Hi,
I am new to Qcad after 12 years with AutoCad. I am impressed how close it is to the AutoCad version that I had been using. I am enjoying the software and it is working great for my needs. I have had a few issues which I have been able to correct myself. I now have an issue that I cannot figure out.
The viewport specific property scale setting is defaulted to .25. I have drawn a few floor plans and scale them to 1/4"=1'0" which I always do. However they look very small on the paper so I set the scale to 1"=1'0" and they look right. Once printed they measure 1/4"=1'0" but scale says 1"=1'0". I noticed the viewport specific property editor shows a scale of .25. Once I change that to 1 the 1/4"=1'0" looks good and prints properly. Resizing the viewport does not change the scale as it should not. New drawing viewport do not stay at 1 they default to .25.
I have check the application preferences under printing-page - viewport and see scale is set to 1"=1" . The drawings preferences under page - viewport is also set to 1"=1". I do not see any other settings for scaling the viewport default settings. Am I missing something? Can this be set?
I have attached the test drawing file as well as a screen shot of the test drawing I did to show the issue and screen shots as I changed the scale to 1. I appreciate any answers or ways to correct this if it is possible.
Windows 10
Qcad V 3.23.0
Viewport Specific Property Scaling wrong
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Viewport Specific Property Scaling wrong
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- Qcad Property Scale Drawing.dxf
- Test file of the scaling issue
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- Viewport property scaling defaults to .25
- Viewport Property Scale automatic set to .25.png (145.87 KiB) Viewed 2968 times
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- Viewport scaling manually set to 1
- Viewport Property Scale changed to 1.png (150.61 KiB) Viewed 2968 times
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- Viewport scaling set to 1 and resized to full page
- Viewport full page Property Scale set to 1.png (152.37 KiB) Viewed 2968 times
Re: Viewport Specific Property Scaling wrong
While creating a viewport, you can change its scale in the options tool bar at the top / middle.
This scale is remembered and used as default for new viewports until it is changed again.
This scale is remembered and used as default for new viewports until it is changed again.
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Re: Viewport Specific Property Scaling wrong
Thank you very much. That solved the issue. I can not believe I did not notice that setting.