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That night, Marco dreamed in perpendicular lines. And they were beautiful.

Every time he tried to draw the western wall—a straight line exactly 15 feet horizontal from the corner—his hand betrayed him. The line would start true, then at the last millimeter, his mouse would twitch. The line would go diagonal. Just a hair. Just enough to make the entire structure look like a parallelogram designed by a drunk beaver.

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. librecad ortho mode

His colleague, Lena, a landscape architect who used expensive commercial software, glanced over. "Still fighting with the free thing? Just buy the real CAD."

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. That night, Marco dreamed in perpendicular lines

He zoomed in. The endpoint was off by 0.03 degrees. Unacceptable. A real shed with real lumber would not forgive 0.03 degrees.

He pulled the line to exactly 15'-0". Click. Perfect. North wall. Click. Vertical. East wall. Horizontal. South wall. Back to the origin. The line would start true, then at the

"Not again," he muttered, hitting Undo for the seventeenth time.