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Tier 1 Pages Research

Research compiled for Quick Start Guide, User Manual, and FAQ pages.

Official Documentation Resources Found

Official Manual Structure

Main Topics Covered

  • Basics — Launching (Linux, Windows, Mac), help, quitting
  • Interface — Menus, toolbars, workspaces, panels, customization
  • Preferences — Display, appearance, project/element/text/grid/export settings
  • Projects — Create, open, save, properties, organization
  • Sheets — Types (single-line, multiline, control), properties, title blocks
  • Elements — Types (simple, master, slave), properties, collections, editor
  • Conductors — Single-line, multiline, appearance, numbering
  • Schema Work — Add elements, draw conductors, text, shapes, select, copy/paste
  • Reports — Summaries, nomenclature, conductor lists, I/O docs
  • Export/Print — PDF, export, database exports
  • Annex — Variables, fonts, colors

Common Beginner Question Areas (From Forum Analysis)

  1. Installation & Setup — Platform-specific (Windows, Linux, macOS)
  2. Element Creation & Management — Finding, using, creating elements
  3. Import/Export — DXF conversion, file format questions
  4. Drawing Basics — How to start, draw wires, add elements
  5. Documentation Gaps — Users need more getting-started materials

Example Projects Available

Industrial: CNC, PLC control, automation panels Residential: Home wiring, domotics, solar/PV systems Specialized: Vehicle wiring, HVAC, KNX automation, energy systems Educational: Basic circuits, training examples

Use these as reference examples for tutorials.

Key Insights

  1. Beginner Struggle Areas:

    • How to start a project
    • Element placement and connection
    • Drawing conductors/wires properly
    • File import/export

  2. Strong Community:

    • 3,747+ users
    • 850 EN help topics = active support
    • Multilingual (FR, EN, DE, CS, etc.)

  3. Good Visual Learning Resources:

    • Existing PDF schemas/examples
    • YouTube tutorials available
    • Gallery of user projects

  4. Documentation Opportunity:

    • Wiki lacks beginner tutorials
    • Quick Start and FAQ would fill gap
    • Users currently ask in forums

For Quick Start Page

  • Reference: Basics section (launching, interface, first project)
  • Examples: Use simple circuit example
  • Steps: New project → Add elements → Draw wire → Save

For User Manual Page

  • Structure: Match official manual topics
  • Add: Interface overview, feature screenshots
  • Link: To official manual for deep dives
  • Organize: By task type (not just features)

For FAQ Page

  • Questions from forum patterns: installation, elements, import/export, drawing
  • Answers: Based on official manual content
  • Cover: Platform-specific (Windows/Linux/Mac) issues

Home tools

qelectrotech

Getting Started

Home

🌐 Languages — English · Français · Deutsch

Downloads

Windows without admin rights — the portable archive, no installer

Quick Start Guide

User Manual

FAQ

Tips & Tricks

Guides

Conductors — wire properties, what feeds which export, cables, and hops where wires cross

Wires per terminal — limit the wires on a terminal, chain wiring instead of stars

Printing and exporting — paper, PDF, images, and what each path does differently

Linking elements — master, slave, terminal

PLC modules — I/O tables and linking a wire to a specific point

Using the element editor — drawing tools, saving, checks

Grid size and element size — why symbols aren't all the same scale, and scaling one without leaving the grid

Preferences reference — what each settings page does

Saving and loading settings — your whole setup in one file, to copy or keep

Keyboard-only control — mouseless QET, and what still needs a mouse

Mouse modifiers — what Shift, Ctrl and Alt change while you drag

3D mouse — SpaceMouse pan, zoom and buttons

Aligning items — snap symbols back to the grid, or line them up

Pictures on a sheet — labels, crop, transparency, what they cost in the file

Arcs and curved wires — the Arc tool, pulling an arc in or out, rounding a corner with a fillet, dashed arcs for lighting layouts

Grouping items — select, move and copy several items as one

Finding your place on a sheet — go to a cell like B13 or 4-B7, keep the headers in sight, show the cell limits, zoom and pan

Showing and hiding kinds of items — hide texts, wire numbers, shapes, pictures, tables or cross-references on every sheet

Drawing faster — place without dragging, the S shortcut bar, command search, gestures

Customising QElectroTech — keys, toolbar size and contents, the gesture ring (partly pending)

Managing collections — folders, writability, building your own shortlist

Templates — reusable multi-element blocks, placed by double-click or drag

Search & Replace — bulk property changes

Building a nomenclature query — the BOM/summary table builder

Linking wires across pages — sheet reports

Variables & formulas — %f, %{label}, sequences

Auto-numbering — schemes, sequences, freezing

Terminal strips — strips, levels, bridges

Title block templates — the .titleblock format

Importing EPLAN parts (.edz) — EPLAN Data Portal

DXF import & export — two unrelated features, one format; command-line export and layers

The project database — the in-memory SQLite cache

File formats
Elements XML
Project XML
Development

Building from Source

Contributing Code

Automating QET — CLI, XML formats, external tools

CLI Reference — command line usage

JavaScript Scripting — --run, geometry editing, undo

MCP server — let an AI assistant read, verify and edit projects

Connecting an AI assistant — setup for Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio

Script buttons — stored scripts with an icon, by hand or by an assistant

Live mode — an assistant working in the open project while you watch

Macro recorder — record a task by hand, for an assistant to script

Development Roadmap

Vision — proposal, under discussion

Developer Tools

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