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My name is Caleb. My background is in physics and currently I am working as an engineer in Chicagoland. I have been using CAD software for years and have been using LibreCAD and/or QCAD for the last two or so years. I was taking a look at the Wiki and saw that there is some work that can be done there. Just registered a few minutes ago to edit the Wiki page.
I am really interested in learning more about coding CAD and about this particular package. This (the Wiki) is one thing I can start to contribute on until I get up to speed on other aspects of the software. I am on Linux Mint. I use CAD at work on Windows but also at home on Mint. Looking forward to getting to know the community and this project better. |
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Caleb
Welcome to the forum and to the LibreCAD project.Thankyou for your offer to help out on the Wiki and on possible potential coding for LibreCAD, I am sure your experience will benefit us all and we appreciate any help you can offer. Regards Clive |
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Hi Caleb,
Welcome to the party. Actually, I studied physics at Chciago. For sure, our wiki is still in its early stage and needs contribution badly. Besides wiki, you may find our sourceforge bug/feature request trackers, as well as "issues" tracker at github, as interesting. The github issues usually contains a direct link to the fixing code commit. Also, please add to our "idea list" for our impending GSOC application. Thanks, Dongxu On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:54 PM, caleb [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote: My name is Caleb. My background is in physics and currently I am working as an engineer in Chicagoland. I have been using CAD software for years and have been using LibreCAD and/or QCAD for the last two or so years. I was taking a look at the Wiki and saw that there is some work that can be done there. Just registered a few minutes ago to edit the Wiki page. -- Dongxu Li, Ph.D. www.librecad.org |
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Thanks for both of the replies. I am looking into the user manual now and plan on diving into that. It will take me some time to make a good manual but this is where I am choosing to start my journey. This is roughly what I am planning on doing. I am sure it will evolve as I go. Feedback is welcome. I have used several CAD packages over the years so the user manual outline that I am putting into this touches on several of the key features one would like to see in a manual. I am also getting set up so that I can code on my Linux machine. I am well past Hello World in several languages but a master of none. Hoping this hobby will help with that. See below for my initial outline of what I see to do for a LibreCAD user manual.
Preface Chapter 1 - Overview. Chapter 2 - Interface. Chapter 3 - Tour of Features Chapter 4 - Basic Operations Chapter 5 - Entering and Editing Commands Chapter 6 - Working with Multiple Layers and Creating Blocks Chapter 7 - Getting the Most out of Snapping Chapter 8 - Generating Arrays Chapter 9 - Working with Libraries Chapter 10 - Controlling and Using Layouts Chapter 11 - Hierarchy Chapter 12 - Project/Drawing Planning Appendix Regards, Caleb |
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hi caleb, just a quick comment. the upcomming 2.0 series is slightly different from stable. thanks, dongxu On Feb 28, 2012 1:23 PM, "caleb [via LibreCAD]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thanks for both of the replies. I am looking into the user manual now and plan on diving into that. It will take me some time to make a good manual but this is where I am choosing to start my journey. This is roughly what I am planning on doing. I am sure it will evolve as I go. Feedback is welcome. I have used several CAD packages over the years so the user manual outline that I am putting into this touches on several of the key features one would like to see in a manual. I am also getting set up so that I can code on my Linux machine. I am well past Hello World in several languages but a master of none. Hoping this hobby will help with that. See below for my initial outline of what I see to do for a LibreCAD user manual. |
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Caleb,
your chapter layout looks very playfull! Good job! Ries On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:23 PM, caleb [via LibreCAD] wrote: Thanks for both of the replies. I am looking into the user manual now and plan on diving into that. It will take me some time to make a good manual but this is where I am choosing to start my journey. This is roughly what I am planning on doing. I am sure it will evolve as I go. Feedback is welcome. I have used several CAD packages over the years so the user manual outline that I am putting into this touches on several of the key features one would like to see in a manual. I am also getting set up so that I can code on my Linux machine. I am well past Hello World in several languages but a master of none. Hoping this hobby will help with that. See below for my initial outline of what I see to do for a LibreCAD user manual. |
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Thanks. We will see how it evolves.......
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When does 2.0 come out?
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Very cool!!!! But if i were you id put it in a form of a wiki, since i sense that next stable version of librecad will change quite a lot...
2012/2/28 R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> Caleb, -- Fernando da Motta Hildebrand |
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What changes are planned to 2.0??
-- Tomás Schertel ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux.org/ ---------------------------------------------- On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 16:17, fernandohildebrand [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote: Very cool!!!! But if i were you id put it in a form of a wiki, since i sense that next stable version of librecad will change quite a lot... |
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I dont know for sure. Theres a lot of work beeing done on the code, but i think we miss a milestone. Ive seen a lot of new features requests from users, but how many of them will make it to next release, i dont know.I think only the leaders of the project can tell you that.
2012/2/28 tschertel [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> What changes are planned to 2.0?? -- Fernando da Motta Hildebrand |
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It's base to create documentation based on what's currently in master.
A lot of changes are currently happening under the hood, but ofcourse also happening visibly. I think the most notable is the snap system. Even if you used the documentation of 1.0.0 (which doesn't exists) you would still beable to use LibreCAD perfectly fine. No menus have been changed and everything still is at the same spot. Ries On Feb 28, 2012, at 2:31 PM, fernandohildebrand [via LibreCAD] wrote: I dont know for sure. Theres a lot of work beeing done on the code, but i think we miss a milestone. Ive seen a lot of new features requests from users, but how many of them will make it to next release, i dont know.I think only the leaders of the project can tell you that. |
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Caleb
Well done with your proposed chapter layout for a LibreCAD manual - its great to feel lots of enthusiasm for LibreCAD.You will be well supported in your journey -I'm sure! As dxli has stated version 2.0 series will be slightly different from the current stable version so my advice is to leave your manual fairly 'loose' so you can update it easily in the future. To write a comprehensive manual is a good challenge, but don`t feel you are on your own with it, I am slowly rewriting/updating some of the content already on the 'wiki' and have also made a start on an outline for the 'Quick Start' section see here: http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_Quick_Start_Guide I (and others I`m sure) am happy to support you and help you with reaching your chapter aims! My personal experience is training students in CAD and of course using it. I hope to write course/training material for LibreCAD so it would be good to 'link' all of this together! Regards Clive |
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Is there any word on when 2.0 is going to come out? I have been lurking a bit but haven't really done anything more on the manual because I am not sure what would need to change for 2.0. There is some other stuff that I can work on but I just need to dive into it.
On a personal note, I had a new baby girl and that has zapped up some of my time. Life is slowly starting to turn back to normal. Any information on 2.0 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Caleb. |
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Hi, I planned hyperbola, parabola support. I still want both for 2.0. Looks like we still need to clean up the painter for 2.0 Because I am also getting busy recently and Ries is designing 3.0 framework, we may want to end the alpha phase of 2.0 after the conic sections and painter fixes. thanks, dongxu On May 2, 2012 3:06 AM, "caleb [via LibreCAD]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
Is there any word on when 2.0 is going to come out? I have been lurking a bit but haven't really done anything more on the manual because I am not sure what would need to change for 2.0. There is some other stuff that I can work on but I just need to dive into it. |
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