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Guys

I'm looking for someone out there who can help me scale down a set of plans that I downloaded from modelshipwright website of a liberty ship. The Arthur M Huddell.

http://www.themodelshipwright.com/high- ... m-huddell/

I'm having problems reducing the drawings from what i believe are 1/16th down to 1/350. I was watching a video that Paul Budzik made on youtube, but I getting my self terribly confused i'm going wrong somewhere but I don't know where!!!!

when i open the original drawing in adobe illustrator it's almost 3m long, and i want to reduce it to scratch built this vessel in 1/350 as my first scratch build. the length overall should be around 39cm in 1/350

Can someone please help me??

Cheers

Marty

If by 1/16 you're referencing the 1/16" = 1',0" notation at the bottom of the drawing, that's not 1/16 scale. Rather, that's saying 1/16ths of an inch in the drawing equals one foot in real life, not that one foot on the drawing equals 16 feet in real life (which is what 1/16th scale means). This means the drawing is at 1/192 scale (at least, that's what it's intended to be). Try using that for your conversion to 1/350, and it should work assuming the metadata in the drawing is correct (i.e. whether the image file's digital dimensions are correctly matched to its pixels-per-centimeter/inch property).

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Hello Timmy C

Thank you for your reply to my post earlier today. Well I finally managed to scale drawings to 1/350 after a little head scratching and a chat with one of my friends here on the ship that I work on.

I took one of the known dimensions that was here LOA: 441ft, converted this into mm then divided it by 350, this gave me a scale LOA of 382mm.

I then, in adobe illustrator created an art-board that was A3 size and then calculated what the scale of the paper dimensions would be in relation to drawings being printed at 1/350.

I constrained all proportions and adjusted the length of the drawing to 438mm across the long edge. Then all I had to do was centre the drawing in the middle of the art-board and he presto I’m done!!!

Looking back, it was a lot easier than I imagined!!!

Thank you Timmy for your help!!

Anyone who’d like a copy of these plans please PM me with your email address and I’d be happy to send them on to you.

Marty

Welcome! And yes, for digital drawings, the best "sure" method of getting the scale correct is to use the program you'll be printing from's own ruler/measurement tool.

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