Zeilenabstand means line-spacing and zeichenabstände is character spacing according to google translate. So I guess this is a device to help you draw shapes and measure the line spacing between objects, or character spacing between letters at the same time.
Status: Create broadsheet size poster with all the shapes drawn from this Form – Nr. 78512 thing.
Kill-ratio: 28:2 / 14:1
Alt-title: Untitled Object No. 78512 for Drawing 235 Variations on a Shape.
The usual shout out to John’s and Richard’s blogs for kicking off this whole Alt-title Untitled hullaballo. “Joke” format at the end of posts inspired by Ben‘s blog.
Obsolescence Project 
still have some in a drawer somewhere… i think 🙂
Great title, but urgh! flow charts – flings wide the windows and jumps to uncertain future…
🙂 Flow Charts – aha – didn’t know that was its purpose.
flow chart / shape drawer…beautiful.
Thanks!