QCAD.org Forum

Perfect. Thanks.

I like the idea of using the "view list". I put a view in the "view list" at the zoom level I want in my template file. With that it is a single click to get to that zoom level and there are no unnecessary lines. I see how to open a template file with "new from template" command but it sounds like t...

Thanks for your quick response Husky. I do draw everything at 1:1. What I mean by "scale of view" is the zoom level of the default view of a new drawing with no entities in it yet. Qcad defaults to showing about 300 units in x and 150 units in y. I would like it to default to showing something like ...

Hello. How can I set the scale of new drawings? Whenever I start a new drawing the scale of the view defaults to about 300 by 150 inches which is not convenient for my usual use of Qcad which is to make drawings of machine parts. I have tried creating a template and setting the view scale in that fi...

Thanks CVH,

That's exactly what I was hoping for. This is a very useful addition to my favorite 2d cad software.

Best
Kralc

I find the "double-click on an element to select the whole contour" function of Qcad quite useful but I am often working on drawings with small geometry and the software selects multiple contours that are close but not actually connected. It would be great if the threshold distance that the software...