Posted by dellus on Dec 20, 2017; 9:33pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Dimension-styles-tp5715598p5715606.html

Line thickness is shown right on screen in drawing mode only at a scale of 1:1.
As you do architectural drawings you will have a much smaller scale, and you can see the proper look only in the print preview mode. It is best to make yourself a template with the dimensioning settings you like, and then use it for future new drawings and adjust to a different scale with "General Scale". You don't have to change the other values any more. Except for "Fixed Length" extension lines if you use that, these sadly do not respond to "General Scale". Is there a good reason for that?
Some time ago I have tried to make a template for architecture in inches as unit. I have no knowledge about standard architectural scales in the imperial world (US), so i choose 1:96 as it's closest to metric standard 1:100. Probably wrong. I include it here so you may have a look at it. Maybe you could make a template for other American fellows, there often are questions on that in the forum.
arch_inch_1_96_letter.dxf

Concerning fonts, in the main LibreCAD program folder there is a ttf2lff.exe. With this you can turn a windows ttf font to a LC lff font. But it only makes an outline. If you take a quite "sticky" font it might look acceptable. I have tried it out prior to writing this and got an error "freetype6.dll not found", but I remember to have had it working some time ago. You may play with this.