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faq - V2.2 released

flywire (flywire@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-15T06:08:50+00:00

Frequently Asked Questions Did you check the documentation ? Please have a look at the LibreCAD User Manual. For release 2.2, extensive work was done to improve the documentation to make it more readable, better organized and more thorough. FAQ sections Below you will find some of most frequent questions asked on forum organized by topics. If you do not find the answer to you issue, you can ask for support on the

manuals - LibreCAD User Manual - remove draft note

flywire (flywire@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-15T06:05:29+00:00

Documentation The documentation is only available on the web. It consists of the Website and Blog, Github and SourceForge repositories, User Manual, old Wiki, Forum, Zulip chat Forum and IRC #librecad. LibreCAD User Manual The LibreCAD User Manual is the primary source of user documentation and, combined with this wiki's tutorials and how-to, supercedes the old wiki.

tutorials - Pseudo Scripting with Excel from WayBackMachine

flywire (flywire@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-15T06:02:14+00:00

Tutorials Tutorials provide step by step examples on how to create drawings for a specific purpose. Tutorials supplement the User Manual, particularly the User Guides. A tutorial doesn’t require a full understanding of the commands used, but provides sufficient detail to allow the user to complete the drawing.

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lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-03T06:13:41+00:00

Registration for new accounts has been disabled because of the enormous count of fake registrations! Anyhow, for reading no account is needed, everything is freely available. If you want to become a part of the community and contribute to the wiki, send your honest request to wiki(a)librecad.org and we're happy to create an account for you.

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lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-03T20:13:10+00:00

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CIRCLE CENTER RADIUS CENTER POINT 2 POINT RADIUS

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lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-11-17T19:11:46+00:00

Fonts Context LibreCAD uses its own font format for various reasons. Based on its roots in QCAD, which used its own CXF format, LibreCAD enhanced this format in LFF (LibreCAD Font Format). Deployment LibreCAD comes with a collection of common used fonts. Some of them are contributions from our community, others are converted from TTF fonts with our command line conversion tool ttf2lff.

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lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-06T14:42:48+00:00

Introduction * Home Documentation & help * Manuals * Tutorials * Animated Tutorials * HowTos * FAQs LibreCAD Community * Welcome * LibreCAD genesis * Contributing * Documentation * Translate * Fonts * Part Libraries * Developers * Write code * GSoC Helpful Links * LibreCAD Website * LibreCAD Forum * LibreCAD Blog * LibreCAD Translate Help on DokuWiki * Wiki Syntax * Wiki Manual Temporary shorcuts * Wiki Sidebar * Wiki Sitemap

developer - move translating from old to new wiki

lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-06T14:39:54+00:00

Developers Find here documents, which can help you, if you want to get involved in LibreCAD development. You must not be a C++ coder to get involved. When you have good CAD experience, you can help coders by writing functional specification documents. Or help to translate the

contribute_translate - switch from Pootle to Weblate

lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-06T09:33:05+00:00

Translate LibreCAD in your language Context English is used for developing LibreCAD code, for the GUI and for all the documentation. GUI translators ensure that the LibreCAD interface is available in other languages. GUI means all the menus, messages and commands visible to the user.

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flywire (flywire@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-28T02:58:34+00:00

contribute_gsoc - fixed IRC link to libera.chat

lordofbikes (lordofbikes@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-02-07T21:12:39+00:00

GSoC Introduction LibreCAD has been part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for many years. This page helps students to get involved. The LibreCAD participation was always under the umbrella of BRL-CAD. Sean from BRL-CAD does a great job leading us CAD/CAE/CAM (or CAx in short) projects through several years of Google Summer of Code. But this was not always clear and mixed up things sometimes.

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