Posted by dellus on Aug 04, 2024; 10:02am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/New-user-from-Australia-tp5725153p5725192.html

Just don't use zoom panning. You can pan simply by grabbing and shifting the drawing with the middle mouse button/wheel and zoom at the same time by turning the mouse wheel.

There is indeed a bug with landscape mode not kept with imperial paper formats and inches. This is fixed in newer LibreCAD development versions.

A rectangle drawn with the 'rectangle' command indeed is fixed as a rectangle and thus cannot be bevelled. It has to be exploded, as you did.
Bevel still not working: in Tool Options set to 0?

Your drawing is not lost when you exit Print Preview. It is still opened hidden in the background but LibreCAD switches to the default empty drawing, a bug resolved in newer versions. Go to Drawings - Tab mode instead of of Window mode, all open drawings and print previews are indicated then.

If you are more comfortable with hand drawing, why not? It is always quicker, but CAD has a great advantage when modifying.