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Last time I rode a horse (which is VERY rarely) was at the Prude Guest Ranch in Fort Davis, Texas. Hmm... There's gotta be a way to relate that to CAD. But I'm not drawing a horse in QCAD! Wait, Husky once posted a sawHORSE drawing!

What is that, by the way? Looks like some kind of aggregate shaker / sorter, maybe part of mining? Or am way off base?

Looks like two vanishing points to me...? Must've had lots of construction lines!

In the 80s I was doing graphic design, not CAD. The early 90s and CorelDRAW was about as close as I got... Unless you count the copy of EasyCAD that came with MS-DOS 3.3 and my first PC.

You're right - It does for me, too. I was just curious if there was a reason / advantage of having full-time crosshairs as is the case with several other CAD programs. For example, Draftsight, DoubleCAD, etc. show crosshairs by default, regardless of what's active (an arrow pointer shows up only whe...

Has there been any demand for the 'standard' X/Y mouse pointer as an alternative to the standard mouse arrow pointer? http://pages.suddenlink.net/lenphilpot/img/XY_pointer.png Given my inexperience I can't enumerate any real advantages one way or the other, but it seems to be pretty popular in other...

Thanks - The way I did it (in the CE) was highly repetitive, but that's often characteristic of CAD work anyway, from what I've seen. The repetition, practice and discipline are all worthwhile.

A few general questions: Does it happen on both themes (default and dark)? Have you tried renaming your QCAD profile, restarting QCAD and seeing if it still happens? Did you recently update your display driver? Your profile would be the folder C:\Users\ <account name> \Appdata\Roaming\QCAD (if I rem...

Thanks.

So how does this look? It's not perfect -- I discovered (after I deleted the oblique geometry I would've needed for accuracy) that I hadn't drawn quite all the receding edges of the bricks around the top edge quite as far as I could've... but I wasn't going back and doing the copies all over again! ...

Just saw this and it looked interesting. You've already done all the hard work! A few copies, rotates, mirrors, etc. and the front was complete. Hatching the interior space too longer. :) But can the 3D isometric projection be done with the community edition? I was able to do a projection of the fro...

Thanks for the clarification. Soon hopefully I'll have no reason to ignore them.

Believe it or not, I had actually read both of your links. But it's nice to get confirmation. So, a drawing is actually a "master block" in a sense, optionally containing other blocks in a nested hierarchical manner (so to speak). Makes sense now. I'll wait and see if anyone else (Andrew, maybe?) co...

(I apologize for the flurry of posts, but I'm encountering things that make me go "Hmmm" :wink: ) I've come to realize I apparently have a fundamental misunderstanding of what constitutes a block. I've always thought a block was a named entity (or named group of related entities), optionally with a...

That's why I asked... I had drawn a test rectangular shape on one layer, added a hatch on another, selected both and stretched them, but only the lines stretched. The hatch remained the same shape and size. That made me wonder. But I just tried it again and this time it worked. Obviously I did somet...

Does QCAD support associative hatches? Or is there another technique to (effectively) resize a hatch, e.g., after stretching a hatched entity? I thought I saw this question somewhere on the forums, but no amount of searching turned it up. I also searched the website for hatch and associative but fou...