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Bob LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13 – I have been working on a manual for LibreCAD. It is still a work in progress but in order to let people be able to use it, because it is needed, I...

dxli Re: LibreCAD User Manual – Looks a good start. We may want to integrate this manual to wiki.librecad.org

me Re: LibreCAD User Manual – What do you think about using .odt Files and not .doc ??

Bob Hi, Have never worked with .odt files. If it has advantages I can find out more about it. Also, the manual has more chapters to be added ( I am...

Janno I would suggest to continue the good work, using the .doc-format. LibreCAD is also working under Windows, and people using a version of that op...

Bob Hi Janno, I am going to continue the use of .doc file. At the end it will also be available in PDF. Bob

new player Your manual reads more like a guide, but is very welcome. I am new to autocad and librecad, but am already drawing a blank on some of your inst...

sp1der Make sure the layer you are working on for the dimensions is not hidden, you can see in the example that layer 'Draw' is hidden. Simply click on ...

Bob Hi In step 8 it should read right point rather than right edge. When you move the mouse curser away from the line without clicking the dimensio...

sp1der This shouldn't make any difference Bob, you can dimension from any coordinate point in LibreCAD.

Bob Hi c..t Yes, you are correct. I was trying to indicate a more specific point but the problem has now been solved by setting the text height in ...

Bob To Everyone, I have added a change to the manual to reflect this problem Bob

sp1der That's great Bob, thanks. Ignore the 2.0.1 its my typing mistake, it should have read 2.0.0 beta 1! To be honest Bob what you are doing ...

Bob Your welcome my friend, Writing this manual using the same method we used writing the C3P training manual we did at Ford when I was there doing...

sp1der Bob It sounds interesting work you did at Ford, which Ford location did you work at? Was most of the work in 2D? Yes I suppose you could do w...

Bob Hi C..T, I worked for Ford in Dearborn, Michigan in Research and Engineering Prototype vehicles which are the cars of the future. I retired fro...

claus82 Hi man, I am deeply sorry, I had no time anymore to resume my work, unfortunately I am unoccupied, and I cannot find any hob... but I have really ...

coloradokook Bob I can help proof read. I am new to LibreCAD and need to learn it fast. I got your manual in .doc format for LibreCAD 2.0 .... seems ...

Bob Hi Kookie, Thanks for your input. Yes, we can use proof readers and yes, I do plan to put everything into PDF format when the manual is finishe...

DanD Bob: Your manual is very good. It helped me understand how to use the modify commands better. I still have trouble switching between the comman...

Stano Sitar Hi. Some time ago I started to write manual from a point of view of AutoCAD user used to working with a commandline. At this moment it is kind...

Bob Hi Dan, Thank you for the kind comments. I am always open to making edits to the manual. Bob

sp1der Hello Bob I've re-added your manual to the wiki after having problems with it before. All that needs doing now is to add the images: http://...

Bob Hi Dan, All edits will be helpful. I am glad you like the manual it was sorely needed. Bob

hsrai If original author (Bob) wishes to develop this guide / manual in collaborative manner, then there are many tools at our disposal. Google Doc (Goo...

R. van Twisk Rai, I have never worked on google docs, so i cannot comment on that. However, the wiki didn't work well for us... We tried to use the wiki...

hsrai In that case, you can try with link below. I have uploaded copy of manual, and anyone (even without Google account) can contribute. https:/...

hsrai Try following link in place of above / previous one. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT8QoQs9uPYRRPRMeWStaMpFzK8Dzmd-imkjmyqep8s/edit?u...

R. van Twisk Rai, be careful with enable contributions on these documents, spam can very easily be added then, same happened with the wiki. I could ope...

hsrai It was just to show the capability of tool. Can I disable this link, and edit access will be only to few, on their email basis, rest can only ...

hsrai Found it "Hard Formatted", that mean we can not create "Table of Contents" from it, and look will also be bad, export to m...

sp1der Hi Rai Google docs is definitely the way to go, we should forget about the wiki. What do you mean you cannot insert table of contents?

hsrai See it, as published on Internet at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT8QoQs9uPYRRPRMeWStaMpFzK8Dzmd-imkjmyqep8s/pub To create &quo...

umbauwfb Hello Bob, first thanks for all the activities and the knowhow you put into this project! I saw your videos on YouTube, I saw your manual and I s...

cranky Can this not be done with the options in the 'Scaling Options' dialog? You can enter independent X and Y scale factors here.

umbauwfb AW: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13 – First thanks for your answer, have you a different version of LibreCAD? Please see my scale-window attached Best regards ...

cranky Currently I am using the latest release, see here: http://librecad.org/cms/home/get-help/forum.html

umbauwfb AW: AW: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13 – Do you use version 2.0.0rc1 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/Windows/2.0.0rc1/> modified 2013-06-09 or ...

hsrai I used: Version: master SCM Revision: 2.0.0beta1-137-gf26a9af Compiled on: Apr 4 2013 have different scale in X and Y direction.

umbauwfb AW: AW: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13 – Thanks for your help, problem is solved! Von: hsrai [via LibreCAD] [mailto:ml-node+s1049103n5708294h53@...] Gesendet: Montag, ...

cantcode @R. van Twisk "... there aren't any good systems to generate a HTML/PDF from the wiki..." have you seen this: http://www.mediawiki.o...

R. van Twisk On Jul 19, 2013, at 7:44 AM, cantcode [via LibreCAD] <ml-node+s1049103n5708602h82@...> wrote: > @R. van Twisk > "... there...

IAn Bell A simple request from a complete beginner - can you include an explanation of what the 'draft' icon does - and 'it switches to and from daft mode'...

Plane_Dealer I have the same question. Did you ever get an answer to this? Thanks

flywire Draft mode displays the drawing more quickly by leaving detail out of the display, particularly useful on slow computers. The function is not expl...