Topic: Elements editor Feature request

The current elements editor is quite rudimentary.

Therefore, I would like to suggest the implementation of a half-sized grid for more precise design work.
The elements placement on a sheet may use the now original grid.

Additionally, it would be beneficial to have a feature that allows for the skewing of rectangles to create shapes such as trapezoids with a fill option, or the ability to draw closed lines that can also be filled.

I hope this revision request make it fore peoples more useable.

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Re: Elements editor Feature request

You are right: The element-editor could be much more comfortable!
But at the moment ...

Do you know that you can move parts with smaller steps when pressing <Ctrl>?
For moving at even smaller steps: use the Input-Fields / SpinEdits

All kinds of geometrical forms (triangle, rectangle,...) can be drawn with the polygon-tool. And you can edit every node of the polygon afterwards.

"closed lines" => polygons  ?

Re: Elements editor Feature request

Hello Everybody,

I'd love to see filled bullets and open circles as part of the drawing menu.  Just pick them from the menu and place them into your drawing of a new element.  That would be so handy. 

Of yourse, you could create a circle via the ellipse tool and you could also fill that circle with a color to make it a filled bullet.  But grabbing them as ready to use items from the workbench make life so much easier and would speed up the drawing process a lot.

What do you think?

4 Reply by rvamerongen (edited by rvamerongen 2024-04-01 11:37:28)

Re: Elements editor Feature request

titanic-jb wrote:

Hello Everybody,

I'd love to see filled bullets and open circles as part of the drawing menu.  Just pick them from the menu and place them into your drawing of a new element.  That would be so handy. 

Of yourse, you could create a circle via the ellipse tool and you could also fill that circle with a color to make it a filled bullet.  But grabbing them as ready to use items from the workbench make life so much easier and would speed up the drawing process a lot.

What do you think?

Think this would be welcome; maybe this could be solved to let the editor import parts of it own.
We save a circle with a line, and drag/import it later on inside another drawing.
So can you make templates and your fantasie is unlimited.

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Re: Elements editor Feature request

rvamerongen wrote:

Think this would be welcome; maybe this could be solved to let the editor import parts of it own.
We save a circle with a line, and drag/import it later on inside another drawing.
So can you make templates and your fantasie is unlimited.

You can open several element editors at the same time, select the parts you want and then copy them into the new element you're creating. You can create a Frankenstein element from scratch with many parts from other elements in the collection without tiring yourself just by selecting, copying and pasting.

Enjoy! nomicons/wink

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Re: Elements editor Feature request

scorpio810 wrote:

You can open several element editors at the same time, select the parts you want and then copy them into the new element you're creating.

Yes, that is working right now.  Your suggested solution would lead to the following Keyboard shortcuts:

  • CTRL-< (to switch into the desired other editor window, maybe this shortcuts is needed more than one time)

  • Mouseklick on the desired part

  • CTRL-c (to  copy the shape into the clipboard)

  • CTRL-> (to switch back into the previous editor with the new part in construction)

  • CTRL-v (to copy the shape from clipboad into the actual drawing)

  • Placing the shape with the mouse.

(``CTRL-`` denotes the Control-Key on Windows/Linux.  Mac-users have to use the Mac CMD key instead)

Whilst having a ready available shape on the workbench creates this workflow

  • Mouseklick the shape on the workbench

  • move mouse to the desired location

  • Mouseclick to place the part.

You can clearly see, that this is way more efficient, than the above workflow.  Now lets image, you want to insert the shape more than once.  Pressing CTRL-v to again insert the clipboard in a random place.  You have to pick it up and move it to the desired place without distorting it, etc.


Compare this, to inserting multiple connections.  Select the connector tool, place it on target 1 and click, move to target 2 and click, ...

This is so much more desirable, than finding an element, which incorporates the shape you need and to copy, switch windows, ...

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Re: Elements editor Feature request

Hmm, if you have multi-screen monitors that could hehping a lot, btw you have paste also to paste in zone -> CTRL +Maj +V.

When you paste many same parts you have an offset indexed to grid..

https://qelectrotech.org/wiki_new/roadm … d_elements

directly (Ctrl+V): the pasted parts are placed next to the copied parts; if the parts are pasted again, they are pasted one notch closer, incrementally. The screenshot on the right shows the result of pasting a selection 8 times in a row.

https://qelectrotech.org/screenshots/extras/paste1.png

https://qelectrotech.org/wiki_new/lib/exe/fetch.php?tok=f0aee0&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fqelectrotech.org%2Fscreenshots%2Fextras%2Fpaste0.png

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