a couple VERY helpful scaling websites

[jetboat]

These are a couple websites I have used when trying to scale things up and down. Thought it would be good to share.

http://www.printmini.com/calc.shtml yes its a dollhouse site but you can put in what size you want it to be and what scale and it will tell you its size. ex. 33" tire in 1/6 scale is 5.5"


http://jbwid.com/scalcalc.htm not as nice as the first 1 but easy to scale stuff up and down.

 

[Offroader5]

Is this for when you don't have a calculator handy? :?

 

[Kranberry]

Is this for when you don't have a calculator handy? :?

or dont know the equations

 

[Offroader5]

or dont know the equations

Equations? Last time I checked it was simply called division.

 

[jetboat]

not all of us are good with numbers :mrgreen:

 

[Big Mike]

I'm not trying to be a dick or anything here, but why is it that people with strong mathematic skills always seem to have a snotty smart-ass attitude to go with them? Time and again I've experienced this through the years.

Broken down to basic theory, yes it is simple division. But if you don't know what to divide your original dimension by to arrive at your scale dimension, your sorta stuck right? Why beat your head against a wall if you don't have to?

Not using one of these scale calculators when it's readily available to you is on par with doing division on paper the long way while a calculator sits idle beside you gathering dust. Either way, you know you've been given correct data that you can trust, not calculations scratched on paper that you feel like you need to triple-check.

Not taking advantage of a calcualtor like on the dollhouse site is just senseless to me. It's like fighting a bolt out with a open-end wrench when you've got an air ratchet to use. It's like using an axe to split wood, when you've got a hydraulic splitter at your disposal. Then hauling the split wood in a wheelbarrow when you've got a truck...

 

[Offroader5]

I'm not trying to be a dick or anything here, but why is it that people with strong mathematic skills always seem to have a snotty smart-ass attitude to go with them? Time and again I've experienced this through the years.

Broken down to basic theory, yes it is simple division. But if you don't know what to divide your original dimension by to arrive at your scale dimension, your sorta stuck right? Why beat your head against a wall if you don't have to?

Not using one of these scale calculators when it's readily available to you is on par with doing division on paper the long way while a calculator sits idle beside you gathering dust. Either way, you know you've been given correct data that you can trust, not calculations scratched on paper that you feel like you need to triple-check.

Not taking advantage of a calcualtor like on the dollhouse site is just senseless to me. It's like fighting a bolt out with a open-end wrench when you've got an air ratchet to use. It's like using an axe to split wood, when you've got a hydraulic splitter at your disposal. Then hauling the split wood in a wheelbarrow when you've got a truck...

First of all...."strong mathematics skills"...really? So now a simple fraction and simple division that should be learned in grade school is a "strong skill"?

Second..."snotty smart-ass attitude"...I was being a smart-ass, I'll give ya that , but if I had wanted to show some snotty attitude I would have said..."I can't believe you have to use an online calculator for math as simple as scaling something down...anyone that graduated the 5th grade should know the 4 keystrokes on a calculator to figure out that division problem".

Here's my analogy....using an online calculator program that simply divides one number by another is like using a Rube Goldberg contraption to flip to the next page in a book.

Mostly my point was to rib Jetboat a bit...don't take everything you read on the web so seriously.

 

[BMAN]

Sometimes I'm not even proud to be American anymore. People are so friggin lazy that they can't learn 4th grade math. My daughter (4th grader) can do the paperwork to figure out one 5th or 6th or 100th of any number. She's friggin 8 years old. People wonder why America continues to suck hind tit... here's a perfect example.

 

[rnpnick]

Yea well what if its 2/3 scale then what? Huh? Smarty pants... Thats high school math i bet.

 

[goodoldlevi]

not all of us are good with numbers :mrgreen:

Im with you man thanks for the sites"thumbsup"

hey BMAN I think its time for your med's:shock:

 

[BMAN]

Yea well what if its 2/3 scale then what? Huh? Smarty pants... Thats high school math i bet.

Uhm... yes. That is highschool math, and that's third grade English. Take a little pride in what you post on the internet for all the world to see.

Thanks for the reminder godoldlevi! "thumbsup"

 

[Offroader5]

Yea well what if its 2/3 scale then what? Huh? Smarty pants... Thats high school math i bet.

No, still grade school math.

It's the same answer as 1/3 scale....then multiply by 2 :mrgreen:

 

[grimgard]

Opinions are like assholes everyone has one.


Nice find for the scale web sites and good job at being helpful "thumbsup"