Thank you for actually getting right into drawing rather than talking about bullshit for the first 10 minutes like all the other librecad tutorials on youtube.
Seeing someone just do it and just casually explaining what they're doing is so much more helpful than someone slowly going through each and every command for me. Thank you!
I like this tutorial because it's easier to learn by doing than by studying all the basic functions. I didn't know what cad was until yesterday so I had to go back and replay multiple times to follow (and realised you sigh a lot..). Thank you so much.
Thank you for your efforts in making this video, much appreciated. I have a background in Plumbing and HVACR work with a very little experience with SketchUp. I'm also a Home shop/Hobbyist Machinist. It's the Hobbyist Machinist aspect that has brought me to LibreCAD, as I want to design some of my own parts. There will be a fairly steep learning curve, but that's nothing new, I've learned enough of the Linux command line to make me very dangerous, ha! So looking forward to something new. As a Home shop/Hobbyist Machinist, I'm aware of some aspects of bolt specifications that you didn't cover, I'm thinking that you are also aware of those, but chose not to extend your video with extra minutia. Again thank you very much, I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thanks a bunch for this tutorial, I learned a lot and was able to use it immediately. Before I watched it I was close to giving up, but now I can do useful work. Thanks again
Wonderful tutorial. I am a newbie to LibreCAD and have learned enough by watching this tutorial to get me comfortably drawing my own woodworking plans. Thank you very much! BTW this is my first LibreCAD tutorial
Thank you! This was perfect. While I wasn’t drawing a bolt, you walked through most of what I needed to get started on my first drawing in LibreCAD. Well done.
I found with only a month of lazy LibreCAD experience this was very useful IMO. It was very well explained enough where needed without all the beginner hand holding BS.😀Thank you!
Great turorial. I am impressed by my own drawing after following the video. Using so many different features of LibreCAD really add to the learning experience.
Beautiful work. Thank You Sir! It helped me much. I tried many CAD tutorials for begginers in the past and all of them are fucking crap. Lectors are stupid or just can't speak with understanding. They do changes in project too rapidly not telling what happen. Or using technical words that cannot be found in CAD. Thank You once again.
Great job. This is the first time I have heard someone use the factoid/standard of length of thread for various bolt sizes. I've been using CAD since AutoCAD Ver 1 for DOS. I am experimenting with several CAD Softwares including LibreCAD. I use circles and rectangles for short cuts to drawing single lines. I am currently (in my regular job) using Inventor Pro 14. I now subscribe and look forward to your other vid's. Later.
This is a great tutorial. My version seems to have bugs though. I can't set the pitch. I have to dock the widgets (command line and layer list) every time I load the program. Is there a patch out there to overcome this?
Great video, some steps were a bit quick and paused and rewinded a couple dozen times and glad you had a high screen resolution so that I could see the items you were selecting and was good following along in Theater Mode. Coming from SketchUp and trying LibreCAD is certainly good exercise for the brain.
Jumping back and forth between SketchUP and LibreCAD is challenging because the user interface and purpose for the programs is so different. I use both of these programs. I have used SketchUP a lot recently (to design my new workbench) but still need to use LibreCAD from time to time for very accurate, 2D scale printouts (which I use as templates). I will probably challenge myself further by learning Blender (so I can create 3D animations of mechanical designs).
God I cam here looking to see if LibreCad may be compatible to do some section elevations for my extension....Now 20 minutes later I just want to draw a bolt...lol..I am so easily distracted....good video.
This is a great tutorial... you make it look so easy! I have just started using LibreCAD to create drilling templates for my projects and I am able to get good results if I map everything out on paper and use the command line to place rectangles, circles, etc. Could please you tell me: How long did it take you to become this proficient? Also, how similar is this to other CAD programs? Did you already know CAD and that made it easy to learn LibreCAD? Thanks!
Thanks! I used AutoCAD for years at work almost everyday from simple sketches to full drawings. So it didn't take me that long to learn LibreCAD but it has taken me a while to learn how to use it proficiently. I find LibreCAD is similar to older versions of CAD, but it's still a very powerful tool.
I have a question. When I draw with LibreCAD, and when I print the size is different slightly, is there a way that I can adjust for the size difference? I thought I export to pdf and gto printing store and use their printers, but on the pdf lines are almost invisible. Do you know how to fix this?
I'd like to learn how to use CAD with no prior experience in drafting or engineering. I found this miles over my head. If anyone has a reference for LibreCAD for Slow Dummies, I'd appreciate it.
As long as you have the same software version, you should have no major problems. Just try to follow along step by step. Pause the video after each instruction and try to repeat it exactly. It will probably take you a few hours to complete because you will make mistakes from time to time and you will need to rewind the video to see where you went wrong. Just remember to save your work after each correct step.
PETER; Excellent tutorial! When trying HATCH; I form a box, [w/rectangle], selct, choose Hatch ; works PERFECT! - I REPEAT exactly; ERR: "not a closed area...". Can you give hints, WHAT TO DO?
Hatching in LibreCAD is a bit funky. I'm having a few issues with it as well. I either work with duplicate geometry or use Undo a lot to get the hatch right. Good luck!
I have 2.1.3 version. When I try to draw a polygon like yours in the video. I draw a triangle. Why is that? I am very new to LibreCAD and I want to learn how to use it. Is there something in the drawing preferences that needs to be changed? I do not know where to look.
With Polygon (Cen, Cor) selected, I snapped to the origin and type @1.732/2 on the command line. A triangle resulted vice a hexagon. What am I doing wrong?
You have to put the right number of faces. In this example, type 6 in the Number bar, near the top of the screen. I had the same problem as you. Took me a while to realize haha :P
Very well explained. I like it very much but the problem I am having is when I put the values in the command line for lines ect. they are not drawn the correct size. I am sure my Drawing preferences are not correct but I do have the units set to Inch & the Length to decimal & Angle to Decimal Degrees. Can you advise as to what your settings were on this Bolt drawing? Thank you. Dave
@@markrand652 Mark, Actually, No. What I have been doing is either, make the inch to mm conversion, & enter it as mm or, just make the entity long or shorter than needed & then use the trim or extend tool. Using the conversion method makes the drawing more to scale. Dave
@@davaroon Thank you Dave. I’m just making my second attempt and the conversion method has crossed my mind. It’s important to me to be able to draw accurately in inches. I feel sure there’s a simple answer to all of this but I haven’t found it yet.
Mark, Please let me know if you do find a way. I do like Peters tutorials. He is easy to follow as I drew this bolt along with him. ( definitely with several pauses along the way so I could get it right) I do like using Libre CAD Good Luck. Dave
Oh gosh, my dimensioning isn't meant to be thorough by any means. I'm just trying to show how to add various dimension lines. I always miss something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These sound like fairly clear instructions but no way is this for a raw beginner. Are there any of your videos for beginners who have never seen CAD in operation and certainly never drawn with mouse and screen?
LibreCAD is a phenomenally awkward program, it takes hours if not days to draw somewhat complex stuff, and there's no design dependency, all the lines are independent after they're drawn. The UI/UX is also extremely awkward. But the video is great.
Hi! When you click on polygon, a "Number" field opens up in the top toolbar area. Change the number from 3 to 6 and you will get a hexagon instead of a triangle.
Thank you for making these videos. The first ones I've seen that don't have awful background music and no explanation, and have a nice voiceover that isn't grating and impossible to hear or understand.
A nice and Quick tutorial for doing basic functions. Though, the imaginary CAD teacher hovering over my shoulder would like to point out that you forgot to dimension the bolt's shaft. :)
Yeah, a nightmare. To draw something even simple, one needs to click and type dozens of times. Unintuitive, has buggy UI, awkward UX, but completely FREEEEE:)
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Might be good for people who already know CAD or the software, but the presentation is not well done. Demonstrates that the presenter may know what he is doing, but neglects basic info needed to follow this tutorial. For instance, how to add a layer, the reason for the choices being made, use of the command line, etc. Why 30 degrees of such an such, why a 3 deg. arc. As a newbie to CAD and to LibreCAD this was a complete waste of time.
That is why the title says, "LibreCAD Tutorial: Drawing a Bolt" and not Beginner tutorial introduction to LibreCAD I would guess right? As someone with just a lazy month of LibreCAD experience this was very useful. This presentation on drawing something practicle is one of the better ones that are out there on youtube IMO. I am sure you found the many existing beginner videos, but if you are looking for beginner tutorials on user interface or beginning steps there are many to choose from: ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Beginner+LibreCAD+tutorials Good luck!
Thank you for actually getting right into drawing rather than talking about bullshit for the first 10 minutes like all the other librecad tutorials on youtube.
Outstanding tut. I will be watching all of your LibreCAD videos. Thanks!
Another excellent tutorial Peter. Thank you so much for sharing!
Seeing someone just do it and just casually explaining what they're doing is so much more helpful than someone slowly going through each and every command for me. Thank you!
Excellent tutorial. There is a lot here. As commented below, will have to watch a number of times. Thank you.
Substantial, well presented. Best LibreCAD howto I've seen so far. Sincere Thanks! There's a lot here. Going to have to watch it more than once.
I like this tutorial because it's easier to learn by doing than by studying all the basic functions. I didn't know what cad was until yesterday so I had to go back and replay multiple times to follow (and realised you sigh a lot..). Thank you so much.
surprisingly satisfying to watch!
Thanks!
Very good tutorial. Searching for next one
Thank you for your efforts in making this video, much appreciated. I have a background in Plumbing and HVACR work with a very little experience with SketchUp. I'm also a Home shop/Hobbyist Machinist. It's the Hobbyist Machinist aspect that has brought me to LibreCAD, as I want to design some of my own parts. There will be a fairly steep learning curve, but that's nothing new, I've learned enough of the Linux command line to make me very dangerous, ha! So looking forward to something new. As a Home shop/Hobbyist Machinist, I'm aware of some aspects of bolt specifications that you didn't cover, I'm thinking that you are also aware of those, but chose not to extend your video with extra minutia. Again thank you very much, I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thank you so much. Thank you. You are appreciated. Thank you a million times.
You're welcome and thank you for saying so!
Thanks a bunch for this tutorial, I learned a lot and was able to use it immediately. Before I watched it I was close to giving up, but now I can do useful work. Thanks again
Very nice tutorial. I picked up quite a few tips. thanks!
Oh, Wow. This was great!
Awesome job there. Thanks a lot for this excellent tutorial.
Excellent
Great video. Very powerful program, and a wonderful user to demonstrate it's power.
Very Nice, Thank you for the help!
Lovely learning session many thanks
Thank you such a clear and concise tutorial. Much appreciated.
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Wonderful tutorial. I am a newbie to LibreCAD and have learned enough by watching this tutorial to get me comfortably drawing my own woodworking plans. Thank you very much! BTW this is my first LibreCAD tutorial
Wonderful tutorial! This is my first LiberCAD tutorial! Thank you so much! All the best!
Watching this video you can learn two things: how to use Librecad and how a tutorial should be, many thanks for your help
Thank you! This was perfect. While I wasn’t drawing a bolt, you walked through most of what I needed to get started on my first drawing in LibreCAD. Well done.
Pretty good demonstration but too fast to follow selections while drawing
@@stansiberell hit pause
nice, this man can draw.
Thanks!
Super !
Atleast this tells me Libre can do good stuff so thumbs up Practical Open Source...
I would say that all mine make is a fucking triangle!
Really beautiful tutorial. A great intro to LibreCAD! Thank you.
very nice tutorial! thanx.
I found with only a month of lazy LibreCAD experience this was very useful IMO. It was very well explained enough where needed without all the beginner hand holding BS.😀Thank you!
Great turorial. I am impressed by my own drawing after following the video. Using so many different features of LibreCAD really add to the learning experience.
excellent job. Nice to see this tool in your hand!
Fantastic tutorial, inspired me to go back and finish my 2d room plans, I am still getting used to LibreCAD!!!
Thanks a lot ❤️
very interesting video. Thank you. This channel is worth to sub
感謝您, 看了7分鐘就決定採用LibreCAD
Great tutorial. I followed along and drew the same bolt. Really made it easy to get a descent handle on the software.
Nice, very nice, i'm starting to use Librecad for drawing parts i need to cut with a plasma, and at times i'm a bit lost, tnx for the tutorial
great. Thanks
Beautiful work. Thank You Sir! It helped me much. I tried many CAD tutorials for begginers in the past and all of them are fucking crap. Lectors are stupid or just can't speak with understanding. They do changes in project too rapidly not telling what happen. Or using technical words that cannot be found in CAD. Thank You once again.
I now know stuff! Thanks!
Great job. This is the first time I have heard someone use the factoid/standard of length of thread for various bolt sizes. I've been using CAD since AutoCAD Ver 1 for DOS. I am experimenting with several CAD Softwares including LibreCAD. I use circles and rectangles for short cuts to drawing single lines. I am currently (in my regular job) using Inventor Pro 14. I now subscribe and look forward to your other vid's. Later.
This is a great tutorial. My version seems to have bugs though. I can't set the pitch. I have to dock the widgets (command line and layer list) every time I load the program. Is there a patch out there to overcome this?
Massa!
Great video, some steps were a bit quick and paused and rewinded a couple dozen times and glad you had a high screen resolution so that I could see the items you were selecting and was good following along in Theater Mode. Coming from SketchUp and trying LibreCAD is certainly good exercise for the brain.
Jumping back and forth between SketchUP and LibreCAD is challenging because the user interface and purpose for the programs is so different. I use both of these programs. I have used SketchUP a lot recently (to design my new workbench) but still need to use LibreCAD from time to time for very accurate, 2D scale printouts (which I use as templates). I will probably challenge myself further by learning Blender (so I can create 3D animations of mechanical designs).
Thanks for the tutorial, any good books, or guidance sites about bolts/nuts design that you could recommend?
nice tutorial
Thanks!
👏
Noice m8
God I cam here looking to see if LibreCad may be compatible to do some section elevations for my extension....Now 20 minutes later I just want to draw a bolt...lol..I am so easily distracted....good video.
i remember doing this 25 years ago with pencil on milimeter paper.
Much better than freecad that is full with bugs
💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Anytime I select vertical after drawing the polygon and circle,the length and snap point doesn't come up again . Please help
This is a great tutorial... you make it look so easy! I have just started using LibreCAD to create drilling templates for my projects and I am able to get good results if I map everything out on paper and use the command line to place rectangles, circles, etc. Could please you tell me: How long did it take you to become this proficient? Also, how similar is this to other CAD programs? Did you already know CAD and that made it easy to learn LibreCAD? Thanks!
Thanks! I used AutoCAD for years at work almost everyday from simple sketches to full drawings. So it didn't take me that long to learn LibreCAD but it has taken me a while to learn how to use it proficiently. I find LibreCAD is similar to older versions of CAD, but it's still a very powerful tool.
@ ~6:48,you casually placed the Ctr-Ln. What pt. Snaps did you use? Thanks!
that is a very nice tutorial. Are there sheets (layouts) in librecad to arrange drawings to scale and add titles?
Hi! There are no layout sheets in LibreCAD yet. But I'm working on a page format tutorial that should help.
From your vast knowledge of LbrCAD; is it possible to Print only a PORTION of the screen? Thanks
I have a question. When I draw with LibreCAD, and when I print the size is different slightly, is there a way that I can adjust for the size difference? I thought I export to pdf and gto printing store and use their printers, but on the pdf lines are almost invisible. Do you know how to fix this?
I'd like to learn how to use CAD with no prior experience in drafting or engineering. I found this miles over my head. If anyone has a reference for LibreCAD for Slow Dummies, I'd appreciate it.
@Bro Gill Forgive the shameless plug for my video: ruclips.net/video/21pD_rFdoDQ/видео.html
As long as you have the same software version, you should have no major problems. Just try to follow along step by step. Pause the video after each instruction and try to repeat it exactly. It will probably take you a few hours to complete because you will make mistakes from time to time and you will need to rewind the video to see where you went wrong. Just remember to save your work after each correct step.
PETER; Excellent tutorial! When trying HATCH; I form a box, [w/rectangle], selct, choose Hatch ; works PERFECT! - I REPEAT exactly; ERR: "not a closed area...". Can you give hints, WHAT TO DO?
Hatching in LibreCAD is a bit funky. I'm having a few issues with it as well. I either work with duplicate geometry or use Undo a lot to get the hatch right. Good luck!
hi peter, my name is alvin and I tried to use the TRIM TWO tool, but with very bad results. I have a macbook. Could that be the downside?
I have 2.1.3 version. When I try to draw a polygon like yours in the video. I draw a triangle. Why is that? I am very new to LibreCAD and I want to learn how to use it. Is there something in the drawing preferences that needs to be changed? I do not know where to look.
On the top-bar, look for dialog where you can SET the # of sides.
how to set: both CMND LN & LAYERS LST to display simultaneously ? Thanks!
Hello! Go to Widgets > Dock Widgets and select the ones you want to display.
With Polygon (Cen, Cor) selected, I snapped to the origin and type @1.732/2 on the command line. A triangle resulted vice a hexagon. What am I doing wrong?
You have to put the right number of faces. In this example, type 6 in the Number bar, near the top of the screen. I had the same problem as you. Took me a while to realize haha :P
Very well explained. I like it very much but the problem I am having is when I put the values in the command line for lines ect. they are not drawn the correct size. I am sure my Drawing preferences are not correct but I do have the units set to Inch & the Length to decimal & Angle to Decimal Degrees. Can you advise as to what your settings were on this Bolt drawing? Thank you.
Dave
Did you find an answer to your question? I am just starting and having the same issue, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
@@markrand652 Mark, Actually, No. What I have been doing is either, make the inch to mm conversion, & enter it as mm or, just make the entity long or shorter than needed & then use the trim or extend tool. Using the conversion method makes the drawing more to scale.
Dave
@@davaroon Thank you Dave. I’m just making my second attempt and the conversion method has crossed my mind. It’s important to me to be able to draw accurately in inches. I feel sure there’s a simple answer to all of this but I haven’t found it yet.
Mark,
Please let me know if you do find a way. I do like Peters tutorials. He is easy to follow as I drew this bolt along with him. ( definitely with several pauses along the way so I could get it right)
I do like using Libre CAD
Good Luck.
Dave
What is the dimension of the thread? Angle alone is not enough.
Oh gosh, my dimensioning isn't meant to be thorough by any means. I'm just trying to show how to add various dimension lines. I always miss something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These sound like fairly clear instructions but no way is this for a raw beginner. Are there any of your videos for beginners who have never seen CAD in operation and certainly never drawn with mouse and screen?
Good idea, I will try to make an introduction tutorial for new CAD users. Thanks!
@ ~6:48, you attach, [effortlessly], the start, of line,; AT THE MID-POINT ... How PRECISELY? Thanks!
He has the mid-point snap turned on so his new line automatically snaps to the mid-point of that vertical line.
LibreCAD is a phenomenally awkward program, it takes hours if not days to draw somewhat complex stuff, and there's no design dependency, all the lines are independent after they're drawn. The UI/UX is also extremely awkward.
But the video is great.
Why do i get a triangle instead of a hexagon when i click on polygon?
I am having the same problem, I will let you know if I find an answer.
Hi! When you click on polygon, a "Number" field opens up in the top toolbar area. Change the number from 3 to 6 and you will get a hexagon instead of a triangle.
Where did HATCH go? Upon clkng, the icon; Cmnd Ln says: "file does not exist". ? Thanks!
Try typing "hatch" into the command line.
Is this 3D?
Thank you for making these videos. The first ones I've seen that don't have awful background music and no explanation, and have a nice voiceover that isn't grating and impossible to hear or understand.
bal'sho spaciba
I'll start with changing back to metric.. That's the one thing wrong with the world today. It's totally backwards using imperial sizes
A nice and Quick tutorial for doing basic functions. Though, the imaginary CAD teacher hovering over my shoulder would like to point out that you forgot to dimension the bolt's shaft. :)
Just felt like killing myself, what a horrible program, great job showing it's features!
Yeah, a nightmare. To draw something even simple, one needs to click and type dozens of times. Unintuitive, has buggy UI, awkward UX, but completely FREEEEE:)
metric please
I will try to add more metric to my tutorials but the process is more or less the same.
So this is how you do it in LibreCAD - now I can uninstall this shit with clear conscious
mahalos mi bada. Chee hu!
2D CAD systems are so 1980s
wireframe too! How quaint!
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You lost me when you said change it to Inches
Way too fast! Slow down and give a novice a chance!
je to sračka proč se to učíme
Might be good for people who already know CAD or the software, but the presentation is not well done. Demonstrates that the presenter may know what he is doing, but neglects basic info needed to follow this tutorial. For instance, how to add a layer, the reason for the choices being made, use of the command line, etc. Why 30 degrees of such an such, why a 3 deg. arc. As a newbie to CAD and to LibreCAD this was a complete waste of time.
That is why the title says, "LibreCAD Tutorial: Drawing a Bolt" and not Beginner tutorial introduction to LibreCAD I would guess right? As someone with just a lazy month of LibreCAD experience this was very useful. This presentation on drawing something practicle is one of the better ones that are out there on youtube IMO.
I am sure you found the many existing beginner videos, but if you are looking for beginner tutorials on user interface or beginning steps there are many to choose from: ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Beginner+LibreCAD+tutorials
Good luck!