C&P requires two reference points, one for each operation: It is the better choice and the way it operates. You can do the movement "from one point to another point" with Cut/Copy&Paste. The entity handle will snap to a point as determined by the snap selected (end, centre, etc.). AutoCAD R14 (1997) was more productive than LibreCAD is in 2021.ĭrag 'n' Drop will use the nearest handle (end of a line, etc) when grabbing, but it can be used with snaps when dropping the entity. I woulnd't be here opening an issue if I hadn't enough drawing experience (since 2002). I'm not prettending that LibreCAD becomes a clone of AutoCAD, I'm prettending to make LibreCAD usable professionally. And what it's really very very slow, more than having to press the Ok every time, is to have to change this options when you want to switch from copy to move or viceversa, or when you have to indicate multiple copies. Going back to the main subject of this issue: when you use the button "Copy / Move" you have to do too many steps to do one action. Actually, as a GNU/Linux user and programmer, in Vim we use the registers instead of the clipboard, in the terminal we use the primary buffer, and LibreCAD already has its own primary buffer, so there's no need to use the OS clipboard. The copy functionality is a very common task, we do it hundreds of times in a job of 8 hours/day, and we use the OS clipboard for OS operations with files or text. And you make use of the OS clipboard never do that for drawing. With that, you can't do the movement "from one point to another point", since you can't indicate the first point, only the second point. That's why "drag and drop" is not even an option, despite CAD programs also do that, somehow.ĭoing a "copy and paste" (ctrl+c and ctrl+v) is also a bad idea, because you still would have more problems. Snap buttons are more than 50% of the productivity while drawing.
With the normal usage (by clicking from one point to another point) you will be able to indicate from the middle of that line to the middle of the other line.
Try it: draw one horizontal line, one vertical line, activate "snap middle" and "drag and drop" from the center of the first line to the center of the second line, and you will see how you never draw a cross. Why? Because you lose the ability of using most of the snap points. That would be a very bad way of doing things. And this is the right way to do the things.įor me, a "drag and drop" would be when you have a selection, and then you press the left mouse button, hold the left mouse button while moving the pointer to a different position. From one point to another point, and rotate X degrees. What he does is a normal usage of the function "move and rotate". I'm sorry, but I didn't see a "drag and drop" action in this video.
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