LibreCAD - Re: Entering architectural dimensions on command line

Re: Entering architectural dimensions on command line

Posted by tyrel on Nov 10, 2013; 6:26pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Entering-architectural-dimensions-on-command-line-tp5709151p5709154.html

I've been looking at the source for LibreCAD and I can see why this doesn't work. It uses the muParse library for parsing numerical expressions, and it doesn't know anything about the units here.

I may download the source and compile it myself to see if I can come up with a good way to handle this. Drawing architectural blueprints in the US without being able to type dimensions this way is impossible.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:06 AM, stealth [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, tyrel [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Howdy!
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> I used AutoCAD years ago and was very familiar with the command line.
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> I'm trying to use LibreCAD to draw a building, but I'm having issues entering the lengths of lines like I want.
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> For example, I would like to draw a line from the current point to the right 43 feet 9 inches. I would expect to be able to do something like: @43'-9<0, but I've tried various combinations of that and I get Expression Syntax error no matter how I do that.
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> Is this possible in LibreCAD?
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> Thanks,
> Tyrel

Does your copy of LibreCAD have a help manual? Mine doesn't.

The only way I can see is to do it using absolute coordinates such as 0,0<ENTER> 525,0<ENTER>

That will give you a horizontal line along the x axis if your units are set to inches then that is 43' 9"

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