![]() ![]() I can't tell how many people have put countless hours into the software, documentation, and support. The authors of the manual were not paid at all, just like the many developers of the software were never paid and also the supporters here. Even if we don't have a designated code of conduct, the rules of general politeness and friendly interaction still apply. He rightly criticized your choice of words in your other post, in a friendly tone. He is a very valued supporter, not only in the forum, who sacrifices his free time for it, like everyone involved in LibreCAD. I don't see any arrogance in dellus' posts. I have read both posts, yours and dellus'. I am suggesting now that the "User Manual" team insert a new chapter entirely dedicated to lear the users how to deal with drawing scales "in the real world", simulating real world design with architecture draws such as the example of my LibreCAD test! In sum, it is important the "User Manual" be written by the authors with a team of engineers driving them with "real world" drawing examples. I tried to modify scale ratio in every tool I supposed to be up to this change, but unsuccessfully. In my floor plant draw (with a external wall rectangle of 200 cm x 400 cm) I used 1 (one) unit of screen grid for each 20 centimeters, but when I call for the dimensions numbers pressing the button "Draft" appeared "160" in the wall that was expected to be "400". So, after some initial disappointment with the "User Manual" about how to put dimensions in the lines (or "line entities"), the test was going on very well till I didn't find in the (very poor) LibreCAD "User Manual" how to change drawing scale (not printing scale) in a draw of a floor plant. You can use just rectangles, where you type in the measures in the toolbar, with the same scale factor you used for the balcony.I am a Civil Engineer a little bit interested in using LibreCAD in my project office and I started some tests of the software trying to design just a complete bathroom (in architecture floor plant). ![]() Draw your furniture in a new layer "Furniture".Optionally draw doors and windows, possibly in a new layer.Turn down opacity to about 60% to be able to see features on the Background bitmap.Easiest is probably to use simple lines with a specified width and a nice color. Doing this only visually is just fine, that scan is not exact anyway. Then scale the rest of the image to match it. In our example, we use the 3×2 meter balcony, so a rectangle of 300×200 is good. a rectangle) of which you know the real dimensions of. Adjust scale of the image: draw an object (e.g.Import the bitmap floor plan into it, and rotate it so that most of the walls are horizontal and/or vertical.Open up Inkscape, and create a new layer, let's call it "Background".You will thus have a bitmap, and we will trace it into a vector image, but without using the automatic Trace feature of Inkscape. If you did not get an electronic copy of the floor plan, the first step is to scan it. You got a printout of a floor plan from the landlord, showing the walls, door and windows, and a few (but maybe not all) measures, similar to this: Assume you want to draw a floor plan for your apartment.
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