| To calculate a scale
factor, which you want to enlarge your plans to, just invert the
scale of the plans you have divided by the inverted scale of the
plans you wish to build. For example if your plans are 1/5 and you
desire to go to 1/3, simply divide 5 by 3. This result gives you a
scale factor of 1.67 for 1/3 scale or 1.25 for quarter scale.
Since the maximum paper size of the
large copy machines I’ve seen at Kinko’s is 36", divide
this by your scale factor to get the maximum size of your current
plan to be enlarged. So we divide 36 by 1.67 we get 21.6 for 1/3
scale and 28.8 for ¼ scale. If we cut the original 1/5 scale plans
into strips not over 21.5", they can be joined end to end and
put through the copier. This way the maximum surface area can be
utilized and that’s what you pay for. To give you an example, if
the original plan is 36x80, when enlarge to 1/3 scale and joined
together the size of the plan would be 60x133. That’s big!
To reduce the size of your plans, just
reverse the above! |
