I'm looking for a program that will allow me to draw to the nearest mm and at a scale of around 1:20, various different isosceles, acute, obtuse and right angled shapes. I must be able to type the length on each side of any given shape. I also need to find the angles for any given number of shapes (ie right angle) and also have this placed within the shape for printing.
I bought a cheepie Turbocad cd for a tenner and it was promising but didn't for some reason allow me to demonstrate the angles within each of the shapes. It was also frustratingly difficult to draw lines to within a mm at any other scale except 1:1.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

Word. Right click->format autoshape->size.

dead easy.

 

Autocad will, er but I think thats a couple of grand for a legit copy

Visio?

 

Yeah looked at Word which would have done fine but I can't find a tool that will find the angle within a given shape. If Word has one, can someone tell me where it is?
Thanks.

 

the only way I can see is to draw a vertical line, then rotate it with free rotate until in lines up with the line you want to check the angle of. Then you can "format autoshape" on the line you just did to check the angle.

Bit agricultural though, other than that use trig

 

Thanks mj, I'll give that a go. Shame there isn't a 'proper' function button for that though....

 

is a (relatively ) cheap CAD application by Autodesk that will do what you want. The dimensions (including angles) are associative and so will change if you drag the vertices of the triangle around. Can be plotted to scale.

Most CAD is drawn at 1:1 and scaled in the plotting to 1:20. The angles will be the same no matter what the scale.

If you dont need to do many then use M$ Word and calculate in Excel and just add the responses to your word diagram as text.

HTH

 

Solidworks but it's not cheap.