How do you make blueprints?

[Straywolf]

Thanks i do believe i have some of the same tools you have, but the CAD not sure if i could afford one J/K i think i have plenty of cardboard here somewhere

[Car5858]

That is great info, using a cad program is the fastest way of scaling.

With autocad you can make the drawing 1:1 then scale it to the size that you want. Plot to a pdf, email it to whomever you wish. They can then take the file to your local printer and have it plotted.

Here is one that I have been working on. 1/16 scale Bridge master ext.

You can also search the web for free cad software there are many different cad programs available. Learning the software you get has a large learning curve.

Sketching things out first always helps.

Here is just one of many, http://www.cadstd.com/

good luck, and if you have questions just ask.

Carl

[fhhhstix]

Originally Posted by Car5858

That is great info, using a cad program is the fastest way of scaling.

With autocad you can make the drawing 1:1 then scale it to the size that you want. Plot to a pdf, email it to whomever you wish. They can then take the file to your local printer and have it plotted.

Here is one that I have been working on. 1/16 scale Bridge master ext.

You can also search the web for free cad software there are many different cad programs available. Learning the software you get has a large learning curve.

Sketching things out first always helps.

Here is just one of many, http://www.cadstd.com/

good luck, and if you have questions just ask.

Carl

Thanks for the link Carl I downloaded cadstd and have been messing around with it since last night. It will take some getting use to since I have not used a cad program since high school which was a version of auto cad released in 1991.

Travis

[Straywolf]

Thank You everyone for all the great help, i downloaded the cad program man do i have alot to learn.....Hopefully this old dog can learn new tricks

[Car5858]

Your welcome guy's

Travis, that was AutoCad 11, released in 1991. You will see some similarities
as this program was based on AutoCad. AutoCad has come a long way since then. Their programs run about 4-5k $, and are filled with problems in the code. The most stable one that I use is release 2009.

Have fun guy's

[Grainfarmer]

For my windrower I took some good pics from the web. A good photo of the side wiew for example worked well to take some dimensions (length of the hood, wheelbase, cab, longitudinal beams of the chassis...), when I compared it with the dimensions of the brochure and the specs.
But: depending on the size and angle the photo was taken some dimensions may be skewed on the photo...
I let the best pics enlarge in a copyshop, that they were close to my scale 1/16. The differences that stayed I scaled down (example -10%). Comparing now the result I think that I proportioned it with a relative small deviation.
This may work fo a short model, but I have my doubts that you can do it this way for a 50 ft trailer...

[Straywolf]

Thank You everyone for the help i think i am gonna try that cad program.