Resolved - Copy/Paste Scaling

QCAD Professional QCAD Troubleshooting and Problems
1

'm having difficulty troubleshooting why QCAD will automatically scale down the size of the object I copy and paste onto the same page or even a new page. I must of toggled something on at some point and now I’m unable to discover what’s causing this. Any suggestions on how to resolve this so QCAD will paste 1:1?

20230103_074009[40].jpg
20230103_074009[40].jpg4624×3468 3.35 MB

2

hi,
Welcome to the forum,

I’m having difficulty troubleshooting why QCAD will automatically scale down the size of the object I copy and paste onto the same page or even a new page. I must of toggled something on at some point and now I’m unable to discover what’s causing this. Any suggestions on how to resolve this so QCAD will paste 1:1?

Have a look at the copy/paste options in the tool bar:

paste options.jpg
paste options.jpg567×216 26.2 KB

3

I’m a fairly new user to QCAD and was wondering if you could provide me a little more detail? My menu bar doesn’t look anything like yours. In fact its the way it was when I purchased my subscription.

4

Just after you selected Paste a toolbar would have appeared ‘somewhere’ at the top containing the following and as indicated by J-J…
ksnip_20230103-194742.png
…just make sure the scale is as shown or 1 1. The Paste options toolbar will always look like this.

5

@Pete
Is your pasting scale really “0 0”?
I don’t even see a decimal point so your scale would be <0><0>. :open_mouth:
That would be an error and in red over here.

I would understand “1:1” but “1 1” is again an error.
In my case the Paste Scale option is decimal or [1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/10, 2, 3, …].
That is a fixed list incorporated in the Paste.ui widget.

@JBLDeere
About every tool in QCAD uses an Option Toolbar, so keep an eye open on the options of the tool. :wink:
I would set the Scale value to “1” or whatever suits you at the instance of pasting.

Regards,
CVH

6

I can’t say that I’d noticed that before as I very rarely use copy/paste, 0 0 certainly is not in the list of options…

scale.png
scale.png170×225 7.29 KB

7

Noop and probably your Theme doesn’t displays errors in red … e_surprised
That is formatted by the RMathLineEdit class.
If you hover over the Scale field the tooltip should be a SyntaxError.

Regards,
CVH

8

If you “ask” persistent enough it will work as it is supposed to work. Maybe some kind of lubricant will help …

Husky-2023.01.04-05.png
Husky-2023.01.04-05.png413×234 22.9 KB

Anyway - 0 0 is ignored and treated as 1.

9

Toolbars and many other things in QCAD are customisable.

Most option setting are persistent, meaning that they remember the prior used options or settings.
If it is a default installation I would presume the Paste options reset themselves on a new use.

Go to menu Edit .. Application Preferences .. Edit .. Paste and activate “Reset to defaults every time tool is used”.
If you are more acquainted with the look and feel of QCAD then you could deactivate this. :wink:

Regards,
CVH

10

True, but you have to agree “0 0” should be in red as in your screen caption …

Or the lubricant must be dyed accordingly. :laughing:

Regards,
CVH

11

probably does
hint.png

12

I appreciate all of your support! Thank you.

13

The tooltip is correctly formatted in red on its background.
Now I start to wonder why the Scale field isn’t …

Time to dive into the RMathLineEdit class. :laughing: :wink:

Regards,
CVH