Posted by AlPal on Aug 31, 2021; 4:42am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Drawing-a-site-plan-using-LibreCAD-tp5720964.html

I am trying to use LibreCAD to draw a site plan but I am finding is extremely frustrating. The site plan is for a house block which is an odd shape but fits in a space of approximately 145 feet by 90 feet. So the area is quite large in relation to the final drawing. What I am trying to do first is to draw the boundary of the house block.

i am using LibreCAD 2.2 rl 2 on a Macintosh laptop running Big Sur. My first problem is that such manuals as exist seem to be written for PC versions of LC and are for earlier versions of LC. The same applies to Youtube videos. So working out what one needs to do involves interpreting between what one would do on a PC using an earlier version of LC and what one needs to do on a Macintosh using the latest version of LC. For basic functions this is easy but once one gets to more complicated functions the difficulty increases. Added to that if one tries to do something and is not able to produce the result that is wanted it is difficult to determine whether the instructions have not been carried out correctly or they have been but the results is not visible because of the scale at which one is working.

In the case of the site plan that I am trying to draw up, two sides of the block are parallel (but the other two are not). There is also an easement runs along one of the parallel sides. On the construction layer I have been able to draw two adjacent sides, neither of which are parallel to the X or Y axis. The angle seems about right. I now need to draw two lines parallel to one side. However, when I try to draw parallels, using the parallel command, nothing appears. There is no error message in the command box. However, I don't get a line on the construction layer. How should I be troubleshooting the problem?