LibreCAD tutorial 11 -- The toolbars and the divide function. Video Lecture

hello let's Gary Fox and we're back
again I have the same screen I had up
last time this time I need to talk about
something that I've been not talking
about that really should have been these
menus the these things up here are
called toolbars works exactly like it
does on Windows which are probably about
everybody's familiar with that you can
actually see the breakpoints on these
things you can move them around I don't
see much of used in doing that but as we
go to view first we talk about the
status bar which is this thing right
here at the bottom it tells you what
your status is what commander and I like
leaving that on I don't use it that
often but it's nice to know it's there
if I do get a little confused where I'm
at but let's go to the toolbars ok the
layer list we've talked about the block
list we've talked about I usually leave
those on the command line is the same
thing as the that's this area right here
that tells you some answers to some
commands that we have we'll be talking
about that probably in the next episode
okay pen selection let's go back up here
these three items right here are the pen
selection I can when I draw a line I can
make that line a different color I can
make that line a different layer I'm
sorry I different line width and I can
make it a different line type I
personally like to leave everything by
layer so that way where I know I'm
looking at something that I know it's
all on the same layer but sometimes
that's not
so sometimes you might want to layer
worried ask some hidden lines and it has
some solid lines and you want to be able
to turn that whole layer off well you
have another layer on so you may want to
choose to do different things with these
I I don't for the kind of drawings I
create but that is an option for you
okay
another menu or another toolbar that you
can have is 200 options we'll go back to
that one in just a minute okay there's
the file menu and what that does that's
these things right here to start it
allows you to quickly add a new drawing
open a drawing save print and print
preview print and print preview are
pretty daggone important so I'll leave
that on the others I could live without
because I can go back up here to the
file up here and get the same things but
I print and print preview I kind of like
seeing those right there in front of my
face personal preference another toolbar
is this one it's called edit and as we
see what we turned off just then just
turn it back on that is the undo and
redo cut and paste cut and paste I can
live without but the undo I can't like
having that button right in front of my
face again end that's personal
preference if you have a screen where
these icons are pretty big and it's
kinda taking up some of the screen that
you don't you'd like to have available
for other things then you might not want
all these toolbars up here again
personal preference okay
the tool options we've got that on as
you can see I pretty much run this thing
with everything on except for the
library browser and we'll go back to it
in just a minute but let's say I'm doing
a line what the tool options one does is
it shows that length and the snap to
point which we talked about in the last
tutorial so I kind of like have an
applet on and that's pretty handy too to
let you know what your options are on
your tool wise you'd have to be dealing
with that all the time by turning that
off and on off and on so I'll leave that
one on
so I leave all four of those on but you
wouldn't have to I could live without
the pen selection because since I don't
normally use it library browser let's
turn that one on and what they have is
they have templates which is if you
start a whole new screen and obviously I
don't have any and then they have these
miscellaneous libraries and or it's one
library but it's got four things inside
it a3 paper talks the infamous tux he's
not infamous actually but tux is the the
mascot for Linux so let's click on tux
well insert and you see we got him up
here I also have a block now called tux
same thing I can do a screw and this is
going to show you one quick thing one
problem with using blocks and screw is
little-bitty can't see it and that is a
problem when people create blocks they
always need to be the same size and if I
remember right yeah it's previous view
so I'm going to delete those too but we
now know what that thing I do so I'll
delete have to choose one delete the
screw and tax ones elite tux but just
still exists because that's a file out
there we're going to deal with blocks in
the future I got a draw some and then
kind of show you how that works so
anyhow that's pretty much the menu I the
question I asked was how do you get that
length showing up to at the top and I
think that was this question and that's
basically with the view toolbars and
then that one is the tool options his
question could have been and there's
another way of turning these things off
or at least turn off the library browser
his question could have been if I have a
line already on here how do I find out
some info about it okay if you go to
modify and you've got there's two places
where you can find out about the stuff
like this one of them is here that says
edit in an entity geometry so I click on
that and I choose this line right here
and it gives me this window that tells
me the line is a red line is the layer
colors by layer and all those choices
there and it tells me to start point the
end point both the X and the y-axis so
tells me a whole lot about that line and
I could actually modify those numbers
now if I wanted to I don't want to so
that's another way that didn't actually
give us the length unless we wanted to
calculate all that stuff another way of
finding that out is if we go to the main
menu and then we got this thing here
that says information
we go to that and we can go to distance
point-to-point and I go endpoint the
endpoint and it'll tell me what the
distance of that line is and you see it
displays that in that command line area
if that's all if that's too small for
you all you have to do is think right
here I didn't do what I wanted to do is
right here
I get that double ended arrow and then I
can see what this last what the command
was you can also on that info see where
I'm at now let's go back to information
one of these is waiting for the thing to
come up lengths of selected elements so
I can do and then there's also this area
so we'll do the area one or still at
endpoints I'm going to do it for this
rectangle you see this give me each
point as I click when I get back to the
beginning and give you the area inside
that and whatever units I'm in right now
and it'll give me the circumference so
it gives me the distance all the way
around let's just see for the heck of it
if it will do it for this circle
and it doesn't look like it's smart
enough to do that so it won't give me
the circumference around that yeah and
you can't do see so anyhow that'll give
you some of the stuff it did actually
give me the circumference but I think it
was just at the points that I did and
not kissing conference of that circle
okay so it's got mixed value obviously I
don't use it very often there's a total
length of selective entity I'll see if
this work
where you gonna do it right
and now we do that in total length of
that selecting and E is 88.4 to so it
gave me this a conference doing it out
late you can see I'm no expert on this
thing and I don't intend on then most of
these functions I never use I just did a
ctrl K to make everything right okay one
of the new functions I do want to talk
about is break and so we will go to
modify if you remember back in a
tutorial number two when I started
erasing lines I had to re add lines to
be able to make them to the other side
I'll show you what I mean right now so
we're gonna go here and we're going to
trim this line and I did the wrong kind
of trim now you know why I like the undo
right trim that line and now to have
that line continue on to the other side
I had to go back and add a line that's
the way I did things in the we're gonna
do start there's the problem with doing
that
and it's not even long enough
and it looks like I missed my point I
did
okay well do length will make the length
100 I'll be definitely long enough and
we will do select endpoint and that's
basically the way I did things in
tutorial number two I had to go back and
read the line then I go back and reach
rim again this is a lot of key clicks
maybe you don't want to do that many
click key clicks so another way to do it
is you go to this thing called break
divide is what they call it divided
select identity and then it says specify
the cutting point so I try to cut it
somewhere in the middle
and it's kind of tough to get on there
and see I didn't get that cutting point
right on the entity so I got a message
back says you're a dummy so a better way
to do that
we can try eyeball in it again and we
selected on cutting point
says it's not an entity again so you go
to mid and you got it okay now we're
going to specify entity to cut again we
go to mid specify nd to cut we go to mid
okay now we're going to try to trim and
again the undo button paid off again and
you see I didn't cut that last one so I
had a problem so we go back to divide
you tell often I use that because I
didn't know exactly which button it was
okay now we can go back to trim and we
should be able to trim that line and we
were and then we can go over here and
trim these lines I save a lot of time
when you've got a lot of things that you
need to modify so it's probably worth it
but it's you always want to use the end
point or the mid point okay I got a
couple more things to talk about but
we're gonna have to put that off to the
next next tutorial hopefully this was a
helpful to y'all appreciate it