On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 20:59 -0400, rhkramer--- via dia-list wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 05:37:27 PM Andrey Repin via dia-list wrote:
> > Greetings, rhkramer--- via dia-list!
> > 
> > > I'm planning to make a new stand for my monitor (to get it as
> > > close to my
> > > desk as possible to relieve my neck ;-).  The existing stand
> > > leans
> > > forward by about 1.5 degrees.  I need to cut an angle brace to
> > > support
> > > the upright with that 1.5 degree forward lean.
> > 
> > That's fine, but I fail to see, how it is related to Dia.
> > It's not a CAD program.
> 
> I fail to see what you fail to see.
> 
> I created a diagram of the stand in dia, and then determined the
> necessary 
> angles by counting squares and doing some trig.
> 
> Am I not allowed to use dia to make a diagram?
> 
> (Maybe I should have used Visio instead? ;-)

Personally I'm on-board with this kinda bodge-job, esp if it makes use
of dia! I mean with all the other outstanding work I'm not going to
rush to implement stuff that makes this easier but I do kinda like it

Protractor/Ruler is a pretty neat idea though which could be
interesting and "measure" has been requested in the past, definitely
worth investigating at some point

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