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How to use a pantograph for duplication?
BGM:
There are lots of demos and directions for using a pantograph, but they nearly all show you how to *enlarge* an image. Following those directions I can build a pantograph just fine.
But how do you use a pantograph to just duplicate an image without enlarging it?
What I want to know is, where do you put the anchor and tracer and pencil?
Target:
using the example link you provided, and for one to one reproduction, the anchor point would be in the centre, ie at the apex of the outer arms, and you would trace with one end, and draw with the other.
BGM:
In the center? Where is the center?
Target:
In the center? Where is the center?
-BGM (February 16, 2015, 04:49 PM)
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in the below the centre/anchor would be at pivot 1, and for one to one reproduction you would put the pencil at the end of one arm, and the tracing point at the end of the other
How to use a pantograph for duplication?
ref http://www.peter.com.au/articles/pantograph.html
BGM:
Target! That's a nice link!
I just couldn't figure out a center on the other image.
I'll take a good look at that.
I'm actually writing instructions for a children's magazine, so I wanted to get all my details right so I can explain everything well.
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