Isometric

Equilateral Triangular · 5 mm

Equilateral triangular lattice - for tessellation and structural studies.

Isometric 5 mm pitch 60° 12 sheet variants

About Equilateral Triangular · 5 mm

An equilateral triangular grid built from three families of parallel lines crossing at 60°. Distinct from isometric in that no axis is preferred - every direction is equivalent. Excellent for structural truss studies, tile-pattern design, hex-tile games and crystallographic illustration. Further reading: A practitioner reading list covers the standards lineage in more depth.

Standards lineage

Triangular meshes underpin the structural geometry described in Eurocode 3 for triangulated steel trusses.

A short history

Buckminster Fuller championed the triangular and hexagonal grids during the development of his geodesic dome research in the 1940s and 50s.

Where designers reach for it

  • Truss and space-frame layouts
  • Hexagonal tile pattern design
  • Geodesic dome studies
  • Tabletop hex-grid game maps

Printing this grid

Every variant on this page is delivered as a vector SVG with physical millimetre dimensions baked into the file, so a compliant printer driver will reproduce it at exact 1:1 scale by default. Choose the sheet size that matches your printer tray, set scaling to 100 % (never "fit to page"), and verify with the calibration check on our how-to-print guide. Buyer's guide: Comparing the major architectural scale rulers can help you pick the right physical scale rule to use over the printed grid.

Available sheet sizes (12)