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Hi All Well I decided to have a play with PeteVicks QcadUserTheme Creator.. Nice work Pete :) For all you gals and guys that don't like colours I've made a Greyscale Theme using this Tool. It did take a while to do believe it or not e_surprised Previews below in Mint Linux 20.1 & Windows 10. Cheers ...

Hi Andrew How embarrassing :oops: thank you for confirming my user name for some reason Firefox had my user name saved as John Hyslop the same as Qcad Forum, I'm assuming at the time I saved the password in Firefox and then discovered that the bug tracker doesn't except user names with a space like ...

Hi Andrew
I seem to have a problem, I cannot log in as John Hyslop even though I've logged in before.
Any idea what could be causing this?
I was trying to Vote on a request logged by CVH.

Thanks in advance
Cheers
John Hyslop

Hi Sypher2012 I know the method I mentioned isn't anyway as good as the overkill command but I'm pretty sure someone might be able to create a tool for this eventually but just wanted to share another way of checking files for laser cutting hatching will also find overlapping entities 👍 There is a c...

Hi Sypher2012 1st Great work CVH very handy script and downloaded :) Just a tip if I may add my 2 cents worth. :) I have been creating patterns for laser cutters for 20 odd years and also missed the Overkill command when moving across to Qcad. Until one day I tried something ..:) After running MD & ...

Hi All This is a Standard Retro Style Breeze Block in Australia the standard size in Metric is 290 x 290 with 10mm Appox Mortice Gap. As Above you need to scale the Metric one by 10 if you want it 290 x 290 1:1 Size... .. BREEZE-BLOCK-02 A and B - Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip .. BREEZE-BL...

Hi John - thank you! BREEZE-BLOCK-01 A and B - Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip BTW: Please rename your source folder for the zip from Mertic into Metric. Thanks. :wink: Oh Shit... Sorry about that... the last few have been the same oops... :oops: I've updated this one but letting the other ...

Hi All Testing CVH's Tile2Hatch, thought I'd give the Orthogonal Tile Spacing a try out, IMO it works well and very useful :D This is a Standard Retro Style Breeze Block in Australia the standard size in Metric is 290 x 290 with 10mm Appox Mortice Gap. Sooooo the Imperial tile is 1x1 but the Metric ...

Great Pete
I'll definitely use this especially to jog large radii..
Thanks
John Hyslop

Thanks Husky :) much appreciated.. I hope you find this useful seasdes.... If you're interested in manually making your own patterns, I did a section in the forum Hatch Patterns For Beginners https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=6899 Hopefully soon there will be a tool inside Qcad written b...

Hi all Just posting my 2 cents worth here. I also came from Autocad to Qcad.. Over 30 years in Autocad and now almost 2 years with Qcad. I have used Qcad professionally for this period all my drawing templates have blocks within them and I can honestly say I have never lost any as described on this ...

Hi All I needed a fair bit of help with this one so credits to CVH for all the trials he did to make this pattern possible :) Pattern design by myself and the hatch pattern generated with Tile2Hatch b17 Copyright CVH.. CVH Changed some of the entities so this pattern could hold steady at 100,000 til...

Hi I use inkscape quite a bit, when I get PDF files that have not been saved correctly or have been saved without any vector information I do 1 or 2 things. 1st in Inkscape I select the PDF , go to Path > Trace Bitmap Then save as DXF , however this does not always work so:- 2nd I take a screenshot ...

I don't use imperial but I had a look , it doesn't look promising tried 12.5inch the only option in settings is fractional but they are not stacked . It displays 12 1/2 , I see where you're coming from , it's quite hard to distinguish but stacked would be nicer :) 12 ½ like this would even be ok.. T...

Herringbone.. I bet I won't understand the equation and not be able to add
Looking forward to the maths, I bet it's a beauty..

Cheers
John