QCAD 3 TP1

[andrew]

QCAD 3 TP1 is now available for download.

QCAD 3 TP1 information page: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad3.html

Developers please post to this forum for feedback and questions. Bug reports should be submitted to our bug tracker instead at: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/

[ggsalas]

Is no chance to download to test Qcad3 for those that purchased in 2009?

Greetings,
Arch. Gabriel Salas

[peter76]

Is no chance to download to test Qcad3 for those that purchased in 2009?

Greetings,
Arch. Gabriel Salas

Same here, I would like to see the TP as well...

[Archimage]

Thank you for this release

[ahamedck]

Sir, I have downloaded the windows version as well as the ubuntu version. but unable to run the qcad 3. TP1 either in windows Xp sp-2 and in Ubuntu 10.04.

In windows xp sp-2, i have unzipped the file to D:\qcad-3.0.0-tp1-prof-win32 and on running the qcad exe file it complains, "This application has failed to start because, MSVCR100D.dll was not found reinstalling the application may fix the problem"

pl. let me know how to install the dll and to get the qcad running breeze.

by
rasheed

[Archimage]

Most of my drawings are painfully slow because they are quite big. It opens quite well in Autocad, it's slower in Draftsight, a little slower in Bricscad, but it's very slow in Qcad. Is there a plan to optimize the viewport ?

There are so few CAD alternatives in linux. Bricscad and Draftsight aren't very clean since they just copy Autocad. It would be really nice to see improvements in terms of performance because the soft is really good...

Keep going !

[andrew]

In windows xp sp-2, i have unzipped the file to D:\qcad-3.0.0-tp1-prof-win32 and on running the qcad exe file it complains, "This application has failed to start because, MSVCR100D.dll was not found reinstalling the application may fix the problem"

Thanks for the feed back.

Please use our bug tracker for bug reports:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/

Thanks.

[andrew]

Most of my drawings are painfully slow because they are quite big.

Thanks for the feed back.

Please use our bug tracker for bug reports (also performance related):
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/

You can also attach files to a report if appropriate.

[andrew]

Is no chance to download to test Qcad3 for those that purchased in 2009?

We might release a demo version for QCAD 3 TP2. We also plan to offer update prices for QCAD 2 users who wish to update to QCAD 3 once QCAD 3 final is released.

[andrew]

"This application has failed to start because, MSVCR100D.dll was not found reinstalling the application may fix the problem"

An updated package which includes the required DLLs is now available (TP1b).

[ggsalas]

Is no chance to download to test Qcad3 for those that purchased in 2009?

We might release a demo version for QCAD 3 TP2. We also plan to offer update prices for QCAD 2 users who wish to update to QCAD 3 once QCAD 3 final is released.

Impossible for me to reporting bugs. Little motivation.

Greetings.

[hungerburg]

The new ecma scripting engine is sufficiently different from both the previous QSA and the javascript, that one is probably used to from web browsers. Still, the increased power seems worth the effort of learning. There are only few blog entries and such on the subject over the web. Below two pointers to valuable documentation:

* What has changed? http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/porting-qsa.html
* A lot of these classes can be used from script - http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/classes.html

The debugger provides good insight into the stack and can be used to inspect the qt classes too. Maybe I will learn and teach KomdoEdit autocompletion.

[andrew]

The new ecma scripting engine is sufficiently different from both the previous QSA and the javascript, that one is probably used to from web browsers.

ECMAScript and JavaScript are actually different names for the same thing. The syntax of ECMAScript in QCAD 3 is identical with the one used in Web Browsers, only the environment is different, i.e. there are no browser related, predefined objects such as 'document' or 'window'. Still, many algorithms and tools that work in browsers also work in QCAD 3.

[hungerburg]

I forgot two links to interesting qt documentation:

* Scripting reference http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/ecmascript.html
* Script examples http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/examples-script.html

This is what code completion looks like in KomodoEdit, I just added "scripts/Draw" to the search path.

KomodoEdit understands javadoc style comments a little better. But its good like this.

[hungerburg]

After getting a little more used to qcad3 scripting I now see, that the commands available for autocompletion as in the above sample are just the ones from the scripted user interface, but not the ones from the qcad3 kernel, the ones that start with an uppercase R… A single file or directory with those would be on my wishlist then, something like "c header" files.

But what makes me happy the most is, that TP1 already does 90% of what I need qcad for mostly. Glitches are very few! There are only two things missing: Block insertion and handling of exteneded entity data in a way that is compatible with third party post processing tools. Yay!