Topic: export the list of condutors names

Hello,

I was using version 0.100 until last week, and I have been following the updates leading up to version 0.200.

Overall, the version is magnificent—it includes great new features—and I’d like to congratulate everyone on the work done.

However, as with any evolution, there are sometimes things that don’t quite work as expected.

When exporting the "list of wire names" (their tags) to a .CSV file, icons appear in the table, which prevents me from efficiently printing them.

This issue didn't exist in version 0.100; I hope you can help me fix it.

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Re: export the list of condutors names

Hello jhonathan,

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for attaching the CSV file, which made it easy to find the cause.

There are actually two bugs in that export:

The strange characters. Your wire numbers start with an en dash – (for example –010 or –24VCC), not a plain hyphen -. Since 0.200 (Qt6), QElectroTech writes the CSV in UTF-8. Version 0.100 used the Windows ANSI encoding. Excel opens UTF-8 files as ANSI when they have no BOM marker, so the – shows up as –. That’s why it worked in 0.100.
The extra last line (0xa78cffb090) is a separate bug: an internal memory address was being written to the file.
A fix for both is ready and will be in the next nightly build. The file will be saved as UTF-8 with a BOM, so Excel reads it correctly, and the bogus last line is gone.

Until then, here is a workaround: don’t double-click the CSV. In Excel, use Data → From Text/CSV instead, set File origin to 65001: Unicode (UTF-8), then delete the last line.

One more thing I noticed: your file contains about 26 entries that are just – with no number. These are wires whose text is only the prefix, so you may want to check your auto-numbering settings for those.

Regards,
Laurent

By the way, I’m very interested by yours SEW elements – could you send them to me? I use a lot off SEW servo drive at work.


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https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectr … 739dd03020

Windows build it's run, please wait a liitle.
https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectr … 0390372614

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3 Reply by jhonathan disner (edited by jhonathan disner 2026-10-23 15:12:05)

Re: export the list of condutors names

Thanks for the follow-up—as always, you’re very helpful; that’s what makes QElectroTech such a great tool.

I understand the point; I applied the logic you explained, and it worked perfectly.

Attached is a folder containing the SEW drawings I have available—feel free to make good use of them.

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