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Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 7/10/2003, 7:07 pm
In Response To: Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans (Dave Murray)

: Maybe a Xerox machine could reduce the copies by your required amount?
: Good luck, Dave

You want to scale the copies longitudinally, but not vertically.

Scale the end drawings down 94% on a copier. Overlay this with your original drawing. Sketch the end so your vertical depth is preserved, while fairing in a curve to match the new length. It seems scary, but it's not rocket science...if things don't match exactly, do some "creative planing". You're building a boat, not a clock; things don't have to be perfectly square and line up with a micrometer to be beautiful.

But I have to ask: have you considered the Shearwater Merganser or Squeedunk Cormorant?

Go for it!

Shawn

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
Joe -- 7/10/2003, 5:54 pm
Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
Bruce -- 7/11/2003, 7:59 am
Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
uno64 -- 7/10/2003, 11:35 pm
p.s. clc17
uno64 -- 7/10/2003, 11:58 pm
Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
Dave Murray -- 7/10/2003, 6:15 pm
Re: S&G: Scaling Down CLC LT17 Plans
Shawn Baker -- 7/10/2003, 7:07 pm
Merganser
FShark -- 7/10/2003, 8:16 pm
Re: Cormorant *Pic*
Shawn Baker -- 7/11/2003, 10:22 am
So Shawn...? *LINK* *Pic*
David Hill -- 7/11/2003, 11:17 am
Re: So Shawn...?
Shawn Baker -- 7/11/2003, 11:57 am
Re: So Shawn...?
FShark -- 7/14/2003, 11:10 am
Re: Merganser
LeeG -- 7/10/2003, 11:48 pm
Re: Cormorant *Pic*
Shawn Baker -- 7/11/2003, 10:29 am
Re: Cormorant
john -- 7/12/2003, 12:02 pm
Re: Cormorant
Shawn Baker -- 7/14/2003, 10:02 am
Re: Cormorant
john -- 7/15/2003, 3:27 pm