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An old room with weird corners
I'm trying to create a plan for an old room in which the corners are not at 90 degrees.
I had hoped that I could just enter the wall lengths and then drag them around until the room was right in the program - but when you drag a wall it changes the length, so that doesn't work.
Has anyone got any ideas on how I can measure the angles of my room so that I can enter them in the program?
Or, a way of using the program so that I don't have to measure the angles?
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Re: An old room with weird corners
Shadow,
1 - Use a bevel protractor to directly measure the angle of your corners. You can make one yourself using a regular protractor and a ruler. 2 - Using paper or cardboard, make molds of every corner. Then use a protractor to measure the angle. 3 - Locate building plans and use them as a background image.
Hans
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Re: An old room with weird corners
update: I bought something similar to this and while it works brilliantly for measuring outside angles, it fails at measuring inside angles like the corner of a room.
The problem is that you can't get it into the corner; one of the two "feet" on the protractor stops you. So, buy carefully.
