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Hmmmm, I'm sure I haven't understood the request correctly so far ..... or did I? :oops: However, If I break it down for me then I see that ... ... we can use relative coordinates - I guess most user will use that, and if we use QCAD already existent tools wisely ... ... we can also use Absolute co...

Hi mwschultz, Welcome to QCAD. You are correct. Once you have placed the first point all further points can be relative to some other point. What I do is use the Snap->Restrict Angle or Length menu option (shortcut EL). This displays the following in the options toolbar. RestrictAngleorLength.png T...

I have been a casual personal user of cad, mainly for my own home projects for over 25 years. The standard by which I judge a cad program is how well it compares with Generic Cadd, which I believe was the best 2-d cad program ever conceived by man (Autodesk purchased it and was forced to poop-can it...

OK, I just installed the latest version, seems as though in my haste and excitement I got the legacy version that uses qt4.8.4. I just did some playing around with the spline and scale tools...so far, no crashes! It looks like problem solved, thanks very much for your quick response and helpfulness,...

Yes, it is the QT4 version that I have, I should still have access to the download page, I will try that.
Thanks,
Mike

I am new to Qcad and have been enjoying getting to know it as I am a Generic/Visual Cadd user. But as I have been learning I have tried using the spline tool and as soon as I create the spline, Qcad immediately crashes and closes without warning. This is the same thing that happened when I tried to ...