
Move your cursor over these Icons also and you will note information on these as well. You will also notice Icons on the left side. Put your cursor over each Icon without clicking and the program will show you what the Icon does. Don t select anything from the menus as of yet, we will examine some of the selections in as we work through the manual. Go ahead now and click on each word to see the menus. Notice across the top there are words that you click on for pull down menus. Introduction to LibreCAD Project Introduction Overview Go ahead and start up LibreCAD and take a look at what you see on the screen. Please don't hesitate to contribute your improvements as well. We transferred the missing diagrams in 2014 and changed some lines.
#LIBRECAD TUTORIAL PART 1 MANUAL#
Freelance wiki workers wrote in 2014: In 2013 parts of the manual were published on LibreCAD wikipages. This manual is in English but permission is given to freely translate this manual into other languages and file formats. I hope you enjoy your learning experience.

So it would be to the user's advantage to print out a copy of the manual to use to follow the lessons given. This manual is designed for the user to follow along as the user is using the program in front of him. I have written this manual using the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) this manual is designed in Chapters and simple instructions so that even someone entirely new to LibreCAD and CAD in general can learn to use it.


1 LibreCAD users Manual From LibreCAD wiki User Manual for LibreCAD 2.0 Contents 1 Revision list 2 Preface 3 Introduction to LibreCAD 4 Overview 5 Changing program and drawing setting 6 Coordinates 7 Drawing lines 7.1 Rectangles 7.2 Circles 7.3 Icons 7.4 Moving a line 7.5 Changing Line Properties 8 Dimensioning and text 8.1 Dimensions 8.2 Drawing a leader line 8.3 Adding Text to a Drawing 9 Layers 9.1 Construction Layers 10 Using Command Line 11 Pan and zoom 11.1 Pan and Zoom by mouse wheel 12 DRAFT VIEW 13 Info icons 14 Isometric Grid 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Line Modification 14.3 Using Trim 14.4 Creating Parallel lines 14.5 Connecting the corners 14.6 Lengthening a line 14.7 Creating a radius in a corner 14.8 Dimensioning an Isometric Part 15 Self Test 15.1 Title Block 15.2 Projection View 16 Further tools 16.1 Hatching Possible errors 16.2 Closed objects 16.3 Measure areas in maps 17 Data import and export 17.1 File formats 17.2 Example: SVG import 17.3 Example: Bitmap import 17.4 Example: raw data import 17.5 Grouping 1/41Ģ 18 Splines 19 Self Test 2 20 Collection of DXF examples 21 Technical background 22 Other resources 22.1 Lessons in using LibreCAD for knitting patterns Revision list Author of first version: Bob Woltz (2012 (?)) License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA 3.0) Revision list: Bob Woltz: 2012 Clive: 25 Feb (transferred Manual to this web page) Dli: 15 Jul (editing ) Clive: 2 Aug (editing) Ferdi: (editing and adding missing diagrams) Ferdi: (adding new paragraphs, first step to a living document) Ferdi: (continuous update, moved to this new address) Claudio Guarnieri: 3 June 2014 (spline tutorial part 1) Ferdi: 5 June 2014 (spline tutorial part 2 and others) Preface Bob Woltz wrote in 2012: This is a user manual/guide for LibreCAD.
