154. LibreCAD - print to scale to fit the wood you'll build with
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- In this video, I show another way to use the print to scale feature built into LibreCAD (v2.1.3). (LibreCAD is a free, open source, 2D drawing program. I enjoy using it because it allows me to draw and print very accurately to scale. I have a playlist of LibreCAD tutorial videos intended to take someone brand new to LibreCAD and get them drawing quickly. My LibreCAD playlist can be found here: )
In this video, I discuss the fundamental difference of finding building materials to fit scale drawings I've created versus resizing (printing to a scale different from 1:1) to make the drawings fit the materials I have on hand. Printing the drawings to better fit the wood I will use to build the project can potentially save me a lot of time.
I hope the video adequately shows how to print to a different scale other than 1:1. Please feel free to leave me any questions or comments that you have.
Thanks for watching.
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"Aces High" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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I just want to thank you for this tip.
I'm learning LibreCad because I want to print airmodelling parts in a laser engraver.
So precision is everything. 👍
You're welcome. I'm not sure if you know or not, but I have a playlist of all of my LibreCAD videos: here's the link ruclips.net/p/PLGCBwUeR2BD2ypYi5k0c4p6M52YO8Z-WD&si=u0wTSyijXO-9ZE1M . I like LibreCAD because 1) it is free (open source) 2) fairly easy to learn 3) very powerful 4) very accurate. I mostly use it to create templates for projects made from wood or cardboard. I think it is great for that.
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If you have any questions about LibreCAD, please feel free to leave it here. I'll do my best to help.
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Hi Matt, love your video's specially Librecad (just started to learn how to draw) Question? When i try to draw a straight line, typing in the command line 0,0 enter and then 2073,50 the line is not straight (set to Millimeters) Last question: How do i set the grid space to work with Millimeters. Tnx a lot and regards from the Netherlands
Hello Anne-Mieke. Thanks for your question. I tried drawing your line and I think I understand your question. When I drew your straight line, on the screen it looks like small stair steps, however when I printed the line, it printed straight.
To set the grid to use mm, on the main menu bar, go to "Options", "Current drawing preferences", then "Units" and choose mm.
I believe to set the program to always use mm, go to "Options", "Application Preferences", "Defaults" tab and then choose mm.
Hope this helps.
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Kind of confusing to have a measured scale on a dimensioned drawing, if they don't match.
Thanks for your comment.
As I tried to explain in the video, ever since I started drawing plans with dimensions, after the drawing is complete, I have always gone in search of wood that could be made to the dimensions on my drawing; in other words, I always tried to match the wood to the dimensions on my drawing. (I think a lot of woodworkers do this.) Now, I'm saying that if I do the opposite, that is, modify the scale of my dimensioned drawing (when I print) to match the wood that I have, I can save a lot of time. I think it might be confusing because I'm doing the opposite of what I have always done.
I showed the yellow ruler on the 2 printouts to try and show that if I print the drawing out at full scale (1:1), the line I was looking at prints out as 2" long and when I print at the other scale (1:2.667), the line shows as .75" long (NOT 2" long). I'm trying to show that by simply changing the scale WHEN I PRINT, I can get the lines printed out at whatever length I want. I did this to make the scaled printout match up with the wood that I want to use.
Maybe part of the confusion is because, in this video, I did not say that when I originally created the dimensioned drawing, I arbitrarily decided to draw all of the lines in inches. I could have chosen centimeters, feet, meters, yards, etc. but since this is a puzzle that someone holds in their hands, I choose inches.
IF I knew that I wanted to make the puzzle out of that piece of wood that is .75" thick, then I could have rescaled all of the dimensions when I drew the drawing originally, but since I didn't know what piece of wood I was going to use when I created the drawing, I decided to keep the drawing process simple by just drawing in inches at full scale.
Hopefully, this makes sense.
Thanks again for your comment.
@@ImaginethenMake My point. although probably, very badly stated; is that, having chosen a dimension for your material, you would be better off, re-scaling the drawing itself and therefore the dimensions also. Doing this, rather than scaling the print, which orphans the dimensions, would I think be a better approach.
Yes, I absolutely could have chosen to rescale all of the dimensions. Instead, I found it a lot easier to simply change the scale of the printout.
Let me describe another use for this strategy (just change the printing scale) that could be pretty useful I think. Let's say I spend a lot of time creating a drawing, to scale, of something, when built at full scale, would be a large table or chair or something. And then let's say that I decide that it would useful to build a scale model of this thing so that I can better decide if I'd like to put the time and effort into building this thing at full size. By changing the scale at print time, I can get the dimensions of all of the parts to make my scale model without having to rescale the dimensions and make a new drawing. I can take the new drawing and use it as a template to cut out my model parts using a scroll saw. Assemble all of the cut out parts and viola, a scale model.
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks again for your comments.
@@ImaginethenMake the second use case does make sense, but turning off the dimension layer before printing would be expedient.
Rescaling the drawing to the scale used so that the dimensions read correctly, is a as simple as: ctrl-A, Scale command, enter your scale, Enter command.
Then you just have enter your scale in the dimensions section of current drawing options to get the right sized dimension font/arrow heads etc.
That's very much for this tip. I will have to try this.
Thanks again for your continued comments.
I would give you a sub, but I don't do faces on the screen. creepy no matter who it is.
No worries. I tend to put my face on my videos to make them harder to steal. Luckily, I have only had 1 video stolen and posted on someone else's channel. RUclips helped me straighten that out and get the stolen video taken down. Since then, I always put a logo and usually my face on my videos to help prevent them from being stolen.
Now, I watch a lot of videos across all kinds of subjects and generally, I do see the the face of the video creator speaking. I've never thought it was creepy; I take no offense if you do.
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