Another one that's surprising from other packages is that dimensions include line thicknesses. eg if you draw a 10mm wide box with thin lines, it's exactly 10mm. If you change the line thickness to 1mm, the width of the object is now 11mm. That's not wrong per se but means you have to include the line thickness in your calculations, while on some packages the dimensions of the object are measured from the centre of the lines not the outside edges - that means you can place everything on a 1cm grid irrespective of how wide the lines are.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:19:56 -0000 (UTC), RJH wrote:
On 23 Jun 2026 at 08:21:57 BST, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:22:12 -0000 (UTC), RJH wrote:
I find Inkscape more of an illustration and drawing app.
Also has good design tools. And a Python API.
TBH I haven't used it in a while - I'll take another look, thanks.
Remember also that its native file format is SVG. There are lots of
other tools that can process/generate/consume that.
If by tooltips you mean the little pop-up windows that appear
when the mouse is dragged over an icon, they're on, and do help.
If you meant something more, please elaborate.
Part of my confusion may be order of operation issues. I just realized
that Librecad seems to reverse the order of selection and action that
I'm accustomed to.
Thanks for writing!
Although sometimes the webby nature of SVG shows through, eg the
default dimension is pixels rather mm or inches.
Also some packages mess up the scaling when importing SVGs - I think
Inkscape stores everything in the file in pixels and then they get imported with a different pixels per inch (PPI) setting.
Another one that's surprising from other packages is that dimensions
include line thicknesses. eg if you draw a 10mm wide box with thin
lines, it's exactly 10mm. If you change the line thickness to 1mm,
the width of the object is now 11mm.
The Nomad <[email protected]d> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:55:41 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] wrote:
??Jacek Marcin Jaworski?? <[email protected]> wrote:
W dniu 22.06.2026 o�18:36, [email protected] pisze:It's downloading now, how do I unpack it?
but I'm starting to wonder
if something more (maybe an outdated APT repository) is part of my
difficulties.
How about updating to a recent AppImage?
<https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases>
There is a LibreCAD-v2.2.1.5-aarch64.AppImage available. The online
manual is probably more closely aligned with this version as well.
I'm totally clueless.
Thanks for writing!
bob prohaska
Just make the file executable (chmod +x "File_Name")
Then either click it (once or twice depending on how your desktop is
setup) or just run that filename from the CLI
bp@home$~/home/bp foobar.appimage
HTH
It does indeed help. Thank you very much!
bob prohaska
( I use corel because the more modern packages require that you define
every single component before you start which takes days).
In article <111gjek$30bc0$[email protected]>,That never ever contain the components I am using.
The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
( I use corel because the more modern packages require that you define
every single component before you start which takes days).
KiCad has fairly comprehensive symbol and footprint libraries.
If you're
redoing every component every time, you're doing it wrong.
On 24 Jun 2026 13:26:59 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
Although sometimes the webby nature of SVG shows through, eg the
default dimension is pixels rather mm or inches.
The name ?pixels? doesn?t actually mean ?pixels?. It seems to mean
1/96 inch. I don?t know if that?s ?webby?, or just a common
characteristic based on common PC monitors from the 1990s.
I just started my copy of Inkscape, drew a box, and the default units
showing is mm.
Also some packages mess up the scaling when importing SVGs - I think Inkscape stores everything in the file in pixels and then they get imported with a different pixels per inch (PPI) setting.
I don?t know why they should. If there?s any doubt, there should be an
option to tell them what the scale factor should be.
Another one that's surprising from other packages is that dimensions include line thicknesses. eg if you draw a 10mm wide box with thin
lines, it's exactly 10mm. If you change the line thickness to 1mm,
the width of the object is now 11mm.
I just tried, and no they don?t. I drew a box 10mm on a side, changed
the line thickness, and it was still shows 10mm on a side.
The dimensions are measured from the middle of the line, not an edge.
Many SVG inconsistencies on this thread:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/176792-impossible-to-use-svg-export-for-accurate-mm-precision/
My flow did include Adobe Illustrator which supposedly uses 72dpi
not 96dpi, which I didn't know at the time. I just switched to
exporting Postscript which avoided that problem.
Lawrence D?Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
I just tried, and no they don?t. I drew a box 10mm on a side, changed
the line thickness, and it was still shows 10mm on a side.
The dimensions are measured from the middle of the line, not an edge.
That's odd, because it still does it for me.
On Inkscape 1.4.3 (0d15f75042, 2025-12-25):
Draw rectangle, Fill and Stroke -> Stroke style -> Line width = 0.001mm
Set W = 10mm, now it's 10mm wide.
Select rectangle, Fill and Stroke -> Stroke style -> Line width = 1mm
W is now 11mm.
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:32:37 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:58 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote:
KiCad has fairly comprehensive symbol and footprint libraries.
They are the ones still insisting they want application-level control
over window layout, aren?t they. Which is why they hate Wayland, and are
resisting the move to it kicking and screaming.
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2070211673177399545
More about xfwl4:
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
I worked with X11/Motif for years. Were I still doing so I would hate
Wayland too. Sooner or later you would have to reach far down into the
stack to do the sort of thing the Wayland developers consider bad, bad,
bad.
I wish Tarricone all the best for his Rust project.
On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:58 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote:
KiCad has fairly comprehensive symbol and footprint libraries.
They are the ones still insisting they want application-level control
over window layout, aren't they. Which is why they hate Wayland, and
are resisting the move to it kicking and screaming.
I can see why KiCad,
Xfce, or other projects with a long history on X11 get upset by seemingly arbitrary Wayland decisions.
The fortunate are those that used Gtk, Qt, or other tool kits that sat on
X11 but provided a level of abstraction. The headaches get passed to the
Qt and Gtk developers.
On 24/06/2026 14:52, [email protected] wrote:
If by tooltips you mean the little pop-up windows that appearThat is what I at least understand...
when the mouse is dragged over an icon, they're on, and do help.
If you meant something more, please elaborate.
Part of my confusion may be order of operation issues. I just realizedTell me about it. People who design CAD don't seem to understand the conceptual process of 'design something that fits here' only 'here are
that Librecad seems to reverse the order of selection and action that
I'm accustomed to.
your dimensions, now draw the part
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