File > New from template does not show the dialog and shows a spinning wheel instead.

Andrew,

Related topics:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10567 https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10563

Regards,
CVH

Andrew,

Related topic:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10562

From the looks of it the cursor image data is read at a wider pace as it is stored.
One can distinguish the double cross positioning QCAD cursor but it is shifted.

Regards,
CVH

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10563 https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=10567

Exception in CAM simulation when previewing tool position.

When screen-based linetypes are enabled, the zoom box width depends on the zoom level and can get very wide / thin.

Context menu of dimension text label line edit widgets offers a <> entry which does not insert <>.

Label position is only reset on reload / entity regeneration.

Affected tools: Insert Bitmap (keep proportions), Rotate (by mouse), Scale (by mouse).

See also:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10598

If nesting preference “Place small parts into holes of other parts” is disabled there may be fewer solutions or no solution if rotations is set to 1.

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

When using PDF Export I see different lineweight to using dwg2pdf. See Different lineweights PDF Export vs dwg2pdf

Hi,

tested with back_plate.dxf (QCAD Tutorial Example)

Drawing is original mm, metric, A4. Printprewiew works, Autofit Drawing to page etc. works as expected!

In Drawing Preferences: Changed settings to inch, imperial, Ansi A
Printpreview works but options like
“Autofit Drawing to page” and “Autofit pages to drawing” are not working as usual ...

Went back to mm etc - everything works again as expected.

The option “true scale” has no effect, projected result does not use true scale.

Clicking “Set to Printer Margins” has no effect.

I’m seeing only a partial hatch in the shape. See here for details.

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

Andrew,

It seems that Attribute Definitions are created by default with Invisible = Yes
I can’t control this property on creation.
I can select the newly created Attribute Definition and toggle the flag.

Consequence when not updating this flag for each new Attribute Definition is that inserted Block Attributes disappear on synchronizing.
See attached files.

The default Invisible = Yes setting is not retained on save/reload.
(You will probably discover these flags to be ‘No’ in the attached files)
Synchronizing after a reload has no longer the mentioned consequence.

On inserting a Block Reference based on a Block with Attribute Definitions the Invisible flag of new Block Attributes is always ‘No’.
InsertBlock.js nor InsertBlockItem.js consider the Attribute Definition Invisible flag status when creating and inserting a new RAttributeEntity object.
e.g.: InsertBlock.js L184-L206

IMHO:
- Invisible = Yes on creation is not the best default for new Attribute Definitions.
- Not retaining this flag on save/reload is probably not intended.
- Disregarding the Attribute Definitions Invisible flag on block insertion seems incorrect.

Related forum topic:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10714

Regards,
CVH

Scale value is not loaded from drawing and shown as 1:1 if the scale is stored as a number.

1) Start with a new fresh drawing
2) draw an object (e.g. Circle)
3) select Layer>Duplicate Layer
4) Proposed name “0 Kopie” is ok, and maybe change color
5) New Layer “0 Kopie” is created but no objects in this copied layer.
6) Select original layer and select Modify>Detection>Detect Duplicates
=⇒ there you find the copy of your layer content twice

Greetings,
I am a user of Alibre Design. When I export the dxf or dwg from alibre the dimensions are shown outside the sheet models.
I tried with different 2D CADs and only QCad and LibreCad give me this type of error.
Is this something known? Do I need to attach more files to understand the problem?
Thanks for your attention,
Greetings,
Francesco Ricci

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

Andrew,

Usage states:
“Default is to explode everything into points, lines, arcs and circles”

In this Forum Topic 10358 you explain to use an exclusion list:
“dwgexplode is geared towards exploding everything. You’d have to provide a list of all entity types that are acceptable (i.e. don’t need to be exploded)”

Your example list includes the entity type ‘Splines’.
Marking splines entities as acceptable or not contradicts that they are never exploded.

But in the code itself is stated:
“explode texts to splines, arcs, lines”

TTF text is indeed exploded in mostly splines and some arcs or lines if that is appropriate.

All depends on the intended behavior ...
Related forum topic:
https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=10767

Regards,
CVH

Add PDF export from print preview.

QCAD introduction Book

User Reference Manual

done

<p>
			The paste command inserts
			the entities previously copied to the
			clipboard. Paste is
...

var actions = RGuiAction.getActions()

BiLibrary.createAndSaveButton(iconSvgFile, pngFile);

<h2>[Title]</h2>
<b>Toolbar:</b>
[icon]
<b>Menu:</b> [Top menu] - [Menu entry]
<b>Hotkey:</b> [two letter code or hotkey]

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1. before save: copy existing file (drawing.dxf) to temporary file, e.g. “drawing.bak”
2. save()
   • no crash → remove recovery file
   • crash → file has size of 0 byte now
     1. restore recovery files on next start

for each file in recent files
  if file size == 0
    rename temporary file to actual file name
end

Required for extreme units such as Nanometers or Kilometers. See also FS#20

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• add test for all kind of dimensions

New Tests

Improvements

Stuff that couldn't be tested

example file generator: adjust the print settings automatically, so the example file can be immediately printed to the chosen paper format / orientation without having to adjust the scale / offset

Support arrays of block inserts.

The script in the application directory only works when called from within this directory like that “./qcad”. I suggest below alternative, that can be called from any place, as above and also with an absolute path, eg “/opt/qcad-3.0.0-tp1-prof-linux/qcad”:

#!/bin/sh

EXE=${0##*/}
DIR=${0%$EXE}
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${DIR} ${DIR}/qcad-bin $@

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Can only post anonymously, Peter

Allow for multiple authors of one item.

This can be achieved by replacing the rs:author attribute of tag rdf:Description with:

 
 
    "John Doe"
    "Jane Doe"
 
 

Complete SvgImporter.js and SvgImport.js

1. Implement SvgImporter.prototype.importFile to import the SVG file with the given fileName. Reading only all path data without any attributes or transformations is fine as a first step. SvgImporter.prototype.importFile() currently imports one hard coded path data as proof of concept.
2. Implement SvgImport.prototype.beginEvent() to show a file open dialog that lets the user choose an SVG file to import.
3. Support SVG as file format for part library items through SvgImporter

This should be enough to import any SVG file in library/symbols

As of TP1, a script once loaded into the runtime, does reflect changes to the file it was loaded from only after a restart of the whole of QCAD. This adds a considerable time overhead to developing scripts. Therefore I want to suggest a reload mechanism, that works kind of like the one known from a web browser.

As there is no clear separation between users custom scripts and ribbonsoft supplied scripts, checking the modification time for every access to any script might prove a performance hit.

Possibly a user script can be written, to invalidate another certain script and have the runtime reload it from file? I could add that to my menu.

Or as some magic, that can be written to “MyAction.init()”?

Sample RDF File

'1.0'
<!-- copyright 2010 by RibbonSoft GmbH -->
"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#""http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rdf/library"
  "Public Domain"
 
      "en""Bike"
      "de""Fahrrad"
 
 
 
        "http://www.clker.com"
 
 
 
 
        "Giant"
        "MTB 327"
        "en_US"
 
      "en"
        "bike"
        "vehicle"
        "outline"
        "architecture"
 
      "de"
        "fahrrad"
        "zweirad"
 
      "de_CH"
        "velo"
 
 
 
 

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Table "keyword"

COLUMN_NAME	TYPE_NAME	
id	        INTEGER	
text	        VARCHAR	
locale_id       INTEGER

Table "locale"

COLUMN_NAME	TYPE_NAME
id	        INTEGER
text	        VARCHAR

Filename based Keywords

Switch on / off line width display (display mode between normal and draft)

Show area of closed polyline, hatch, solid fill in property editor.

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)