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Drawing Fullsized Plans

Posted By: Nick Schade
Date: Sunday, 31 January 1999, at 12:14 p.m.

How do you creat full-sized drawings from a smaller design?

Generally you will need to create full-sized sectional shapes to build a boat from plans. If you are not using CAD, it is typically easiest to draw these sections at a smaller scale and then enlarge them.

I've enlarged plans by bringing the scale drawings to a copy center and having them enlarge the drawings. Or you can use a pantograph, with which you trace the drawing with a pointer while a interconnected rods control a pen which draws a scaled version of what you are tracing. Or you can overlay some graph paper on your drawing and transfer the lines onto another pieces of graph paper of another scale.

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Drawing Fullsized Plans
Nick Schade -- Sunday, 31 January 1999, at 12:14 p.m.

Re: Drawing Fullsized Plans
Simo-Pekka Reponen -- Wednesday, 24 March 1999, at 9:35 a.m.

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Dave Miller -- Tuesday, 13 January 2004, at 5:47 a.m.

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Dave Miller -- Wednesday, 14 January 2004, at 8:14 a.m.

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mike allen -- Wednesday, 14 January 2004, at 12:26 p.m.

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