Has anyone got a basic set of rough dimensions that they use as a guide for estimating truck doors. I'm looking at doing a few vehicles - a tandem, a semi,3 tonne, 1 tonne, 1/2 tonne and 1/4 tonne with the same graphic and just trying to figure out some rough sizes without having to go out and measure them up.
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
They are all different, I just go to past jobs if I know what kind of truck it is, as I make that the file name, I can just do a search. We do a lot of vehicles, soon as you guess a size they will have something different. I never cut the vinyl until the actual vehicle has been surveyed, photographed and placed in the file. You can get vehicle layouts however, either from the various dealers and scan them or from font and clipart companies. Bill, Sr.
Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
Kelly, I do what Bill does utilizing past jobs, but also, I just go take digital pics of what I'm lettering. I like to show the proofs on the truck itself rather than the proof looking totally flat from an outline drawing. One measurment to scale it into your drawing program and BOOM you're set.
I also have that cd of vehicle templates. It was pricey back in the day and newer models require me to update. But it may be worth the investment if you plan to do alot of vehicles in the future.
Digital pics is the cheapest easiest way. IF you can catch the trucks. Get the customer to send you flat side shots of each side with one measurement each if you can't hunt them down. Make that mandatory as part of the proofing process.
What I also do is draw wireframe templates for some truck doors myself off the pics and save them in a vehicle template file for future use. It's time well spent if you may use them again.
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kelly Thorson: basic set of rough dimensions
Kelly, if I'm designing or figuring for truck doors and I have no idea of the size, I usually figure 14"x24". Graphics that size will normally fit fine on the larger trucks, or can be easily adjusted down a little, but they won't often be too much larger than that, so you're covered.
/'rough' being the key word in your quote...
Posted by jake snow (Member # 5889) on :
all truck doors are that big by that big....give or take a little of that...or a little of this
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Thanks for the input. I'm not planning on aiming for the vehicle market Donna, Actually I was sending away some digital printing and wanted to fill in the unused area with a digital element for some decals for our farm trucks. I needed to get the job out and the trucks are scattered all over the country side. I winged it. It was space I was going to pay for anyhow so if one or two of them don't work it's no biggie.
Master Jake - you need some work to do. Posted by Bill Lynch (Member # 3815) on :
I'll do a google image search for pics of the the vehicle or similar ones and that helps me guesstimate.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Most truck doors will fall within certain sizes EXCEPT 18 wheelers, here it's just the opposite, they are all different. Peep windows are different sizes and in different locations and Kenworth's......I don't even want to talk about them Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Last night I went out to the farm and saw the new (to us) rig. It's going to end up needing the smallest decal while I planned for the biggest. So I get what you are saying. Or maybe I'll just put the lettering on the sleeper wall. Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
I do a fleet of kenworth trucks on a somewhat reg basis, so I'm hearin' ya, George. I do the two sides in different sized decal packages. It works, but you just have to 'remember'.
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
Dang that little window, but I bet the truckers want it. Bill
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Get the customer to send you flat side shots of each side with one measurement each if you can't hunt them down. Make that mandatory as part of the proofing process.![[Razz]](tongue.gif)