[Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

Sun Aug 9 03:08:08 PDT 2015

I agree with Luigi, QAD plugin, with a huge development effort, provides a friendly working environment for those who come from autocad world. It only needs further testing to fix some issues, but it is a complete drafting tool, more “line” than “polygon” oriented, in the autocad way of thinking. If you work with networks and nodes it could replace qgis editing commands but if you work with polygons you will miss something for now (polygons cuts, fillet, lines to poligon transformation …)

Regards
Enrico Ferreguti

> Il giorno 09/ago/2015, alle ore 10:41, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> HI
> 
> for sure there are really good cad tools... QAD is written in mind to
> completely substitute closed source solution giving the same user
> experience. It was developed in the context of a big public company
> that manage really complex and big distribution networks.
> Giving the same user experience to old user in the context of network
> management is a plus, this would reduce training and drawing times.
> 
> I'm not a cad user, so I can't completely evaluate if QAD satify these
> condition... but because of the context where it was developed, I
> suppose it's a good tool.
> I tested QGIS core cad tools and some other cad plugins (the last one
> smart cad tool is really interesting), but I can't evaluate if they
> are useful or not for users coming from cad environment.
> I trust the evaluation of Enrico Ferraguti because he works in cad and
> gis context and he has more cognitive and technical abilities to
> evaluate QAD... and obviously I really trust the author of QAD.
> 
> I remember one time I was creating a 3d model with freecad with a girl
> coming from autocad environment and she was lost because of lack of
> the same keyboard shortcut available in auto* env. She was really
> faster drawing than me, but with the same user experience she would be
> faster and faster.
> For this reason I suppose that QAD can be a plus to move 2D cad/gis
> users to qgis.
> 
> QAD was developed in autonomy and before (not so much time ago) that
> all qgis cad tools were available as plugin or in the core.
> 
> I always hope to see QAD published in qgis plugin repo... it's not a
> qgis admin problem, simply the author never uploaded it.
> So, my suggestion to cad user is to download the plugin from github,
> test it, and press the author to publish it... probably the author is
> hating me for this :)
> 
> regards,
> Luigi Pirelli
> 
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> On 9 August 2015 at 09:37, John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 8 August 2015 at 20:09, Michael.Dodd <michael.dodd at open.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to do CAD like drawings in qgis, for example the ground
>>> plan of a house plus the elevations?  I know qgis is not a CAD package and
>>> that you could do a non-earth map in qgis to show the ground plan but I was
>>> wondering whether there is any simple CAD like ability via a plugin. If this
>>> is not possible is there an opensource CAD program that might link to qgis
>>> so that it can pick up the ground plan and surrounding area?
>> 
>> 
>> There are a number of existing plugins that offer some CAD-like facilities,
>> and the situation is improving all the time. I recommend CADTools and
>> CADDigitize as being the most useful and usable for CAD-lite. Note that
>> CADTools is broken in QGIS 2.8, but works fine in 2.6 or 2.10. There is also
>> CADInput which was an experimental plugin up until 2.6 but was integrated
>> into the main QGIS in 2.8, this allows you to more directly enter dimensions
>> required but is not as user friendly I find. Not that this is all 2D CAD, 3D
>> is something QGIS doesn't do yet.
>> 
>> Longer term, CADInput will be better integrated, and the new geometry engine
>> in 2.10 will greatly improve things by having the z dimension built-in thus
>> making QGIS 3D capable. I know there are a lot of people looking at how to
>> bring QGIS up to standard for CAD and BIM uses
>> 
>> As for compatible CAD programs, I vaguely recall some work to make LibreCAD
>> work with QGIS, as they both use Qt as the toolkit? Not sure if anything
>> happened with that.
>> 
>> John.
>> 
>> 
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