If you can get plans on CAD., you can print out 1 to 1 drawings, paste them to your materials with barge rubber cement, and there's your layout with no measuring. Exactly...............
> Input plans into a CAD package, set units from English to Metric, voila! > > You're probably going to need to use the CAD step to get full size > prints for templates anyway so just let the program handle the > conversion. Building an aircraft without some form of CAD would be like > building without power tools. Plus if you make your changes digitally it > will hopefully minimize the efforts of making errors and having to make > a new parts. By separating assemblies in blocks you can easily get full > size prints of certain areas of construction and break down the building > process in time and cost easier. Isn't TurboCAD fairly affordable? I > know it's cross platform and should work for just about anybody. > > http://www.turbocad.com/ > > $129 USD - compared to ArchiCAD or AutoCAD that is quite "inexpensive". > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >