Rotating to create a diagonal section

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Hey guys,

I model pieces of furniture with my high school students to make and I have been stumped on creating a diagonal section of bar that locks to both corners. I have attached an image for reference. I am making it out of 30 x 8mm bar and the finished product needs to be 600mm high. When I use the rotate tool it doesn’t let me lock a line to a guide point

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Hoping you all have a solution that is easy, all the suggestions I am seeing suggest using a sin/cos/tan method. (Hoping to avoid this)

I have the program on both windows and mac, so which ever is easiest I can use.

Thanks in advance!!

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I can think of several ways to do what you ask. One would be to use the Arc tool (not 2 Point Arc) to create a guide for rotating the piece. Another is to use Rotation (Free) in FredoScale to do it. It was designed with a feature for that.

Here’s the method using the Arc tool.

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And with Rotate (Free)

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Thank you so much! Haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Just kept doing the same thing over and over!!

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Glad that helped.

FWIW, doing it with trig isn’t so bad. It’s a good skill to have. But if I can do it without mathing, I will.

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Haha, can take a bit of convincing to get the students to go that extra mile!!