Posted by snowforest on Jul 15, 2021; 5:59pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Trim-command-tp5720840p5720841.html

There are 2 trim commands. One is trim, other is trim two. I think you are talking about trim two. Since I started using librecad 2 months ago, trim command was always enough for me, I didnt even bother to try trim two. But now since you asked I tried it.

First lets explain trim command. You select a limiting entity (lets say line A) and then you select the entity you want to trim , line B (they must be intersecting lines, in other words, not parallel). This way you trim only one entity, which is line B, and only upto line A. Straightforward.

Trim two, as I just checked, apparently there to make things faster and lets you trim line A and B at once. So you select line A, and then you select line B, and it trims the portions of A and B they you DIDN'T select, with respect to intersection point. Less straightforward, but still easy, and faster, if you want to trim two lines (with trim command you needed to perform the command twice for trimming both).