This year LibreCAD will be participating in GSoC (Google Summer of Code).
We have tried to get into GSoC in 2012 and 2013 aswell, but unfortunately we where not picked by the good guy’s at google. This year we have been asked by our friend’s at BRL-CAD! Not only did they ask us, but they also asked OpenSCAD and STEPcode.
The main goal of this collaboration is to bring the project’s closer together and hopefully in future we can have these tools collaborate better. Not only on a human level, but also on a integration level for these projects.
For GSoC 2014 we unfortunately will have a lower set a projects due to the lack of resources on our end. Our GSoC 2014 is located overhere : http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/GSoC_2014. If you have any question’s please don’t hesitate to talk to use on freenode on our #LibreCAD channel or if you want to talk to our umbrella organisation BRL-CAD on #brlcad.
Or send a mail to use through the forum or directly!
Cheers,
R. van Twisk
good news!
Good luck with that!
Hi—I have been learning to use your (excellent) program my way. ie. By generating a cheat sheet to aid my old brain and its lousy short term memory. I would like to think I could contribute to your efforts. perhaps others could benifit from my endeavors. However I would need a contact for some help to get over some of the bumps in the road that I have already encountered.
Thanks BillZ
CHEAT SHEET SAMPLE
LINES
1. “SNAP” —>”GRID” [NOT REQUIRED BUT TIDY]
2. “DRAW” —>”LINE” —>”2 POINTS”
3. CURSOR to —>{SEGMENT START LOCATION} —>LEFT CLICKx1
4. CURSOR to —>{SEG. END LOC.} —>L. CLICKx1
5. ?FINISHED? {NO —> TO#4} {YES —> TO #6}
6. RIGHT CLICK x 2
RECTANGLES
1. “DRAW” —> “LINE” —> “RECTANGLE”
2. CURSOR to —>{,say, RECT. LOWER LEFT CORNER} —> LEFT CLICKx1
3. CURSOR to —>{,say, RECT. UPPER RIGHT CORNER} –>L CLICKx1, RIGHT CLICKx2
CIRCLES
1. “DRAW” —> CIRCLE” —> “CENTER POINT”
2. CURSOR to —> {CENTER OF CIRCLE} —>LEFT CLICK x 1
3. CURSOR TO —>{REQUIRED RADIUS} —> LEFT CLICK x 1, RIGHT CLICK x 2
CHANGING PROPERTIES
1. “MODIFY” —> “PROPERTIES” —> CURSOR to —> {OBJECT SEGMENT}
2. {SELECT and CHANGE PROPERTIES IN BOX THAT APPEARS}–> LEFT CLICK {“OK”}
MOVE AN OBJECT
1. MOVE CURSOR TO ALL SEGMENTS OF OBJECT{S} TO BE MOVED AND LEFT CLICKx1 {EACH SEGMENT}
2. TOUCH ANY SEGMENT OF OBJECTS TO BE MOVED
3. {LEFT MOUSE DOWN}MOVE CURSOR SEGMENTS SOME TO NEW LOCATION
4. SEE OBJECTS MOVE THEN RELEASE LEFT BUTTON
5. MOVE CURSOR{NO CLICK OR HOLD} NEW LOCATION FOR OBJECT{S}
6. LEFT CLICKx1
7. CTRL. K
Hi BillZ,
Any help is welcome!
To start your contribution, please visit forum.librecad.org and wiki.librecad.org for more info and discussion.
Thanks,
dli