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Re: Librecad on RasPiOS

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Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> Ah, ok.  Not sure what's up there.  I wonder if it's something to do with
> the graphics setup not being right?  eg Wayland issues?
>  

That's something I didn't consider, maybe I'll try reverting to
Xorg at some point. I've also noticed that the snap function
seems to silently stop working for a time, then resume.

>> > 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.
> 
> TBH when I just want 'scale drawing' rather than parametric CAD, I use
> Inkscape.  That's been good enough for accurately drawing things to be laser
> cut, and it works much more like a traditional vector drawing package (I
> used to use Acorn's !Draw, a long time ago).  You can export DXF if you
> really need AutoCAD compatibility, eg for the laser cutter.
>
I messed with Inkscape a couple years ago and got it to work after a fashion.
The other day I opened it up again and my brain went blank as the page.
No memory of how I accomplished the little bit I did, IIRC a floorplan.
A crude one, at that.

Still, Inkscape didn't give me the impression the software was the
problem. Clearly the fumbles were mine. With Librecad I'm not sure.

 

 
> I only really use parametric when 3D printing, and often I find I'm fighting
> FreeCAD more than drawing so often end up using OpenSCAD instead (which is
> more like 'writing code' than 'drawing')
> 
> (FreeCAD has got a lot better recently, but typically the problem is I know
> how to express what I want parametrically, but run into problems with
> constraint conflicts)
> 
> Another parametric CAD program I found easier to use is SolveSpace - I
> threw in a bunch of room dimensions and it produced a house plan, working
> out how thick all the walls were and how they fitted together.  Again it's
> not really for drawing, it's useful specifically because it's trying to
> solve your pile of constraints.  I only used it for 2D... perhaps I should
> look again at its 3D features.

All I really need is the ability to make simple drawing to
scale so they can be checked for interference between objects.

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska

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  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
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    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
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  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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