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by Matfie
Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:24 am
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: Library Browser
Replies: 6
Views: 8610

Re: Library Browser

andrew, thanks for the response but I think "dragging the file" is something that requires a desktop environment/file manager to provide some external functionality? I'm a bit old-school and only use a window manager. What does this action do, can I do this from the QCAD console or the ECMAScript Sh...
by Matfie
Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:02 pm
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: Library Browser
Replies: 6
Views: 8610

Re: Library Browser

inserting a dxf seems to work, but the involute gear generator I wrote does disappointingly seem out of reach now
by Matfie
Sat Apr 01, 2023 8:55 am
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: Library Browser
Replies: 6
Views: 8610

Library Browser

Hello 3.28.0 (2023/03/28) Library Browser Retired SQL DB based Library Browser QCAD Professional: Add refactored and improved file system based Library Browser: do I understand that the feature of library browser is now removed from the open source version? is there a way to insert parts?
by Matfie
Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: Is there a way to rotate the crosshair? Rotate Coordinate System?
Replies: 11
Views: 6883

Re: Is there a way to rotate the crosshair? Rotate Coordinate System?

if you worked on your part which was angled in a block, you could have it aligned with the grid.. then insert the block in the main drawing at an angle. To edit the part, just edit it in the block..?
by Matfie
Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:56 am
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: Config before compilation fails
Replies: 1
Views: 5833

Re: Config before compilation fails

You did not say what platform you are working on but qtscript, qtsvg and qtxmlpatterns at least are modules which need to be installed in addition to the qt5 base as far as I know. Perhaps QTCreator does not include them?
by Matfie
Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:44 pm
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: QCAD Pro and QCAD Community
Replies: 2
Views: 6554

Re: QCAD Pro and QCAD Community

QCAD Community Edition is open source, distributed on github under the GPLv3 licence and you can compile this yourself on many operating systems (I use it on NetBSD) QCAD Pro (and QCAD/CAM) is based on the same sources but with closed source binary extensions, which are included as time-limited modu...
by Matfie
Wed May 06, 2020 10:48 am
Forum: Pre-sales Questions
Topic: CAD comparison and opinions
Replies: 5
Views: 10267

Re: CAD comparison and opinions

Hi You can also remove the trial features and revert to the Community Edition in which case you can use it all day without any issues though of course you may be lacking some features that you find necessary. Andrew also generously makes the source code (for Community Edition) available and you can ...
by Matfie
Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:35 am
Forum: QCAD Installation and Upgrades
Topic: QCad on Rasberry Pi
Replies: 3
Views: 10224

Re: QCad on Rasberry Pi

for QCAD Pro, I believe the answer is No but for QCAD Community Edition it is perhaps, depending on your OS. At least NetBSD does work[1] on Raspberry Pi, and QCAD CE is available in pkgsrc and works well on my laptop and insofar as I can tell does build on ARM platforms[2] but I have not a Pi so I ...
by Matfie
Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:43 pm
Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
Topic: Adjusting Background Images [Solved]
Replies: 3
Views: 4536

Re: Adjusting Background Images

I agree that this is not easy. The way I have done this is in two steps. First resize and/or locate the object so that the reference point will need to be moved towards the target point, meaning that it does not obscure the target beforehand. Then, do the resize or move for real.
by Matfie
Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:42 pm
Forum: QCAD Community Edition
Topic: release plugin built in debug mode?
Replies: 2
Views: 5214

Re: release plugin built in debug mode?

Yes, it should not build with debug enabled in pkgsrc and I have a fix pending for that (your message reached me via other means but I've been unable to look at it for a couple of weeks). I don't know if this is related to the Qt4->Qt5 update but essentially, just remove the "debug_and_release" keyw...
by Matfie
Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:45 pm
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: How to make image print normally in PDF
Replies: 9
Views: 10472

Re: How to make image print normally in PDF

Hi

I don't know if this is significant but the image seems to me to be a PNG with transparency. I don't know how these normally work but it looks like it is uniform black with a transparent background. If you edit that to remove the transparency then you might get a result.
by Matfie
Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: QCAD Suggestions and Feedback
Topic: Cycloid and Involute curves for gears construction
Replies: 2
Views: 7014

Re: Cycloid and Involute curves for gears construction

There is a paper, here http://web.mit.edu/harishm/www/papers/involuteEWC.pdf which describes the use of splines for approximating an involute curve in CAD systems. I think the approximation would be pretty close for the range of curve that is used in a gear for example, not sure about an extended le...
by Matfie
Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:06 pm
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: Copies And Layers
Replies: 2
Views: 3879

Re: Copies And Layers

You can nest blocks, eg have two 1. Back View (draw the outline) 2. Front View (insert Back View, plus the lines you want in addition) then insert Back View and Front View into your drawing and they will show differently. If you change Back View, then the outline portion of Front View will also change
by Matfie
Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:25 am
Forum: QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
Topic: [solved] Print Preview views are reversed
Replies: 3
Views: 5966

Re: Print Preview views are reversed

Hi I reported this in the bugtracker before: http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=1518 I agree that technically the program may be acting logically... but the UI is not technical it is for people. Landscape means that the page you see is wider than it is high, not that the att...
by Matfie
Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:04 pm
Forum: QCAD 'How Do I' Questions
Topic: Etching HO Scale Balconey Rails
Replies: 12
Views: 11123

Re: Etching HO Scale Balconey Rails

Hi it seems to me that you are drawing two lines (one for each side of the bar) and trimming all the intersections away then doing a fill? why don't you just draw single lines (one for each bar, in the centre position of the bar) then adjust the width of the lines to be the width of the bar. that wo...

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