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We let the computer do the hard stuff but sometimes we have to figure out what scale it wants to see to get a print layout to fit the print size the customer wants. If the area of the flight was a square mile and the customer ordered a 30x30 print. We don't want the section line right at the edge of the print so the mile is scaled to be 26.4 inches and the print will have an extra 1.8 inches on each side of the adjoining mile. That is a nice convenient scale of 1"=400'. The digital file is essentially scaled to fit the earth so 1 foot is one foot. So 5,280 feet down to 26.4 inch of print is a scale of 1"=200 but we enter 2,400 in the print layout for the scale.
The customer can measure any straight line between points and know how many feet apart the points are.
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Glen
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1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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