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Maystor
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What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by Maystor » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:47 pm

I am a regular user of Qcad, but i still regret about lack of support of DWG format.
I'm for example disappointed about the lack of SHX support.

What is the real deal about QCad ?

It's not to criticize but to have a better view about.

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Re: What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by andrew » Fri Feb 11, 2022 9:37 pm

Maystor wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:47 pm
I am a regular user of Qcad, but i still regret about lack of support of DWG format.
QCAD Professional has supported DWG for both reading and writing since almost ten years:
https://qcad.org/en/qcad-documentation/qcad-features
Maystor wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:47 pm
I'm for example disappointed about the lack of SHX support.
For fonts, QCAD uses its own CXF format. This is a design choice to be able to have proper arcs in glyphs rather than coarse polygons. QCAD also supports TrueType fonts which I find have superseded SHX fonts in many areas. If you mean something else, please elaborate.
Maystor wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:47 pm
What is the real deal about QCad ?
I don't know how to answer that or if that is even a question, sorry.

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Re: What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by Maystor » Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:00 pm

Just i said it's not to criticize. OK, it supports fonts but with a "not so common" format.
My wishes (but it's my personal opinion, i don't want to impose it) are to have a real alternative CAD editor supporting DWG without any compatibilities problem when people use different plateform (CAD editor, OS etc.).

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Re: What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by Husky » Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:35 pm

Maystor wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:00 pm
(but it's my personal opinion,
Ok, here is my personal opinion.
QCAD is a real CAD editor alternative and I'm absolute convinced that thousands of user around the world will second my statement. If you are looking for an allrounder which will work on all devices and is suitable for every purpose - no problem, there are already out there. I hope you don't mind to pay also a allrounder price for it ...

Maystor wrote:
Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:00 pm
Just i said it's not to criticize.
Expressing your needs is considered as constructive critic - nothing wrong with that. The best way to share those ideas is to use the Feature Request option in the QCAD Bugtracker. On that way the developer can consider a implementation in QCAD.

https://www.qcad.org/bugtracker

Don't forget - a good software is always built with a talented developer team and a constructive support from the community ... :wink:
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Re: What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by Maystor » Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:06 am

Yeah QCad is really nice, but i can't use it for some profesional work.
It converts shx to cxf and transforms linestyle in his own format, so if i open dwg in other CAD (like the so known...) the result is not as expected.

My wish but it just my opinion is to have a more transparent CAD, this is my personal point of view, and under it the question is maybe vision of the developers is not the same.

But you are true, i will open bugracker if i have some problems.

Of course, keep it up the good work !!!!

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Re: What's the deal about QCad ?

Post by CVH » Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:27 am

Maystor wrote:
Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:06 am
Yeah QCad is really nice, but i can't use it for some profesional work.
IMHO, professionals use professional software ... And pay professional fees.
If you are that sure that other platforms treat every dwg '1on1' then why all the fuzz on their forums?

BTW: QCAD doesn't convert SHX to CXF and Linestyles are rather common, I suspect that this is a scale issue by the user.
CXF is a custom QCAD single stoke font format supporting lines-arcs-poly.
TTF can't handle single stroke, this is always a filled contour.

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CVH

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