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Hello all, I have a drawing with a model space and paper space. I have made several viweports to the model space from paper space. now the line types appear different in Viewport (paper space) than model space. If i select print preview in model_space the lines look correct. Is there any way to corr...

Well golly that worked,
Thanks!
I knew it must be something simple I was missing.
I have always cut and pasted the entire drawing.
Still not sure why cut and paste did not work this time, perhaps drawing too big?
The hand fixes it, problem solved.
Thank you for Qcad!

Hi Husky, thanks
when I changed the scale the drawing no longer shows up in the same place.
I can post the original if you want.
Thanks
Turtle

Hmmm thats interesting thanks for trying so fast! I am on 3.23 using Gentoo Linux. So I started qcad from the cmd line so i could see errors and there are some new ones: QCAD version 3.23.0 10:31:11: Debug: checking for QCAD Pro updates... Warning: QSslSocket: cannot resolve CRYPTO_num_locks Warning...

Hi all I am attempting to align this drawing at anew scale / paper. Got the scale and paper changed. entered print preview then I try select all cut with reference cntrl + shift + X drawing disappears as expected then Cntrl + C to paste click snap free now nothing program seems frozen am I missing s...

Possible to import an SVG file like the following, and preserve the text? https://www.dropbox.com/s/3toa1rg48gtyhh4/unit%20counts.svg?dl=0 Luckily SVG is a open standard so if you needed to do this often it could probably be done for plain text stripping out fonts etc. However once you get into all...

Hi Husky thanks for your reply. I am using the pdf export button on qcad 3.23 So your saying its not possible to export the fade? I made a simple test drawing green.dxf using the canvas_green.png as a test bitmap. I exported it as green50.pdf setting the bitmap to a 50% fade. and exported as green.p...

Greetings all, I have some site drawings I am doing on top of bitmap satellite images.
I fade the bitmap so the drawing stands out.
However when I export to PDF the fade is lost.
And advice?
I can just fade the images before I import them to qcad.
Thanks

Hi I did it again. I have no idea what causes this, and I'd love to know. I click on the text 'Move this' you can see its selected in its original place with its blue square. I am dragging to move it down near the bottom of the page you can see the cross hairs, and it's moving relative to zero. When...

Once in a while, I am working in a drawing and select an object, and the 'snap free' option and attempt to drag it to another position. However the object is offset a distance away from where my curser is moving. I try 'escape' and a few other tings to reset it but no luck. Reloading the CAD file se...

Great news! Ok, now I have a logical, mathematical question for you and I'm pretty sure you will hate me for that ... :lol: :lol: :lol: Never thats my job, electrical calculations. e_geek As long as I don't need to do arithmetic without a calculator were good. :oops: Your example drawing has a View...

Ahh that makes sense now thanks Husky!
Got it, model_space and paper_space.
I was looking at the 'View List' GV everywhere but there.

Update well I am making progress, I leafed thru the qcad book some more and did not find anything on viewports. I had to go to drawing preferences and MultiPages -> Columns 1 Rows 3 I had to go to print preview first so i could see where I am pasting the viewport on the page. Then I did as you said ...

Hi thank you so much for your help. I was able to add viewports! I added a layer 9999-viewports and added two. RE V1 and V2; they are 'views' I had added under the View List (GV) I thought they were viewports? However Now I cant find the viewports I just made to work in them and print preview does n...

Greetings all I am still very much a beginner at this so please bear with me. Reading this: https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-working-with-layout-blocks-and-viewports#Viewports and my excellent Qcad book which I highly recommend, however I need some guidance here. My job (thus the goal) is to quickly tak...