Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 21:10:13 John Hasler wrote: > If you want to move on from REXX look at Tcl. Linuxcnc uses a bunch of that in its gui's, which it has several flavors of, -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and am

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, at 01:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > [...] > > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script > > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them > > all as the same thing - an instance of the scr

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
If you want to move on from REXX look at Tcl. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 17:53:01 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: [...] > The pid was there so that when writing and testing the script > I could tell which was which in taskmanager, which saw them > all as the same thing - an instance of the script language's > interpreter being run. > I can see where th

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
The latest Freecad version claims to have a robust undo-redo stack. I haven't really put it to the test yet, though. Even infinite undo does not always suffice. You may not remember exactly when and how you went off the rails, or you may have other reasons to want to look back. version control

Unpacking a large zipfile, was Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Dec 2018 at 15:01:11 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the zip > seems to be a problem, mc is unpacking it and copying to ~/src, doubling > the 180 some megs of the zip, but with mc piping both, its watch paint > dry slow, a

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, at 18:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step undo gets > me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save every time. I had a similar problem with a music-typesetting package under Windows. I guess a versioning file system (as di

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 15:22:36 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the > > zip seems to be a problem > > That's doing it the hard way. Use git as suggested here: > > https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnUnix#Getting_the

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Thats what I'm embarking on doing, building master from src. but the > zip seems to be a problem That's doing it the hard way. Use git as suggested here: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnUnix#Getting_the_source It works. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI U

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 14:42:06 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > I've started to do something in freecad several times, I don't have > > it here anymore, but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step > > undo gets me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save > > every time.

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > I've started to do something in freecad several times, I don't have it > here anymore, but the lack of a plainly marked, multiple step undo > gets me into a dead end box that results in a quit w/o save every > time. I find that undoing one action at a time almost always suffices. T

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 08 December 2018 08:38:15 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > LinuxCNC depends on a low latency IRQ response. > > ... > > We understand all that, and I understand and agree with the "If it > aint broke don't fix it" philosophy that leads to running "obsolete" > computers and software

Re: librecad

2018-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > LinuxCNC depends on a low latency IRQ response. > ... We understand all that, and I understand and agree with the "If it aint broke don't fix it" philosophy that leads to running "obsolete" computers and software in machine controls. What does it have to do with the machine you run

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 22:56:03 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote: > >> Joe writes: > >> > ...he's still on wheezy. > >> > >> I wrote: > >> > That is easily fixed. > >> > >> Gene writes: > >> > Not until an rtai patched kernel

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Gene Heskett writes: > On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote: > >> Joe writes: >> > ...he's still on wheezy. >> >> I wrote: >> > That is easily fixed. >> >> Gene writes: >> > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. >> >> Why would you run your CAD softw

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread John Hasler
A caveat about Freecad: weird units. Always select "Imperial", not "US Customary" if you want to use inches. They are European and added "US Customary" at my behest, but screwed it up (deliberately, I suspect) by having it jump to feet and inches when you go over 12 inches and to yards, feet, and

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 20:54:44 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.12.18 09:17, John Hasler wrote: > > Gene writes: > > > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to > > > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even > > > the most basic gcode. > > > > I can

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 19:54:56 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > ...he's still on wheezy. > > I wrote: > > That is easily fixed. > > Gene writes: > > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. > > Why would you run your CAD software on your machine controller? Why

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.12.18 09:17, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to > > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even the > > most basic gcode. > > I can see not wanting to learn even a small part of a CAD program if all > you wa

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > ...he's still on wheezy. I wrote: > That is easily fixed. Gene writes: > Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. Why would you run your CAD software on your machine controller? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 14:15:44 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > ...he's still on wheezy. > > That is easily fixed. Not until an rtai patched kernel is available for the newer stuffs. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury,

Re: librecad (was)

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
And except for fine tuning the locations of a couple db25 cutouts, which I'll have to carve a test piece in wood to check and drilling a hole for the line cord packing gland, its done. I guess I'll have to wait, and measure for hole size when they arrive since the mounting hole is specified as

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:15:44PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > ...he's still on wheezy. > > That is easily fixed. You'd think that, unless you've read the last two years of this mailing list.

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > ...he's still on wheezy. That is easily fixed. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
John Hasler writes: > Gene writes: >> Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. > > No need to download. It's in Debian. Note that he isn't likely to find anything remotely up to date in a repository, as he's still on wheezy.

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even the > most basic gcode. I can see not wanting to learn even a small part of a CAD program if all you want to do is draw a simple floor plan and then never

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread John Hasler
> Something like that might be easier to get to grips with. A /big/ > advantage of using scripts is that one gets to place comments in > the script explaining what's going on, why one did something in a > particular way etc. Both Solvespace and Freecad allow comments. Both support 2D drawing.

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 2:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > All very encouraging. But in about 4 hours, I've written and tested about > 90 LOC which is about 75% of what I need to have this do. :) So I think > I'll continue on this path. :) There's always more than one way to scratch an itch... ;-) > Thank you

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 04:27:23 hdv@gmail wrote: > On 12/7/18 1:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: > >> On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> The libr

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2018 01:39:35 Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, at 22:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Or is there an even better 2d app for such? > > There was a discussion here starting in Nov 2017, entitled > >"software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc." > > where several pe

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 10:50 AM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:46:42 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: >> > >>> >>> Some time ago I tried LibreCAD as well and soon had to conclude >>> there were

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread Joe
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:46:42 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: > > > > > Some time ago I tried LibreCAD as well and soon had to conclude > > there were too many issues with it to proceed. Meanwhile I've > > adop

Re: librecad

2018-12-07 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/7/18 1:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: > >> On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, >>> v-1

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, at 22:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > Or is there an even better 2d app for such? There was a discussion here starting in Nov 2017, entitled "software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc." where several people bemoaned the difficulty they had in getting any GUI-based CAD pro

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
John Hasler writes: > Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? Note freecad is 3D, and his needs are apparently 2D. Though I will relate that my (brief) acquaintance with freecad led me to decide to just write Python scripts using python-occ to generate my models.

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 December 2018 21:24:30 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. > > No need to download. It's in Debian. Apparently not for wheezy. Nor for jessie on armhf. I'vr got a stretch on arm64 I'll check. But I haven't logged in from

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 December 2018 20:41:43 John Hasler wrote: > Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? solvespace won't build here, git error maybe? I'll try some more in the morning. Thanks John. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. No need to download. It's in Debian. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 December 2018 20:41:43 John Hasler wrote: > Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? Freecad I have, a bit too complex for me. Solvespace, googling now, downloaded, will take a look. Thanks for the hint. Take Care John Hasler -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
dont have it you have to hack > > it. > > > > On 2018-12-06 17:48, hdv@gmail wrote: > >> On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade > >

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 December 2018 19:11:03 Yves wrote: > i suggest you to crack windows 10 and dowload autodesk autocad trial > 30 day and then crack it too its pretty much an easy thing to do for > everybody. Sometime free sofware just dont have it you have to hack > it. > Thanks, but no windows allow

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Have you looked at Freecad and Solvespace? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Doug
/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, v-1.02. There are V2-* stuff that still runs on QT4 some of which is already installed. Is there a repo where I can source a newer version than 1.02 without destroying my system

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 December 2018 17:48:21 hdv@gmail wrote: > On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, > > v-1.02. There are V2-* stuff that still runs on QT4 some of whi

Re: librecad

2018-12-06 Thread hdv@gmail
On 12/6/18 11:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, > v-1.02. There are V2-* stuff that still runs on QT4 some of which is > already installed. > > Is there a repo where I can source a newer vers

librecad

2018-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; The librecad in the debian repos for wheezy is nearly a decade old, v-1.02. There are V2-* stuff that still runs on QT4 some of which is already installed. Is there a repo where I can source a newer version than 1.02 without destroying my system? 1.02 is so old the u-tube tuts

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 June 2016 18:05:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:01:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > >  org.kde.kcalc-6112 > > Probably absolutely irrelevant - but why have you got kde-anything?? > (For general info, Gene is running TDE 14, not kde.) > > Lisi That particular kcalc is an

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:01:16 Gene Heskett wrote: >  org.kde.kcalc-6112 Probably absolutely irrelevant - but why have you got kde-anything?? (For general info, Gene is running TDE 14, not kde.) Lisi

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 June 2016 16:33:45 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/09/16 17:59: > > On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) > >> > >> The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the > >> wheezy-backports i3

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Gene Heskett wrote on 06/09/16 17:59: > On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) >> >> The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the >> wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. >> These priorities a

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 June 2016 05:39:08 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) > > The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the > wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. > These priorities are normally set in /etc/apt/preferences. What i

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Yeah, you got a lot of stuff here ;-) The repositories all got the same priority 500 besides the wheezy-backports i386 target release which is set to priority 100. These priorities are normally set in /etc/apt/preferences. What is the contents of this file on your system? The easiest to try for y

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 June 2016 02:41:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Maybe, the priority of the package repositories for , e.g., package > "libsoqt4-20" is wrong. > > Let's see what's the outcome of > > apt-cache policy Rather lengthy, wordwrap off: root@coyote:/home/gene# apt-cache policy Package fi

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-07 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, the priority of the package repositories for , e.g., package "libsoqt4-20" is wrong. Let's see what's the outcome of apt-cache policy ? Regards, jvp.

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 June 2016 11:10:19 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-07, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Installing (in simulation mode because it pulls in an enormous > >> amount of stuff) freecad and freecad-docs in Wheezy LTS from Wheezy > >> backports works for me (why qt4-dev-tools?) using apt-get. > >> > >>

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-07 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-07, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Installing (in simulation mode because it pulls in an enormous >> amount of stuff) freecad and freecad-docs in Wheezy LTS from Wheezy >> backports works for me (why qt4-dev-tools?) using apt-get. >> >> Viz >> >> apt-get -s -t wheezy-backports install freeca

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 June 2016 04:11:43 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> It appears to be in wheezy-backports. > > > > So it is, but I cannot install it, synaptic claims broken packages, > > but I click on custom -> broken and the list is empty. And clicking > > on fix broken pack

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-07 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> It appears to be in wheezy-backports. > > So it is, but I cannot install it, synaptic claims broken packages, but > I click on custom -> broken and the list is empty. And clicking on fix > broken packages does nothing. > > So synaptic seems confused, as

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 June 2016 13:49:50 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD > > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
cad and really > > > > > > really tried to learn it. But first I'd have to pull the sources > > > > > > and see if I can build it to run on wheezy. > > > > > > > > > > It appears to be in wheezy-backports. > > > > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread David Wright
t; > > > > > > > It appears to be in wheezy-backports. > > > > > > I can't find it there. I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it > > > were there. > > > > Perhaps we disagree on the referent of "it"! > > > &

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
t; first I'd have to pull the sources and see if I can build it to run > > > > on wheezy. > > > > > > It appears to be in wheezy-backports. > > > > I can't find it there. I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it > > were there. > > Perhaps we disagree on the referent of "it"! > > -rw-r--r-- 18824580 Jun 6 13:11 > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb > eb83c48f5fdd6ec7c466ac1aec516741 > /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb (md5) > > Cheers, > David. Indeed! Quotation from the subject line: Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs (my stars). Lisi

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD progra

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD program, > > > and never will. > > > > I suppose that when it w

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 09:12:46 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> On Dom, 05 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> >> All I can find as a "pis a

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 June 2016 09:12:46 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Dom, 05 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: >> All I can find as a "pis aller" after a quick look is this: >> >> http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/Libr

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 June 2016 09:12:46 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Dom, 05 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> All I can find as a "pis aller" after a quick look is this: > >> > >> http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_users_Manual > > > > This I

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Dom, 05 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: All I can find as a "pis aller" after a quick look is this: http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_users_Manual This I did find, but its for a much newer version 2.0 than what is in the repo's. That rep

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-06 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646621 > > Interesting. Thank you. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett There's this http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_v1_Users'_Manual which contains the following link http://wiki.librecad.org/index

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:58:26 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:10:52 Joe wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) > > > > Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:28:48 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > > > > > Did you give the bu

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:10:52 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) > > Curt wrote: > > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enou

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 12:50:10 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to > >&

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
urce, Gene. Learn how to use it then write the > docs. Or pay a technical author to learn how to use it by trial and > error, blood sweat and tears, and then write the docs. I know a good > one, who would I am sure, enjoy learning how to use libreCAD, and then > writing about it, but h

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
open source, Gene. Learn how to use it then write the docs. Or > pay a technical author to learn how to use it by trial and error, blood sweat > and tears, and then write the docs. I know a good one, who would I am sure, > enjoy learning how to use libreCAD, and then writing about it

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:28:48 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > > Did you give the built-in

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > Mine (2.0.9 on sid) says, and I quote verbatim:

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > but it cannot find its help docs. > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use >> >> > but it cannot find its help docs. >> >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
r to learn how to use it by trial and error, blood sweat and tears, and then write the docs. I know a good one, who would I am sure, enjoy learning how to use libreCAD, and then writing about it, but has to earn his bread and butter, and already spends a lot of his time on Open Source projects.

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > >> > but it cannot find its help docs. > >> > >> Did you give the built-in help system a try?

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but >> > it cannot find its help docs. >> >> Did you give the built-in help system a try? >> > That is what it is reporting that it cannot

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:17:13 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot find its help docs. > > Did you give t

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. Did you give the built-in help system a try? > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo&#x

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 June 2016 10:51:15 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:36:24 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Joe
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 07:36:24 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > libreCA

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 June 2016 07:03:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot find its help doc

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 June 2016 06:43:23 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:59:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot fin

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. > > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. > > Does any

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:59:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. > > I do not see a

libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Wheezy, i386. libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it cannot find its help docs. I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. Does anyone have a clue where they might be found? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are

RE: unable to install librecad in wheezy amd64

2014-12-10 Thread Tad Bak
Andrei POPESCU wrote: >On Mi, 10 dec 14, 00:51:16, Tad Bak wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The subject says all: after issuing the command: >> >> apt-get install librecad >> [...] > > Works here (i386). Did you 'apt-get update' recently? > > Kind r

Re: unable to install librecad in wheezy amd64

2014-12-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 dec 14, 00:51:16, Tad Bak wrote: > Hi, > > The subject says all: after issuing the command: > > apt-get install librecad > > I am getting: > [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > librecad : Depends: libqt4-help (>= 4:4.5.3) but i

unable to install librecad in wheezy amd64

2014-12-09 Thread Tad Bak
Hi, The subject says all: after issuing the command: apt-get install librecad I am getting: [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: librecad : Depends: libqt4-help (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt4-qt3support (>= 4:4.5.3) but it

Re: grid in LibreCAD

2013-11-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 04:04:52PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Is anyone using LibreCAD? Here it is 1.0.2 in Wheezy. > > Edit > Current drawing preferences > units is set to mm. > Regardless of the setting in Current drawing preferences > grid > the snap grid is 10

grid in LibreCAD

2013-11-01 Thread peasthope
Is anyone using LibreCAD? Here it is 1.0.2 in Wheezy. Edit > Current drawing preferences > units is set to mm. Regardless of the setting in Current drawing preferences > grid the snap grid is 10 mm. No evidence of the problem in the youtube tutorials and it appears to be a bug in t