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increasing and decreasing scales on a copy machine

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    November 2005
increasing and decreasing scales on a copy machine
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 4:32 PM
Please Help I am trying to decrease 1/35 scale plans to1/48 on a copy machine does anybody know what persent to use? I am also trying to increase 1/76 to 1/48 Thank You so very much Daniel E Null Jr
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    January 2003
Posted by shermanfreak on Monday, April 26, 2004 5:19 PM
Welcome to FSM Daniel.

If I did my math right ....

To go from 1/35 to 1/48 ..... reduce to 72.92 % of the original size.

To go from 1/76 to 1/48 .... increase 158.33 % of the original size.
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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    June 2003
Posted by M1abramsRules on Monday, April 26, 2004 6:00 PM
yep, your math's right!!! I came up with the same.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 8:10 PM
The general rule is:
-- throw away the "1/"
-- divide the "From" scale number by the "To" scale number.

The problem is that most copiers (I have used) only have whole percent reduce/enlarge, so in the examples above you can do either 72% or 73% but not exactly 72.92% (you'd do 73% here). And some even have a limit as to how much they will do in one pass.

In some cases you can do a two-step change that gets you closer. For example, assume a copier only did 10% increments & you wanted 25%. You could do 50%, then do 50% of that & have 25%. At the 1% increment this may or may not be worthwhile - the larger the item, the more that round-off to a whole percent might mean.

This two-step approach is more useful if a copier limits the amount of reduce/enlarge.

Sorry, you only asked what time it was, not how to build a watch ...
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 9:25 PM
Thanks Guys i salute you all. Daniel E Null Jr
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