Can't open dxf files created by qcad

[cool.occd]

Hello,

I have the same trouble here...
Though I may have opened it with the pro trial activated but when I open the file in a text editor it looks like an R15 dxf :

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  0
SECTION
  2
HEADER
  9
$ACADVER
  1
AC1015
  9
$ACADMAINTVER
 70
     6
  9

I have several files with the same header, some open, some don't...

Any idea ?

Thanks

Olivier

[andrew]

The file opens here without any problems. What warning / error do you get? What operating system are you using and what is your exact QCAD version? Thanks.

[cool.occd]

Hi

The error I get:

Opening drawing: D:\Dropbox\lAdF Production\Découpe\fees\lutin A.dxf...
Cannot open file 'D:\Dropbox\lAdF Production\Découpe\fees\lutin A.dxf'. Import failed.

Win 10 64 bit
and last version of qcad (3.16.2) but I had the same error with the previous install (3.15.?)
maybe a hit : the pro version expired (more than 100 session... didn't know there was this limitation...)

[andrew]

the pro version expired

The QCAD Community Edition uses dxflib which cannot handle international characters in paths (Découpe).

[cool.occd]

Hi, thanks for the information... I change the folder name and now the file opens, but the splines don't show up...

The entities exist but are not displayed until selected...

One more hint : I tried to remove the pro add-on but it came back after reboot...

[Husky]

The entities exist but are not displayed until selected...

I can reproduce that and after exploding the splines to polylines it will get better ..... but still not good enough. Check it out by yourself:

lutin A_nosplines.dxf

(406.74 KiB) Downloaded 462 times

One more hint : I tried to remove the pro add-on but it came back after reboot...

What is your OS? Win10? Try this solution to remove the add-on's (last posting)
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2818&p=15811&hilit ... tor#p15811

[cool.occd]

Hello

Thanks for your hints Husky

I am running on Win10 and I managed to remove the add-on while running QCad as admin. But when opening a file from the explorer it looks like it is not admin and then reinstalls the add-on and tells me it has expired... I can deal with it but it is quite strange I think...

As for the undisplayed splines I cannot explode them with the add-on removed... Well... I can... but they are converted into nothing...
I managed to explode them with another laptop and the add-on working but as you mentioned :

still not good enough

there are too many entities created from on spline to work on it (meaning modify it)

Anyway, thanks for your help
And best wishes for 2017 !

PS: sorry for taking so long but I tried to answer several times in my freetimes but always had a logging timeout when sending the message... Maybe I am to slow typing in english... but this time I copied the content before being logged out

[andrew]

I am running on Win10 and I managed to remove the add-on while running QCad as admin. But when opening a file from the explorer it looks like it is not admin and then reinstalls the add-on and tells me it has expired... I can deal with it but it is quite strange I think...

Looks like you have multiple copies of QCAD installed.

As for the undisplayed splines I cannot explode them with the add-on removed... Well... I can... but they are converted into nothing...

Make sure add-ons are either installed and enabled or removed (not expired).

PS: sorry for taking so long but I tried to answer several times in my freetimes but always had a logging timeout when sending the message... Maybe I am to slow typing in english... but this time I copied the content before being logged out

Please use the URL qcad.org/rsforum to access the forum (not ribbonsoft.com).

[cool.occd]

I am running on Win10 and I managed to remove the add-on while running QCad as admin. But when opening a file from the explorer it looks like it is not admin and then reinstalls the add-on and tells me it has expired... I can deal with it but it is quite strange I think...

Looks like you have multiple copies of QCAD installed.

Good catch... I actually had an old x86 version...
but after uninstalling it I removed successfully the addon (as admin) and then I opened a file from explorer and ... BAM : "Please wait while windows configures QCAD 3.16.2"... and the addon is back...

As for the undisplayed splines I cannot explode them with the add-on removed... Well... I can... but they are converted into nothing...

Make sure add-ons are either installed and enabled or removed (not expired).

Well, when the addon is removed, I cannot see the splines, and when I explode it, it looks like I have invisible polylines but when I save, everything is gone...
When the addon is expired, I got the same result...
When the addon is enabled, heum... I can't enable it on this computer but I looks like it works fine (hopefully)...
But, I just realized that when I open a file from the explorer, QCAD opens it before checking if the addon is expired... I can explode the splines but I got a 62MB file ! from 391KB with the splines...

Please use the URL qcad.org/rsforum to access the forum (not ribbonsoft.com).

That's the URL I use, but I forgot to check the "remember me" checkbox... my fault... even if I think that the timeout delay is quite short...