Nabble - Manual/User-guide suggestions

Re: How do I delete hatch without deleting outline

2025-03-12T01:27:23Z

Good tips. How about putting a few notes together for working with hatches as the basis for the wiki pending incorporation into the manual?

Re: How do I delete hatch without deleting outline

2025-03-11T15:45:02Z

Thanks dellus

I have also found a work around. If all hatches are done in a separate layer to the outline then it is much easier to separate hatch from the poly-line. If I hide the poly-line layer, then delete the hatch, when I unhide the poly-line layer the poly-line outline remains.

I was struggling with a 'solid fill' hatch but have subsequently discovered that if a typical cross hatch consisting of lines is used, then by zooming in and selecting one line of the hatch pattern and deleting that, the outline remains.

Many thanks again for your help, it inspired me to play around with it further.

Best regards

Re: How do I delete hatch without deleting outline

2025-03-11T11:22:00Z

I played around a bit and found out that if the outline is a polyline it stays selected after creation of the hatch. If you then select the hatch and delete it the outline gets deleted also.
So after having created the hatch press "Esc" on the keyboard to deselect the outline.

I don't know of detailed documentation on use and manipulation of hatch.

How do I delete hatch without deleting outline

2025-03-11T08:19:42Z

I have filled a cross section outline with hatch. When I try to delete the hatch I also delete the outline. How can I delete hatch without deleting the outline please?

Is there any detailed document regarding the use and manipulation of hatch please?

Many thanks

Re: Handbuch Deutsch

2025-02-27T14:25:08Z

Ja, hier gibt es ein LibreCAD-Buch:

https://www.cadtec.ch/LibreCAD/index.php

Beste Grüsse,
David

Handbuch Deutsch

2025-02-03T21:40:03Z

Hallo Gibt es ein Handbuch oder die Hilfe auch in Deutsch am besten als PDF
M.F.G.J.Fey

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2024-12-16T04:14:58Z

Nicht daß ich wüßte.
Ich nehme an du hast dies schon gesehen: https://forum.librecad.org/Kostenloses-LibreCAD-Buch-mit-Schritt-fur-Schritt-Anleitungen-als-PDF-tp5725028.html
Sonst kenne ich keine deutsche Anleitung irgendeiner Art.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2024-12-16T03:56:08Z

Hallo Gibt es auch eine Version vom diesen Handbuch auf Deutsch
M.F.G.J.Fey

Re: SHORTCUTS AND COMMANDS - RACCOURCIS

2020-11-11T14:16:20Z

In the reference manual, you can find shortcuts (see https://librecad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ref/tools.html for example) and commands depends on language defined on LibreCAD interface so only the English commands are in this manual.

Note that it can also be customized through alias files : https://librecad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/cmdline.html#command-aliases

Fabrice

French hobbyist interested in 2D design.

SHORTCUTS AND COMMANDS - RACCOURCIS

2020-11-11T12:30:10Z

I made a list ! thanks @Zeynel Abidin Öztürk

*** GENERAL ***
Ctrl + T Recharger la feuille de style
F5 Régénérer
F11 Plein écran
Ctrl + G Grille
Ctrl + D Brouillon
Ctrl + + Zoom avant
Ctrl + - Zoom arrière
Ctrl + K Désélectionner tout
Ctrl + A Sélectionner tout
Ctrl + R Inverser la direction

*** DESSINER ***
P puis O (ou tapez un point) Dessinez un point
L ou L puis I
(ou tapez une ligne) Tracez une ligne
P puis L
(ou tapez polyligne) Dessinez une polyligne
O ou P puis A
(ou tapez offset ou parallèle) Tracez une ligne parallèle
A ou A puis R
(ou tapez arc) Dessinez un arc 3P
C puis I
(ou tapez circle) Dessinez un cercle
R puis E puis C
(ou tapez rect
ou tapez rectangle) Dessinez un rectangle de ligne
Tapez mtxt , mtext: Dessinez du texte M
T puis X puis T
(ou tapez du text) Dessinez du texte
H puis A
(ou tapez le hatch) Dessinez le hachurage
F puis H puis L Tracer une ligne libre
S puis P puis L
(ou tapez spline) Dessiner une spline
S puis T puis P
(ou tapez spline2) Dessinez des points de spline
Type ortho , perp: Ligne de dessin orthogonale
V puis E puis R
(ou tapez vertical) Tracez une ligne verticale
H puis O puis R
(ou tapez horizontal) Tracez une ligne horizontale
E puis I ou I puis E Dessiner une ellipse inscrite
B puis I
(ou type bissect) Tracer une bissectrice de ligne
Tapez tanpc , tangentpc: Tracez la ligne tangente 1
Type poly2 , polygon2v: Tracer une ligne polygone cor cor
P puis P ou P puis T puis P Tracez une ligne parallèle
C puis 2
(ou tapez cercle2) Dessinez le cercle 2P
C puis 3
(ou tapez cercle3) Dessinez le cercle 3P
C puis T puis 3
(ou tapez tan3) Dessinez un cercle tan 3

*** AFFICHER ***
Z puis R ou R puis G
(ou tapez regen ou redraw) Zoom redessiner
Z puis W Fenêtre de zoom
Z puis A Zoom auto
Z puis P Zoom panoramique
Z puis V Zoom précédent

*** MODIFIER ***
U ou O puis O
(ou tapez undo) Modifier annuler
R ou U puis U
(ou tapez redo) Modifier redo
K
(ou tapez kill) Modifier kill toutes les actions

*** DIMENSIONS ***
D puis A Dim aligné
D puis R Dim linéaire
D puis H Dim linéaire horizontal
D puis V Dim linéaire vertical
L puis D DimLeader

*** MODIFIER ***
T puis M (type trim) Modifier le trim
T puis 2 Modifier le trim 2
ou T puis M puis 2
M puis V Modifier le déplacement
C puis H
(ou tapez fillet) (bug) Modifier le biseau
M puis I Modifier le miroir
R, O Modifier rotation
S puis Z Modifier l'échelle
S puis S Modifier l'étirement
E puis R Modifier la suppression
X puis P Les blocs explosent
D puis I ou D puis I puis V
ou C puis U puis T Modifier la coupe
M puis P
(ou tapez prop) Modifier l'entité
F puis I
(ou tapez congé) Modifier le tour
M puis A
(ou tapez attr) Modifier les attributs

*** ALIGNER ***
O puis S ou S puis F Snap free
S puis G Snap grid
S puis E Snap endpoint
S puis I Snap intersection
S puis C Snap center
S puis M Snap middle
N puis P ou S puis N Snap on entity
S puis D Snap dist
R puis N Ne rien restreindre
R puis R Restreindre orthogonal
R puis H Restreindre horizontal
R puis V Restreindre vertical
R puis Z Définir un zéro relatif

*** SELECTION ***
T puis N Désélectionner tout
S puis A Sélectionner tout

*** INFORMATION ***
D puis P puis P
(ou tapez dist) Info dist
A puis N puis G
(ou type d'angle) Angle d'information
A puis R
(ou zone de saisie) Zone d'informations

shortcuts and commands

2020-11-11T11:53:14Z

A very good resume of the commands.
In french.

shortcuts&commands

It should be good to have such a resume just as a short-list.
I have not found it.

CAD normes

2019-04-20T01:29:31Z

Hi,
There are of course standards to draw and I found the CAD standards on the website of the city of Antwerp Belgium. See this link:

https://abosl.ebp.be/Export/2010024626_87005_03_bijlage3_CAD_handboek_BK_v2.pdf
This PDF is of course in dutch but with the help of google translate it is of course possible to generate parts in other languages yourself.

regards

gepensioneerd ingenieur
Gent België
LibreCad 2.2.0 rc1 Windows

Re: New version - Old tutorials

2016-11-30T18:38:34Z

Re: New version - Old tutorials

2016-11-30T18:36:43Z

I'm in the same boat, no prior knowledge and am only finding old versions that don't match the new version. And yes, there is a YouTube video prior version and the guy does not move slow enough to understand or crossover to the new version.

Re: Splines please re-visited. Two years on.............(almost solved!)

2016-11-26T16:03:59Z

I have found out how to draw curves in the splines function and can get it to work sometimes. Other times, I am unable to do so despite lots of wasted time doing so.
Is there someone can assist please?
I must be selecting a function incorrectly, or clicking on the wrong thing some of the time even though I have carefully checked my procedure.

I am almost there with this; just need some minor assistance please?

This is the procedure I have been trying:

1. Make sure I am in splines.
2. Select move/copy under the modify menu heading.
3. Click on the curved line. It will go from hard line to dotted with blue points shown.
4. Then click on one of the blue points, hold the mouse button down, and move the point. When it is where I want it, right click. The black line will show moving while I am adjusting this point.

That worked last night, and once or twice this morning, but won't work now. Clearly, I am getting crossed up somewhere during the sequence.
I have all snap functions de-selected.

Splines please re-visited. Two years on.............

2016-11-24T14:57:27Z

Over two years ago, I opened a thread called "Splines Please" here:

http://forum.librecad.org/Splines-please-td5709981.html

It simply went dead. Can I conclude that this function is not available in LibreCad? I would like an answer one way or another so I can move on. If it is available and developed in LibreCad, I would like some assistance and instructions of how to use it. If it is not, I would like to know so I can move onto another CAD application that does support splines, or complex curves.

Jim.

New version - Old tutorials

2016-11-02T03:41:14Z

I am new to CAD and Librecad looks ideal for my simple needs.
The latest version is 2.3.1 The manual and on line tutorials all refer to earlier versions. This is probably ok if you understand CAD
As a general point, all manuals and tutorials should be reviewed by a new potential user to check they are fit for purpose. One on line tutor has the mouse pointer rushing round the screen far too fast. You cannot teach faster than the pupil can follow.
I am making some progress but, like many posts, I seem to have problems with hatching.
Great program but needs to be more user friendly for newbies.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2016-03-14T22:20:46Z

It's even easier than that (on Google chrome at least).

1. Click 'Printable version' on the left sidebar of the wiki
2. File -> Print
3. Destination: Save as PDF
4. Save

The table of contents even works!

LibreCAD_users_Manual_-_LibreCAD_wiki.pdf

Regarding the black background,
other than recreating all the images,
someone could do a selective color inversion.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-09-28T07:18:56Z

New to LibreCAD and I like the printable version of the manual except for one thing. Could the printable version have "black on white" illustrations rather than the current "white on black" versions e.g. the first is in the Coordinates section on page 4. For hard copies, this is extremely wasteful of black ink and on most inkjet printers will cause "bleed into the adjacent white areas causing a lot of the information to become blurred. I do realise that this will involve changing the diagrams in the online version as well - so regard this request as a possibility as and when you change the content of the online version.

The printable version is very easy to print from within Chromium - requiring only a right click once the "Printable version" is loaded providing an automatic pdf save.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-06-13T13:30:11Z

Well that didn't take long. After a short google search I found that I could choose "Printable version" in the sidebar on the left. After doing this, I highlighted the entire document and copied it into an Open Office document and exported it to PDF. The entire operation took less than 5 minutes and I now have a printable document so that I can follow the directions of printing a copy to follow while doing the examples.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-06-13T13:03:42Z

I say a document that may or may not become outdated within a short time is better than no document at all. If I knew how to do this, I would not mind having to do it over from time to time to keep it current up until such time as the new procedure is in place.

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-18T09:05:01Z

Sure Armin, I am willing to give you a hand when you need it. Just post it here.

Pierre

Pierre

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-14T02:50:12Z

Pierre,

I wouldn't say useless, but a kind of Sisyphus job. The way you described works of course, but between starting and releasing this document the content in the Wiki may change. Then one have to transfer the Wiki changes to PDF again and so on.

Of course an exported document is outdated after the first change too, but with an export function supported by Wiki software an up-to-date document is built within a few clicks.

Mediawiki has export support too, but we're discussing this from time to time and agreed to transfer our Wiki to DokuWiki. As I want to finish this now, it wouldn't be fair to let you put effort in the old Wiki what will possibly become obsolete then soon.
After the transfer, there will be some Wiki gardening necessary, maybe you want to support us with this job.

Armin

^{investing less than half an hour into Search function can save hours or days of waiting for a solution}

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-13T17:48:09Z

O Lord,

If I understand you correctly, you say that what I had in mind doing is useless, since the new DocuWiki site you are preparing will be offering this function without any outside intervention ? I gave a quick glance to the DocuWiki site and it does indeed look interesting.

Pierre

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-10T15:51:12Z

Pierre,

first let me thank for your intention to contribute in LibreCAD documentation.

The problem in past and in future is, to keep things synced. So our aim is to use the wiki as base for collecting and editing information and use wiki tools to generate documents for printing or F1 help inside LibreCAD. This is the only way that makes sense to get most value of the editors efforts and keep the documentation roughly up to date with code development.
That means the wiki administration must offer the tools to create these documents, that changes in wiki articles can easy slip into corresponding documents.

Therefore we prepare a move from our current wiki software MediaWiki to DokuWiki, which should make work easier for administrators, contributors, translators and export of several formats of documentation.

So before you put too much effort in your work, please coordinate your steps here to see if they match with our wiki plans.

Armin

^{investing less than half an hour into Search function can save hours or days of waiting for a solution}

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-09T09:27:48Z

Thanks for the list of software tools. I had already found a few others. My plan was to convert everything to a Word format and then use Word functions to create the table of contents and a word index (with links) and then to export as PDF in Letter\A4 format. Now I see that there are many tools out there that can do this automatically.

I will explore the different tools available (I am working in a Windows environment) and start working on the User Guide as a start. It is too early to give you a deadline, but sure I will be working on it.

Pierre

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-08T07:36:48Z

We can add a link to wiki "Download this article as PDF":

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=wiki%20to%20pdf%20export

Help is needed!

Mike Hayes wrote

I agree that a PDF version of the LibreCAD documentation is a good idea.

It would be useful even to those who don't actually want to print it out. Many users find offline documentation more convenient.

Mike

Re: Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-08T07:15:32Z

I agree that a PDF version of the LibreCAD documentation is a good idea.

It would be useful even to those who don't actually want to print it out. Many users find offline documentation more convenient.

Mike

Printable pdf User Manual from Wiki

2015-05-07T17:49:35Z

I registered last month to help develop the LibreCad documentation.

I read the 36-pages user manual by Bob Woltz, which is more a starter guide than a user manual; it is this document which got me started with LibreCAD.

And I looked at the wiki site which is rather complete and well done at first sight.

I may be old style, but I like printed documentation. What I would like to see is a pdf document reproducing the wiki site information in a printable book style, with a table of contents and a word index. Does that make sense to anybody ? If there is interest for that, I am willing to produce that document.

Pierre

Re: Splines please!

2014-06-02T23:35:41Z

Yes that is correct.

Re: Splines please!

2014-06-02T12:22:33Z

He asked for splines several month ago already. I was not aware that there could be a special request for into into splines, especially because Librecad only offers B-Splines. But it may take a week before I find time to extend the wiki manual.

Re: Splines please!

2014-06-02T06:36:30Z

I think Jim wants someone else to write up a chapter - is this correct Jim ?

Re: Splines please!

2014-06-02T06:33:28Z

We do need help from our user community on wiki building.

Let us know your account name to get write access on wiki.librecad.org

Splines please!

2014-06-02T03:07:34Z

I would very much like to see a manual chapter on the use of Splines and Polylines please.
Also, the existing manual could do with an index.

Thanks,

Jim.

Re: More serious tutorial

2014-02-08T13:42:10Z

Where do I find you tutorial Claus?