If you can not have access on the actual corners of the house to take the sides measurements. you can do it by using this ...laser and calculate it after ... go to a point where you will form a 90 degrees angle with the side of the house...this way you will have a 90 degrees angle triangle with the other corner of the house.. after you measure the long ..and the short sides that are formed with the corners of the house....consider the long one the hypotenuse ..the short one is one of the cathetus in a rectangle triangle... so all ya have to do to have the side of the house is apply Pythagoras theorem square hypotenuse equal the sum of the square cathetus -es If you wasnt asking this ...let me know ... I have the impresion that you actually was interested in using the tool just to measure straight distances...
Single distance measuring Pressing DIST - key {A, 1} turns the laser on. Aim at the desired target and press DIST - key {A, 1} again. The measured distance is displayed immediately in the chosen unit.
Single distance measuring Pressing DIST - key {A, 1} turns the laser on. Aim at the desired target and press DIST - key {A, 1} again. The measured distance is displayed immediately in the chosen unit.
You need something to bounce it off of. Just set a piece of cardboard or wood at a corner and go to another corner and aim at it. It will send out an ultrasonic wave and read the bounced signal. If there isn't anything to bounce off of, the signal just goes outward.
You will get a measurement from the meter to the cardboard. If you want to get square footage or volume, select the proper button and your measurements aill accumulate. For simple, straight line measurements. just use the straight line measurement.
The unit will not triangulate, it only measures from the meter to the reflector.You will get a measurement from the meter to the cardboard. If you want to get square footage or volume, select the proper button and your measurements aill accumulate. For simple, straight line measurements. just use the straight line measurement. The unit will not triangulate, it only measures from the meter to the reflector.
The cardboard is used because you said you want to measure the OUTSIDE of a house. These will be outside corners with nothing to reflect off of. Of course, if you have an inside corner you can just shoot right off the wall, provided it doesn't have siding onit. You MUST aim at a FLAT SURFACE.The cardboard is used because you said you want to measure the OUTSIDE of a house. These will be outside corners with nothing to reflect off of. Of course, if you have an inside corner you can just shoot right off the wall, provided it doesn't have siding onit. You MUST aim at a FLAT SURFACE.
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If you can not have access on the actual corners of the house to take the sides measurements. you can do it by using this ...laser and calculate it after ...
go to a point where you will form a 90 degrees angle with the side of the house...this way you will have a 90 degrees angle triangle with the other corner of the house..
after you measure the long ..and the short sides that are formed with the corners of the house....consider the long one the hypotenuse ..the short one is one of the cathetus in a rectangle triangle...
so all ya have to do to have the side of the house is apply Pythagoras theorem square hypotenuse equal the sum of the square cathetus -es
If you wasnt asking this ...let me know ... I have the impresion that you actually was interested in using the tool just to measure straight distances...
Single distance measuring
Pressing DIST - key {A, 1} turns the laser on. Aim at
the desired target and press DIST - key {A, 1} again.
The measured distance is displayed immediately in
the chosen unit.
so ,,,if you do are able to measure all the distances around..one by one ...just sum them for the perimeter ...
You need something to bounce it off of. Just set a piece of cardboard or wood at a corner and go to another corner and aim at it. It will send out an ultrasonic wave and read the bounced signal. If there isn't anything to bounce off of, the signal just goes outward.
You will get a measurement from the meter to the cardboard. If you want to get square footage or volume, select the proper button and your measurements aill accumulate. For simple, straight line measurements. just use the straight line measurement.
The unit will not triangulate, it only measures from the meter to the reflector.
The cardboard is used because you said you want to measure the OUTSIDE of a house. These will be outside corners with nothing to reflect off of. Of course, if you have an inside corner you can just shoot right off the wall, provided it doesn't have siding onit. You MUST aim at a FLAT SURFACE.