"Not again," he muttered, hitting Undo for the seventeenth time.
Marco didn't answer. He clicked away from the drawing and opened LibreCAD's modification toolbar. There it was, nestled between the snap tools and the grid settings. A simple button. Most users ignored it. Most users suffered.
Four clicks. Twelve seconds. A perfect rectangle.
That night, Marco dreamed in perpendicular lines. And they were beautiful.
He clicked it. The button depressed with a satisfying visual thunk . The cursor changed—a tiny crosshair with perpendicular guides trailing behind it like a promise.
He was using LibreCAD, his trusted open-source companion. No frills, no subscription fees—just pure, honest CAD work. But tonight, Marco was wrestling with a ghost.
He tried again. Line tool. Click on the southwest corner. Moved his mouse to the right. The rubber-banding line snapped perfectly horizontal. No waver. No drift. It was as if an invisible hand had seized his cursor and said, "No. Straight. You are going straight, my friend."