Electrical Drawing properties imported from dxf

...So, I have now deleted the AutoCAD formatting, one by one, a labour of love:) Now I need to format all that text so that it is more readable. I am struggling to find a way to change the font size etc for multiple Text objects. I have tried selecting multiple text objects and then selecting......

Migrating from Autocad, Philippines Furniture, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical

Hi I'm Justin Aquino from the Philippines, We use Autocad for Customized and Modular/System Furniture Primarily. Secondary is we use it for Civil Works (Measurements and Layouting), and Mechanical and Electrical Design Drawings. I am trying to migrate the Company to LibreCad, FreeCAd, Blender...

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

...Hoping to design a barn w' woodshop, metal shop & loft for storage. Having trouble starting. Users Manual, under 'Overview', shows an image named 'CAD Tools' with 15 images of tool selection. I'm running LibreCAD SCM Revision 2.0.7 on a Mac OS 10.8.5, and I can't find such image under the top 3......

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

Greetings.

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

Thanks for the response. I followed the images and still get the wrong image. See my images. CAD_ToolBar.png

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

What's wrong about it? Toolbars can be moved by holding down the mouse button on the dotted line and dragging.

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

...Because I'm inexperienced with this msg transmission my 2nd image did not appear. With my Mac OS 10.8.5, I'm not able to download a later version of LibreCAD, so am running SCM Rev 2.0.7. I followed your advice; see these images from my Mac: And got the flwg result (center image): I've viewed......

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

I'm embarrassed!! In seeing the images together in my previous msg they are the same; the dotted lines in the tutorial caused them to be different to me. Sorry for your trouble….my age is showing springer.

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

No trouble. I hope you retain your willingness to try new things.

Retired 83 yr old Electrical Eng'r trying to learn LibreCAD—difficult!

...I have to say LibreCAD GUI control is a little bit weird to me for a while, before I could follow it in mind. ravas: we should add context menus. while the current "Mouse tips" are reasonable enough. Context menus is another way to provide available actions for the user. I'm embarrassed!!......

Hello everybody from a Translations Provider

I need a tool for translating the drawings (mainly architectural, mechanical, electrical). Hope that this program will help me in my job. Wish you All The Best, :) gsl2007

Drawing with colors?

Does LibreCAD support drawing lines in different colors? Seems basic, but I couldn't find a command for this. Searching this forum returned nothing as well. If not, would it be difficult to patch it in? My application requires drawing different building systems (hvac, electrical distribution, electrical devices, etc.) in distinguishing colors and on separate layers. Thanks.