Posted by Andrew Janke on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Adjustable-sensitivity-when-selecting-objects-lines-tp5714490p5714513.html


Yes, it's normal to zoom in for a complex drawing when there are many lines. However this use case is when the drawing is large scale.

To get an idea of what the problem is, create a new libreCAD drawing and draw a simple box 200m by 50m, then try to draw a box 15m inside this by using the line offset tool. You have to be within one pixel to make the offset work and this is somewhat difficult with a mouse and leads to frustration. If you zoom in to make it easy to pick the line to offset you can't see if it works as 15m is beyond your current view.

Thus my question as to if you can adjust how close you need to be to a line to select it.

The same occurs if you attempt to select lines when you are zoomed out.

I've contributed to a number of Open source projects for a number of years so am not afraid of making changes to code if needs be to fix this but prefer to ask one of the developers if this is something that already has been done or not or at least thought about as to the best way to implement it.


Thanks

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