Selecting 3 sides of a rectangle

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Selecting 3 sides of a rectangle

WhiskyGolf
This is my first post and I am new to CAD in general, as well as LibreCAD.  I try to follow a YouTube tutorial on how to make a title block. I already got stuck quite early. In the video it shows that 3 sides of a rectangle are being selected. It is however unclear to me how this is done. It looks like a setting is missing. Can someone help me?
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Re: Selecting 3 sides of a rectangle

LordOfBikes
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Welcome WhiskyGolf!

Probably the video uses another version of LibreCAD or the author did not explain all the steps.

So it helps to provide more information, e.g. a link to the video in question, your LibreCAD version (Help-About) and maybe operating system.

A guess is, that the video shows a rectangle built from single line entities and your rectangle is a polyline.
The polyline is an entity container and you can select only the whole container, not a single line or arc.
Use Explode from Modify tool menu to explode the rectangle, then each side can be selected separately.

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Re: Selecting 3 sides of a rectangle

WhiskyGolf
The remark about Explode did the trick. The video was:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDKQfkmo7hU
and the LibreCAD version I use is:
Version: 2.2.0.2
Compiler: GNU GCC 13.1.0
Compiled on: Jul 29 2023
Qt Version: 5.12.11
Boost Version: 1.75.0
System: Windows 10 (10.0)

Thanks for the quick response.
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Re: Selecting 3 sides of a rectangle

karalinda
 We want to maximize the area of the rectangle implied by choosing the length of three of its sides, with the condition that the three chosenIn a rectangle,
 slope unblocked   you'll add up the two longer sides and the two shorter sides, or double the length and add it to double the width (P = 2l + 2w). Circle: To measure the distance around a circle, or its perimeter, you use the perimeter formula two times pi times the radius (P = 2πr).