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This is the LibreCAD User Manual documentation source repository. The manual can be read online at https://librecad.readthedocs.io/ (or downloaded in PDF or ePub formats). The repository will contain multiple versions of the manual corresponding with each release of LibreCAD.

The documentation is created using a markup language called "reStructuredText" (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html). For those interested in contributing to the documentation, refer to the documentation wiki (https://github.com/LibreCAD/docs/wiki) and LibreCAD-doc on the LibreCAD forum (http://forum.librecad.org/).

Below are the sections that are in the LibreCAD User Manual with the percent complete [%].

Initial Draft:

• About

  • Copyright [100%]
  • Contributors [100%]

• Getting Started

  • Install [100%]
  • Configure [100%] (Setting up / configuring LibreCAD)

• References: technical descriptions of the tools, functions, widgets, etc. Following the menu structure, it would include:

  • Fundamentals [100%] (Including "The Coordinate System")
  • Application Menu [100%]
  • Drawing Tools [100%]
  • Snapping [100%]
  • Toolbars [100%]
  • Dock Widgets [100%]
  • Drawing Preferences [100%]
  • Customizing [100%] (Including Style Sheets)

• User Guides: documents that provide instruction on how to do things with LibreCAD. These are how-to’s, but with greater details(?)

  • Drawing Setup [100%]
    • Scale
    • Attributes (layers, pens (color, line type & thickness))
    • Templates
  • Drawing and Modifying [100%]
  • Blocks [100%]
  • Dimensioning & Text [100%]
  • The Command Line [100%]
  • Printing Guide [100%]

• Appendics

  • Online Resources [100%]
  • Fonts [100%]
  • Hatches [100%]
  • Languages [100%]
  • Systems of Measurement [100%]
  • Calculator [100%] (Operators and Functions)
  • Building from Source [90%]
  • Contributing [100%]
  • Licenses [100%]