Determine the angle of vectors at a node

EDIT: My first idea didn’t work…this one does:

Here are your two vectors

  • TURN OFF SNAP TO GRID
  • Rotate the vectors (or a copy of them) so that one leg rests along a grid line
  • Then Draw a box smaller than the vector bounding area
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  • Drag the box’s lower left corner so it snaps onto the vertex of the vectors
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  • Scale the rectangle using the top-middle handle until the top-right handle lines up with the second vector
  • Hit Done.
  • The rectangle is still selected so the width and height values shown on the screen are the numbers you need
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The angle is arc-tangent of (the Height of the rectangle divided by the width)
atan(h/w)
In this case: 52.866691379636990706376552930063 degrees :slight_smile:

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