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Hello to all,
New user to LibreCAD. I'm a software engineer with strong experience in Photoshop but very little CAD background.
My ambition with LibreCAD is to produce dxf files for a laser printer. Printouts are fairly simple.
I hope to get some help. I already tried the app on Windows 11 but am totally stuck to even measure the distance between 2 points. The wiki or user manual provides no help as it describes items I do not see on the app, such as command line.
I'll come back on the forum with specific questions.
Thank's to all.
Regards.

well, please mention the version of LC you currently use.

As for the command line - it is supported by Cmd widget. In main menu there should be an item like "Widgets" - in sub-menu of it there are several checkable items with widget names, please check that one is enabled.

Alternatively - right click on any toolbar or status bar, in popup menu you'll see that item too.

Also, that widget may be part of tabbed widget somewhere on right side of your screen....

You can use (from menu): Tools > Info , or Tools > Dimensions

I found a short video by Mufasu CAD on measuring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GIQbdNOtk0

There's also another way:

Draw a line between those two points, and select it (by clicking on). The total length of selected curves is also displayed as "Selected Total Length". This method is good, if the distance interested is by arc distance, or manhattan distance, or even more complex ones.

elfoxyt0 wrote

Hello to all,
New user to LibreCAD. I'm a software engineer with strong experience in Photoshop but very little CAD background.
My ambition with LibreCAD is to produce dxf files for a laser printer. Printouts are fairly simple.
I hope to get some help. I already tried the app on Windows 11 but am totally stuck to even measure the distance between 2 points. The wiki or user manual provides no help as it describes items I do not see on the app, such as command line.
I'll come back on the forum with specific questions.
Thank's to all.
Regards.