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circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:11 am
by marS
First, thankyou for your work. I recently started using QCAD and I'm liking it.
I have 2 thoughts/suggestions:
1) tangent circle
Do you guys plan on adding the option to draw a circle tangent to two other circles? Like in the latest versions of LibreCad.
2) about drawing paterns
This is a bit complicated.. I wonder if it's possible at all to do.
Let's say I have a square and I'm drawing something on it. On another window I have the same square repeated horizontally and vertically.
Each time I draw something on the single square, in the window with the repeated square, I see the same drawing on each square.
This is useful because I don't have to copy and paste the drawing each time to see how it looks on a repeated pattern.
I hope it was clear. Maybe an add-on or a plug-in may do this I'm not sure.
Thanks again!!
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:59 am
by Clive
marS wrote: I recently started using QCAD and I'm liking it.
Hi marS and welcome to the forum, yes QCAD is a great 2D CAD program to use
marS wrote: I have 2 thoughts/suggestions:
1) tangent circle
Do you guys plan on adding the option to draw a circle tangent to two other circles? Like in the latest versions of LibreCad.
2) about drawing paterns
This is a bit complicated.. I wonder if it's possible at all to do.
Let's say I have a square and I'm drawing something on it. On another window I have the same square repeated horizontally and vertically.
Each time I draw something on the single square, in the window with the repeated square, I see the same drawing on each square.
This is useful because I don't have to copy and paste the drawing each time to see how it looks on a repeated pattern.
I hope it was clear. Maybe an add-on or a plug-in may do this I'm not sure.
Thanks again!!
Please feel free to add feature requests here: (its a good place to submit them, so they don't get forgotten!
)
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/
Both your suggestions sound good to me, 'circle tangent to two other circles' - yes what a benefit to the circle tool set this would make!
Regarding the dynamic multiple copying idea - wow
, this sounds cool. What an excellent suggestion - and what a 'plug-in' this would make, I could see the potential time saving this would add for pattern designing.
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:28 pm
by marS
I know maybe QCAD is more a professional, technical sw but having this option with the precision drawing of QCAD, would be perfect.. at least for me (I'm a graphic designer) Maybe for most users it's useless.
Do you guys know the site
myoats?
Just with a few lines it generates paterns in a circle and shows the result in real time.
The only problem you have to draw online.. you don't have the precision of a CAD sw.
p.s.
I know this is even more complex than the one I wrote earlier, but it's just a thought
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:04 pm
by Clive
marS wrote: Maybe for most users it's useless.
Not at all, something like this would be absolutely fantastic - however I'm not sure how difficult/time consuming something like this would be for Andrew to implement, only he can advise you on this!
marS wrote:Do you guys know the site myoats?
Just with a few lines it generates paterns in a circle and shows the result in real time.
Just had a look - really clever
Anyways...for now this workaround may (or may not) help you out ?
Using the Move/Copy tool is a good way of creating a rectangular array, which may speed things up a little, rather than lots of copy and paste work.
Example:
1.Draw your pattern (notice the use of the grid).
- Pattern repeat 1.png (3.02 KiB) Viewed 16002 times
2. When finished, select all and use the Move/Copy tool.
Follow the prompts in the command line for - Reference point and Target point.
- Pattern repeat 2.png (33.11 KiB) Viewed 16002 times
3. Once the 'Target' point has been defined, the Move/Copy dialog window will open with options. Choose the 'Multiple' option and the number quantity.
- Pattern repeat 3.png (18.92 KiB) Viewed 16002 times
4.Repeat the process again, this time selecting the whole row and the end result should be something like this!
- Pattern repeat 4.png (11.48 KiB) Viewed 16002 times
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:24 pm
by marS
Thanks, clive for taking the time to explain in such detail!!
This is exactly how I do it now.
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:32 pm
by Clive
marS wrote:Thanks, clive for taking the time to explain in such detail!!
Sure, no problem.
marS wrote:This is exactly how I do it now.
Oh well, it may be useful for others. I thought you were just using the Copy/Paste tool as you mentioned in your first post. Anyways I still think you have nothing to lose by submitting a feature request via the link I posted
.
Re: circle drawing and patterns option
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:20 pm
by marS
Well let's see if the suggestion is liked by more people in this discussion, I'll add it there.
I don't know how such a feature could be named
I think I'll do a search also on Google to see if I find any video sw utility that lets you repeat a selected portion of the screen.
I'll let you know if I find anything