Chips&Chips wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:33 amIt seems that with all the versatility in QCAD, there may not be a way to have it work as I would like.
Should be possible.Chips&Chips wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:25 amI want to draw a schematic circuit diagram on a layer other than layer 0 (Schematic). I want to use library parts in it. I want to use additional elements in it, mostly lines and text. I really would like it if all of my schematic drawing was on ONE layer so I can turn it on or off or change the color or the line widths working with just one layer. Is that possible?
First remember that Layers are intended to group things that should be displayed alike, printed alike.
And that Blocks are intended to group things that belong to the same geometry, sub-shape, ...
Create layers for:
- Schematics
- Block Attributes
- Auxiliary items
- Additional elements
- Notes
- In contiuous linetypes
- In hidden or center linetypes
- With different colors
- ... And so on
Hiding/showing several layers at once can be achieved by Layer States, see menu Layer ... At the bottom.
A word of caution ... First develop all the intended and required layers because Layer States only record layer attributes of existing layers.
Adding a new layer in a later stage of development requires you to update all Layer States one by one.
Renaming will fail too, the stored attributes for the old name will not be used. For a deleted layer it is straight forward.
All attributes are saved with Layer States, one can thus display layer 'X' in color this and thick for state A and thin+dotted in color that for state B.
Layer attributes also include: Visibility, Frozen/Thawed, Locked or not, Plottable and Snappable aside from Color, Lineweight, Linetype.
Also see: https://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/tutorial- ... yer-states
And yes, complexity grows when using Blocks and the possibility of their inherited attributes nature.
Reagrds,
CVH