2. Principles and Practices - Week 1


2.1. Assginments

Principles and Practices

  • Plan and sketch a potential final project

2.2. Sketching a final project

The project idea came from 2 people from our local Hackspace (thanks :]) and so I sketched it with LibreCAD. It’s easy to learn and a nice CAD for technical 2D design.

2.2.1. LibreCAD

Nice things to note:

2.2.1.1. Selecting methods

Blue

Blue selection

Blue Selected

After blue selection

Green

Green selection

Green Selected After green Selection

2.2.1.2. Editing

No Text

When working, I spend many searches to find out, why no text is shown. Turns out, that when in draft mode, no text is shown for performance reasons. So i need to deactivate draft mode to see text:

Draft Button

Working with commands is also very nice, especially when using the relativ point with @:

Command Button