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It seems there is some top padding above the text. How you did that? I can't reproduce this padding effect. Which font was used? Husky-2018.01.20-01.png I used the font ISOPCEUR with size 2 and height 3. That shifts the font a little bit downwards. Actually that happened by accident. I didn't know ...

When placing text on a drawing you are offered with the choice of where you want the origin of the textbox to be. That's very nice. Here is an example of top left origin. It seems there is some top padding above the text. QCAD_textbox_no_padding.png Unfortunately there is no option to add extra padd...

When dimensioning my drawings I always want the dimensions to be on the dimensions layer. When adding text I want the text to be on the text layer. When drawing an infinite line it is always a construction line, therefore I want it to be on the construction line layer. When drawing a line segment it...

It probably depends what "Standard" means on a given OS.

Thank you, Husky. You pointed me in the right direction and now, after changing the font to a TTF-font, everything is as I wanted it to be.

Husky, you were right regarding the font choice. I changed the dimension label font to Arial, and now the text thickness doesn't change with the lineweight of the layer.

Problem solved, although I'd love to hear from Andrew, how the font choice influences the appearance of the dimension label.

Here is my unexploded example:
As you can see the text thickness changes with the lineweight.

I use "Standard" as dimension label font in the application preferences.

BTW, I am running here QCAD on a Linux box.

Hello everyone! To all of you a Happy New Year! I was just dimensioning one of my drawings and when I changed the lineweight of the layer which I used for dimensions I noticed that not only the dimension lines changed their width but also the text. Is it possible to have thin dimension lines and the...

Andrew, thank you! It works beautifully and just the way I imagined it.

THANKS!

Andrew, could the tangential snap be made to work with angled lines?

It works with a line from a point to a circle, because the point tells it under which angle the line passes the circle by. If the angle is given, no point should be needed. Or am I completely wrong?

Objective: Draw a line with 75° tangential to a circle Is there a tool that can do that? My steps: 1) draw circle with Center, Point (CI) 2) draw Line from Angle (LA) with 75° 3) choose Tangential (SB) and click on circle That did not work. NB: Of course I know how to "construct" a tangent, which I ...

I just reminded myself of this feature request.

It would be very convenient if QCAD would start with a "new from template" drawing, where the template would be selected in the "Defaults for new drawings" section of the preferences.

I think the old dovetail script started as an example for scripting in QCAD. It didn't do more than draw one dovetail of fixed geometry.
I suggest to move the old script to the example scripts and replace it in its current place with my new one.

Bonus: When entering a dovetail gradient of 9999 or higher you get a fine finger joint with ≤0,005 mm error, with half fingers at the ends.

I finally did it!

For the new Dovetail Script please go to:

viewtopic.php?f=107&t=4737#p17410

I proudly present: The Dovetail Script v2.0

Thanks to Matthias Melcher for his first dove tail script, which inspired me to follow in his steps.
And thank you, Andrew, for your help.

Please feel free to include this dovetail script in the next QCAD release.