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by hungerburg
Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:53 pm
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: Scale in pdfs slightly wrong
Replies: 17
Views: 14789

Re: Scale in pdfs slightly wrong

When you print 1:50 and the original is 1.69m then the print should be 3,38 cm; if it was 1.60m it would be 3.20 cm - so you have a deviation of 1.8 mm; that is fairly small, in my view, not noticeable with the eye, if both lines are not close to one another. I have one idea, why lines would be long...
by hungerburg
Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:47 am
Forum: QCAD 'Script Add-On & Plug-in challenge' - Work in Progress
Topic: Special OpenFile and Special NewFile needed
Replies: 1
Views: 13561

Re: Special OpenFile and Special NewFile needed

Hello blumi, what you describe can be done with custom scripts. A good place to start is the tutorial section of the reference documentation here - http://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/developer/_menus_and_tool_bars.html When you have your menu up you can tweak the "action" to do your things: open di...
by hungerburg
Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: QCAD Suggestions and Feedback
Topic: Anyone for Spirals ?
Replies: 2
Views: 10959

Re: Anyone for Spirals ?

Out of curiosity I could not let this rest. So here comes a take at a spiral with less entities. Its created as a polyline, and as such it can always turn out an approximation only. You can see after exploding into arcs, that end angles and start angles of consecutive arcs do not match. The first ar...
by hungerburg
Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:18 pm
Forum: QCAD Suggestions and Feedback
Topic: Anyone for Spirals ?
Replies: 2
Views: 10959

Re: Anyone for Spirals ?

Actually, the equi-distant spiral above is the one from inkscape; the source thereof has so much boileplate though, it is unreadable; possibly the uniconvertor spiral is easier - http://sourcecodebrowser.com/python-uniconvertor/1.1.4/create__spiral_8py_source.html - it also creates beziers, but I ca...
by hungerburg
Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:33 am
Forum: QCAD Suggestions and Feedback
Topic: Anyone for Spirals ?
Replies: 2
Views: 10959

Re: Anyone for Spirals ?

There is a Spiral in expample scripts Math, I was not satisfied with that one: it creates lots and lots of straight lines. Unfortunately I lost the (probably javascript to render as svg) the script that got me this one below: actually very much like a coiled up hose or such.
Spirale.png
fixed distance spiral from splines
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by hungerburg
Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:21 am
Forum: QCAD Programming, Script Programming and Contributing
Topic: ECMAScript manual
Replies: 2
Views: 5345

Re: ECMAScript manual

In addition to the API document, I have also found the built in debugger quite useful. Enable with a command line argument and trigger from your code with a statement. From a side panel I could drill through and see the available methods and fields in objects. Only useful, as long as the names speak...
by hungerburg
Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:26 am
Forum: QCAD Installation and Upgrades
Topic: Qcad and Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon
Replies: 4
Views: 15432

Re: Qcad and Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon

To download the installer, you might have to right-click on the download button and choose 'Save as' or similar. You do not want your browser to display the installer - you want to download the file to disk. I clicked there in the shop, "https://www.ribbonsoft.com/shop/download/[…]/qcad-3.6.0-pro-l...
by hungerburg
Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:56 am
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: How do i close a file and switch to command mode
Replies: 6
Views: 12851

Re: How do i close a file

1)I would like to be able to close the current file/drawing using a keyboard shortcut. Control W is shown on the drop down menu, but if I press control W, nothing happens. I note that if I run it from a bash terminal , it says 'Warning: QAction::eventFilter: Ambiguous shortcut overload: Ctrl+W". Do...
by hungerburg
Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:19 am
Forum: QCAD Programming, Script Programming and Contributing
Topic: Is it possible to make custom properties read-only
Replies: 6
Views: 8395

Re: Is it possible to make custom properties read-only

You could put the data that you want to hide from the users below a different APPID than the one users are to modify themselves, so there is at least some visual separation.
by hungerburg
Sat May 31, 2014 7:40 pm
Forum: QCAD Programming, Script Programming and Contributing
Topic: Is it possible to make custom properties read-only
Replies: 6
Views: 8395

Re: Is it possible to make custom properties read-only

Not an authoritative answer, but I studied xdata in the dxf spec and there is no such flag there. As dxf is the standard file format in qcad such a feature would require a proprietary extension.
by hungerburg
Tue May 20, 2014 12:16 pm
Forum: QCAD Programming, Script Programming and Contributing
Topic: ? [solved] Add custom property in library item script
Replies: 4
Views: 8903

Re: ? [solved] Add custom property in library item script

Hello Spatz, I copied the script to the library and can see the I-beam in the browser, but I cannot put it into a drawing. What else would I have to do for that?
by hungerburg
Sat May 17, 2014 2:33 pm
Forum: QCAD Programming, Script Programming and Contributing
Topic: ? [solved] Add custom property in library item script
Replies: 4
Views: 8903

Re: ? Add custom property in library item script

Hello Spatz, the post you refer to is three years old. The interface did change since then. Discussion and up to date sample code here http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=117#comment1239 and documentation here http://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/3.0/developer/class_r_object.html#aef...
by hungerburg
Sat May 17, 2014 2:06 pm
Forum: QCAD Installation and Upgrades
Topic: How to run Qcad -3 in Ubuntu 14.04
Replies: 4
Views: 15450

Re: How to run Qcad -3 in Ubuntu 14.04

Vkdal, here is how I do it: download tar.gz package, open a terminal window, then type (replace 3.5.1 with the version of your package) cd /opt sudo tar xvfz /path/to/qcad-3.5.1-pro-linux-x86_64.tar.gz /opt/qcad-3.5.1-pro-linux-x86_64/qcad Here on Ubuntu 14.04 it starts just fine. Maybe during the s...
by hungerburg
Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:53 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: Fun optical chimaera
Replies: 0
Views: 6158

Fun optical chimaera

Recently, the Feynman Lectures on Physics became free to read on the web. In the chapter on the eye - http://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_36.html#Ch36-F1 - there is mention of an illusion. I had to give it a try, and QCAD is my tool of choice for such drawings: Although they are not strictly CAD, i...
by hungerburg
Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:27 am
Forum: Pre-sales Questions
Topic: Some questions before buying
Replies: 7
Views: 19464

Re: Some questions before buying

I wanted to recommend snapperpendicular to lengthen a line to where it would intersect with another one by means of the mouse. I use this a lot myself via auto-snap. In a quick test, I learned though, that snapperpendicular does not work this way. That is, it does when both lines are at a right angl...

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