The same can also be achievedby hitting the Escape key on your keyboard a multiple times.

Depending how far you have progressed with a tool, you might have to click the rightmouse button more than once to fully return to the neutral state. That means that no special tool is active and QCADwaits for you to click a menu or tool button to start a tool and start doing something.If you get lost in a tool while working with QCAD, you can easily return to this neutral state byclicking the arrow tool button at the top left.Alternatively, you can also click the right button of your mouse to return back to the neutral statestep by step. Printing 206Printing a Drawing 206Printing a Drawing to Scale 208Īfter the start, QCAD is in its neutral state. Import 198Bitmap Import 198SVG Import 200Įxport 201Exporting Drawings 201Bitmap Export 201SVG Export 203PDF Export 203DXF Export 204 The Library Browser 191What is a Part Library? 191The Library Browser 191Extending the Part Library 194 Hatches and Solid Fills 174What Are Hatches? 174What Are Solid Fills? 175Creating Hatches and Solid Fills 175Ĭreating and Using Blocks 182What is a Block? 182The Block List 184Creating New Blocks 184Inserting Blocks 186Modifying Blocks 188ĭeleting Blocks 190Exploding Block References 190 Texts 149Texts in CAD 149Fonts 149Text Height 149Creating Text Entities 150Subscript and Superscript 152ĭimensions 154What Are Dimensions? 154The Parts of a Dimension 155Dimension Preferences 156Creating Dimensions 157Choosing a Different Text Label 167Moving the Text Label 170Moving Reference Points 171Stretching Dimensions 172 The Property Editor 142Filtering Entity Types 144 Modification Tools Which Operate without a Selection 97Basic Selection Tools 98Advanced Selection Tools 101Basic Modification Tools 106Advanced Modification Tools 114 Selection and Modification 96Introduction 96Modification Tools Which Operate on a Selection 96 Part III: Drawing and Editing with QCAD 61ĭrawing Tools 62Choosing a Drawing Tool 62Preparations before Drawing 62Line Tools 63Arc Tools 74Circle Tools 80Ellipse Tools 84Spline Tools 86Polyline Tools 89 Hands-on: Drawing a Rhombus Using Relative PolarCoordinates Notes for Advanced Users 54Hands-on: Drawing a Shape Using Relative Coordinates 55Hands-on: Drawing a Shape Using Absolute PolarCoordinates Snap Tools 41What are Snap Tools? 41Snap Restrictions 47Exercises 48Ĭoordinates 50The Cartesian Coordinate System 50Absolute Cartesian Coordinates 51Relative Cartesian Coordinates 52Absolute Polar Coordinates 52Relative Polar Coordinates 53Notes 53Hands-on: Drawing a Triangle from Three AbsoluteCoordinates The Importance of Being Precise 39Precision Techniques 39Exercises 40 Layers 31What are Layers? 31Layers, Groups and Blocks 31Example Uses for Layers 32The Layer List 33Layers and Line Types 33Hands-on: Using Layers 34 Viewing 26The Viewing Tools 26Hands-on: Zooming in and out 26Hands-on: Panning 28Hands-on: Auto Zoom 28Hands-on: Window Zoom 29Notes 30Exercises 30 Using CAD Tools 19The CAD Toolbar 19Starting Tools 20Correcting Mistakes 20The Neutral State of QCAD 20Hands-on: Drawing a Rectangle 21Hands-on: A Line through the Middle 22Hands-on: Printing a Drawing 24Closing QCAD 24

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