How do you make blueprints?

[Izzy]

Make your own 1/14.5 scale graph paper.

Try using a sheet of packing paper or something as large as your final project - piece it together if you have to.
Then - if you like to think in feet - (12 inches) along each edge layout marks at .83" increments - to make this easier get a set of dividers or cheap electric calipers. This .83 is the 1/14.5 scale of 12". You will need to make sure that the tic marks are square to each other. Next would be to take a ruler and draw in lines connecting corresponding tic marks.

Sounds like a pain but this was the first thing we learned how to do in drafting class.

CAD systems tend to be pricey. Actual blueprints are nearly extinct with the advent of laser printers upwards of 60" wide paper rolls ( or whatever they're up to now)

Izzy

[Ken Orme]

Question????

Whre and how did they come up with the scale of 14.5????????

Ken