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Posted by Mouse (Member # 325) on :

We are in search of a PT Cruiser clip art that is to scale, we are doing a wrap and it would make life easier. Anyone know where we can purchase or "rent" one? Please email me at Signature Signs...melissa@vaxxine.com or I'll check in here later.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Mouse

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Mouse

Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :

Hi Melissa! How ya been?

I'd suggest if you can't find what you're looking for, to make it yourself.

Take a photo..digital, 35mm or even a polaroid will do in a pinch...of a PT Cruiser. Open it up in your photo editing program (photoshop, photopaint or whatever you use) and blow the image up to 1 inch = 1 foot. You don't have to measure the whole car. Just a measurement from two points on the car that are not going to be effected by the perspective of the photograph (ie: door width from seam to seam at handle height). IMPORTANT NOTE! Include fractions in your measurement, converted to decimals..."a quarter inch is a terrible thing to waste"..and will throw off your scale art.

(edited part>>> ) I suppose I'd better give some basic instructions for getting a photo to scale.

1. take note of the two measurements...one would be the distance in inches from the part of the car that you measured...the second will be the measurement on the photo between the corresponding points, also in inches.

2.divide the measurement from the photo into the measurement on the car...this will give you a number which will always be greater than 1...if it's a fraction less than one, you divided the photo measurement into the car measurement.

3.move your decimal point two places to the right. this will be the percentage you would need to enlarge the photo to be the actual size of the car

4.divide the percentage you came up with by 12 to get your 1 inch = 1 foot enlargement of the pic.

example: if your measurement of the car door is 43 inches and the same measurement on the photo is 3 inches, 43 divided by 3 = 14.33. moving the decimal point two places to the right gives you 1433% (so, to enlarge your photo to actual size of the car, you would enlarge by 1433%). but, you want it to be 1/12th scale, so you would divide 1433% by 12, which would give you the percentage to enlarge the photo to 1 inch = 1 foot scale, which would be 119.42%.

OK, so maybe that sounds like a pain in the butt...anybody got some scale clipart for melissa?

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Don Coplen aka "SaintPete"
Coplen Designs
St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com

[This message has been edited by Don Coplen (edited May 16, 2001).]

Posted by Greg Sellers (Member # 900) on :

I have done what Don is talking about. An easy way of scale size for me has been that I have a scrap piece of wood cut to exactly 12 inches, I lay it on the ground in front of the car. Thaen when I scale it 1:12 its alot easier. Its usually hard to find a simple, exact measurement on the vehicle.

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Greg Sellers
Signing Bonus
McCalla, Alabama
www.signingbonussigns.com

Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :

Geee....Don..Ya have to do all that work in Illustrator on a Mac?

In Corel, all I do is import the digital pic, whether from the camera or a scan, Drag aout a couple of guidelines to match the "critical measurement" I took off the vehicle and then blow the picture up so that the everything is to scale.

Won't Illustrator do that? hehehehehehehe

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Dave Grundy
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"stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!"
in Granton, Ontario, Canada
1-519-225-2634
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Posted by Marty Happy (Member # 302) on :

To get a scale measurement for a photo of a project vehicle I have a ruler glued onto a strip of magnetic material that I usually plop onto the area I will be super-imposing signs or graphics. Simple and accurate!

Happy Signing.....Marty

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Posted by Dirk Moebes (Member # 790) on :

Hi

there are several CD products available containing exact and to-scale vehicle templates. Find out at http://www.summausa.com

Best regards

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Posted by Dirk Moebes (Member # 790) on :

Hi

there are several CD products available containing exact and to-scale vehicle templates. Find out at http://www.summausa.com

Best regards

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[This message has been edited by Steve Shortreed (edited July 03, 2001).]

Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :

I'm with Dave on this one.. we do this 3 or 4 times a day with our digital camera. Take the measurement of a door, we try to measure along a ridge or door handle. Say if the door is 40 in. all we do is load the photo into composer scale the drawing intil the door is 40in. and your there, it's as simple as that, not complicated at all.
I'll email you a photo of our shop pt cruiser, maybe you can use that one.
Neil

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Neil Butler
Paradise, NF

Posted by Mouse (Member # 325) on :

Thanks for all the great advice. We happen to be down the street form a Chrysler dealer and having a few friends that work there, I could probably sweet talk them into letteing me snap a pic. (Aren't digital cameras awesome!)

If it doesn't work, then I'll look into purchasing some clip art. The only issue with that is we do so little vehicle graphics, it would become outdated before we could use even a few of the images!

I'll let you know how I make out! :-)
Thanks again!
Mouse

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Mouse

Posted by Mark Perkins (Member # 296) on :

SummaDirect has a good auto template package for $50 bucks or so, the company that makes that package also has a website where you can buy templates for individual vehicles for a small fee.

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Mark Perkins
Performance Signs & Graphics
Eunice, Louisiana
"The heart of Cajun Country"

Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :

Mouse...If you are going to the dealer to take a pic..why not pick up a sales brochure too...They usually feature a line art drawing of the vehicle with all sorts of measurements include...You could scan that too.

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