Posted by myCAD on Jul 14, 2024; 8:28am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Desired-improvements-tp5725060p5725068.html

Yes, these are that kind of little things that tuly can make the difference, in terms of agility.

For example, imagine that you need to copy an object lots of times in several different, non-aligned, positions. To me, the process should be something like:

- Select that object left-clicking on it;
- Activate the "Copy" command with a click of the mouse on the proper button, or, better, with a quick shortcut on the keyoard, for example typing "cc" or "Shift+c";
- Click on your desired reference point on the drawing and paste the object wherever you want, lots of times, with left-clicks or Enter, as many times as you need;
- Right-click, or Esc, (or even Enter, customising in the Settings its role, that could be either a confirm-command or an escape-command), to escape the command.

In my opinion, the "Keep/Delete" window should appear as little as possible; I understand the importance of the options it contains, but on the other hand I see it as a critical obstacle to the workflow. Its options, as I said, are important; but I think it should be possible to "imply" them, one (Keep) or another (Delete), within the commands themselves, being able to do without the window at all.

I'll try to explain.

Most of the times, tools taken from the "Modify" section, like Scale and Rotate, simply mean that you just want to 'modify' the object (deleting the original). In these cases, "Delete original" can be the defaul with no extra-windows nor extra-worries.

Then, If sometimes you really want to modify an object keeping a copy of it in its original position, it'll be enough to copy that object on itself, first, then to modify one of the two with no need of a "delete original" added option, that in fact has been made the default.

If you enlighten and speed up the "Copy" command, putting it aside from the "Move" command (i.e. making "Move" and "Copy" as two separate commands), the "Keep original" option (and so the  Kep/Delete window) for all the other tools can be eliminated at all.

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About customising the keyboard: Fns should be customisable, as well as the modifier-combinations. For example: Shift+r for Rotate, Shift+m fo mirror. These are only examples; but being able to customise Ctrl, Alt and Shift-modified keys would be also something exciting.