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[AlanP]

I have some plans of a Miami Crash boat in PDF format.  My son can enlarge them for me, so having done a bit of research I have found the length of the boat to be 63ft. On the plan it says that the scale is 1/32 so I have worked it out to an overall length of about 2ft.
The hull is shown on sheet1 and the bulkheads on sheet2, so if I get him to enlarge sheet1 until the hull is 2ft and then print sheet2 to the same percentage will the bulkheads work out right for the hull.
Well that makes sense to me but I could be totally wrong 

Alan

[dougal99]

Alan

That should work providing all the drawings are to the same scale. You could check that the width of the deck plan at the bulkhead points is the same as the width of the appropriate bulkhead. If they are, you are in with a chance.

Best of luck

Doug

[colin-stevens]

depends on wether the plans were sent at the correct scale.
use pdf drawings alot at work and they very rarely print of correctly. seems they may not have been sent at the correct paper size/scale/orientation and even pl;otter makes a difference.
frequentl resort to Bluebeam(Free trial) and this makes life easier
good luck.

[AlanP]

Wish I had thought of that Doug 

Had a look at Bluebeam Colin, think it might be a bit beyond me, but thanks for your input anyway.

Alan

[dougal99]

Alan

Colin is right about PDF it can be tricky to get the correct scale as drawn. However, if all your drawings are to the same scale (whatever it is), increasing them by the same amount ought to give you what you want.

Cheers

Doug

[boatmadman]

Alan

There is a printshop off Ainslie Street, on Titchfield Street that should be able to help you with a print on one sheet. I have used them and they are v helpful.

Ian

[IainM]

Hi folks,
I agree about PDF's but it can be just as great a problem with other file types as well.
I use a wee application I wrote to work out the magnification scale by measuring from the actual print as against the size calculated from scaling from the prototype.
This gives a magnification factor which print shops can use to enlarge the PDF copy.

Hope this makes sense.

Heres a link to my application http://www.sfmbc.net/scalecalc103.zip
(Note the app does not muck about with the Windows registry, so getting rid of it if you don't like it is simply a matter of deleting the file)

Iain