obvious is that the ‘Specific Scale’ supersedes the dimensions ‘Size scale factor’.

Those two last Leader arrows (2.5 & 0.5 long) would definitely fit twice on an 8 units long first Leader leg! And they do perfectly while drawing them.

However, the arrow will be reset when the file is saved & loaded.

For case 5 the first leg has to be (2 times 5×10) 100 units or over so an arrow 2.5 long remains on save (=40 times). In the absurd case 6 that would be (2 times 5×99) 990 units or over for an arrow only 0.5 units long (=1980 times).
Verfied and true.

It seems that on save/load:
The Specific Scale is not taken into consideration while evaluating ‘At least twice’.

Apart from that they render fine when first drew.
And reappear when setting the arrow back on again after load.

Regards,
CVH

QCAD Professional
Win installer 32 bit
Version: 3.25.2.13 (3.25.2.13)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Feb 12 2021
Revision: cad2d36
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

Andrew,
While enhancing DrawFromCSV: Forum Link.
I had a peek at the new command line tool: dwg2csv

I would never come up with 115 columns.
That wouldn’t be efficient to generate entities from.
Although this way it is very complete and one could use specific lists to filter.
One downside is that the ‘-list’ switch return is far too vast for the windows command line.

Remarked that:
Only the first alphabetically custom property is listed under:
QCAD:Line & QCAD:Reference (columns 114-115).
And that the last encountered is persistent for all entities that follows.

Maybe this originates from a multiple entity selection ...
... what also retains the last encountered custom properties in the property editor.
Should I add a seperate task for that?

Also had an exception thrown:
Debug: dropped global XDATA (no res buf): “ViewportCenter”.
Discarted that as this very basic test drawing hasn’t even a Viewport.

Regards,
CVH

Added: Snippet from DrawFromCSV code (merely a test case)

CSVcomma/semicolon
Offset;50;50
Point;39,789355;-0,815325;+[Custom;Reference:101];
Point;38,49526;4,014304;+[Custom;Reference:102;Line:56]

The two points, and only those two points, are casted with custom properties
QCAD|Reference|101
QCAD|Reference|102 & QCAD|Line|56

Added: The dxf file
Added: The csv file (change to the comma/semicolon style)

When user activated LIne → Parallel (LP), there’s two input fields - Distance and Number. Keyboard shortcut Alt-N activated Number input field very well, but shortcut Alt-D activate menu Draw instead. So user forced to point Distance input field by mouse.

That’ because conflicting letter D.

Make a letter as shortcut (Distance) will remove problem b’coz no menu or option assigned to Alt-A combination

I added a link to a short video showing the issue.

In that case I set the `X Scale` property to `0.5`. When reopening the file after saving it, that property turned back to `1`. Other values (e.g. `2`) give the same result.

When importing dxf-file or pasting dxf-drawing from other window old content from a previous import is pasted. This seems to be connected to the opened file and can not be replaced, thus making it impossible to add new parts to the drawing. Clipboard Display shows correct part, not the same as what is pasted.

Version:
3.25.2.0 (3.25.2)
Webbsida:
QCAD.org
Byggdatum:
Sep 4 2020
Revision:
4a61501
Qt Version:
5.13.2
Arkitektur:
x86_64
Kompilator:
MSVC++ 14.0 (2015)

spam

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no task description

That would ease this task:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8000

Correct surface area included.
CVH

QCAD Professional
Win7 winInstaller 32bit
Version: 3.25.2.7 (3.25.2.7)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Dec 16 2020
Revision: e06f230
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: i386
Compiler: Unknown

Include file was open when using ‘Edit Block In-place (BB)’ in an other drawing.
Happend on 5/1/2021 just before 2:56 am
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?&t=7945#p31055

‘Edit Block In-place (BB)’ is never used in this drawing.
There was never a Block in this file.
I might have switched focus.

Re-installed QCAD a dozen times meanwhile.
Wiped all what remained of QCAD twice.
Cleaned up the windows registry twice.
Lastly left out all kinds of my custom scripts.
Simply a bare install with the msi file.

How to replicate:
- Start QCAD in normal mode
- Load included file
- Set App.Prefs .. Startup .. Restore open files
- Close QCAD
- Start QCAD in debugger mode
(-rescan -enable-script-debugger -always-load-scripts)

Boot fails.
Every successive trial.

When booting in normal mode I see the BB options toolbar blink shortly.

3 Screengrabs in DebuggerModeError.zip in the same topic.
The blink I can’t catch.

I can Boot with no file to retore on open in debugger mode and load the file.
I have several of those files, all were open that day at 2:56 am

CVH