LibreCAD squiggle trimming?
#11
Uh-oh. The BS detector went off when using LibreCAD just now.

Draw a line 3/16" long and then dimension it - .0074" it says.
Info shows the length as .1875"

LibreCAD, it appears to be untrustworthy. I've tried this several times.


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#12
Probably not planar.
Full of ideas, but slow to produce parts
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#13
Another new term! "planar" Smile

I found an oddity in "Current Document Preferences" - the scale was at .03892348943789 or something. Why, I have no idea.
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#14
I used librecad for a while and found it kind of klugy it is actually the bastard child of Qcad which you can get for linux but it costs 30$ IIRC I found it worth it.
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#15
Welcome to the group, kennyg!!
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#16
Ed was more gentle - "ugh" I think he said. Smile
On the other hand, I went from Qcad to LibreCAD... ?
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#17
I installed qcad yesterday and played around with it a bit. It definitely has advantages over the others I've tried, but I like the constraints that freecad has. Makes some placements easier. For some reason, tho, qcad will not remember the dimension settings. I set it to decimal, open a new drawing and it changes my preference back to engineering. If I wanted engineering, I would have selected it!
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#18
I guess I should have posted in the introduction first but thanks for the welcome. I'll do that now.
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#19
I probably shouldn't have been so emphatic as my experience with cad is limited and from a past life. So I will edit my thoughts and say that Qcad seemed much more friendly with my experience level.
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#20
I use QCAD to print on the Apple side of my computer. It won't even remember paper size Vinny. Have to set it every time.
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