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Impact Vehicle Outlines scaling in Illustrator
having a problem in illustrator, when it comes to opening a outline in .ai format. problem is when I go to scale up by 2000% uniform I get this message.
quote :Cant scale the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area.I can only make the artboard 120" x 120" but outlines at full size are bigger than this.
anyone know what I am doing wrong.
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All illustrator versions operate on fixed page sizes. The reason it will not allow you to bring the vehicle to full size is because it is too large for the program. Scale your image 166.666%, that will bring your image to a scale of 1 inch on the template = 1 foot on the vehicle. When you are ready to print take your template into your print software and scale it up 1200% to bring the template to the actual size of the vehicle.
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Sorry, I am assuming you are going to use this for printing. If you are going to be cutting the graphics let me know what kind of software you are using and I will tell you how to proceed from there it is very simple.
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Michael,
Work to scale.
I do small vehicle drawings at 1:25 so that the whole thing fits on an A4 sheet. Useful for emailing to customers to print out and for issuing to my fitters. Also for filing with the job sheet in case we need the information for a repeat job.
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Having a good holiday john? I see you cant getaway from the signboards!
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Brilliant holiday thanks Karl.
It’s just that Jenny needs twice as much sleep as I do. I tell her she is wasting time and that sleep is just practicing to be dead, but it doesn’t have any effect.
Consequently I have lots of time to myself with nothing better to do than piddle about on the internet.
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Hi George
For cutting I use WinPCSign I also have a real basic version of Flexi I use on occasion. Most graphic work is done in Illustrator which as you say has its limits. WinPCSign will take take the files and scale to any size the hard way, namely manual input of height and width which is annoying. Illustrator has layers and lock layer function, WinPCSign does not. so sometimes you select what you dont want.
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