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Seems like a good idea!
When doing a design for a vehicle we quite often take a reference measurement from the vehicle, take a digital photo and import this in to Flexi to re-size to scale and then layout the graphics.
Somebody came up with a good idea today and that was to use an offcut of magnetic material cut to a 60Cm3cm strip – lay this on the surface of the vehicle, take the photo – and then you have an instance reference, without having to search around for that illusive bit of paper you jotted the dimensions (and sods law means you lost it somewhere)
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good idea, now i’m gonna have to buy some magnetic !!
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What I use is a piece of light corriboard 10 inch square with a cut out 5 inch circle with pieces of magnetic on each corner. All I have to do is slap in on vehicle and take a few pics. On dark vehicles, I use a white piece of corri.
When pics are downloaded, all you have to do is make a 10 inch box ( in Corel make box and 5 inch circle centre/combine) scale pic up to size and away you go.
Using a light corriboard means that you can fold it and keep in work book.
Will post pic of truck using this method
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Pat, And Chris.
thats so simple, its bloody brilliant!!
peterSorry chris didnt notice you at the top
Quick edit to rectify boo boo
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chris, pat, great ideas! 😛
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we’ve used a 6″ magnetic circle before….same idea
take the shot – scale to size. More often than not I forget to take it with me to sites 😉 (I can be a bit of a ding bat)
so I take measurements of wheel base.
Center of front wheel to center of back wheel – same thing scale to size -
Good idea, but the smaller the item you use to get scale, the more the error is enlarged if you are a tiny bit out. I keep a 1 metre strip of foamex in the motor, which I tape to buildings etc. It helps to give me a fairly accurate idea of scale for photographic visuals.
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