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boman

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Scaling Up Plans
« on: November 23, 2012, 08:13:28 pm »
If I was to Scale up a plan, from 1/50-1/35. How much bigger do I need to scale up by?
Maths was never a strong point. I have come up with a couple of answers, All wrong....
 
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Re: Scaling Up Plans
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2012, 08:28:09 pm »
Divide the bigger number by the lower or 50/35 which gives 1.428 (to 3 decimal places) depending on how accurate you want to be.
 
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Re: Scaling Up Plans
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2012, 09:10:53 pm »
For what it's worth, a standard A4 to A3 enlargement on a photocopier (or A5 to A4, or A3 to A2 - it's the same ratio) is 1.414 (141.4%).




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Re: Scaling Up Plans
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2012, 08:20:36 pm »
Thank You very much, just the information I was looking for.
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Re: Scaling Up Plans
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2012, 06:42:54 am »

I took my last plan to the local photocopy shop, they just asked 'how big do you want the end size to be?'    :-))
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