Can anyone advise on setting up for architectural drawing?
I want to draw in full size, units of metres. I want to annotate and dimension at a suitable size on screen and print on A4 paper. At present with units set to metres, dimensions and text are building sized, not very useful.
I also would like to use viewports for the different elevations, but not sure how to begin. I'll be drawing in 1st angle, maybe with isometric views if QCAD supports it.
Can anyone advise or point me to advice which would be relevant to QCAD?
Many thanks,
Louise
Windows 10, QCAD Version: 3.19.2.0 (3.19.2)
How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
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Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
Those settings are done in the "Drawing Preferences". It's pretty self explaining just check it out below Menu / Edit / Drawing preferences.
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Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
Here, I can set the units for, presumably, model space and paper space, although the terminology is not consistent.
So, as I have model space units set to 1 metre and paper space to 1mm, my dimension text height will be 2.5m in the model space and 2.5mm on paper. This is way too big in the former and too small in the latter.
Is there any way of setting the model space and paper space up independently of each other, or with a less crude choice of simply metres or millimeters?
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Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
No, and honestly I have right now no clue why you like to do so. Please enlighten me?LouiseSJPP wrote:Is there any way of setting the model space and paper space up independently of each other, or with a less crude choice of simply metres or millimeters?
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Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
In model space I want to annotate the design and show key dimensions, for the purposes of discussing design details. I suppose I could annotate in paper space instead, but the process is of ongoing development of design, and paper space isn't actually relevant yet.Husky wrote:No, and honestly I have right now no clue why you like to do so. Please enlighten me?LouiseSJPP wrote:Is there any way of setting the model space and paper space up independently of each other, or with a less crude choice of simply metres or millimeters?
Happily, I've found out how to sort it out, Dimension has a scale factor and Text can go below a text height of 1, so between them I can annotate neatly.
But I still have no idea how to get to a paper view when I want to. The manual doesn't seem to do any overviews, it provides only the detail on each command.
Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
There is never a wrongdoing but always a more or less complicated ways to accomplish a task. Make sure that you are on the right track from the beginning on because it sucks if you figure it wasn't the best decision and you have to change everything in 6 month or so ...LouiseSJPP wrote:Happily, I've found out how to sort it out, Dimension has a scale factor and Text can go below a text height of 1, so between them I can annotate neatly.
In QCAD Paper_Space is mostly used for print purposes. It is created/listed in the Block List and activated by left double click. I would assume that 99% of the Paper_Space content is based of a Viewport which is basically a "Window" to your Model_Space drawing. This "Window" can be used with all kinds of scale to show/print bigger things smaller or smaller things bigger.LouiseSJPP wrote:But I still have no idea how to get to a paper view when I want to. The manual doesn't seem to do any overviews, it provides only the detail on each command.
Common practice is to draw everything 1:1 in Model_Space and take and scale a Viewport for the Paper_Space.
Your QCAD installation has an example folder below C:\Program Files\qcad-3.19.2-pro-win64\examples. Look for a flange.dxf to see an example of how Paper_Space could be used.
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Re: How do I set up QCAD for architectural drawing?
Thank you, Husky, I'll follow that through.