Still even Andrew’s answer is the same so called ‘boondoggle’.
Or ‘bringing the mountain to the man’.
You find it is idiotic to move the entire design relative to Qcad origin.
But that is exactly what you do with Cut with reference and Paste on drawing origin.
Correct, for that you need a reference to cut from.
a ‘small circle around’ will do, a round stock size too.
any corner of a stock will do too.
a known reference on your piece too. (e.g. adding a text line on a former engraved piece)
It really is “Bringing the Mountain” aka the design to the “man” aka Zero.
It is obvious and a huge fuss compared to simply being able to place the zero in your design (which functionality doesnt exist currently)
This doesnt solve the fundamental question and problem in a way that you could rather efficiently and rightfully preferable, bring the “man to the mountain”. It is still absent,
BUT… this thread gives several options of how to bring the “Mountain” in the “least inefficient” way to the man and it is the workaround that is important.
Not ideal at all, but it is a workaround, and I appreciate all the help, and makes dragging the entire design to the zero a bit more bearable and workable.
For my CNC work placing the Zero accurately solves so many problems.
I think this thread could be very useful as every noob will run into this eventually. I have been using Qcad for almost a decade (I think) , and I am still a noob.
Thanks.
I am in agreement with treestumpexhaustpipe.
My procedure is to make all layers visible
select all
move/copy from the point I want to be the new 0,0 to 0,0 (delete original option)
certainly not the end of the world, but a one button “place origin here” to accomplish the same functionality would be great!
Don’t know where exactly your contribution starts but I want to refer to Andrews explanation or that of user ljbuller.
As long as QCAD does not support moving the origin you need to move everything to the origin.
You should not have to work it out by trial and error.
Move/Copy (MV) takes 2 coordinates.
The reference point of what you want to move and a target point, opt to not copy, to delete the originals.
To move the reference to the drawing origin we indicate (0,0) as target or enter that by Command Line.
Wherever you zero is situated in your design, that is the first point for MV, the drawing origin is the second point.
Ensure that you have everything selected that must be moved.
Clumsy, perhaps, that is why it is called a ‘workaround’.
