Drawing Aids

[gert]

Once upon I time I thought I saw in Lee Valley a sheet of plastic you slipped into a pad of paper that guided your pencil at various angles so you could draw streight lines:confused:

Any one remember this?

[htom]

http://www.ksun.com/acculine/ ?

or

http://www.dickblick.com/zz554/77/

[donald branscom]

Once upon I time I thought I saw in Lee Valley a sheet of plastic you slipped into a pad of paper that guided your pencil at various angles so you could draw streight lines:confused:

Any one remember this?

You threw everyone for a loop when you wrote"slipped into a pad of paper" Did you mean ONTO a pad of paper?

ANYWAY all you need is a ruler ,a pencil, 45 degree triangle,a 30/60/90 degree triangle , and those fancy plastic guides for complex curves. A compass to draw circles. Paper. Oh- imagination, courage etc.,.

[Bob Cleek]

And battens and ship's curves, etc, etc, etc. See Chapelle's "Yacht Designing" for a good treatment of the subject.

[kc8pql]

htom has it right. It's the Acculine and yes, you can slip it INTO a pad of paper. The paper (thin tracing paper) is on top of the plastic, which is embossed with very fine pyramids that guide the pencil point in a streight line.

[Paul Girouard]

I had the acculine one , never worked that well for me , I'd press to hard and rip / poke thru the paper. The idea is good , maybe it was me , I never could get a good clean job out of it.

[gert]

That's it; this would be handy "on site" when you havn't had enough caffine

thx

[kc8pql]

That's it; this would be handy "on site" when you havn't had enough caffine

That's what I did. On site design meetings with customers. I stopped using it after a few times and just went back to freehand sketches which are quicker and for my purposes, good enough.