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OS Windows (XP and 7). (QCAD version 3.21.3.16) Use the polyline tool to draw a 2-point rectangle 40 wide and 20 tall.... Now in the property editor, change the height to 50. You will see that in the property editor, the _Height_ is now listed as 40 and the _Width_ is now listed as 50 even thought t...

Forgot ...Windows system(both XP and Windows 7 do t he same thing...)

Hello, I just installed version 3.21.3.16 to try and fix the issue in 3.21.3 with the property editor not accepting the size entry for polyline rectangles. I'm totally confused. When I change the dimensions of the rectangle, the base angle changes on me and the rectangle changes width and height ori...

I had more or less the same question.... The only workaround I have found is to "explode" the dimension, and then rotate the text as a standalone entity. .. .but then the linking aspects of the dimension are gone, and if you edit the drawing, you have re-dimension those "special" cases. is there a b...

BINGO! Yes - _that_ align tool! (What's it doing tucked way over at the end of that toolbar hidden off the side of that window like it isn't very important?!?!?) That tool function does 90% of my work in the program I'm used to using! I kept looking for an "align" function and all I kept seeing in t...

Is there a _quick_ easy way to align the boundaries of entities/blocks? For example: a) the top of some block to the top of another entity? I ask because I am used to thinking along the lines of: a) make an object (oops "block"), and then b) position it relative to some aspect of the rest of the dra...