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Re: Librecad on RasPiOS

From bp@www.zefox.net
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Librecad on RasPiOS
Date 2026-06-22 20:31 +0000
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Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> I'm having great difficulty making librecad work by tring to 
>> follow the instructions, both in the librecad manual and in
>> online tutorials. If there's a good written (not video) tutorial
>> it might help quite a bit, but I haven't found one.
> 
> What's not working?

Seemingly, everything 8-)

That points strongly to me being the problem, and it's at
least partly true. I just managed to draw, save and open a
rectagle using a tutorial at 
https://docs.librecad.org/en/latest/guides/dwg-edit.html
but all layers display all the time, the response to clicks
seemed one click late and the resulting line is dash-dot,
not continuous. 


> 
>> Part of my ineptitude is surely caused by first learning CAD
>> on a Macintosh (Ashlar Graphite), but I'm starting to wonder
>> if something more (maybe an outdated APT repository) is part
>> of my difficulties.
> 
> I find LibreCAD a bit awkward.  I think it's designed as a clone of AutoCAD,
> which means it inherits the AutoCAD way of doing things - that's often
> backwards to how other 'design' packages do it.
> 
I find LibreCAD _extremely_ awkward after learning to use Ashlar Graphite,
it really spoiled me 8-) but I can't justify the license cost now.
. 
> For example, in older versions you couldn't just draw a rectangle with
> height and width, you had to draw 4 lines and then set constraints on them
> (the four corners are right angles, the left side is of length H and the
> bottom side is of length W)
> 
> That's how AutoCAD works, and it makes sense when you're doing parametric
> CAD.  But it's just annoying if you just want to draw some boxes to eg work
> out the best positions of furniture in your room, or whatever it might be.

That's the sort of problem I'm interested in, nothing sophisticated.
 
> I can't speak for LibreCAD (which is 2D CAD) but FreeCAD takes the same
> approach for 3D: you start with 2D sketches which have lines, arcs and
> constraints and then you build 3D shapes from the sketches.  MangoJelly has
> (a lot of) good tutorials for FreeCAD:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions/playlists
> 
> - I don't think he covers LibreCAD but the generic 'CAD thinking' might be
> relevant.  Any time he's talking about a sketch it's the same ideas as 2D
> CAD.
>

It seems helpful, I'll watch it carefully
 
> I had a brief search for LibreCAD tutorials on Youtube and there's no-one I
> recognise, so I can't vouch for any of reliable quality.
> 
I found quite a few, but they're basically unfollowable; cursors can't
be seen on-screen and the narration runs away from me.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

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Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 16:36 +0000
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2026-06-22 18:56 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 19:33 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-22 20:18 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 21:20 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-22 23:29 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-23 08:29 +0100
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2026-06-22 22:48 +0100
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-06-22 20:11 +0200
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 23:01 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 23:55 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Nomad <nomad@the.desert.invalid> - 2026-06-23 07:01 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 11:59 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-24 21:42 +0000
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 20:19 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 20:31 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 22:55 +0100
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-22 22:48 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 00:20 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-23 03:57 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 12:10 +0000
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-23 13:28 +0100
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 01:08 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-24 13:52 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-24 16:43 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-26 14:43 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 04:28 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 12:25 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 04:22 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-23 07:21 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 08:19 +0000
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-23 10:23 +0100
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 01:10 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-24 13:26 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-24 13:44 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2026-06-25 16:01 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-25 17:05 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-25 23:32 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-26 02:01 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-26 10:05 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-26 17:51 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-26 21:51 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2026-06-26 20:22 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 21:59 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-25 14:24 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-25 23:31 +0000

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