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How to use the command line in this manner needs to be well integrated into the documentation, including the official book. Coordinate entry through the command line is indeed covered in chapter 7, "Coordinates". Please pay also attention to the section "Notes for Advanced Users". If by "covered" y...

I have set grid and meta grid to auto, I have selected Snap->Grid, and the mouse/cursor still only snaps to 10 grid intervals.

I am using a freshly installed, freshly downloaded copy of the Linux pro 64 bit version.

Thanks.

How to use the command line in this manner needs to be well integrated into the documentation, including the official book.

Thanks.

So this is display only user-reference thing, it does not affect drawing behavior in any way?

I have selected the Snap->Grid menu item; and set the Drawing Preferences->Grid->Grid Spacing values to 1 (also tried 0.1, 0.01. etc.) yet the mouse only snaps to the grid in units of 10 (40, 130; 40, 140; 50, 150, etc.) as I move the mouse. I cannot find any setting that makes it snap to the grid r...

Neither the Reference Manual or the offical QCad book mention this thing, but there are options to set its spacing. What does it do? What effect does setting Meta Grid spacing in Drawing Preference have?

Neither the QCad 3 "Reference Manual", nor the official book, provide a concise reference of all the commands as far as I can see. I haven't found any with a bit of Googling either. Where can I find such a thing? Even better would be an actual usage guide written for the command line. I know that th...

(I logged in and wrote a fairly extensive exposition on my background and what I am looking for in QCad. When I hit submit, the site told me to log in again and erased my entire missive. I am not retyping it, so my comments here will be brief.) I have 30 years of experience with object drawing tools...