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Another odd question. I have a drawing that includes lines and splines. I need to create polylines from various entities because I want to use the equidistant feature of a polyline. I know you can't create a polyline from a spline, so I exploded them first. I'm using the Polylines>create from segmen...

I understand everything. I tried something similar, but I didn't explode the splines and was using layers instead of blocks. I will give this a try today. QCAD to the rescue! Now I just have to perfect the technique enough to do a tutorial on it. That will be fun. Thank you so much for taking the ti...

Yes, that appears to be just perfect. The length of the left side has been preserved. The distance in the slashes is not fixed, it can be variable.

How did you manage it?

Yes, that's exactly right. I know it's difficult to visualize. If this pattern was a piece of paper, the green areas in #2 would be the table that you can see because the cuts have been spread out. The Center Front line is now a curve that has a lot more length than the original line. Here's a quick...

I am working with hand drawn pattern instructions and converting them to CAD, so this may seem a bit odd. I've attached a drawing to illustrate. If it was paper, the original pattern would be slashed at the Center Front line nearly to the other edge, then the pattern is spread out. The edge line ret...

Perfect! I love this program.

I tried to look it up in the QCAD Book (Introduction to CAD). I didn't even check the regular manual. I'll make sure to look there next time.

Thank you.

I need to rotate an object to meet another object (essentially, close a gap). I don't know what the angle is to do this and there doesn't appear to be a manipulator to just drag it around. I attached a little sample diagram to illustrate. I want to rotate A on the circled point to bring it around an...

Brilliant! The circle never even occurred to me, but that makes perfect sense. It's easily automated, too.

Thank you so much Clive.

I need to set the end point of a line based on another line without altering the length, only the angle. Here's an example: Line A Vertical - length 28, Start 27,56 End 27, 28 Line B - length 40 Start 57,22 I need the end point of B to rest on line A at any point on line A that preserves the length ...