Introduction

Welcome to the LibreCAD Wiki for tutorials and how-to!

It is assumed you are familiar with the LibreCAD website overview of:

• Application description and key links
• Background
• Key features
• Download and install
• Community involvement
• Friends and sponsors

More detail is available in this wiki and the user manual described in the next section.

LibreCAD has a free software licence.

• Partial support of Autodesk DWG format (importing only).
• Support of Autodesk DXF open format (import and export). It is LibreCAD main format.
• Export in PDF format and image format (PNG, SVG, bitmap).
• Support of MakerCAM SVG format. To be confirmed
• Line, circle, arc, polyline, spline.
• Entity modification: move/duplicate, mirror, scale, offset, trim, fillet, etc.
• Cartesian and polar coordinate systems.
• Local coordinates system: you can choose a new origin to input ang get coordinates.
• Snap functions to accurately draw with end points, middle points, center of arcs, intersection of lines.
• Hatch.
• Blocks can be created and inserted.
• Library to manage standard components through blocks (screw, windows, etc.).
• Text annotation.
• Dimensions: linear dimension aligned with feature, radius, diameter, leader.
• Layer management: toggle for visibility and for printing, entity properties driven by layer properties (color, line width, type of line).
• Print to a chosen scale.
• Toolbars can be customized.
• Several actions can be made through the command line.
• Plugins developed to ease some tasks.
• User Interface available in several languages.