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Umi is right - it's dead simple math. Scale math is always: ORIGINAL into TARGET. end of story. dead simple. Works for Up or Down. To make something that is 5mm long (ORIGINAL) = something that will be 8mm long (TARGET): 8 / 5 = 1.6 ...or enlarge 160%. MANY copiers enlarge up to 200 or 400%. Copiers...

not to be all Old School, but a pocket calculator is pretty handy. Really a very simple calc even for me, a non-math whiz (or Master Unwhiz). Whatever the full size, divide it into the scale size. Original 1:1 = 100 ft (1200 inches) Scale target 1:350 = ??? 1200 / 350 = 3.4285 inches Even easier in ...

With some practice it's really quite do-able. Maybe this will help:

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After striking out scouring many sources for a complete and informative tutorial, I ended up compiling and editing the info, and then working in my own experience, into hopefully a helpful document that covers it all:


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Hopefully this will help