QCAD Bugtracker

My settings for Coordinate Format: Decimal Point = Dot

Accidentally using a comma instead of a dot in a value field leads to a wrong result without any warning.

Test:

Using the “Rectangle with Size” tool accidentally with a comma will not trigger a warning (red text) and it will draw a wrong sized rectangle.
It seems to me that QCAD is using the after comma value to draw this rectangle.
Given value 30,5 by 50,7 leads to a rectangle 5 by 7
Crazy values like 1.,.35 by 71.,.75 are also accepted and leads to a rectangle size of 35 by 75 without any warning.
A crazy value like 71.,..75 will finally trigger a red text warning!

Counter test horiz. Line: Value 100,25 leads to a line with 25 in length.
Value 100.25 leads to a line with 100.25 in length.

Using the same tools with the correct separator will work as expected!

Same game with most of all other tools which are asking for a given value. No warning at all - just wrongly accomplished.

Intersections between polylines and XLines (infinite lines, contruction lines) cannot be found in some situations.

Just occured recently, I cannot now export SVG files. Qcad crashes. windows 10

Tolerance input field in simplify tool has no effect.

application crashes as soon as I try to save or save as a drawing - Windows 10

Version :
3.12.6.0 (3.12.6)
Internet :
QCAD.org
Date de fabrication :
Jan 28 2016
Révision :
664eeb0
Qt Version :
5.5.1
Architecture :
x86_64
Compiler :
MSVC++ 12.0 (2013)

When I updated to the most latest version of QCAD I now have no library items - all gone!

Application Preferences > Defaults for New Drawings > Drawing Units

Do not save new selected value, It keeps “Inch”.

Could be changed per file in Edit > Drawing Preferences. I normally use Millimeter. I have no tested in command line / automation mode.

Error tested in:
Mac OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan
Mac OX X 10.7.5 Server Lion
Windows 10 (also with QCad fresh install)

Using two monitors where QCAD is on the left monitor with the right monitor being my laptop.
I close QCAD, then disconnect the second external monitor. If I now restart QCAD on just the laptop, it starts in a ‘virtual’ area as if the left monitor was still there. QCAD icon appears in the toolbar but there is no way to move the application back to the main screen.

Change application preference to Architectural tick
Create new drawing
Dimension settings reverted to arrows

Modify > Bevel trims edge entities to corner if trim is unchecked.
See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4016

Select line
Start drag and drop on either end point
Zoom in
Pressing shift no longer works as expected

See:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4044

1. Select block to place into drawing
2. Change x-scale to 1/3, observe grayed out y-scale shows (.333)
3. Click chain to unlink x & y scales
4. Change y-scale to 1/2
5. Click chain again to relink x & y scales and y-scale box grays out but 1/2 remains
6. Block is placed using x = 1/3 and y = 1/2 even though the chain shows x & y linked and 1/2 grayed out

See:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4048

Application preference to show / hide scrollbars has no effect (scrollbars always shown).

Block references to blocks with an origin other than 0,0 are not selectable.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4063

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=4068

Editing redundant properties in the property editor has no effect (e.g. length of line, area of circle, ...)

I am seeing duplicate zoom buttons in the View toolbar, and also under the View menu. Under Application Preferences→General→Tool Settings there are also multiple entries for these, with Shortcuts and Commands highlighted in red (means there are conflicts?). This is the QCAD/CAM version on Linux 32-bit Debian “testing” release. I also tried the same version on Windows 7 64-bit and am not seeing this issue. Screen shots attached.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=4019

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4078

Would it be possible like in AutoCAD and Draftsight, to copy (from CSV or TXT) into the command line of qcad a table with
vectorpoint to built up a Spline in QCAD ?

Sample:
Spline
10.5,10(LR+CR)
20.8,20.4(LR+CR)

and so on

this text would than paste into the command line, and works like a macro.

Will be very helpful to generate a Spline where the vectorpoint had been calculated with for example “Excel”

The very first entity drawn / loaded does not preserve its drawing order when copied / pasted.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4089&view=unread#unread

Texts (if rendered as text not paths) and images are rendered in the background if they are inside a block.

- Create block with text or bitmap in front of other entities
- Insert block
- Text and bitmaps are rendered behind entities

Hatch boundaries containing arcs with large radii are rendered imprecisely.
See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4139

Panning with two-finger up/down left/right movement does not work with Qt 5 based builds.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4148

Version 3.14.0.0 (3.14.0) 64bit

I have become used to selecting a line or shape, looking at the Property Editor, selecting the layer list and if appropriate changing the layer.

However since at least 3.13.1 The list shown is not wide enough to read the name of the layer although the colour block can be seen.

I have 3 DXF files and I want to merge them all into 1 single file, so I copy/paste the first, copy/paste the second but for the last it’s impossible because QCAD paste the wrong copy. More I try and more the result is weird

In Linux Mint QCAD offers no ‘Dark’ theme, not sure whether this is a bug or not?

Text - Only simple text is possible. Checked or unchecked option “Simple Text” will not change this. Reboot QCAD after changing shows also no effect.

If the drawing unit is set to ‘feet’ and the dimension format is ‘architectural’ or ‘engineering’, the drawing unit should be implicitly regarded as inch for the purpose of calculating dimension values. Since QCAD uses the drawing unit, the dimension values are off by a factor of 12 when importing drawings from other products.

The layerlist shows at any operation all sublayer, even if they were previously hidden!

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4235&start=15

QCAD3.ini may contain invalid positions for the main application windows, e.g.
[Appearance]
Position.X=-32000
Position.Y=-32000

This leads to an invisible main window after starting QCAD under Windows systems.

Modify > Trim
Choose line as limiting entity
Choose spline as entity to trim
The part of the spline that was clicked should remain but is trimmed instead

Print “Command Line” and as “Add measurement to drawing” works as expected.

See also:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=4235&start=15

Dots in line patterns along polylines with property “Polyline Pattern” set to “Yes” are rendered as horizontal lines.
See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4262

If text style has a text width (x scale) that is not 1, the property x scale from the text style is applied to all texts of that style.
See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4266

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4269

Prints under Windows are offset by the default printer margins.

This is caused by QTBUG-5363, https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-5363

Library items created from existing drawings should have the same unit as the drawing. Currently, the unit of newly created library items is ‘None’.

Spotted a bug with Polyline > Offset (OQ)

On the attached file (png image, link : http://nikel.ovh/~tukuyomi/oq_bug.png ), the white entity is a polyline (1 line, 1 arc, 1 line).
Using Polyline > Offset (OQ) with a big value (1100 in my case), I expect to get the green polyline.
What I have is the red one (also CPU is maxed for some seconds every time I move the mouse.)

Vertical alignment “base” (not supported for MText) is saved as “top”. Using “bottom” to replace “base” would be more appropriate.

After designing one ore more parts you may want to produce them.

Maybe it is a flat part, made out of copper sheet metal. You need several copies of the part and you wonder how you can arrange them on your sheet metal in a clever way, so that you end up with as little waste as possible.

And here software could really speed up the process. It would be a great addition to QCADs CAM abilities if it would be able to produce a cutplan.

Enter the size of the sheet metal (or whatever material), select the part(s), enter number of copies and let QCAD find the best way(s) of arrangement. Additional parameters could be clearance between parts and border margin.

Modify > Lengthen with positive values can shorten the polyline in some cases.
See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4303

Context menu does not show an entry to “Delete Node” for the first node of a polyline.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4310