QCAD Bugtracker

XP32 / 3.0.5

Example case:
I open QCAD and I have automatically the “Untitled 1” drawing.
If I open now an additional, saved drawing I have all Blocks and Layer listed and I’m able to work normal with my drawing ...
If the “Untitled 1” drawing is NOT the active drawing and I close it with the X in the Tab I will lose the Layer and Block List (only the List!) in the other drawing ....

I have to play around with QCAD “Window minimizing” “Draft mode” or I have to reopen the drawing to get the Layer/Block List back!
Seems to be a refresh problem .....

Funny is that this not occurs if I have opened a couple drawings .... but in this case I’m able to switch (and refresh?) the drawings with the tabs ....

XP32 / QCAD 3.0.5

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

May relate to 646.

Control Text is Displayed on Drawing created in ACAD.
The Text is representing /p as a new line when I think it should be ignored.
See QCAD PDF I am unsure what this represents in ACAD. /pxqc;

V3.0.0 Windows 7 64-bit

See fs731.dxf

With the 3.0.3 point release (latest available for Linux systems), SVG PG exporter fails to export splines:

Uncaught exception at /opt/qcad-3.0.3-prof-linux-x86/scripts/ImportExport/SvgExporter/SvgExporterPG.js:72: TypeError: Result of expression ‘splineSeg.getDegree’ [undefined] is not a function.
72 var degree = splineSeg.getDegree();

The objects returned from getBezierSegments() do not provide the methods of RSpline.

I am continuing my testing on version 3.0 Final.

I noticed that, with 3.0 Final open, the service “syslogd” (on OSX Leopard PPC) does get CPU consumption up to 100%, making the machine unusable.

This has never happened with the RC2 version.

It’s possible to have a copy of RC2 while they investigated the problem? Unfortunately I have not kept a copy.

I decided to go from version 3.0 RC2 to version 3.0 Final.

I opened the program and I tried to customize the layout of the various toolbars and panels “Layer”, “Blocks”, etc..

On the next reboot all settings are lost and QCAD presents itself as image attached.

How can I fix?

To reproduce:
- Create a part library item with file name “Test1 .dxf” (note the space at the end of the base name)
- Insert this part library item into a blank drawing
- Try to save the drawing
- Error “Invalid Symbol Table Name” occurs

In the attached drawing (top figure) I created an hatch “Solid Fill”. I have saved, reopen and the “Solid Fill” is not present!

No problem (bottom figure) with other types of hatch.

It’s possible to have a workaround? Is urgent for terminate work.

Thank You.

XP 32

Vers. 3.0.0
Mouse zoom in and out with the Mouse-wheel = nice and smooth ;)

Vers. 3.0.5
Mouse zoom in and out with the Mouse-wheel = jumping zigzag ways during it zooms .... :(

In 3.0.5 using windows 7-64 and windows vista.
After selecting to use any drafting tool - either arc, circle or ellipse, polyline etc. there are problems with defining the second snap point onwards whether using auto snap or any of the snap tools,the info feedback i.e. End or Middle etc... is flickering or none at all.

Test:
1.Center, Point.
2.Define center.
3.Hard to define point, flickering occurs on graphics feedback for label.

I`m guessing this is another Graphic display problem here.

Tool “Create Library Item from selection” doesn’t takes the chosen Reference point ....

It seems that QCAD takes something around the absolute Reference by 2 times ..... ???

Steps to reproduce:
- Start QCAD
- Switch to another application by clicking on its title bar
- Switch back to QCAD by clicking on its title bar
- Without any further clicks, start panning using the middle mouse button (panning is performed but graphics view does not update)

Alternative:
- Start QCAD
- Draw a line
- Start line parallel tool
- Switch to another application by clicking on its title bar
- Switch back to QCAD by clicking on its title bar
- Without any further clicks, try placing the parallel (no preview is shown, a click will place the parallel, graphics view is often updated much later)

Task:
I like to draw a line tangent between two circle.

I choose the line/tangent tool - click the first circle - get a Warning Message: “No tangent possible” confirm the Message with the OK Button.
Choose the second circle - get again a Warning Message: “No tangent possible” confirm also this Message with the OK Button.

Result: A line tangent between two circle ......

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

Its slightly difficult to distinguish between the Break out and Auto-trim buttons in 3.0.3 (snapshot) release, even with large buttons!

Maybe a different color - (Green for example?)for the horizontal line between the red dots in the new Auto-trim button.

See forum at:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2249&view=unread#unread

Windows 7 -64
snapshot 3.0.3 - tool input fields showing ' Expression is empty ' , even after inputting values.

Windows 7 - 64
To reproduce:
1.Select entity.
2.Using a ‘docked’ Modify tool bar, click on the Move/Copy button.
3.Unable to move cross hairs to snap properly to a reference point.

* No problems with this from either - the Menu > Modify > Move/Copy or the Main CAD tools > Modification tools or from using keycode MV!
Only from a ‘docked’ modify tool bar.

I was drawing on a drawing done in qcad2 - and now working on it in qcad3 - where I had saved it in the new dxf 2010 format (if this has any relevance) and then the computer ran out of power (old battery - I missed that I hadn’t turned on external power) - and shut down hard.

When I rebooted and tried to start qcad - it crashed on startup - giving only this output:
Debug: TIMER: 42 ms - “loading plugins”
Debug: TIMER: 459 ms - “initializing plugins”
./qcad/qcad: line 38: 2955 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”$DIR” “$binary” $OPT1 $OPT2 “$@”

I then tried removing the entire qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-alt-x86 folder - and unpackaging the install tar.gz again.

It then started up and came to initializing plugins - 79% - and just hung - I’ve attached screenshot.

After I ctrl+c’ed it - it segfaulted and now it won’t even show the startup splash again.

I’m guessing qcad has saved some state somewhere.. but qcad hasn’t made a ~klavs/.qcad - so I don’t know where it is.

I would very much like to be able to use qcad again :(

When I open the part library, it displays a dialog saying “Updating Index”, after it finishes, none are displayed, and the filesystem bar at the top is empty, clicking on it does nothing.

Allow moving (undocking) of CAD tool bar (similar like command line can be undocked).

The scale of the linetypes in model space not view same as in the print preview.

Toolbar act strangely when you put File toolbar vertically on the left or right of the screen.
Also when you put Option toolbar beside File toolbar, its position is not saved accross run, Option Toolbar is “reseted” to a line below

Je suis allé dans Edition/Préférences générales/Widgets/Explorateur de la bibliothèque et j’ai ajouté différents répertoires contenant soit mes bibibliothèques soit celle fournies lors de l’installation du logiciel.
L’explorateur de la bibliothèque reste vide.

Option to add a setting to configure the number (min/max) of segments for splines.

See topic:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&p=7007#p7007

The control characters, such as bold, italic, superscript/subscript, of a Text are displayed explicitely in the drawing. Thus, one obtains not the required appearence of the characters in the drawing.
This occurs when i use QCAD3 in Windows Vista or in openSuse 12.2 on a 64 bit laptop.
If instead i use QCAD3 in openSuse 12.2 on a 32 bit laptop, then characters are displayed in the required appearance. (However, on this laptop i have the reported difficulty in selecting fonts).
If i change back from the drawing to the text editor, then also the texteditor displays the text together with explicit control characters, and not in the original required form.

Menu View - Toolbars shows only a few of the available toolbars.

If I like to import a Bitmap in my drawing I have no possibility to choose a file by a thumbnail bitmap preview. In many cases it is really helpful and I assume it is a sort of standard ....

Dear Sirs,
I have found that QCad 3 does not properly handle the X and Y coordinates of the texts.
In fact, when I open an existing DXF file (AutoCad 2007÷2010), the texts are placed in different coordinates than the original file.
With version 2.2.2 QCad this problem is less obvious.

OpenSuSE 12.2: the grid info display is not displayed:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2178&view=unread#unread

I just use QCAD3 for the first time. I work with OpenSuse 12.2.
After having unpacked the downloaded package, I am able to start QCAD3 with the QCAD command icon.
Check shows that i used the most actual version.
Obviously no further installation steps are necessary.
I am able to draw some lines, etc.
However, when trying to select a font, I recognized that the computer hangs at least for 5 minutes.
The CPU load is about 50%, and i am not able to move the mouse and to do anything else.
During this time, sometimes there is access to disk, sometimes not.
So, in order lo cancel the hanging, i must make a hard system reboot.
Before i have entered the font selection, i have tried to look into the help options.
However, It was not possible to get the FAQs and the QCAD forum, so i am not aware about similar documented problems.
I have looked after similar bugs, using the words ‘text, font’. No similar bugs found.

Ich verwende QCAD normalerweise unter Windows 7 als Benutzer ohne Privilegien. In diesem Modus zeigt der Bibliothekbrowser keinen Inhalt. Der Pfad zur Bibliothek ist in den Applikationseinstellungen korrekt eingerichtet. Wenn ich auf “Aktualisieren” klicke, läuft der Vorgang ab, aber danach ist immer noch kein Inhalt im Browser sichtbar. Starte ich QCAD als Administrator, habe ich keinerlei Probleme mit dem Bibliothekbrowser. Ich vermute, dass bei der Installation von QCAD die Privilegien nicht richtig gesetzt wurden. Eine Neuinstallation hat allerdings keine Abhilfe geschaffen.

Qcad has been open and moved to a secondary screen, and then stopped.
QCad reminds where it has been previously open.
But later when QCad is started on the same computer but with no secondary screen (at home for example), QCad opens outside the only available screen. One can move QCad window on the main screen by right click on the icon in the tabkbar, then move. But one then needs to remember where it has last been openned to move it in the right direction with the arrow keys of the keyboard.

Should not QCad check if the last saved coordinates are valid and enventually change them to a default size and position before starting. May be should it move to such a position when the size of the screen changes and the coordinates become invalid, after redefining the desktop for example?

Before this problem is solved this behaviour and the process to move the window back on the screen should be documented.

To have a tool that could convert splines to polylines would be useful, particularly for laser cutting work where a nice steady flow is needed, otherwise you can get an erratic ‘jumpy’ movement when cutting..
Maybe a ‘two’ step procedure;
1.First convert to arc/line segments.
2. Then if needed convert to a continuous polyline.

QCad Book

Would be nice to have the index linked (like Bookmarks, Hyperlinks, Jump marks) with the regarding chapter.

So that I just can click in the index what I’m looking for and it jumps directly to the correct chapter.

This problem experienced since the first beta in both Win and Linux versions.

When a function (like a line) was selected for use and one press ESC twive to get back tot he main menu, it sort of does not cancel that last function. If one wouls now press on another function (like edit or circle) QCAD goes back to the line function.

the only way to rectify this is to press Esc many times. Sometimes the process needs to be repeated more than once.

I could not yet devise a sure fire way of reproducing this, but it does seems to happen as soon as the drawing gets bigger. I could not make it work with a clean page.

Although not crippling, it does break the elegance of drawing seamlessly and is a bit frustrating..

That said, I find QCAD 3.0.0 now significanlty faster than the Betas when loading and zooming in and out.

Since the new QCAD 3, it is not possible any more to use “enter” in text boxes. The “enter” is always replaced by another symbol, which makes it impossible to have a long text string as a unit - like it always was in QCAD.

Could this please be fixed? It makes text control difficult.

Incorrect rendered faltering types of lines with the dwg2pdf tool.
Some of them: “DOT”, “DOT2”, “CENTER2”, “BORDER2”, “DASHDOT2”, “DIVIDE2”, “DASHED2” and others.
Lines are drawn by the “compressed”.
But when exporting through the menu “File” → “PDF Export”, lines are drawn as expected!
I attach two files as an example.

P.S.
Excuse me and “Google Translate” for my English :)

Other Line tools are offering Reference Points like: “Start” - “Middle” - “End”.

It would be nice to have the same Reference points for “Relative Angle” and “Orthogonal” lines.

Library - Architecture is showing only four (4) symbols:
“ffl, north, uparrow and winv”.
Is this correct?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Reinhard(RM)

Version 2.1:

Managed to use “Snap to grid” as the item was precisely 100mm or 120mm, but had it not been a precise multiple of 10mm there would have been a problem.

Thanks.

Configurable icon size for top toolbars

Import .gbx (GERBER) files with electronic layouts.

I installed the professional edition of QCAD 3.0 on a fresh OpenSUSE 12.1/x86_64 system. After installing the 32bit freeglut (freeglut-32bit-100529-8.1.2.x86_64) package, the application still won’t start and fails with a sefault :

/opt/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86> ./qcad
./qcad : line 38 : 5843 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”$DIR” “$binary” $OPT1 $OPT2 “$@”

/opt/qcad-3.0.0-prof-linux-x86> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./qcad-bin -style plastic
Segmentation fault

Here is a gdb backtrace, hoping that it may help diagnose the problem :
(gdb) bt
#0 0x09af5d81 in ?? ()
#1 0xf4b2ddbf in FT_Has_PS_Glyph_Names () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2 0xf4babe44 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#3 0xf4bac91e in FcFreeTypeCharSetAndSpacing () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#4 0xf4badf53 in FcFreeTypeQueryFace () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#5 0xf4bae654 in FcFreeTypeQuery () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#6 0xf4ba9509 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#7 0xf4ba987d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#8 0xf4ba9a57 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#9 0xf4ba59d1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#10 0xf4ba5c86 in FcConfigBuildFonts () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#11 0xf4baebac in FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#12 0xf4baee1d in FcInit () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
#13 0xf53537e1 in qt_init(QApplicationPrivate*, int, _XDisplay*, unsigned long, unsigned long) ()

 from ./libQtGui.so.4

#14 0xf52d5db8 in QApplicationPrivate::construct(_XDisplay*, unsigned long, unsigned long) ()

 from ./libQtGui.so.4

#15 0xf52d649a in QApplication::QApplication(int&, char**, bool, int) () from ./libQtGui.so.4
#16 0x08b59746 in ?? ()
#17 0x08171cd6 in ?? ()
#18 0xf4bf6003 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#19 0×08171701 in ?? ()
Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further

libfreetype installed version is libfreetype6-32bit-2.4.7-6.1.x86_64

Affects drawings in inch with hatch patterns ISO03W100 and ISO03W100A

When opening a qcad edited or created dwg in autocad, only the first line of text is displayed for each Qcad edited or created text entry.
Qcad 3.0.0 Autocad Mac 2011
You can see that when opening the drawing in Autocad that only the First line of text is present.

This would make it easier to enter formulas using sqrt, sin, cos, tan, ... without the Math. part

See also forum at:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2118

It would be nice if one could
- select
- deselect from the current selection
all entities with a specific property, for example:
- all entities which are texts
- all entities with angle === 180
- all entities with color !== red
The current property editor has the perfect gui for it. On a similar gui one could change a value there which changes the selection instead of the properties of the selected entities.

I think there would be no need for “and” or “or”, if the current selection can be reduced or extended.

Hi, I set Qcad with two viewports and now I can’t modify that setting, except when I open another drawing