Posted by John Duffer on Mar 08, 2015; 5:55pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/General-Factor-and-General-Scale-magically-changing-tp5711156.html

I've used QCAD, and now LibreCAD, for a long time.  I recently updated my Linux version and that upgraded my version of LibreCAD (to version 2.0.7)

After that, I opened a DXF file and wanted to add a dimension line.  The dimension wasn't even close.  I Googled "wrong dimensions" and found the "General Factor" and "General Scale" settings.  I tried a few experiments and the Factor and Scale get updated (usually to 0.0393701 from other posts).

This voilates the "Principle of Least Astonishment" and needs to be changed.  I understand automatically updating some of the other parameters (arrow size, etc.), but this has tripped up a lot of people and the number of Google hits asking about the problem seem to prove it.

Please set the Geneal Factor, and General Scale, to 1 and don't automagically update this value.  I consider this a level 1 bug (blocking and product shouldn't have been released with it), but I'd be happy to submit this as an enhancement request.