SCALE DRAWING

[Guest]

I want to make a small scale drawing with accurate line lengths and angles to
represent light coming into a window from above a neighbouring building.

Can it be done in Office?

 

[Graham Mayor]

It depends how complete your Office suite is - Visio should be able to do
this.

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[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion.
I do not have Visio; however, I do not want to get involved with learning a
new program just for my one-and-only drawing.
Is there a simple add-on?

 

[Guy Worthington]

.... DON'T USE VISIO ... IT'S JUST TROUBLE ...

I do not have Visio; however, I do not want to get involved with
learning a new program just for my one-and-only drawing.

If you don't want to learn a new program ... you've got one choice ...
and it involves vellum, ink-pens, a scale ruler, and a compass ... to add
spice ... add in some french curves ... <another ellipsis follows that adds
nothing to the naration but allows me to have a cold shower> ...

Just so you don't think me a complete tosser ... here's a sardine:

http://w3.mecanica.upm.es/metapost/metagraf.php

This program (although a 15MB download) is powerful ... generates
(through metapost) clean EPS graphics ... and is about as easy to
use as drawing on graph paper.

 

[Graham Mayor]

... DON'T USE VISIO ... IT'S JUST TROUBLE ...

A somewhat sweeping statement - without any qualification. The current
version of Visio is a reasonably competent drawing package for people who
can't draw. And it is part of the Office suite which is what was asked.

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[Lady]

Ok, I really don't know what you are asking here but I'll take a stab. I
love solving my own problems and use OFFICE for just about everything. So
if you are trying to make something that shows accurate line lengths, I
would normally just go to EXCEL and make myself some graph paper and do it
that way, but it appears that since you also want to represent light coming
into a window? that you need angled lines not just square dimensions such as
a floor plan. So would it be possible to go into WORD, make a table say 20
by 20 which gives you a graph paper look, turn off all the borders and then
draw all of your accurate length straight lines if there are any and then
use the DRAW feature and use the straight line (probably not using all the
right terms here) and put your angles wherever they need to be? I just did
a quick one on my screen and it appears that this should work. I hope this
works for you and is easier than learning a new program since you are
probably familiar with WORD. I love the stuff I have in VISIO but I really
haven't taken the time to learn it yet. Doesn't really look that hard
though.
Let us know what you ultimately do.

Brenda

 

[Guest]

To Brenda, I'll try your suggestion and let you know.

To Guy Worthington, thanks for the advice. Anyway, 1 drawing does not merit
a program.

To Graham Mayor, I have 1 drawing only to do so I do not want to get
involved in a new program; no doubt Visio is superb but not for just 1
drawing. Brenda's suggestion is the way forward for me. I can draw lengths.
But how do I accurately draw an angle, say 15 degrees? I know it can be done
by geometry using the relative lengths of the adjacent and opposite sides in
a right angle triangle; but that works only for right angled triangles -
geometric tables are needed. So can you further advise?

To M3. Thanks for the humour. My problem is with "angles" not "angling" !haha.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you draw lines in Word, you can then use Format AutoShape to rotate
them to any precise angle desired.

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[Guy Worthington]

But how do I accurately draw an angle, say 15 degrees? I know it can be done
by geometry using the relative lengths of the adjacent and opposite sides in
a right angle triangle; but that works only for right angled triangles -
geometric tables are needed. So can you further advise?

.... Graham's is very very busy ... watching Neighbours ...

what you are describing is a tangent ...

in the win' calculator type fifteen ...
press the tan button and note the value ...
you've your adjacent and opposite sides ...

tan 15 = 0.267...
which is approximately one quarter ...
a going of four ... a rising of one ...

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angle = 15 | height = 1
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length = 4

PS. I know I repeated the word 'very' in the first line,
but you try writing ten syllables per line. Pffft ...
English writers and their iambic pentameter.

 

[Graham Mayor]

... Graham's is very very busy ... watching Neighbours ...

LOL

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