Hello from the Eastern Shore, Maryland, USA

[TallBob]

I mainly use CAD for designing home remodeling projects and small building construction plans. Nothing "professional," but sufficient to submit for building permits.

I have been an IMSIDesign TurboCad user for a number years. I am looking at QCAD because it has a simpler interface and, in general, seems easier to use than a full-fledged CAD system. [ I hope I don't get a lot of feeback about how QCAD is that. ]

So far, what I like about QCAD is that its just easier to do things. I also suspect that I can write a program in C or REXX that would generate a stream of QCAD commands, like a macro or a command script that I could feed into it.

I've only been playing with QCAD for a few days and still have a lot to learn about the interface, but so far it seems pretty intuitive.

bob

[CVH]

Hi, and welcome Bob to the QCAD forum.

I also suspect that I can write a program in C or REXX that would generate a stream of QCAD commands ...

Scripting under QCAD uses ECMAScript and C++ is also an option.
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/doc/qcad/latest/developer/

... generate a stream of QCAD commands, like a macro or a command script that I could feed into it.

QCAD also includes a simple API:
https://www.qcad.org/doc/qcad/latest/de ... imple.html
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/en/tutorial-the-script-shell

You may want to consider DrawFromCSV for QCAD Pro.
This tool can draw almost any basic drawing entity (and a few more) with a macro based CSV .
It handles layers, colors, linetypes and can do much more things than what is possible with the simple API.

As example

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NewLayer,Examples,Black,015,Continuous,true,true
Point,40,50
Line,70,0,100,100
Arc,1100,500,106.301458,228.814075,156.037511,true

Regards,
CVH

[TallBob]

Thanks for those good tips. I will investigate them to see how they fit into what I what I might want to do. Just theorizing with no specific intent yet.

As I dig into QCAD more and more I am liking it more and more. For example: Printing with TurboCad is a PAIN. QCAD is really simple (the way it should be). I still have a lot to learn, but I'm impressed with what I see so far. When I have a question this forum has been very useful.

bob