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Draft appearance

Post by Quser » Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:57 am

Hello, on my old demo file (attached) I wonder why it still looks like an ugly, unreadeable draft on the working window but it's neat and clear in Preview or in .pdf print. The bitmap is also rough, but how can I correct this bug and see on the screen what I have on the print.
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Re: Draft appearance

Post by Husky » Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:04 pm

The statement "an ugly, unreadeable draft on the working window" and "how can I correct this bug" isn't really helpfull. What is "ugly" and where do you expect a bug? It looks just fine to me ....

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Re: Draft appearance

Post by CVH » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:12 pm

Simply because lineweights are fixed 0.05 ... 2.11mm
and you draw something that is 1.3 x 1.3mm large.
(Better viewed Screen-based in Model and normal on a scaled Paperspace)

I did try to fix this without scaling the drawing.
Paper space scale is 5x
Draw it 6.5 x 6.5mm or even better 10x larger.
Adapt paper scale.

I never doubled the 't'.

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Re: Draft appearance

Post by Quser » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:36 pm

Hi CVH,
Why would I do a draw 1.3 x 1.3mm, it would make no sense, and why is it not possible to rescale it ?
The pics displayed by Husky are obviously the Pre-Print views, I always said they were ok.
I will try to draw 10x larger, which in my mind is very close to re-scaling, and also "adapt paper scale", tks.

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Re: Draft appearance

Post by CVH » Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:23 pm

Quser wrote:
Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:36 pm
Why would I do a draw 1.3 x 1.3mm
Don't ask me, it simply came as it is.
Quser wrote:
Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:36 pm
I will try to draw 10x larger,
Scaling is straightforward: Select All (TA) & Modify .. Scale (SZ)
And follow the instructions in your screen below.

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Re: Draft appearance

Post by Quser » Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:04 pm

After selecting All and resizing, it did work excepted for the Fonts that remained small.... Also we are being requested to select the "Focus Point" and I could not find any tutorial about what this Focus does and how.
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Re: Draft appearance

Post by CVH » Sun Jul 19, 2020 9:24 pm

The focal point of an objective, or better, a lens.
Doesn't that hint you?

Qcad scales in relation to a focal point.
Eg. Scaling a circle in relation to its center.
> The center stays where it is.
Eg. scaling an squared object in relation to one of its corners.
> That corner stays where it is, not the center.

Scaling a full drawing in relation to its origin.
or a part in relation to its local origin, or reference, or startpoint.

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