Hi Gary, It is most encouraging to hear terms that I recognise from my early life in cad and, it certainly helps when you are trying to get to grips with something different. Many thanks
Gary thanks many millions for excellent tutorials. One think I wish A4 type paper also becomes standard here in USA, since going from A3 -> A4 -> A5 is half of the last one. So far your tutorials are one of the best. Thanks
Very good tutorial for LibreCAD beginner. Thank you for your effort. It's very helpful to me. The only suggestion, you might want to slow down a little bit when pointing out what button to click on the dashboard/toolbar. Or give a little description of which button to press. Other than that, you're a very good teacher.
Thank you ... I am sure there are a lot of short cuts like that. I don't consider myself a CAD expert, but I saw a need for this. I think there is a forum associated with libreCAD that would be a good place to go for someone that really wants to be good with this. Aside: I have to use a lot of software, but never any of it continuously, to get to be really good so I use the method I call.... poke and hope.... "let's poke this button and hope it does what I want."
Thank you for the complement Shaun and also thanks for the question. I am learning as I am teaching LibreCAD and like every software there is menus under menus under menus. so you just have to keep poking around. There is two possible answers to your question, but what I think you are asking is the line length before you draw the line. That can be turned off and on by the menu at the top... View, Toolbars, Tool Options I am in the process of making a few more tutorials... I will show that.
I wish we would use the metric system, if for no other reason just to quit having to converting fractions. However, just to be ornery (jokingly of course)... sometime in the future I will be talking about A/D converters.... and at that time I will be showing the American system of dividing by multiples of 2 to create our fractions is actually the most "high tech" method. --- Hopefully it gets a few chuckles.
Very good question. I have tried to insert a capital Omega for Ohms in electrical in some text and have never had any luck getting it to show up in the drawing and ended up typing the word Ohms. There is a forum for libreCAD you may be able to get some help there. I will add the link in the video description.
Thank you for the comment Electronics61. I am very grateful that I have been of help to people. In normal drafting drawings our paper also doubles. They do that by making the largest dimension of the previous size the smallest of the next size and doubling the smallest dimension.... (About as clear as mud... right?) A size is 8 1/2 X 11 --> B size = 11 X 17 --> C size is 17 X 22 and so on. But I agree with you about we should go to the international sizes.
I appreciate you making the tutorials. One ask though, could you please slow down a little bit. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to move the hidden bottom half of the circle into the drawing. A little less speed and more description of what you're selecting from the tool menu would be very helpful. But again, I really appreciate you putting these out here.
Thanks Gary. I really hope to make LibreCad work, but so far the trim function does not work at all, even when I follow the steps in your tutorial. I'll reload it and try again. Thanks
I just installed the latest version on my MacBook and it is quite different, though I can find the operations you use. However, the trim function does not work as expected. I follow what appears to be the same sequence as in your tutorial and I can't get it to work. "Select the limiting entity" works as expected. A line changes color and the command line shows "Select the entity to trim" However, nothing responds at all to clicking. Also, I can save files as is usual with all programs. But when I quite and come back to open saved files, the names are all greyed out and won't open. I wonder if you have done any tutorials with this newest version?? Thanks.
No I have not created any tutorials on version 2. I had it installed on a windows system and it is now installed on my newer Linux system and have used it some. There are several differences between the versions. For example I was not able to edit text until I found the "secret" by going to a forum to discover how to do it. However, I have never had the problem you talk about on either the Linux or Windows version. I suggest you check out a LibreCAD forum and possibly reload the program. I do hope to start working on new tutorials sometime soon. I have let everything just rest for way too long, but I personally have had a very bad two years.
Hi Gary. Can I ask that you stop waving the cursor around the screen whilst you are talking, please only move it to get to where you are going to illustrate you next location. hope you have a good new year, Regards, Cyjo
Thank you very much for this Tutorial (and part 1). . So far so good, but I have just one small issue. I am running version 2.13 and hail from the year 2020 ;) - how do I set the look of the side bar to how you have it in this video tutorial series so I can keep up with what you are doing.? EDIT: Fixed
You've done lots of good teaching, but it appears obsolete for use with LibreCAD 2.2. I got a minute and a half into this video and I can't find the command you're describing. Disappointed.
Hahahahahahahaha.... you are the first one that caught that,. That is the problem you have when you set a computer up for your own use and then get the bright idea to create videos.
Hi Gary, It is most encouraging to hear terms that I recognise from my early life in cad and, it certainly helps when you are trying to get to grips with something different.
Many thanks
Gary thanks many millions for excellent tutorials. One think I wish A4 type paper also becomes standard here in USA, since going from A3 -> A4 -> A5 is half of the last one. So far your tutorials are one of the best. Thanks
Best video I have ever seen on how to use a CAD application.
Very good tutorial for LibreCAD beginner. Thank you for your effort. It's very helpful to me. The only suggestion, you might want to slow down a little bit when pointing out what button to click on the dashboard/toolbar. Or give a little description of which button to press. Other than that, you're a very good teacher.
Thank you ... I am sure there are a lot of short cuts like that. I don't consider myself a CAD expert, but I saw a need for this. I think there is a forum associated with libreCAD that would be a good place to go for someone that really wants to be good with this.
Aside: I have to use a lot of software, but never any of it continuously, to get to be really good so I use the method I call.... poke and hope.... "let's poke this button and hope it does what I want."
Thank you for the complement Shaun and also thanks for the question. I am learning as I am teaching LibreCAD and like every software there is menus under menus under menus. so you just have to keep poking around. There is two possible answers to your question, but what I think you are asking is the line length before you draw the line. That can be turned off and on by the menu at the top... View, Toolbars, Tool Options
I am in the process of making a few more tutorials... I will show that.
Thank you .... hope it helps. As you go through these you will find I learned a lot from the first ones to the latter ones.
8:09 "click on both things" how did you do that ?
I wish we would use the metric system, if for no other reason just to quit having to converting fractions. However, just to be ornery (jokingly of course)... sometime in the future I will be talking about A/D converters.... and at that time I will be showing the American system of dividing by multiples of 2 to create our fractions is actually the most "high tech" method. --- Hopefully it gets a few chuckles.
Very good question. I have tried to insert a capital Omega for Ohms in electrical in some text and have never had any luck getting it to show up in the drawing and ended up typing the word Ohms. There is a forum for libreCAD you may be able to get some help there. I will add the link in the video description.
Thank you for the comment Electronics61. I am very grateful that I have been of help to people. In normal drafting drawings our paper also doubles. They do that by making the largest dimension of the previous size the smallest of the next size and doubling the smallest dimension.... (About as clear as mud... right?) A size is 8 1/2 X 11 --> B size = 11 X 17 --> C size is 17 X 22 and so on. But I agree with you about we should go to the international sizes.
Thanks for the tutorial, it was just what I needed to get started.
I appreciate you making the tutorials. One ask though, could you please slow down a little bit. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to move the hidden bottom half of the circle into the drawing. A little less speed and more description of what you're selecting from the tool menu would be very helpful. But again, I really appreciate you putting these out here.
Hi Gary,
Great tutorial. One question, How do you get Librecad to display the line dimensions in the toolbar along the top?
Shaun
With the Scrn > BLACK ,,, nothing shows, Can I do something about that? Thanks!
Does it have a Line WIDTH cmnd? Thanks!
Thanks Gary. I really hope to make LibreCad work, but so far the trim function does not work at all, even when I follow the steps in your tutorial. I'll reload it and try again.
Thanks
I just installed the latest version on my MacBook and it is quite different, though I can find the operations you use.
However, the trim function does not work as expected. I follow what appears to be the same sequence as in your tutorial and I can't get it to work. "Select the limiting entity" works as expected. A line changes color and the command line shows "Select the entity to trim" However, nothing responds at all to clicking.
Also, I can save files as is usual with all programs. But when I quite and come back to open saved files, the names are all greyed out and won't open.
I wonder if you have done any tutorials with this newest version??
Thanks.
No I have not created any tutorials on version 2. I had it installed on a windows system and it is now installed on my newer Linux system and have used it some. There are several differences between the versions. For example I was not able to edit text until I found the "secret" by going to a forum to discover how to do it.
However, I have never had the problem you talk about on either the Linux or Windows version. I suggest you check out a LibreCAD forum and possibly reload the program.
I do hope to start working on new tutorials sometime soon. I have let everything just rest for way too long, but I personally have had a very bad two years.
I found Ctrl+K works well for deselecting everything (easier than going through the menus, but maybe more disorienting if you use it in a video).
Johny Cash? Are you alive? =)
Seriously, thank you for your lessons.
Nice tutorial. Good job.
Just found this - thanks Gary
Really Helpful Tutorial, Thanks!
Hi Gary. Can I ask that you stop waving the cursor around the screen whilst you are talking, please only move it to get to where you are going to illustrate you next location.
hope you have a good new year,
Regards, Cyjo
hahahahaahahaha Maybe I will do the next video with the following:
"Hello I am Gary Fox" followed by the Folsom Prison Blues run.
Thank you very much for this Tutorial (and part 1).
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So far so good, but I have just one small issue. I am running version 2.13 and hail from the year 2020 ;) - how do I set the look of the side bar to how you have it in this video tutorial series so I can keep up with what you are doing.?
EDIT: Fixed
You've done lots of good teaching, but it appears obsolete for use with LibreCAD 2.2. I got a minute and a half into this video and I can't find the command you're describing. Disappointed.
hahaahahahaha..... next time I will do it in yards, feet, inches, and fractions of an inch to really please you. Seriously, thanks.
/home/numbnuts :D
Hahahahahahahaha.... you are the first one that caught that,. That is the problem you have when you set a computer up for your own use and then get the bright idea to create videos.