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Last Update: June, 2009

QCAD Changelog

2.2.2.0 (2008/09/09)

  • Support for printing and PDF export to custom paper sizes
  • Bug fix: Crash on start up if grid settings are corrupt

2.2.1.0 (2008/05/02)

  • Bug fix: Line width resolution when printing or exporting to PDF
  • Bug fix: Crash when starting and not completing multiple tools
  • Bug fix: SVG Export: filled full circles

2.2.0.0 (2008/04/11)

  • Support for 24bit colors
  • Improved color selection in application preferences
  • File save as dialog: default path to current file path if available
  • Zoom to selection
  • Paste to current layer or original layer
  • Dimensions:
    • Optional: Use of architectural ticks instead of arrows
  • Show explode tool in menu 'Modify'
  • Mac OS X: open DXF files with double-click from Finder
  • Added glyphs for Ohm and Micro to standard font
  • Improved SVG Export: export solid filled hatches, export polylines as path
  • Apply layer to selection by double-clicking on layer in layer list
  • Bug fix: Drawing text, splines: preview entity with correct attributes and layer
  • Bug fix: Changing degree property for splines limited to 2 or 3
  • Bug fix: Overlapping keycodes for splines, snap to polar coordinate
  • Bug fix: Equidistant to polylines with arc segments and sharp corners
  • Bug fix: Choose menu entries with keystroke

2.1.6.4 (2008/01/25)

  • SVG Export (presentation quality, e.g. for use with Firefox, XSL-FO, FOP, ...)
  • Rulers at top and left of drawing view (optional)
  • Improved handles for ellipses
  • Snap to reference points
  • Isometric projections (front, side, top)
  • Modify - Divide 2: removal of segments optional
  • Draft mode no longer remembered between QCAD sessions
  • Scripting:
    • Creating text labels
    • Inserting blocks from part library
  • Creating equidistant polylines with rounded or pointed corners
  • Show or hide trailing zeroes in dimension labels
  • X/Y ordinate dimensions
  • Simplified default behavior of cut and copy
  • Simplified optional behavior of selection
  • Highlight entities on mouse over
  • Autosnap: snap point indicator
  • Print preview: added more common scales for Imperial systems
  • File save as dialog: suggest current file name
  • Bug fix: Reading solids from DXF (for example as a result of exploding dimensions)
  • Bug fix: Trim to limiting entities inside blocks
  • Bug fix: Wrong attributes when breaking up ellipses into polylines
  • Bug fix: Measuring angles: command line output shows 'lines are parallel' instead of measured angle
  • Bug fix: Modify - Trim: Crash when choosing hatch as limiting entity
  • Bug fix: Modify - Attributes: Layer names sorted in combo box

2.1.3.2 (2007/05/24)

  • The property editor widget introduced in 2.1.2.8 now also shows the layer of the selected entity / entities and makes it possible to quickly move a group of entities to another layer
  • Bug fix: Changing attributes of dimension entities with Modification - Properties feature
  • Bug fix: Polylines loose attributes when modified / polyline attributes in blocks
  • Bug fix: OS X: Crash when using snap to coordinates

2.1.3.0 (2007/04/11)

  • Bug fix: Entity visibility when moving with multiple copies

2.1.2.9 (2007/04/10)

  • Bug fix: Drag and drop for text entities
  • Bug fix: Creating polylines from segments

2.1.2.8 (2007/04/02)

  • Welsh translation
  • Added button / key code for resetting all actions and return to the default action
  • Auto Snap (Snap to Grid, Endpoints, Middlepoints, Intersections)
  • Property editor
    • Querying and editing of attributes of selected entities
    • Changing attributes of single or multiple entities (e.g. change text height or style for all selected texts)
  • Improvements for drag and drop of reference points
  • Remember active layer when saving a drawing
  • Pasting entities: scale, rotate or flip while positioning pasted entities
  • Scaling with individual factors for x and y axis. Currently only for lines.
  • Edit block by clicking a block instance
  • Added more glyphs to "standard" font (complete Unicode tables Basic Latin 0000-007F, Latin-1 Supplement 0080-00FF, Latin Extended-A 0100-017F).
  • Bug fix: Unicode for saving / loading international texts
  • Bug fix: Unicode font

2.1.1.0 RC2 (2007/01/18)

  • Port to FreeBSD

2.1.1.0 RC1 (2006/12/28)

  • Indonesian translation
  • Portuguese (BR) translation
  • Modify - Divide 2 (Cuts out a segment of an entity. The segment is limited by intersecting entities.)
  • Don't ask for selection if some entities are already selected
  • Show key codes (accelerators, hot keys, short cuts) in menus and tooltips
  • Introduced many more key codes
  • Remember last used paper position in print preview
  • Improved DXF R12 compatibility (texts: spaces, line breaks; blocks: anonymous blocks)
  • High quality PDF Export (all platforms, Menu 'File' - 'PDF Export')
  • Bug fix: Rounding / beveling inside polylines
  • Bug fix: Locking relative zero point
  • Bug fix: Fixed printing under OS X (broken after PDF creation)
  • Bug fix: Entering coordinates under Windows systems (focus bug)
  • Bug fix: Exploding ellipse arcs

2.1.0.1 (2006/05/26)

  • High quality PDF Export (Mac OS X, Menu 'File' - 'PDF Export')
  • Print quality improvements

2.1.0.0 (2006/05/19)

  • Chinese translation
  • Converting ellipses to polylines with arc segments (explode)
  • Port to Mac OS X on Intel (Universal Binary)
  • Bug fix: Scripting: file dialog for opening files in QSA
  • Various smaller fixes

2.1.0.0 RC3 (2006/03/23)

  • Bug fix: Windows: Print preview: crash when changing scale

2.1.0.0 RC2 (2006/03/20)

  • Port to Qt 4.1.1 / QSA 1.2.1
  • Significant performance improvements (mainly for Mac OS X and Windows)
  • Bulgarian translation
  • Bug fix: Options toolbar for text tool
  • Bug fix: autostart.qs script: Toolbar positioning
  • Bug fix: Windows: crash when zooming in on selected lines
  • Bug fix: Windows: Print preview: crash when switching to print preview
  • Bug fix: Print preview: Update scale combo box after auto fit to page
  • Bug fix: Windows: MDI buttons for minimize, maximize, close

2.1.0.0 RC1 (2005/11/22)

  • Port to Qt 4.1.0 RC1 / QSA 1.2.0
  • New preview with line style and color
  • Improved measuring tools
  • Minor print preview improvements
  • Many visual improvements for QCAD on Mac OS X
  • Dimension arrow behavior improvements
  • Introduced more hotkeys
  • Move entities to background / foreground
  • Application preferences: color dialog for selecting colors
  • Professional version:
    • More actions can be launched from the command line
    • Creating new polylines from existing segments
    • Creating equidistant polylines
  • Bug fix: Disappearing entities when stretching while some entities are selected
  • Bug fix: grid was not updated when not enabled
  • Bug fix: drag and drop for leader reference points
  • Punjabi translation
  • Updated user reference manual

2.0.5.0 (2005/07/20)

  • Port to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
  • Exploding dimensions: create lines for arrows
  • Ellipse improvements:
    • improved selection performance
    • trimming ellipses to lines
    • trimming lines to ellipses
  • Bug fix: memory leaks (internal clone function for entity containers)
  • Bug fix: crash when omitting Y value in coordinate input (e.g. "15,")

2.0.4.9 (2005/03/28)

  • Bug fix Windows version: Invalid coordinate calculations due to rounding errors / acos() call. Lead to files that were unloadable.

2.0.4.8 (2005/03/21)

  • DXF / AutoCAD compatibility improvements (avoid invalid layer color, adjust text width)
  • Bug fix: Centering of thick arcs on Mac OS X
  • Bug fix: Rounding and beveling polyline corners (first and last node)
  • Bug fix: Text construction in normallatin2 font

2.0.4.7 (2005/02/22)

  • DXF compatibility improvements (dimensions, texts)
  • Drawing arcs connecting tangential to entities
  • Professional version:
    • Improved polyline construction function
    • Adding nodes to existing polyline
    • Appending nodes to existing polyline
    • Removing nodes from existing polyline
    • Removing all nodes between two nodes of an existing polyline
    • Trimming two polyline segments
    • Rounding for polylines
    • Beveling for polylines
  • Scripting:
    • Autostart Script
    • Adding custom toolbars
    • Adding custom tool buttons for inserting blocks
    • Adding custom tool buttons for running scripts
  • Bug fix: Export of Polylines with bulges to DXF R12
  • Bug fix: Mac OS X: Centering of thick lines
  • Bug fix: Dimensions not updated after drawing properties are modified
  • Bug fix: Text on hidden layers misplaced after loading
  • Bug fix: Hatches on hidden layers not shown after loading
  • Bug fix: Part library browser: updating cached icons
  • Bug fix: Crash when switching automatic grid scaling off

2.0.4.0 (2004/09/14)

  • Compiled with Qt 3.3.3
  • Measuring polygonal areas
  • Splines (NURBS)
    • B-Splines degree 2, 3
    • Open and closed B-Splines
  • Drag and drop: keep selection
  • Professional version scripting:
    • Pen, color, line width
    • Layer handling
    • Circles
    • Selection class
    • Vector class
    • View class
  • Bug fix: Crash when using command prompt ('line' command)
  • Bug fix: Crash when deleting a block that is being edited
  • Bug fix: Corrupted large texts in Cyrillic / Unicode when saved to DXF
  • Bug fix: selecting layers: don't reactivate deleted entities
  • Bug fix: beveling: wrong distance when bevel length more than entity length
  • Bug fix: loading diametrical dimensions
  • Bug fix: mirroring blocks with arcs: incorrect arc angles
  • Bug fix: mirroring points that touch an end point of a mirror axis
  • Bug fix: inaccurate arc display for very large arcs
  • Bug fix: drawing lines with relative angles: length ignored
  • Bug fix: DXF: corrected saving of variable $VIEWCTR
  • Bug fix: in rare conditions selection of only one entity possible
  • Bug fix: Mac OS X: use Backspace instead of non existing Delete key
  • Bug fix: Slow preview when inserting blocks with hatches

2.0.3.3 (2004/05/22)

  • Updated Danish translation
  • Turkish translation
  • Preview in file open dialog
  • Don't change active layer / block when changing visibility or locking state
  • Double click cannot be used anymore to change visibility of blocks / layers.
  • Tab in command line to complete / list commands
  • Only show save / save as dialog if document was changed
  • Drag and drop: Ellipse endpoints
  • Bug fix: Error when trying to overwrite read-only file
  • Bug fix: Tolerances for dimension labels
  • Bug fix: Appending default extension in save as dialog if path contains '.'
  • Bug fix: Entering Coordinates when moving relative zero point
  • Bug fix: Copy / paste blocks and inserts between drawings in individual units
  • Bug fix: Update arc endpoints after 'Modify' - 'Properties'
  • Bug fix: Crash when using self-made patterns
  • Bug fix: Crash with drawings that contain ellipses
  • Bug fix: Scaling for parts inserted from the part library in different units
  • Bug fix: CAM Expert: Angles in output in degrees

2.0.3.1 (2004/03/27)

  • Compiled with Qt 3.3.1
  • Estonian translation
  • Spanish translation
  • Polish translation
  • Professional version scripting:
    • adding lines, arcs, points
    • dialogs
    • file handling
  • CAM Expert: Integration with QCAD 2.x
  • Ignore line width in draft mode
  • Command 'dimregen' also regenerates dimensions with label ';;'
  • Explode text entities into individual letter entities
  • Avoid multiple print previews for the same drawing
  • Persistent color mode selection in printer setup dialog
  • Windows: store configuration in file (not registry)
  • Mac OS X: Application Preferences in preferences menu
  • Mac OS X: Fixed size combo boxes for color, width, type selection
  • Improved performance for large fonts (Unicode)
  • Bug fix: DXF R12 Export: filter out non-r12 variables
  • Bug fix: DXF 2000 Export: GRIDUNIT
  • Bug fix: DXF 2000 Export: MText angle
  • Bug fix: DXF Import: ignore negative color numbers
  • Bug fix: Letter spacing on hidden layers
  • Bug fix: Redraw view when switching grid on / off
  • Bug fix: highlight for trim two
  • Bug fix: Draft mode box for text with empty lines
  • Bug fix: Windows: crash on exit
  • Bug fix: Mirroring: mirroring blocks
  • Bug fix: Mirroring: using command line for coordinate input, relative zero
  • Bug fix: Crash when selecting ellipses

2.0.2.0 (2004/02/04)

  • Compiled with Qt 3.3.0
  • Layer locking
  • DXF Export AC1009 (R12 / LT2)
  • Slovak translation
  • Russian translation
  • Dutch translation
  • Manual adjustment of grid size
  • Switch auto-scaling of grid on / off
  • Improved handling of ellipses (selection, tangents)
  • Improved handling of solids (selection)
  • Modification of dimension text
  • Modification of dimension geometry
  • Drag and drop for quick modification of dimension entities
  • Automatic regeneration of all dimension entities (dimregen)
  • Improved performance for redrawing (zooming and panning)
  • Draft mode for further performance improvement
  • Integrated Online Manual (Menu Help - Manual)
  • Bug fix: decimal grid for decimal inches
  • Bug fix: support patterns with capital letters in name
  • Bug fix: images in blocks
  • Bug fix: error handling when writing files
  • Bug fix: architectural dimension labels
  • Bug fix: DXF import of polylines which close with arcs

2.0.1.3 (2003/12/03)

  • Czech translation
  • Measuring total length of selected entities
  • Default selection mode: select single entities
  • Bug fix: Display of dotted arcs
  • Bug fix: Selecting entities for angular dimensioning and for parallels, finding intersections
  • Bug fix: Undone Leaders invisible to all actions
  • Bug fix: Editing Fonts

2.0.1.2 (2003/11/20)

  • Bug fix: QCAD 1 Text import: rotation angle
  • Italian translation
  • Greek translation
  • Optional support for 'complex entities'
  • Drag and drop for entities and reference points

2.0.1.1 (2003/10/18)

  • Compiled with Qt 3.2.2
  • Bug fixes for Windows and Mac version
  • Scaling line styles with line width
  • French translation

2.0.1.0 (2003/10/08)

  • GUI Improvements
  • Saving state of toolbars and dock windows
  • DXF: Compatibility improvements
  • Bug fix: Mac OS X library path
  • Bug fix: Insert parts from Library Browser
  • Bug fix: handling of , and . for German environment
  • Bug fix: Import of Arrows from QCAD 1 drawings
  • Bug fix: Changing language in Application Preferences

2.0.0.8 (2003/10/01)

  • DXF: ATTRIB entities imported as texts
  • DXF: Compatibility improvements
  • Bug fix: Mac OS X startup
  • Hungarian translation

2.0.0.5 (2003/09/30)

  • Improved accuracy of printing to scale
  • Speed improvements for large drawings
  • Switching grid on/off
  • Changing colors of background, grid, meta grid
  • Bug fix: Import of DXF from version 1.x
  • Port: Mac OS X
  • German translation

2.0.0.0 (2003/09/22)

  • Initial Release

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