I downloaded drawings saved in PDF file for Halloween Hearse. If I build the hearse following the drawings, it will be 8 feet long. I want to build it so that it's 2 feet long. I had to load the drawings into VCarve, save them as PNG files, load them into Fusion3D as canvas, calibrated them, "traced" over the drawings, and scale them 25%. Is there a different way?
In V-carve, click "open file" and select the PDF you want to scale. Then go to "Transform Objects" and select " Set selected objects size". Type 25 in the % box - (can also be scaled manually using the width/height box.
Fusion 360 won't import PDF files so I have to export PDF files to PNG files in VCarve. Also, the drawings are not to scale. They are done on 11X8.5 paper.
Jeff, why not export the file from V-varve as a DXF and open that into Fusion under the "Insert" tab? I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to Fusion mind you.
If it is a simple PDF, I have also found this works very well. However, I recently was asked to engrave multiple whiskey boxes with my laser and multiple drawings were provided to me in one multi page pdf. Vectric did not like that for some reason (maybe it was a "me" problem). Therfore I opened the PDF in Inkscape. I then sellected all the objects in one drawing (one page), grouped them, then cut them and pasted them into a new document. After doing this, I was able to easily save them as either an .svg or .dxf. If you did that, you could easily scale them in Inkscape or many other software packages. Inkscape is a great free tool.
