Angle Gauge

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I consider this a remix since it's built on the Radius Gauge by @grantstevens from back in 2015. I printed both of his radius gauges and thought this could make a useful angle gauge too with some tweaking so off to my drawing board (SketchUp Pro 2022) I went. I did away with the raised text. The hash marks and the text are all embossed to 1mm depth. When you print you need to put down 3 or 4 layers of contrasting filament BELOW the bottom of the text. The body is 5mm thick so measuring up you would change colors 4 or 5 layers (depending on your print resolution of .20 or .25) BELOW the bottom of the text (which is 4mm) and print using your second color then switch back to the primary color to finish out the print job. Look at my .3mf files and you should have no trouble figuring it out. When printing the pointer you only need one color which I choose to do using the primary color for maximum contrast in the indicator window. But you might want to use your secondary color. Either way works. Increased the size a bit to get enough room for one degree hash marks. I lengthened the pointer and put a window in the end that lays right over the hash marks and is the same size. So when you are aligned on a mark you know you're on a full degree. Between there you can extrapolate to a half degree fairly accurately. Beyond that you're guessing. It's only intended for casual angle measurements. If you need precision then look elsewhere. :-) This gauge because of the design only covers plus or minus 45 degrees from flat. I may make another scale that will go beyond that at a later date.