Posted by ras on Jun 01, 2013; 5:26pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/manual-first-steps-tp5707490p5708173.html

page 2 last bullet second bar: s/b paste

      not errata, but what do the last 3 operations (e.g. cut, copy, paste) do?
      they don't seem to operate on drawing operations (like undo and redo)
      [at least that is what i seem to think] on my odd-ball build lc 2.0.0alpha3
      for solaris10 sparc crafted by opencsw.

page 3 just a comment on wording when describing the layer box. i would
change the word 'relative' to 'associated' and rephrase a bit

from

     this show/removes
      the relative layer

to

    icon to show/hide
     associated layer


from
    this freeze the relative layer
to
    locks/unlocks changes to
       the associated layer

from
    this print or not
    the entities relative
    to the layer

to (the experts might have a better description of what this really is doing)
    enable/disable printing of
    untrimmed constuction lines
    and help layer lines


page 4 top

reword the first paragraph:

to
The pulldown selections above allows one to change attributes to drawn lines
overriding the default values of the layer. The pulldowns apply to these line
attributes: line color line width and line type.

Attributes changed this way will be applied to all subsequent entities created on this layer.


page 4 -- mid page

The last two icons set the relative zero and lock its position.

it might be a good place to briefly describe the relative zero and why locking it
might be a good thing ...



i have yet to play with hatches, so that's about all there is for now from me.


thanks to everyone writing about librecad from a novice users viewpoint
now if i could only find a novice tutorial on
     'cad layout methods and techniques for the non-designer'
and i'll be set ...

aloha

ras