1 Place your plan on a flat, smooth surface and secure it with tape.
2 Lay the tracing paper over it and secure it with tape.
3 Using a pencil, trace the plan with as much or little detail as you need.
4 Once you have finished tracing the plan, remove the plan from underneath the tracing paper.
5 Turn the tracing paper over so that the tracing is face down and the blank side of the paper is facing up.
6 Coat the WHOLE blank side of the paper with graphite (lead) using your pencil.
To coat the blank side of the tracing paper, hold your pencil almost completely sideways with the lead touching the paper and move your pencil lead back and forth to create an even coat of gray or black surface.
7 Obtain a new surface, building material, to transfer your drawing.
8 Place the drawing paper on a flat, smooth surface and secure it with tape.
9 Place the tracing paper gently on top of the building material with the graphite surface face down. You may secure it in place as well.
10Trace the image, with pressure, onto the building material.
11Gently remove the tracing paper when you have completed tracing the drawing. You will now have your transferred drawing on your desired surface.
The above was copied off the internet on how to trace - because I have been asked once or twice when I trace, do I cut the traced image out - no I dont - but obviously I do once its been put on the building material.