# Ruler Tool

**URL:** <https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/ruler-tool/4053>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Created:** [October 4, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/ruler-tool/4053 "2021-10-04T09:38:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mills](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/john_mills/32/5817_2.png) [@John\_Mills](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/John_Mills)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/ruler-tool/4053/1 "2021-10-04T09:38:54Z")

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Simple on screen ruler for drawing completely straight lines. I’m laying a physical ruler on top of the iPad screen to do it.

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**Author:** ![knacki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/knacki/32/1297_2.png) [@knacki](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/knacki)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/ruler-tool/4053/2 "2021-10-04T16:51:22Z")

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A good method. Bought a soft ruler for my Cintiq ages ago. Those days a bunch of simple things where missing in almost any app.

But I would prefer to have a bunch of basic forms available in stroke menu.  
Line, arc, ellipse, square, poly.  
All of them floating and editable, with a stamp function.

Drag a line, place it, stamp, move a bit more, stamp, move rotate, stamp.  
Same for any other shape. Even poly lines. Available for any brush or tool.  
Together with tiling, this would be a killer function!

You can try that in Infinite Painter. Regarding Design tools it is way ahead of any drawing app I know.