QCAD Bugtracker

Layers are great for organizing a project. For construction lines alone I sometimes use 3 and more layers. And then there are more layers for each part I design. Each with its own colour.

And when a project gets bigger I start wishing for a quick overview in the layer list to the colours I use on them. So I wish for colour indicators on the layer list to quickly identify the membership of a line to a layer.

I have a small image attached to make you see, what I mean.

light grey is printed as black starting with RC5 (was grey in RC4 which was fine)

I have a diagram with text containing subscripts. Trying to color the text other than black (white on screen) leaves only the initial character of the subscript colored:
I am using the Mac OS X RC3 version.

Steps to reproduce
1. create entity
2. select entity
3. property editor, change color to a custom color
4. deselect entity
5. select entity
6. in property editor, choose custom color

After creating the labels in drawing in Russian (Cyrillic), after saving and reopening the drawing file - changing the text encoding (??????????). Need to re-type the text ... How to fix this error?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create new drawing and fill it with some contents that’s easy to distinguish, for example text “DRAWING 1”.
2. Save it as dr1.dxf
3. Close it
4. Open dr1.dxf
5. Edit it, for example change text from “DRAWING 1” to “DRAWING 2” 6. Save changed file as dr2.dxf
7. Close it
8. Open dr1.dxf (it should have content “DRAWING 1”)
9. Open dr2.dxf (it should have content “DRAWING 2”)
10. Close tab dr1.dxf
10.1 Qcad will ask you to save changes.
10.2 Press “Yes” –> nothing happens, dialog doesn’t disappear.
10.3 Press “Discard” –> dialog disappears, tab gets closed
10.4 Tab that has content of file dr2.dxf (”DRAWING 2”) remains open but gets title “dr1.dxf” (!)
11. Close tab
12. Press “Yes” in dialog that asks to save changes

Results:
1. Open dr1.dxf
2. Open dr2.dxf
As you can see, both files have equal contents (”DRAWING 2”)

Expected results:

1. Files have their own contents.
2. Dialogs asking to save files disappear when checking “Yes”, “Cancel” or “Discard” 3. Tabs don’t change titles and associated file names when other tabs are closed.

Fails if drawing was modified and user wishes to save drawing.

add parameter to REntity::clone to allow cloning without cloning object ID.

The last version (3.29.4) present a very important issue.
When we work with a “complicated” file (about >1MB or up see attachment test.dwg) the cursor and selected object not work fine after move some layout windows in Paper_Space: disappear coordinates informations and snap nodes. (see attachment before.png an after.png)
This issue is present in all Qcad version (Linux, Mac-intel, Mac-silicon, Windows).
The last working-fine version is 3.28.2
I’m a enthusiastic Qcad user and I hop that this issue will be fixed early!
Regards
Arch. Riccardo Beduschi

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10650

“Clip to rectangle / clear area” in combination with a Block will explode the Block and change all line attributes for the exploded ex-block.

Pics: Before / after using the tool.

I’m not sure but if this is a duplicate please delete!

Feature Request:
It would be nice to have a tool what will help to draw tangential circles and arcs between other entities.

I imagine this tools with a three entities (circles, lines) selection or two entities plus a radius.

There is a case that qcad do not detect intersection between a circle/arc and a line. Attached is an example.

Git ec746571 introduced the following artifact:

• Start circle tool, center and radius
• Click on point to select radius
• Circle appears, along with a line to the coordinate system origin; also circle is not closed at around where this ghost line hits the circle entity
• Happens with any circle tool, in slightly different manners
• Doesn’t happen with any other tool, as far as I can tell

100% reproducible, doesn’t happen on git 6171094d.

This ghost line is also added to existing circles; ie. opening a drawing that has circles, a ghost line is attached to each of them. Not always pointing to the origin, but seems kind of random (changes with zoom level etc.)

It doesn’t seem to be a part of the drawing as such, as in ZA will not zoom so that all these ghost lines are fully visible, but the visual artifact remains.

If relevant: Linux/amd64 (Ubuntu 12.04), Qt 4.8.1, GCC 4.6.3, and as said, QCAD git ec746571.

Lines on attached illustration were not actually drawn in any way, shape or form; also they behave as if a particular line and its corresponding circle were a block, except one end of the line is firmly attached to origin.

The attached drawing shows two large concentric circles when viewed in QCAD but the inner circle is missing when viewed in other CAD programmes. This cost $50 in rework as my laser cutting was not cut correctly!

Hi,

I have a circle and circle is not round.
Unit of drawing is in metres and radius is set to 2.38.
The circle displays as a polygon instead.

Task: Selected “all” (Circle + Hatch)
Move / Copy tool,
Reference, move/copy, place, KEEP ORIGINAL, OK,
Undo,
Works!!!

Same scenario but DELETE ORIGINAL,
Undo,
Doesn’t works correctly!

Choose number of copies when using ‘snap with distance to end’.

This might make sense for certain tools only.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1643

Most of the Chinese items cannot be shown correctly. But when I check the qm files, the translation are there and the contents are correct.

I’m using the Pro version 3.21.3.0

Dear Sir:
I am an user in Taiwan. I need to use Chinese. While editing, the font appearance can be display in view port, but after saving-closing-re-opening, the font type is missing. For example, while I type Chinese with font type “B” or “C” and save the file, the font all become font type “A” with reopening and the “Main Font” selector inside “Text” dialog window is blank. I need to re-open “Text” dialogue window and re-select font type, then click the working view port, the display of text changes. Its inconvient. In previous version it’s ok. I can’t remember the exact version of well-saving-Chinese-font function because my computer is not in my house. It might be version 3.1.x. I don’t think it’s a major problem, but could you please deal with this problem while having time.

“Help→Check for QCAD Pro Updates” fails to discover new version. Tested on OSX and Linux versions.

Check for new version of QCAD:

• during start up
• through menu ‘Help - Check for new version’

Server:

• URL which contains current version number as plain text

Client:

• request URL
• compare versions
• different version available:
  • minor update: you can download an update... (1st online page)
  • major update: you can purchase an update... (2nd online page)

I use a font that changes the characters of latin and greek to technical symbols.
http://www.fontspace.com/micronus/y145m-2009 The font is installed and working okee.
But in the text tool → special characters button → others I expect to see this modified character map but instead I see the standard unicode characters.
When I use a gtk tool gucharmap I can see the character map as expected.
Now it is really combersome to enter the special characters.

Changing the unit of a drawing can make QCAD hangs

• Mile: QCAD hangs in endless loop
• Nanometer, Microinch: view turns white, at some levels of zoom, it turns gray
• Foot, Yard: GraphicsView grid too small meshed

You can’t save changes in “Application Preferences > Shortcuts and Commands”!
It works only for the current session - after a restart the settings are back on default

Chain dimensions

Please refer to:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&p=35080#p35080

Can this be implemented as a GUI metod?
Two feature requests: See  FS#883 ,  FS#1449 

Regards,
CVH

My Coordinate Format/Decimal Point is adjusted to Dot’.’ but the “Centreline Cross (C,S)” will only accept Comma for Angel. X/Y works fine!

BTW: Is the spelling correct in the Menu? Should it be spelled “Centerline Cross” instead of “Centreline Cross” ...?

If I launch the CE edition / do nothing with the empty default drawing and then try to terminate QCAD an unexpected warning pops up:

Do you want to save the changes you made in ‘Untitled 1’ ...

Hey - I haven’t change anything and there is nothing what needs to be saved ...

When scrolling quickly, the entire canvas flashes white (some kind of video buffer issue?). This includes the rulers, but excludes the scroll bars and the corner fillet at the top-left between the two rulers. Frequency of flicker is linked to speed too - the more you scroll the fast the flicker.

I’ve marked the severity high - obviously this is not a functional problem, but the strobe effect is causing headaches and may have negative affects for people with illnesses triggered by flashing light. Even with the background set to white, the flashing is still severe - when the background is set to black, it’s unbearable.

Using a Mac Pro (10.10.3) with AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB graphics and dual displays. Happens on either of the displays. Was using an August 2013 build with the issue - just upgraded to latest build and have same issue. Didn’t experience this on previous/older Mac Pro (running 10.8), so suspect it’s an issue with hardware or OS version?

Tried the Beta on Debian 64 bit with the tarball, .. I didn’t want to use installer as I have a working qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86

steve@dolphin:~/Downloads/qcad-3.0.0-beta2-trial-linux$ uname -a
Linux dolphin 2.6.39-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 02:51:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86

steve@dolphin:~/Downloads/qcad-3.0.0-beta2-trial-linux$ ./qcad-trial
#1 SMP Tue Jul 5 02:51:22 UTC 2011
x86_64
./qcad-trial-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
steve@dolphin:~/Downloads/qcad-3.0.0-beta2-trial-linux$

Wenn ich selbst erstellte Blocks Spiegle, funtionieren gewisse Fangpunkte nicht mehr.

In der angehängten Datei, ist der gespiegelte Block und deren inaktive Fangpunkte mit Roten Kreisen markiert.

Ich arbeite mit macOS Catalina 10.15.2

Vielen Dank für das Beheben dieses Bugs, der mich gerade sehr viel Zeit kostet ;-(

- Create block with arc or circle
- Auto snap / reference snap does not snap to reference points at circle / arc max / min coordinates

If third party files are loaded with linetype names with leading or trailing spaces, they cannot be saved.

Error:
“Invalid Symbol Table name”

Polylines that are stored with vertices as separate entities in DXF are not read by QCAD.
See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/posting.php?mode=reply&f=33&t=2531

no task description

Hi Andrew

Using Beta 3 v3 saving files to DXf 2010, DWG 2010, or even 2007 only saves succesfully some times. Most of the time I get a warning dialog stating that “Cannot open file” - no suitable importer found?

Please help

Clive

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4269

The buttons and menues greyed when i open a drawing with doubleclick from windows-explorer (viewer-mode?).
When qcad opened manually and doubleclick a other drawing qcad open this in edit-mode.