Posted by GHDave on Jan 18, 2013; 6:41pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Crashes-Constantly-tp5707457.html

Hi!  I'm new to LibreCAD.  I use Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.  I installed 2.0.0 Beta1 (the "latest version") and got partway through a project.  The program crashed constantly - I learned to both save very frequently and save a backup copy (the latter because sometimes the project just goes away, and reloading a saved copy gives a new blank project).  I did try 1.0.2 but it wouldn't open the project I had underway crashed trying to do so.  One thing that seemed to reliably make 2.0.0 Beta1 crash was to try to do a small horizontal dimension - a larger one would work but not a smaller.

I made it through my relatively small drawing, and it only took ten or twenty times as long as it would have to draw it with pencil and paper  .

I couldn't seem to post any bug reports because I'm not a "member of the project".

There also seems to be very little help on using the program.  For instance, I made a somewhat complex drawing, then wanted to change the thickness of all the lines in it.  I couldn't figure out how do do that in bulk, and had to resort to changing them one by one.

My questions:  1) Is there a stable version of the program?  2)  Is there any decent documentation available anywhere, or do users just have to dope it out by trial and error?

It looks like a great program if I could learn to use it and get it to run reliably.