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I would like to change the drawing unit from my current drawing from inch to cm. Doing so in the current drawing preferences gives me a drawing with very thick lines.

Has someone an idea which steps I should follow to go to a drawing in millimeters?

Marcel

Problem is, of course, solved after some try and error and succes.

Select all does not look at layers and in the Scale Options dialog the option Use current layer stayed unchecked.

Apart from that I needed to change the 'Dimensions' in 'Drawing preferences' .

Great tool.

Marcel

I am getting a little acquainted with technical drawing especially using QCAD. I started a technical drawing for my house and use a template I found in the part library (iso_en_a1.dxf ). When using dimensions I found out that the numbers given where not exactly what I expected so I read the manual a...

I created 3 rectangles near each other to indicate an isolated wall: rec 0,0 - 10,10 rec 10,0 - 20,10 rec 20,0 - 30,10 line 0,0 - 60,0 I tried to fill the rectangles but it seems very hard to see what one has selected. Als sometimes the solid fill succeed but mostly it fails. In never succeeded to f...

What is the best/easiest way to resize a rectangle?

Currently is use the stretch functionality

I wonder if there is a way to select a side and have it repositioned and by doing so resize the rectangle.

Marcel