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Angle Measurement Tool

Measure and construct angles with a virtual protractor. Convert between degrees, radians, and gradians with visual arcs.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 15, 2026

What Angle Measurement Tool does, with a checked example

This tool overlays a virtual protractor with two draggable rays so you can read an angle directly, or you can type a value into a numeric field and get it converted across degrees, radians, and gradians at once. The arc redraws live as you drag, showing the swept angle at the vertex. The most common surprise is the gradian column: it looks like a typo of degrees to anyone who has not used surveying units, since 90 degrees becomes 100 gradians, not 90.something.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

45

Expected output

45 deg = 0.7854 rad = 50 grad

45 x (pi/180) = 0.785398... radians, and 45 x (400/360) = 50 gradians, since a full turn is 360 degrees, 2*pi radians, and 400 gradians.

How the result is produced

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Draggable protractor readout

Two rays share a common vertex; dragging either one recalculates the angle between them in real time and draws the corresponding arc, matching how a physical protractor is read. The displayed value is whatever unit is currently selected, and switching units re-renders the same geometric angle rather than re-measuring it.

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Unit conversion on entry

Typing a number into the input field converts it using exact ratios: degrees to radians multiplies by pi/180, degrees to gradians multiplies by 400/360, and radians to gradians goes through degrees. All three fields update together so you can enter in any one unit and read the other two immediately.

Good uses

  • Checking a CAD or drawing angle by eye when only a screenshot or on-screen sketch is available, using the draggable protractor
  • Converting a surveying or civil engineering angle given in gradians into degrees for a calculation that expects degrees
  • Converting a trigonometry result in radians into degrees to sanity-check it against a textbook answer

Limits and checks

  • The visual protractor reading is only as precise as your mouse or touch drag; small pixel movements near the vertex can shift the reading by a degree or more, so treat it as approximate, not exact
  • Reflex angles (greater than 180 degrees) are easy to misread on a protractor arc if the tool draws the short way around by default; confirm which of the two possible angles between the rays is being shown
  • Gradians (also called gons) are rarely used outside surveying and some European civil engineering contexts; pasting a gradian value into a tool or spreadsheet that assumes degrees will silently give a wrong result

Common questions

Can I measure an angle from a photo I upload?

No. The protractor here is drawn on-screen for you to align by eye or drag rays to match something you are looking at separately; it does not analyze an uploaded image to detect an angle automatically.

Why does 90 degrees show as 100 gradians instead of a rounder degree-like number?

Gradians divide a full circle into 400 units instead of 360, so a right angle is exactly 100 gradians by definition. It is not a rounding artifact; 90 deg and 100 grad both represent exactly one quarter turn.

References and verification

The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.

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