Graphics View is just a fancy widget for when you want to do loads of custom drawing of "items" on a canvas. "Qt provides [a] powerful graphics engine that supp

Graphics View is just a fancy widget for when you want to do loads of custom drawing of "items" on a canvas. "Qt provides [a] powerful graphics engine that supports easy visualization of items, with support for rotation and zooming. Additionally it provides an event propagation architecture for interaction." --> This is what QGraphicsView and QGraphicsScene accomplish for you. See: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsview.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsview.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsscene.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qgraphicsscene.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-graphicsview.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-graphicsview.html Take a look at the types of applications they used for the examples. It'd be a good solution for something like a CAD layout widget, or maybe a maps widget. You use it together with Qt Widgets or Qt Quick, not instead of it.