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  • H Offline
    HornOxx
    last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 10:16

    Hi All - I hope someone could give me any advice

    For some reason a client wants me to do a layout in the scale of 1:87 which is a "Toy-Railroad" scale (which is also called H0 here) - for sure he wants to cut out his building in order to put it into his train model landscape.
    I know, that I can edit any custom scale in Layout but I can´t figure out how and what I need to do in this window - although this question is probably already answered a 100 times here, I hope someone here could help me please ...


    LayOut Scale Preferences.jpg

    never trust a skinny cook

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    • D Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 10:39

      Change the number in Model to 87. Paper is already set correctly and Scale Text will take care of itself. Then click on Add Custom Scale.
      HO Scale.png

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        HornOxx
        last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 11:01

        😮 AUA !!! so simple ?!?

        thanks a lot for your fast help!

        never trust a skinny cook

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          Dave R
          last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 11:17

          You're quite welcome.

          Some years ago I drew a freight house building with the intent of cutting it out and folding it to make a structure for my son's N-scale layout. Instead of setting a scale in LO, I just scaled the SU model to the right size before I unfolded the model and then set the viewports to 1:1. Different paths to the same end. I was looking for the images of it but I'm not finding them.

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            Dave R
            last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 11:56

            Found them. These buildings were actually drawn by someone else and posted in the Warehouse.


            https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5087/5355804283_aaf9ed2243_n.jpg


            https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5047/5356417176_1c6b05956e_n.jpg

            I initially made this to show someone else who was looking for card stock models of buildings. I didn't add any tabs but they'd be easily inserted.

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              HornOxx
              last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 13:07

              👍 ☀
              these modeling sheets(?) do have a aesthetics of their own somehow

              Thanks for showing this

              never trust a skinny cook

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                Dave R
                last edited by 7 Dec 2015, 13:13

                @hornoxx said:

                :thumb: ☀
                these modeling sheets(?) do have a aesthetics of their own somehow

                Thanks for showing this

                Yes. they do.

                You're quite welcome. 😉

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