Scale on Rulers and drawing - newbie questions
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:13 am
Hi. I'm a total QCAD virgin and have no experience of CAD drawing software (although many years ago I used Visio), so apologies, please bear with me! I have downloaded v3.9.4.0 onto a Win 7 desktop. QCAD seems very advanced and complicated to me and it may be that it is too sophisticated for my needs, which are very basic. I need a simple way in, to start learning but I don't want to waste time if the tool is overkill for my tasks.
I wish to draw 2D plan and elevations views of a garden shed with a pent roof measuring say, 4 x 9 metres width/ length, 2 metres tall walls, say 3.5 metres to ridge. (Just guessing the numbers for the purpose of illustration.) I need simply to have the horizontal and vertical rulers on the workpage display units in metres or centimetres and scaled so that, with an end view for example, the scale across the page goes up to say 5 metres, and for a side view it might run to say 10 metres. Basically so that my drawing fills most of the page view.
I also need to be able to attach dimensions to each line I draw, expressed in 'real life' units (so scaled so that the dimensions read in the metres/centimetres that the shed would actually measure.) These dimensions need to automatically update when I adjust the length of the line to which they are related. Also, angles where corners are other than 90 degrees.
Can anyone point me to how I can achieve these basics so that I can determine whether it's worth continuing with QCAD?
I wish to draw 2D plan and elevations views of a garden shed with a pent roof measuring say, 4 x 9 metres width/ length, 2 metres tall walls, say 3.5 metres to ridge. (Just guessing the numbers for the purpose of illustration.) I need simply to have the horizontal and vertical rulers on the workpage display units in metres or centimetres and scaled so that, with an end view for example, the scale across the page goes up to say 5 metres, and for a side view it might run to say 10 metres. Basically so that my drawing fills most of the page view.
I also need to be able to attach dimensions to each line I draw, expressed in 'real life' units (so scaled so that the dimensions read in the metres/centimetres that the shed would actually measure.) These dimensions need to automatically update when I adjust the length of the line to which they are related. Also, angles where corners are other than 90 degrees.
Can anyone point me to how I can achieve these basics so that I can determine whether it's worth continuing with QCAD?