I recently installed the latest version and when I got to Chapter 17 in the Introduction book I discovered that the Library Browser did not know where the Library was installed. I was able to poke around the QCAD files and "Add" it to the Browser. However, I believe the install process should have done that. Not exactly a bug. So I'm just mentioning it.
I'm running 3.26.4.0 on Windows.
Library Browser not hooked up to installed Library
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- DaleEltoft
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Re: Library Browser not hooked up to installed Library
Questions: Did you manually update the Library Browser search index (DB) within the widget icon?
Did you then chose the default DB?
Or in the case you haven't updated the DB search index manually was the option ticked to update the search index automatically during the QCAD start below Application Preferences / Widgets / Library Browser ... before you launched QCAD?
Can not imagine any other reason why QCAD should not have found the default DB location.
Did you then chose the default DB?
Or in the case you haven't updated the DB search index manually was the option ticked to update the search index automatically during the QCAD start below Application Preferences / Widgets / Library Browser ... before you launched QCAD?
Can not imagine any other reason why QCAD should not have found the default DB location.
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- DaleEltoft
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Re: Library Browser not hooked up to installed Library
I'm not sure about the manual update. I've clicked it subsequently with no change but that is likely because I updated via a different method.
I did go through all the choices (default and the 3 tabs). Folders showed up but were empty. Perhaps the update would have solved that but it's too late to tell.
What I did do was open the Application Preferences ==> Widgets ==> Library Browser
I observed that there were no library sources shown so I added the path C:/Program Files/QCAD/libraries
Then stuff showed up in the browser. My thought is that this path should have been in there when the app was installed.
I don't recall checking the Update on startup box but I might have. Anyway I see that it is checked now.
I did go through all the choices (default and the 3 tabs). Folders showed up but were empty. Perhaps the update would have solved that but it's too late to tell.
What I did do was open the Application Preferences ==> Widgets ==> Library Browser
I observed that there were no library sources shown so I added the path C:/Program Files/QCAD/libraries
Then stuff showed up in the browser. My thought is that this path should have been in there when the app was installed.
I don't recall checking the Update on startup box but I might have. Anyway I see that it is checked now.