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Patterns from Magazines / Books
Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book
that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
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Patterns from Magazines / Books
KirkH wrote:
Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk you can just photo copy sections of the original design onto standard letter sized paper with the photo copier set to the % enlargemen you want. Move the original around to get full coverage then tape the resultant pages together to get the full pattern at the larger size. If you scan them into a computer and save them as a PDF or other standard format, they can be printed with any % enlargement you want. Most PDF print applications can "tile" the resultant enlargement such that you get a stack of standard sized pages with registration marks you can tape together just like with the photocopier. -Bruce -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
Go to an old fashioned graphics preparation house, they probably now have
blueprint equipment as well and ultra large photo copiers. What you are looking for is someone with a large graphics camera. This used to be used to make large sheets of film which in turn are used to make printing plates. These huge cameras can also precisely enlarge or reduce images and produce very large prints from them. "KirkH" wrote in message m... Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
Go ahead and take it to Kinko's. They usually have a large copier that will do
enlargements up to 400% and print on 36" wide paper rolls- some go even larger. (Our local one has a 48" wide one that will print in color - need a bank loan to use that one.) Not worth struggling with the problem when this technology is there. Jim K. KirkH wrote: Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk -- James T. Kirby Center for Applied Coastal Research University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 phone: 302-831-2438 fax: 302-831-1228 email: http://chinacat.coastal.udel.edu/~kirby |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
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Patterns from Magazines / Books
My brother-in-law bought an opaque projector from a salvage joint. It
allows him to scale things to arbitrarily large sizes, which is handy when the source pattern is on an 8.5x11 sheet and the item in question is supposed to be large. "KirkH" wrote in message m... Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
A photocopier might work even better.
It will, provided the grid lines on the original are not light blue. That color is known as "dropout blue" and is made to drop out of the picture and not be reproduced by most photocopiers. Lee -- To e-mail, replace "bucketofspam" with "dleegordon" |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
I scan, bring into Turbocad, trace, enlarge, print.
"KirkH" wrote in message m... Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk |
Patterns from Magazines / Books
"KirkH" wrote in message m... Every so often, I want to reproduce a pattern from a magazine or book that is drawn on a grid representing inch squares. I bought the huge pad of gridded paper from staples (about 2ft x 3ft), and reproduce them to scale with a straight edge, french curves and by guesstimate. I then glue the paper to 1/4 hardboard, cut it out and use it as a pattern guide for my router. Of course, this works, but it is tedious. There has to be a better way to do this. Is it possible to scan these scale drawings in, then enlarge them to real size? Even if this would work with parts of the drawing, it would help. I also know Kinkos can print very large graphics for a price ($$$); but it may be worth it. Does anybody have a better technique they can share? TIA, Kirk My Epson printer has a setting for "poster printing" that can be accessed by selecting page layout. I can choose up to 4 pages wide by 4 pages high. Meaning the original will be spread out over that many pages of paper...then just tape them together to make one very large print. Should work for what you want unless you need bigger. I'm sure that Epson isn't the only printer that offers this...plus I remember reading a story on the net not to long ago that told how to create this affect with your computer instead of the printer's software. |
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