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Frank60
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Rulers

Post by Frank60 » Mon May 05, 2014 8:09 am

In 3.4.7 the rulers seem to disappear in new files at grids greater than 1 mm.

I have not found a way to get them back again.

In existing files it works OK.

Is there some setting involved?

Thanks,

Frank

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Re: Rulers

Post by Husky » Mon May 05, 2014 5:42 pm

Hi Frank - thanks for mention this.

I assume that is a Bug and not a setting question - but honestly I don't know it exactly. :oops:

This behavior isn't new - it occurs since a couple past updates and it's displayed in my application as a ruler bar without units. I'm not able to find a setting which works ...
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Any ideas on this?
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Re: Rulers

Post by Frank60 » Mon May 05, 2014 6:20 pm

Exactly the same symptoms here.

I deleted qcad3.ini (after backup) and then it was all back to normal. Then I compared the files with Winmerge and copied the most important settings over.
It looks to me that there are some incompatible settings in the INI file between recent versions.

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Frank

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Re: Rulers

Post by Clive » Tue May 06, 2014 8:01 pm

Frank

I presume you mean when you zoom out to extents and beyond when the grid spacing is set to something over 1mm instead of the 'auto' setting?

If you draw a point or some other entity (you may not see it once drawn!) and select the Auto-zoom tool - does this bring back the rulers?
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Re: Rulers

Post by Husky » Tue May 06, 2014 8:58 pm

Hi clive - check this out: :wink:

Old qcad3.ini - growing since many releases ...
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Same Drawing - same zoom but now with a fresh qcad3.ini
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Or ...
Old qcad3.ini - new drawing - no zoom:
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Fresh qcad3.ini - new drawing - no zoom:
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My best guess .... the problem is not located between chair and monitor. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Rulers

Post by andrew » Wed May 07, 2014 8:04 am

Husky: please attach your old QCAD3.ini file, so I can have a look at what is happening. Thanks.

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Re: Rulers

Post by Husky » Wed May 07, 2014 8:39 am

andrew wrote:Husky: please attach your old QCAD3.ini file, so I can have a look at what is happening. Thanks.
Sure .... here we are. Thanks!
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QCAD.INI

Post by Frank60 » Sat May 10, 2014 8:54 am

There's a new release 3.5.0: can I safely use the current 3.4.7 Qcad.ini file without having to generate a new ini file? (and manually make all personal settings to the ini file :( )


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Frank

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Re: Rulers

Post by Frank60 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:31 am

I finally managed to put the finger on a possible cause of this behavior.

If I disable 'Automatically scale meta grid' under App Prefs\Graph View\Grid, the rulers disappear at zooms larger than 100<0 and the have gone in all zooms.

If I then enable 'Automatically scale meta grid', things are back to normal.

Frank

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Re: Rulers

Post by Clive » Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:29 am

Hi Frank

Thanks for the update, glad to hear things are working well for you now with QCAD :D .
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