Posted by zedders on Dec 02, 2023; 3:47pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Hi-old-acad-user-tp5723928p5723950.html

aman wrote

Can you tell what you are trying to achieve.  So you can draw a line, how would you edit that? We are here to help, but  even skimming the howtos and manuals usually gives you some idea, howto use LibreCAD.

Thanks, I do appreciate the help.
OK. For example
I would like to draw a line and offset it a chosen distance in a chosen direction, creating a parallel version of the original.
I can draw the line.
I can select it.
I can select the offset command.
Then I'm baffled. It prompts for a distance but I see no way to input that.

If I draw line and choose offset command I'm prompted with "select to create offset". Select what? It's not allowing me to select an object.

lol - sorry for being so dim.