myCAD wrote

Hi Forum,

in the last weeks I used LibreCAD "seriously" for the first time; as a long-time user of AutoCAD, it was great for me to work on free software and discover all its potential. To all the developers, thank you for your work.

In my opinion, there are one or two things that would make LibreCAD even better. For example:

- "Keep original / Delete original" windows shown after some Modify commands: this window contains important options, but really slows down the workflow and I think it should be bypassed, someway, at least if one doesn't have particular needs. "Move" and "Copy" should be separated as commands, so that there is no need to declare every time if one wants to keep or delete the original object. In AutoCAD "Copy" is a command on its own right: you paste the object in the new position, then you can continue pasting infinite times the same object wherever you want. Right-click ends the command. I know we have Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl-X, but they aren't so comfortable: Ctrl+V, at least, should make you able to paste the object multiple times, till you right-click or press Return.

The problem of this windows is that the user has to select the option and click/press Enter every time; it would be easier, at least, to be able to use the right-click to confirm the last used option.

- "Fn" keys should be customisable; in particular, I think it would be fantastic if one could toggle "Restrict Orthogonal" with a simple keypress. In AutoCAD, F8 (toggle Ortho) is one of the most used keys. "Fn" are comfortable because you can press them whenever you need, even when you have a tool temporarily activated and you can't right-click or left-click so easily.


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