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It should not make any difference at all ... Well, apparently, this makes a difference when importing into another CAD program. My question for you is this: I see a bulge factor of 1 for both of the circles in the DXF that I posted. You mentioned that one of the circles has a bulge fact of somethin...

The reason why I ask is that they do not import the same (I'm importing into a completely different CAD program). Curious on how they are handled differently ... It should not be different at all ... :wink: Could you share a screen caption of the file with polylines in that application? Regards, CV...

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Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:47 pm

The main differences are: Left starts at 0°, R0.6 ; Right starts at 180°, R0.58737627

How do I convert the left to be the similar to the right (change it from 0°, R0.6 to 180°, R0.6)?

Also, the Properties panel isn't showing this information - where can I find it?

I've attached a DXF file with two polyline "circles." Aside from differences in radius and physical xy locations - what are the differences between these two objects? The reason why I ask is that they do not import the same (I'm importing into a completely different CAD program). I'd like to get a b...

After a circle has been exploded - how to you turn the objects back to being a circle?

Is the circle object from QCAD identical to what AutoCAD generates?

Is the circle a type of block? What probably happened is that you made a polyline of the circle and exploded that. As I indicated in my first post using the "circle2p" command and exploded that - twice - resulting in two arcs. The same is true using the CI keyboard shortcuts - the resultant circle ...

When I explode a circle a couple of times - I see that the circle is made from two arcs. I drew the circle using the "circle2p" command - draw a circle with two points.

Is the circle a type of block?

Thanks for any information.

I'm using QCAD version 3.24.3.0 on a Windows 11 Pro machine.

Worked! Many Thanks!

https://youtu.be/dGeI8_FkXLM

Got a strange problem with a DXF that originally came from a step file exported from Solidworks. The step file was then opened in FreeCAD; a DXF was exported from FreeCAD and opened in QCAD. When I opened the DXF in QCAD the drawing exhibited very odd and unstable behavior. So, I decided to create a...

Thank you so much for those links!

I'm not so confident I'd provide the correct answers. At the moment I have a need to create a script that takes in raw numbers and draws a specific structure. For this, and for the moment, it looks as if what I'll mostly need/use is the addLine() command. Those will sit in the js file along with var...

How to load and run the example script file. Copy the code from https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-running-sc ... rom-a-file and save as a javascript file (*.js extension)

then from the QCAD menu Misc > Development > Run Script.

This is interesting. So, okay, the scripts are javascript - and you can add to the menu. This seems really neat.

C:\Program Files\QCAD\scripts\Misc\Examples

Is this javascript? Something else? How would I go about loading this file into QCAD? https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-running-scripts-from-a-file // constants: a=7; b=6; // phase angle: phi=0.2*Math.PI; // iteration step: step=Math.PI/256; // width of plot (amplitude in X): w=100; // height of plot (am...

That worked. Thanks!

BTW - how can you tell the drawing is 3D?