2d drawing from an stl or 3d object

Hello All. I am new and not sure if libre cad will do what im looking for. I have tried freecad and it does not work either.

I have created an stl file in my 3d modler, since that is the ONLY file it will let me export as for the free sketchup edition.

I now want to make some working drawings of the stl. I was hoping to find a program that will import the stl, and let me create basic views from the file and basic dims. I tried freecad with the tech draw, but it does not work with meshes and trying to convert the mesh to a shape was damn near impossible.

can librecad import an stl and create 2d working drawings?

thansk. if not, any other ideas come to mind?

No, sorry, but LibreCAD can't do that.
You can make 2D drawings from scratch and save as DXF.

Depending of your STL you could create a projection using OpenSCAD:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/3D_to_2D_Projection

This is often a technique (well not using OpenSCAD) in 3D packages to create 2D drawings,
you would still need to add your measurements yourself and it won't be parametric.

If you want to ask in https://community.osarch.org/ they're working on lot on ways of getting from 3d geometry to 2d drawings using FOSS projects