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CAD software is used for creating 3D models, technical drawings and documentation for manufacturing of a product, construction of a building or civil works. Hi there, a little advice on LibreCAD please. Im an autocad/inventor user at heart, but can't afford the licenses for personal use, so i'm attempting to self-teach LibreCAD in a day.How on earth do you draw a line to a determined length, in a certain direction?
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I've figured out how to do co-ordinates, which means I can technically do this, but it's a pain in the arse. I just want to send my line off the the direction, using snaps, so either 0 degrees, 90, 180 or 270, and then enter an amount in mm, press enter and it have snapped to that space. A like in all autocad software. I can't figure out how to do it and i doubt anyone who used LibreCAD will simply be drawing freehand, or with co-ordinates.​Many thanks. FreeCAD will do 2D and 3D! It's even move convenient than AutoCAD because it has more relations you can establish between sketches. The workflow is slightly different but FreeCAD is even more powerful.
Then you have the drafting workbench, offering even more possibilities as it's developed with input from architects. The community is quite experienced with 2D and 3D modelling so they've chosen the best methodologies even if they're not completely polished. Like you can add writing on a curved surface, even if the steps to do so aren't easy to reproduce.