Posted by flywire on Mar 15, 2020; 9:51pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Total-Noobie-Question-tp5718558p5718571.html

No worries, it seems you're getting overwhelmed by the information (can't see the trees for the forest issue). The tutorial is intended to quickly give you the skills for your project not create your drawing.

Start a drawing
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Drawing the frame
For the frame we would like to create three "rectangles" that represent the sides of the frame.

The only issue you will have is the tutorials are in metric and you want to use imperial measurements. The Brief Overview, Simple Template uses the settings as well as File handling and drawing a rectangle. You might want to start there. Do the tutorial in metric but you will see where to change the units for your drawing.

DrGrafix wrote

Maybe there's a CAD book for Dummies

Same page, look three lines down: "LibreCAD for Real Dummies a free option for Computer Aided Design"