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"select not possible" does not mean "low severity" to me. Attached you find a screen shot in default view, where every line is selectable as expected. With little zooming (second file) NONE of the displayed lines is selectable by a single click and therefore none of the tools with two lines (e.g. trim) is working. The marked tiny line in the first view is not selectable precisely without zooming.

   SelectLine_DefaultView.gif (6.8 KiB)
   SelectLine_ZoomedNotPossible.... (9.6 KiB)

Information for potential workaround: Problem is caused by non-zero Z level (i.e. drawing is not 2D).

Thank you for the hint.

How can I check or reset one or all Z-levels? (sorry, couldn't find an answer with google or in FAQ or qcad-how-do-I.)

The drawing is created by someone else with ACad (file starts with AC1018 and shows the string "AutoCAD LT 2004\R9" somewhere inside), so I don't know the Z-levels.

You would have to use a 3D CAD application for that or (if you are comfortable working with a plain text editor) modify a QCAD script as described below to allow Z coordinate editing in QCAD.

• Open file scripts/Widgets/PropertyEditor/PropertyEditor.js with your favorite plain text editor.

• Change the section (original code):

// don't display any Z values:
"Z"

• Into (new code):

// don't display any Z values:
//if (title==="Z") {
//    controls = undefined;
//}
//else {
//}

• Restart QCAD
• Select all
• At top of property editor, choose "Selection: Line"
• Change all Z coordinates to 0

Thank you very much, I will try this as soon as possible and post the result.

Confirmed, after changing to Z=0 all lines are selectable even if view is zoomed.

Is there a way to set all Z-coordinates to 0? If I select all?
Choosing "Selection: Line" does not show Z-coordinates (General and in Geometry: length and angle, nothing more).
Choosing "Selection: Block Reference" gives Z-coordinates in position and scale.

The property editor rises another question: why does the selection always change back to "All"?

Thank you very much.

maybe this would be a feature request: reset all Z-coordinates on load to 0?

the received file or the importing of it seems to have other issues, see attached screen shot with "Parse Error"

   ParseError.gif (24.8 KiB)