Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Luigi Pirelli]

The author or QAD (geosim) wnat to share this info:

QAD now is available in English (GUI and documentation) source code
comments still in Italian.

Please test it

code repository is here:
https://github.com/geosim/QAD

download zip from here:
https://github.com/geosim/QAD/archive/master.zip then unzip in
/.qgis2/python/plugins then remove the "-master" suffix
(otherwise you'll have python invalid syntax during loading plugin
module) and restart QGIS... then enjoy :)

regards and thanks to geosim
Luigi Pirelli

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On 17 August 2015 at 09:37, Paolo Cavallini  wrote:
> Il 09/08/2015 09:20, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
>
>> feel free to contact him to do this, though it would mean to add some
>> more documentation (and preferably an english version of the plugin+docs
>> :-) ).
>
> Thansk for the suggestions, tickets open, hopefully the authors will
> respond.
> All the best.
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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 09/08/2015 09:20, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:

 feel free to contact him to do this, though it would mean to add some
 more documentation (and preferably an english version of the plugin+docs
 :-) ).

Thansk for the suggestions, tickets open, hopefully the authors will
respond.
All the best.

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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Enrico Ferreguti]

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 lui...@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 jl...@kde.org wrote:
 On 8 August 2015 at 20:09, Michael.Dodd michael.d...@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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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 08-08-15 23:36, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
 I met the author of QAD giving a PyQGIS course (QAD was already
 developed) and I was impressed to see autocad replicated in QGIS
 especially regarding keyboard combinations.
 
 I strongly suggested to publish it and to give publicity to this
 astonishing plugin... I hope now it will have user contribution with
 extensive tests.

Hi Luigi,

I checked, but he is not yet publishing a packaged plugin via
plugins.qgis.org (no unapproved version)

feel free to contact him to do this, though it would mean to add some
more documentation (and preferably an english version of the plugin+docs
:-) ).

Regards,

Richard
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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[John Layt]

On 8 August 2015 at 20:09, Michael.Dodd michael.d...@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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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Luigi Pirelli]

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 jl...@kde.org wrote:
 On 8 August 2015 at 20:09, Michael.Dodd michael.d...@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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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Enrico Ferreguti]

Give a try to: https://github.com/geosim/QAD
It’s a very promising plugin!
Regards 
Enrico Ferreguti

 Il giorno 08/ago/2015, alle ore 21:09, Michael.Dodd michael.d...@open.ac.uk 
 ha scritto:
 
 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?
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Re: [Qgis-user] CAD like drawings in qgis

[Luigi Pirelli]

Hi

I met the author of QAD giving a PyQGIS course (QAD was already
developed) and I was impressed to see autocad replicated in QGIS
especially regarding keyboard combinations.

I strongly suggested to publish it and to give publicity to this
astonishing plugin... I hope now it will have user contribution with
extensive tests.

regards
Luigi Pirelli

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On 8 August 2015 at 22:57, Enrico Ferreguti enrico...@gmail.com wrote:
 Give a try to: https://github.com/geosim/QAD
 It’s a very promising plugin!
 Regards
 Enrico Ferreguti

 Il giorno 08/ago/2015, alle ore 21:09, Michael.Dodd 
 michael.d...@open.ac.uk ha scritto:

 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?
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