Artemiss
Elite Cafe Member
Hi folks,
I'd like to work up a design for engraving onto a rifle's magazine plate.
Whilst I have the plate available for sizing, I was wondering what the general rule is regarding scaling up.
I read somewhere, that drawing your design a little bigger, then scaling it down is easier than drawing to scale?
At the same time, if you make it to big, there's a tendancy to add too much detail and therefore it's more difficult to engrave!
So, I was wondering if there's a general percentage that people use to scale up / down their work!?
I'm not sure if any of this makes sense, but I'm hoping so.
Many thanks, Jo
I'd like to work up a design for engraving onto a rifle's magazine plate.
Whilst I have the plate available for sizing, I was wondering what the general rule is regarding scaling up.
I read somewhere, that drawing your design a little bigger, then scaling it down is easier than drawing to scale?
At the same time, if you make it to big, there's a tendancy to add too much detail and therefore it's more difficult to engrave!
So, I was wondering if there's a general percentage that people use to scale up / down their work!?
I'm not sure if any of this makes sense, but I'm hoping so.
Many thanks, Jo