Qcad

[Johnnybravo]

I was looking through the software topics, and there is not a thread for Qcad. Just curious about that.

Qcad came with my table along with Sheetcam and Mach 3. I have also put CorelDraw x7 and Inkscape on my design computer. I'm making slow progress, but have already cut out some neat stuff.

[urbnsr]

I use QCAD for almost all CAD work here. Clean, stable, quick and no hoops to jump through on a regular basis.

[Bigdogbro1]

Unless I need dimensional cut pieces with 2D CAD to DXF out I prefer saving as a SVG file for the artwork items. QCAD can save as SVG for Inkscape which can then be used in Sheetcam. I feel DXF has too many problems.

[erik111]

Unless I need dimensional cut pieces with 2D CAD to DXF out I prefer saving as a SVG file for the artwork items. QCAD can save as SVG for Inkscape which can then be used in Sheetcam. I feel DXF has too many problems.

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I recently bought QCAD because I bought some files that were DXF and I could not open them in inkscape. I saved them as a SVG in QCAD, when I opened it in inkscape it was almost unreadable, the lines were super fat. Any advice?

[acourtjester]

I use TurboCad and there is a setting for the line width. Maybe QCAD has one also and you have it set to wide.
In Inkscape you can change the line width under "fill and Stroke" "stroke style"

[Bigdogbro1]

Unless I need dimensional cut pieces with 2D CAD to DXF out I prefer saving as a SVG file for the artwork items. QCAD can save as SVG for Inkscape which can then be used in Sheetcam. I feel DXF has too many problems.

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I recently bought QCAD because I bought some files that were DXF and I could not open them in inkscape. I saved them as a SVG in QCAD, when I opened it in inkscape it was almost unreadable, the lines were super fat. Any advice?

In Inkscape you need to get into the fill and stroke tool. Zoom out and select the entire object. Make the stroke width about .020" wide. This should make it viewable. You may need to rescale the object as well.

[Gustav129]

I'm playing with QCad right now. So far I like it. Only thing is it's not the best for importing SVG into.

In manufacturing, we only used .DXF (original CAD drawings), .DWG (CAM work with tool paths), and .TAP (actual CNC coding).

[gamble]

How do you weld pieces in qcad?

[urbnsr]

If your referring to polylines, you might want to look at "Create From Segments" (or shortcut: "OG"). If you process through SheetCam, I'm not sure it matters as long as the segments touch.

I don't think QCAD has a Weld command, but could have missed it.

Paul