Story Pole: Framing Calculator

By John Haas on AppTrack Ninja.

Rafters, stairs, exact math

Story Pole is a construction calculator that does feet-inch-fraction arithmetic exactly, and tells you when it cannot. A story pole is a board marked once with every height on a job, so nothing gets re-measured and no error accumulates. This app is that board. WHAT IT WORKS OUT Triangles. Rise, run, diagonal, angle — give it any two and it gives you the rest, with the pitch and the area. It says when the answer is exact: a 3-4-5 or a 5-12-13 comes out whole and it tells you so. Oblique triangles too, and when two triangles fit your measurements it shows both rather than picking one. Roof fram…

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