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Attached. I simply created a new file with a one inch square and two dimensions, and the dimensions render on my MacBook Pro as shown in my previous post when the pref is set to "Render text as paths." I don't recall seeing this before the recent update to 3.26.2, but I don't use dimensions very oft...

I just noticed this in QCAD/CAM Pro 3.26.2 Mac, but when the application's preference for text rendering is set to "Render text as paths", the lineweight used to draw the strokes of stick fonts in dimensions is incorrect on-screen and when printed. If I switch from normal view mode to screen-based l...

Is there an alternate location, other than inside the application bundle on Macs, to install scripts so that they are auto-loaded when the app is launched? On the Mac, the only "documented" location that I have found is inside the application's bundle under /Contents/Resources/scripts, but this loca...

Thanks Husky. I needed that confirmation as a reality check, and I think I've managed to find the culprit when reproducing it again on my side... I've been working on a script for converting segmented arcs to true arcs, and one of the things that I've been grappling with is a lack of details on oper...

I just updated to 3.26 on macOS, and while I don't recall seeing this bug after using Trim Both (TM) in 3.25, I am certainly running into it now. The undo stack is either getting corrupted or multiple operations are getting coalesced into one undo operation by Trim Both. Needless to say, this wreaks...

This may be a comment and question for Andrew, but it has to do with the Undo menu item text... I cannot find a way to set the menu item text for a transaction group, but it appears that if I name every operation before it is added to the transaction group and subsequently applied, the menu then dis...

CVH, Here's a functioning alpha-quality script for QCAD Pro that converts both open and closed sequences of line segments into arcs and circles. I still have a number of features that I wish to implement, but it's a starting point for conversation purposes :) The following instructions are for the u...

CVH, Being locked up in-home during the long freeze in Texas is finally giving me some free time to work on this :) The shop is too cold and the roads are treacherous, so I'm having fun using the uninterrupted time to get acclimated with QCADs scripting. I have a working script that is basically jus...

I'm at the opposite end of the scale, running a 5ft x 10ft CNC router :) It's a older machine by a Canadian company AXYZ that started by making CNC controllers, and while it uses its own DNC software that does some optimization when downloading g-code to the machine, it relies on 3rd party software ...

Hi CVH. You mean curved lines that are approximated with line segments. Kind of interpolated. Is that standard for SketchUp? Unfortunately, that is the standard for SketchUp. It's a polygonal modeler, and while it maintains some internal data about each curve which allows you to change the number of...

I would love to have a feature/tool/script/plug-in added to QCAD. I work regularly with DXF files generated from SketchUp, and the problem is that SketchUp generates tessellated arc and circles in all 2D output. This tessellated output doesn't work well with CNC machines because the tool path genera...

Awesome workaround Thanks Andrew.

Brock

Is there a tool or script for converting a polyline to a fit-points-spline or a control-points-spline? have searched the docs, the ebook and the forums, and I haven't been able to find anything so maybe this should just be a suggested feature. I do a lot of CNC routing, but I start with geometry fro...