![]() ![]() So it would be to the user's advantage to print out a copy of the manual to use to follow the lessons given. I hope you enjoy your learning experience. This manual is in English but permission is given to freely translate this manual into other languages and file formats. In 2013 parts of the manual were published on LibreCAD wikipages. We transferred the missing diagrams in 2014 and changed some lines. With the release of 2.1.0 the old toolbar was replaced Please don't hesitate to contribute your improvements as well. With various alternatives, including the ability to create custom toolbars and custom menus. Please read the new User Interface page for more information. Go ahead and start up LibreCAD and take a look at what you see on the screen. Notice across the top there are words that you click on for pull down menus. Go ahead now and click on each word to see the menus. Don’t select anything from the menus as of yet, we will examine some of the selections in as we work through the manual. ![]() Put your cursor over each Icon without clicking and the program will show you what the Icon does. You will also notice Icons on the left side. Move your cursor over these Icons also and you will note information on these as well. The top 7 are drawing Icons, The next 2 draw text and dimensions, The next Icon on the left draws cross hatch and the one next to it is snapshot which is non-functional in this version, The last 4 open different menus and functions. Notice at the bottom of the screen you will see the command line. You can actually draw in LibreCAD using commands that you type into this area. We will use this in a later lesson - to get you familiar with using the command line. Sometimes LibreCAD waits for special input: you should select an object or set a point. Look in this area, most of the time LibreCAD writes down here what it wants. On the 'right-hand' side of the LibreCAD window you will notice areas for creating Layers and Blocks. The last (main) area we want to look at now is the Drawing area or the Workbench as it is sometimes called. This is where you will do all of your drawing, dimensioning, etc. You can also change the settings of the program and drawings too. Let's take a look at the Program settings first.įirst, click on Edit ( Options since 2.1.0) at the top of the page from the main menu. Notice the box that pops up and also notice that you can change quite a bit here under appearances. At this stage we are going to use the 'defaults' the program has set up for us. Make sure however that 'Graphics View > Show large crosshairs' is selected, this option turns the big Red Crosshairs in the work area on and off.Īlso make sure that 'Automatically scale grid' is selected. Notice we can define folder destinations for things like fonts, hatches, part library items, templates etc. We want to create a folder for our Part Library and also our Templates. ![]() Under Windows: C:\Program Files\LibreCAD\resources\library.Next click on the 'default' tab, for now we will not change anything here, but notice that we can change the unit type - for instance we can choose Millimetres, Inch or Meter among others here!Īlso, it is always good to have 'Auto backup' selected. ![]()
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