I was experimenting with restricting multi-user linux boxes. A few days later trying to run QCAD with the above security settings threw this error: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Permission denied QCAD froze. I had to go back to...
vec2web is a dxf to png (and other format) convertor based on the QCAD libraries. I downloaded and compiled it. However when I ran it the text dimensions were missing. I discovered the reason for this is that vec2web needs to be able to find the fonts and resource in...
QCAD - Isometric Projections or "The coolest open source app in the universe" I used to do Tech Drawing at school and to do an Isometric Projection required all sorts of construction lines just to render a circle. Here is a sample of an isometric projection in QCAD....
The native file format in QCAD is DXF however many online resources provide downloads in DWG file format. For example I was looking for roofing iron profiles and found some in DWG format So how do you convert from DWG to DXF. I tried to download lx-viewer but it has...
Just thought I would share my experiences with a printing problem I was having. QCAD (at least some versions) seems to look at /etc/printcap to populate the printing dialog box. I have had an issue where the wrong printer was being listed in the print dialog (one that...
I use an excellent open source CAD package QCAD which I pay about 49$ P.A. to have the latest version for both Linux (home) and Windows (work). Under Linux it can export as high quality PDF using the "File ==> PDF Export" function but the size of the PDF is quite...