QCAD Bugtracker

In DXF world, as far as I know, colour 7 - white - is magic, in that it shows white in model space on a black background, possibly also black on a light background, and commonly black in paper space irrespectively of background colour. In my opinion, SVG should be considered paper space.

I propose, that white entities get rendered black in SVG files exported from QCAD. What do you think?

Snap to reference points does not work for arc entities as one would expect.
The four points on the arc at angles 0,90,180,270 should be reference points (like for circles).

The QCAD scripts, that contain a great deal of functionality in the QCAD framework, are so to say open source, in the limited, still powerful, sense that they can be read, inspected and single-handedly adapted to local needs. Wouldn’t it make sense to store these in a public source code repository?

So to allow closer tracking of development, eg. Of course, all of the scripts would then have to know which release of the /kernel/ they require as a support. But that should be a good thing anyways, as soon as a community of framework users arises, wasn’t it?

QCAD 3 TP1 cannot export to PNG (or any other bitmap format). QCAD 2 lets set width and height in pixels of the file to be created. The drawing is then scaled proportionally to fit that. Leaving the height value empty will crash QCAD 2. QCAD 2 will also pad the image with an unspecified value that gets (both absolutely and relatively) smaller when the size increases…

QCAD 2 interface is simple and should meet most users needs. It would be nice to calculate the missing value, if only width or height is set. Some padding might be necessary only when antialiasing is done on export.

Setting scale and DPI instead would require more thinking on users side…

Implement measurement (info) tools (see QCAD 2)

Limit preview shapes / entities by user configurable number

Explode blocks

Image: move reference points to scale

implement

• Save drawings on exit
• 10min time limit
• markers in
  • PDF export
  • BMP export
  • SVG export
  • printing

Make grid configurable.
Switch on / off grid visibility.

I’ve looked high and low and cannot find how the the Status Bar is toggled on/off as in QCAD2

qcad-trial-bin requires gcc-4.4.4, but I have gcc-4.4.5, so QCAD fails to start.

QCAD should require major GCC versions (gcc-4.4.x), and not revisions.

Support output of results in fractions for imperial units.

Unable to use space bar to focus on command line to type in commands etc as in Version 2. Need to click in the command line first in order to do so - much easier to use press space bar!

It might be an oversight from my side, but when I do Edit Block from reference, I don’t see how I can go back to the original drawing.

DWG files created with QCAD display really fine now in autocad. There are only two minor issues for ACAD users:

1) ACAD complains, that they were not created with a licensed application. One may not be able to work around that one...

2) ACAD complains, that the file does not specify a codepage. For this one, there should be a way around, shouldn’t it?

I am very happy with the compatibility in the new QCAD. Thank you very much for all the efforts that went into it!

Peter

Allow users to enter numeric values as fractions in the format ‘number numerator/denominator’, for example ‘7 3/4’.

Values might also be represented that way in the property editor and in other places of the user interface if desired by the user.

Provide option to hide scroll bars.

Disable grid snap for auto snapping or otherwise configurable auto snap.

Show / hide block references from block list (eye-icon)

Trial version: dockable with static web page (links, special offers, ...)

When many tabs are open, the name of contained drawing is not fully shown. One way that some mdi applications do, is to append the name of the active tab to the top window title, which is also useful in other ways. At least a tool tip with the full name of the file on the tab top was nice.

It was nice to specify the default Format for saving files. 2010 is too young for distribution to unknown users, better use 2004 or so...

Trim ellipses

Break out segments of ellipses

Perpendicular (orthogonal to entity) snap onto closest entity.

TODO:

• Ask user to enter block attribute values when inserting block
• If attribute definition changes (tag changes), update attributes accordingly (note that other CAD systems don’t do this)
• Support for multiline attributes
• Control order of attributes (as shown to user in property editor, when inserting blocks)

DONE:

• Defining new block attribute definitions (constructing block attribute definition entities)
• Editing block attribute definitions (property editor)
• Synchronize attributes based on attribute definitions (position, angle, size, ...)
• Loading block attribute definitions from DXF / DWG
• Saving block attribute definitions to DXF / DWG
• Loading block attributes from DXF / DWG
• Saving block attributes to DXF / DWG

Related commands: DDATTE, ATTEDIT, ATTDEF

Toggle grid in view tool bar

Define grid origin

Support drawing linetype scale factor (LTSCALE)

Calibrate printer X/Y ratio and possibly scale to allow accurate printing even on inaccurate printers.

Hello. My question is: can I run my script under Linux QCAD using Linux command prompt.
Something like this. Print in terminal: “./qcad myscript.qs” And can the script executing without QCAD GUI? I need to make my drawing by printing specific command in linux command prompt without using GUI. So after script end his work I want to have my drawing at destination directory.

Thank you.

You removed the button to show and hide grid

I cannot find it and when I turn the grid off and on

Switch grid from orthogonal to isometric.

Polylines may consist of lines and arcs. The SVG PG exporter writes them as all straight lines. A better mapping than polyline then was path, as is done with arcs now.

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.

The capability of running headless, ie. without GUI, is a very welcome addition to QCAD. I suggest one more improvement:

When an exception occurs in a script (running from autostart) and no-gui was opted for on the command line, QCAD should not try to bring up the debugger ever (regardless of any preferences), but print the message of the exception and possibly a backtrace instead.

Otherwise all errors will produce the same message…

SvgExporter.js uses PrintPreview to parse the scale string, and therefore depends on the qt GUI part. That should not make maintenance harder to call RMath directly there? Results seem to match from a first look.

--- SvgExporter.js~	2011-10-20 14:11:45.527589416 +0200
+++ SvgExporter.js	2011-10-20 14:12:46.277502814 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 include("scripts/library.js");
 include("scripts/date.js");
-include("scripts/File/PrintPreview/Print.js");
 
 /**
  * File exporter implementation for the SVG format.
@@ -116,7 +115,7 @@
     this.svgUnitAbbr = ret[1];
 
     // scale
-    this.scale = Print.parseScale(this.scaleStr);
+    this.scale = RMath.parseScale(this.scaleStr);
 
     var bb = this.doc.getBoundingBox();
     var size = bb.getSize();

Print preview: auto center / scale

Text tool: options tool bar with text, angle, text height.

PDF Export: from file menu

1. When selecting the Scissors function, it deactivates after the cut is done. One can therefore not continuously select lines and cut it at the selected point. Each time the function has to be activated from the start.