Graphing Paper - Free Download

Not many of us can draw a straight line, much less a square box, triangle, or circle. That's where graphing paper comes to the rescue. With its perfectly aligned vertical and horizontal lines - we can easily draw by hand an endless variety of geometric shapes - images that can be difficult to sketch on a blank sheet of paper.

By simply counting off squares - up, down, left, and right - graphing paper can help us design and layout woodworking projects, home remodeling plans, craft patterns, and anything else that makes use of symmetrical shapes. One of the best (and often overlooked) uses for graphing paper is drawing objects in scale. The evenly divided rows and columns means that you can assign any unit of measure you like to the individual squares on the page.

One square can equal anything - one millimeter, one inch, one foot, one yard, one mile. This makes graph paper an incredible tool for visualizing objects that may otherwise be too small - or too large - for us to sketch on a standard letter size piece of paper.