Re: Can I Help?
Posted by dxli on May 30, 2023; 1:59pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Can-I-Help-tp5722851p5722854.html
Thanks a lot for your willingness to help.
This project is still being developed for sure.
We have two sides of development: v2 and v3.
V2 is a mature product, ready for end users. We can fix bugs, and features at user requests. Sometimes, it's quite easy to add a useful feature or fix a bug. The easiest way to learn could be reading our GitHub commits and issues.
V3 is our attempt to have a clean new codebase, developed by librecad from scratch, so free from some old design problems. For example, in v2 we use a vector to mean both a point and a vector, but conceptually, a point is a location, while a vector is the difference from a point to another. In v3, we separate those two concepts from beginning.
Since you have cad experience, you may have noticed that librecad doesn't have the concept of constraints (topological layer). We may want to add that for v3.
There are lots of things to play with, from the trivial to hard. Like fixing a typo in gui, adding a missing translation, or providing a 64bit windows build. One hard one could be getting correct hatching area without an existing topological layer.
Also, feel free to ask us for help.
Regards,
Dongxu