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scale conversion application
Boggie
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 12:42 PM UTC
I used to have a small application on my Mac that would scale objects from real life to 1/35th and visa versa and I dumped it years agao. Now I wish I hadn't. It wasn't complicated and I got it from a modeling site some where, anybody ever heard of something that would work?
Thanks all.
Bill
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 12:47 PM UTC
try this it might be what you want.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/calculatorfc_1.htm
Boggie
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 12:53 PM UTC
Kelly I thought you had it there it looked so famliar. I am a Mac used and it won't open on my computer. Did you happen to see if there was a Mac compatible converter?
Thanks for trying I appreciate it.
Bill
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 01:28 PM UTC
Shoot I thought they had one. Not sure where to look now the Free mac site does not have anything does it.
Good Luck
Kelly
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 03:03 PM UTC
Thanks anyway I'll keep hunting
Best
Bill
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 03:39 PM UTC
Hey Will,
How about this one... first one, it's above the tips.

Scale Converter

Joe
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 10:37 PM UTC
Um, why can't you just use a calculator?

Real life size divided by 35 = 35th scale..?
Boggie
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 11:10 PM UTC
Mother thanks for the link, but again it isn't designed to operate on a MAC only PC, it has an .EXE tag line. I won't give up, thanks very much.
Best
Bill
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Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 11:13 PM UTC
Alex
I may just have to do that. I did use the application a fair bit and was used to it so I thought I could get that back to make the scratch building nice and simple for my little math challenged brain.
Bill
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Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 04:10 AM UTC
I called a friend of mine who is a mac person to see if she knew of anyplace to get one and struck out. You would think this would be someting easy to find. Good luck
Kelly
Boggie
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Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 04:15 AM UTC
I contacted Matt Leese with a PE and he gave me two links and the second one worked. It is not an application but an on line calculator and it seems to work in all scales. Any Mac folks out there here it is.
http://www.printmini.com/calc.shtml
Thanks for all your help.
Bill
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