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On 15 Jul 2018, at 22:57, Librecadni10 [via LibreCAD] <
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Greetings, Gentle Folk at LibreCAD Forums - LibreCAD Internet Relay Chat Network
I will just give a brief self-introduction;
I am a retired Plumber and HVACR technician. I have a modest workshop with a Milling Machine, a Lathe, Drill press, Table Saw and Radial Arm Saw. I usually use those things in an effort, often futile, to repair things. So I make many small parts, if the part is too complex to keep it in my head, I’ll free-hand draw up whatever I want to make, I also make a rather inept use of SketchUp©.
I have taught Apprentices how to draw Plumbing isometrics, a type of drawing that does not use perspective and where unit length is always the same. For instance; draw a skeletal cube so that you can see all twelve lines that make up the edges of the cube, all lines of the cube are the same unit length. Once you get to the stage where you can see the cube morph “in” and “out” of the page, you are ready to learn to draw Plumbing Isometrics. So far as I know there is no on-line resource for this type of drawing.
I have managed to learn to use SketchUp© well enough to meet my needs for drawing small parts, but my, the stuff I see out there that purports to be done with SketchUp©, those drawings are well beyond my abilities. I should mention in this context that I have never used SketchUp© enough to justify purchasing the Pro version, that may well make a difference.
I have tried to learn and use LibreCAD© with little if any success. The following are just a few of my initial questions:
1) What can you do at the Internet Relay Chat Network?
2) Why is a separate registration for LibreOffice© and LibreCAD© needed?
Except for the name similarity (Libre) there is no relation between the two projects.
3) There does not seem to be a sub-forum for new folk.
you can just ask your question in the appropriate forum, we at LibreCAD don’t feel there is a need for a seperate forum for new users. Most people have a technical background and can ask the right question in the right forum.
4) There doesn’t seem to be a post of forum rules, not even; Now play nice people.
We all agree that we know how to be nice and ask a question smartly, so far we don’t have a lot of issue on the forum except for spam.
5) If there is moderation, it’s not evident to me.
We do moderate but it’s 99.99% spam and we just delete the post and block the person.
We are not doing a lot of ‘move post to XYZ because of ABC’ type of moderation. Personally I am not a big fan of baby sitting, I know some other forums do that but I have no idea where people get the time from to moderate posts...
6) how does one remove / delete / cut entities.? Well Okay, I did figure this out after much trial and error, however, I couldn’t find a reference to this function in the on-line manual.
There are some tutorials on youtube aswell.. It’s perhaps a bit awkward, but one can get used to it quickly.