Posted by zoneblue on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Old-Autocad-user-struggling-tp5721762p5721777.html

Thanks again LordofBikes.

LordOfBikes wrote

We just figured this out ourselves, see https://forum.librecad.org/Offset-distance-tp5721387p5721620.html

Oh. From that link:"Using the tool bar icon, you have to select the entities to offset first (then ENTER),"
I have seen this enter behavior on youtube tutorials.

So, i can now confirm, that here if you use tool modify, offset, then try to click an object nothing happens. No matter how precisely you click on say a line, the hint remains Select to create offset (and hitting enter also does nothing). If i preselect the object, then tools modify, offset, then it works in the manner if you used command o.

LordOfBikes wrote

Usually the selected entities should change color, solid gray, when they are selected with an active tool.
Selection without a tool active, shows them brown and dashed..

Again i can confirm that this behavior does not occur here.

I see the dashed brown. And while the solid grey you mention is visible on the youtube tutorials, it is not the case here. No change occurs either prior to selection or after selection during a modify. I wonder if all of these issues are related to a combination of cads usage of single pixel wide drawing lines, the high dpi (retina) screen used here (with screen scaling set to "more space" (1680x1050 emulation).???

I will do some more tests, for a start do a clean reinstall of rc3 to make sure my config changes are ruled out. And change the screen scaling.

I really think all of this would be helped if the cursor had a little bounding box showing the zone required to select objects, per autocad. And maybe the solid gray needs to be more like 2px wide fluoro!