Creating Evenly Spaced Intervals with Dividers or a Sector &#8211

This is an excerpt from “By Hound and Eye” by Geo. R. Walker and Jim Tolpin; illustrated by Andrea Love. 

Now let’s move past bisection and divide a line into a bunch of evenly spaced intervals.

This process is useful for laying out such things as:

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Now let’s divide a line up into four equal segments; first with dividers and then with the sector.

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As you have likely guessed by now, you can use the sector to find most any number of segments.

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Now let’s do something practical, such as spacing fasteners evenly on the side of a tool tote.

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Meghan B.

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