kostmo/docs

This is LibreCAD's documentation repository for multiple version and format documents, supported by readthedocs.io

docs

This is LibreCAD's documentation repository for multiple version and format documents, supported by readthedocs.org.

To read the documetation online or download PDF or ePub formats go to https://librecad.readthedocs.io/

The documentation is created using a markup language called "reStructuredText" (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html). For those interested in contributing to the documentation, look to 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 [%].

• 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 [5%]
  • 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%]