QCAD Bugtracker

• SEGFAULT when trying to add custom string property to a block reference

back trace:

Thread [1] 5622 (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)	
	malloc_consolidate() at 0xb50470e8	
	_int_malloc() at 0xb5048743	
	_int_realloc() at 0xb504a2d3	
	realloc() at 0xb504bbd3	
	qRealloc() at 0xb535a864	
	QVectorData::reallocate() at 0xb53c78ac	
	0xb58ddc9f	
	0xb5a3f96e	
	0xb5a361fd	
	0xb5a3989f	
	0xb5a39b1a	
	QRegion::operator+=() at 0xb5a3b283	
	0xb5acf62c	
	QWidgetPrivate::syncBackingStore() at 0xb58ca7e2	
	QWidget::event() at 0xb58daf74	
	QMainWindow::event() at 0xb5d2c6d5	
	RMainWindowQt::event() at RMainWindowQt.cpp:624 0x8e86f7d	
	QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper() at 0xb5871d7c	
	QApplication::notify() at 0xb5875b64	
	QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() at 0xb547215b	
	QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb5473457	
	QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb547363d	
	0xb54a2344	
	g_main_context_dispatch() at 0xb4aee509	
	0xb4aeed10	
	g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4aeefce	
	QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents() at 0xb54a2741	
	0xb5932a55	
	QCoreApplication::processEvents() at 0xb54738e9	
	0xb6930965	
	QScriptEngineAgentPrivate::atStatement() at 0xb6bc297b	
	0xb6a41232	
	0xb6a8d39a	
	0xaa2d721d	
	0xb6a423e3	
	0xb6af06e0	
	0xb6ac201e	
	QScriptValue::call() at 0xb6bd2e67	
	REcmaShellPropertyEditor::updateGui() at REcmaShellPropertyEditor.cpp:1,183 0x8d3b975	
	RPropertyEditor::updateFromDocument() at RPropertyEditor.cpp:226 0x8fb3f7d	
	REcmaShellPropertyEditor::updateFromDocument() at REcmaShellPropertyEditor.cpp:111 0x8d370ba	
	RMainWindow::notifyPropertyListeners() at RMainWindow.cpp:245 0x8f9de71	
	RMainWindowQt::event() at RMainWindowQt.cpp:568 0x8e86eb7	
	QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper() at 0xb5871d7c	
	QApplication::notify() at 0xb5875b64	
	QCoreApplication::notifyInternal() at 0xb547215b	
	QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb5473457	
	QCoreApplication::sendPostedEvents() at 0xb547363d	
	0xb54a2344	
	g_main_context_dispatch() at 0xb4aee509	
	0xb4aeed10	
	g_main_context_iteration() at 0xb4aeefce	
	QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents() at 0xb54a2741	
	0xb5932a55	
	QEventLoop::processEvents() at 0xb547131d	
	QEventLoop::exec() at 0xb54715aa	
	QCoreApplication::exec() at 0xb5473701	
	qtscript_QCoreApplication_static_call() at 0xb08dc4b7	
	0xb6bd813c	
	0xb6ac1f68	
	0xb6a9164c	
	0xb083e0f4	
	0xb6a44262	
	0xb6a445f7	
	0xb6bb0f92	
	QScriptEngine::evaluate() at 0xb6bba46f	
	RScriptHandlerEcma::eval() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:790 0x87d5a26	
	RScriptHandlerEcma::doScript() at RScriptHandlerEcma.cpp:786 0x87d591f	
	RScriptHandler::init() at RScriptHandler.cpp:31 0x8fbbbc2	
	main() at main.cpp:256 0x87cf40a	

Inside the application preference dialog:

• save settings (asks for a name)
• restore settings (picked from a list that contains all so far saved settings and some presets)
• export settings (to a file)
• import settings (from a file)

Export / import could be useful for companies to synchronize settings.

This isn’t a real task. You should close it and start opening some real tasks.

The relative zero point mark appears on the print preview screen. I don’t know, if it also gets printed (my printer setup appears to be broken at the moment), but it does not get exported to PDF, so I guess it is only on the print preview.

On a side note, I think that the reset command (qq) should also clear this. The manual states:

The Neutral State of QCAD
Menu:    Edit - Reset
Keycode: QQ

After the start, QCAD is in its neutral state. That means that no special tool is active and QCAD waits for you to click a menu or tool button to start a tool and start doing something.

As there is no relative zero point just after startup, I think it should also not persist a qq.

Quit Menu Item disabled after opening preferences.

System: OSX 10.13.6
Qcad version: 3.21.2.0

How to repeat:

1. Open QCad
2. Open preferences dialogue “QCad Pro → Preferences”
3. Close dialogue
4. The menu item “Quit QCad Pro” is now disabled. See attached screenshot

Repeatability: 100%

I experience long start delays. I’ve trace the problem to the fact that I have autofs automounting my home directories. However, an strace of qcad-bin shows the following:

execve("/opt/ribbonsoft/qcad/qcad-3.12.6/qcad-bin", ["/opt/ribbonsoft/qcad/qcad-3.12.6"...], [/* 87 vars */]) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x1eca000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fd6194ad000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/x86_64/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/tls", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/x86_64/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/x86_64", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib/libqcadecmaapi.so", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/andrew/local/qt/lib", 0x7fff4722f250) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Since there is no “andrew” user here, I have to wait for automount to timeout which takes about 2m and is rather annoying.

Not a major thing in fact, but there is an error in the logo of QCad3.
Surrounded in red in the jpg.

In the website → http://www.qcad.org/qcad3.html
lacks compatibility with Leopard 10.5.8 PPC. I chose QCAD for this ...

OpenSUSE / Ubuntu / Kubuntu: After the first start, the property editor window is (unless the layer list) floated.

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=2887&view=unread#unread

formatValue returns “0” instead of “+0” for negative values that round up to 0 with the configured decimals.

Qcad3 have the feature to print in 3 ways: color, grey and black.

The missing feature is select some layers to preserve the original color in the black mode of print.

A single drawing has an array of options regarding dimension font-size, printout-scale etc. It would be nice to also save Quick SVG Export settings, as can be specified in the Advanced Export Dialogue or in the Application Preferences Dialogue, with each drawing.

Hi guys,

when I export my dxf drawing to pdf, the pdf properties shows wrong “created date”. I am in UTC+2, the date shows 2 hours less.
I exported the pdf at 12:24, the attached ps shows 10:24.

BR,
Soma

Switch “Overlay” Toolbar to visible below:
View/Toolbars and Widgets/Toolbars/View/Overlays, place the Toolbar in GUI, restart QCAD and the Toolbar is back to invisible.

... just cosmetic!

The Option drop down list for rotations (e.g. Paste etc) shows all steps incremental for every 15 degree - but 15 and 345 degree are missing.

I’m happy that we don’t have bigger problems!!!

While constructing around the lack of “Line tangent to a circle, perpendicular to a line” ( FS#881 ) which I hereby second :)), it struck me that it might be useful to have a tool that finds the center point of an existing circle/ellipse, or possibly more generally, the center point of an existing circular/elliptical arc.

Without any selection.
Entities on a locked layer can be selected after choosing:

Asumed wrong
- Modify DI
- Modify B2
- Modify D3
- Modify MT

Questionable
- Modify RM
- Modify CH
- Modify RN Less severe
- Modify OF
- Modify OH
- Modify SS

Regards

Not served with the degration to ‘Suggestion’  FS#1759 .
Demanded closing  FS#1759  & re-entered

Locking entities (by layer) to avoid selection,eg. nearby,very close by or on the same spot, does not have the intended influence.

Asumed wrong:
- Modify DI
- Modify B2
- Modify D3
- Modify MT
These 4 need a single entity to be selected and selection of a locked entity is allowed.(=questionable)
The action will allways leed to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)

Questionable:
- Modify RM
- Modify CH
- Modify RN
These 3 need a pair of entities.
RM: Selection of a locked limiting entity is allowed (=questionable), enity to trim not.(=correct)
The action will trim unlocked entities to the locked limiter.(=questionable)
CH & RN: Selection of a pair of entities is allowed.(=questionable)
Trimming if ‘trim’ is on will not occur because locked and leeds to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)
The creation of the bevel or rounding on an active locked layer will not occur because locked and leeds to ‘not allowed’.(=correct)
The creation, except for polyline segments (because locked themself), on an active unlocked layer will be done.(=correct)

Less severe but still questionable: (because these don’t necerally act on the locked entities themselves)
- Modify OF
- Modify OH
- Modify SS
OF: Selection of a locked base entity is allowed.(=questionable)
The preview is casted only if the active layer is unlocked.(=correct)
The creation is only done on an active unlocked layer.(=correct)
OH: Selection of a locked base entity is allowed.(=questionable)
Selection of point references from entities on locked layers is allowed.(=questionable)
The preview is casted only if the active layer is unlocked.(=correct)
The creation is only done on an active unlocked layer.(=correct)
SS: Selection of point references from entities on locked layers is allowed.(=questionable)
Strechting is only done for unlocked entities. (=correct)

With Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC, in the Property Editor the entries are aligned at the bottom and not in the center. The strange is that in your screenshots on the site everything is correct (http://www.qcad.org/img/qcad3_mac.png). Add a picture for the problem.

When I press ALT + Left mouse click to select overlapping entities - afterwards the icons in the context menu become lost until I restart QCAD again!

I tried exporting a 297x210mm drawing to png with 2970×2100 pixels, lines had linewidth 2mm and resulting lines in png had only a few pixels (instead of the expected ~20 pixels).

It’s wrong URL Librarie on QCAD 3.10

Actually the register is C:/name/etc (wrong write to acces a new library) could’you change the code for write a good URL ( C:\name\...) it’s very important to use QCAD

I have set the delete layer preference to make the next layer in the list the current. This will not work for sublayers. After deleting a sublayer the 0 layer will become current.

Text in layer name input with default layer name should be selected by default, so it can be replaced without deleting text first.

Hello

In the Print Preview or Drawing Preferences / Page Settings if I select a Custom size, then landscape/portrait does not really make sense.

For instance, at work we have a laser cutter which uses a printer driver. The bed of the laser is 600 wide by 300 high. When I wanted to cut
something, I created a custom page size of 600×300 and selected Landscape (because it is wider than high)

Strangely, back in the Print Preview, the page is now sized opposite with regards to Portrait / Landscape mode, which was confusing somewhat.

(see pictures attached)

I think that for ‘Custom’ page size in Drawing Preferences, the option of Portrait or Landscape should probably be ghosted

Then, I think that for Portrait / Landscape mode in the Print Preview, it should display the shape most appropriate, rather than just assuming that the document fits the norm:

1. Taller than Wide for Portrait mode
2. Wider than Tall for Landscape mode

QCad 3.19.2 Professional, 64bit, Linux Mint

Case:
1. Open some drawing with viewport entities on layout block (paper scace). Print Preview mode is “On” automatically.
2. Switch to “Black/White Mode” from toolbar and move cursor on “Viewport” enteties. This entitie is not highlighted. With other enteties all works as expected.
In “Full Color Mode” and “Grayscale Mode” no problems.

For example can try on “flange.dxf”

It would be a nice feature to be able to create an isometric projection of a bitmap.

After each update, I add a dot before the ~user/opt folder (and in the program launcher) created by QCAD to unclutter my file manager’s appearance. Would be easy, I think, to make the installer put the program directly in ~user/.opt, and nobody would miss that folder while browsing through daily used files.

And what about installing the program as root, so all users of a computer could use it without personal installs, and only personal setting files created by users would be kept in ~user/.opt/qcam.

Jean-Claude

Optionally create an (anonymous?) block for the polygon and the text.

 FS#1604  was issued because of non-intuitive hierarchy of the preferences for the Explode function.
The task comment recieved explains the funcionallity in details not found elsewhere.

Indentation of the phrase ‘Spline Segments:’ suggest hierarchy.
Graying out the drop down box for the number of spline segments establish hierarchy.

I open anyting file dxf, the message pop-up : Grounded 0 recursive block references in blocks:

All lines are masked when I zoom. Not easy to work!

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5429

Case:
Drawing with Viewport,
in Model Space - launch Print Preview - Paper size and display ok,
change directly to Paper_Space - Paper size and display ok,
switch back to Model Space - Paper size ok but the Paper display looks infinitive big ...

Print Preview off/on or launching/canceling Drawing Preferences will solve the display issue.

Windows XP, QCAD Pro 3.9.4.0 (3.9.4)
Multi-page drawing, 3 columns on american tabloid landscape (11 inch x 17 inch).
Current view is top right quadrant of page 2, Print current view prints top left quadrant of all 3 pages. Last full print was all 3 pages in full.

File > Bitmap Export does not export non-plottable layers.

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=6364

When placing text on a drawing you are offered with the choice of where you want the origin of the textbox to be. That’s very nice. Image 1 shows an example of text with top left origin. It seems there is already some top padding above the text.

Unfortunately there is no option to add extra padding to the other sides so the text is right to the left border of the textbox. To correct this you have to add some parallel construction lines and move the text a bit to the right. Now the text has nice padding. See image 2.

It would be nice to have some padding options when adding/editing text, like in web-design: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_padding.asp

Select line tool (Line from two points).
Click once to start line
Click again to end line
Now press escape.
Line linking to mouse remains until mouse moved.
Should disapear when escape is pressed to show that the line has been cancelled.

In the Application Preferences (but also in the Drawings Preferences) → Dimension → Default Dimension Settings → Label Format → Linear (and Angular) Dimension → Show Trailing Zeros, the example is wrong if the option is checked.

If a hatch is selected, then rotated or scaled and this is undone afterwards, the hatch is not selected anymore.

“Drawing Preferences / General / Linetype / Scale of linetypes matches the scale of each viewport” is checked by default for new drawings, however the option is not applied until you open the “Drawing Preferences / General / Linetype” screen and click OK – no need to change anything, just opening the screen and clicking OK is sufficient.

... I have the feeling that wasn’t the idea. I’m correct?

Case:
in Model Space, launch Add Viewport, determine the Viewport rectangle - when done QCAD will switch to a Layout Block.
Now in Layout Block, don’t(!) place the Viewport, switch back to Model Space and the Viewport is still attached to the Mouse pointer and you can place it in your Model Space. The source of the Viewport will then disappear.