This is a quick video but it helped me out with the little details.
https://youtu.be/wxIeXBna8YI
I believe I have found the superior way of transferring plans to paper.
PINS! The tiny ones with little colored balls on the top. First, you lay the plan on the board, no tape. Start on one corner of the cut line, mark it with a pin through the paper and foam. Continue placing pins in every angle change or every 6 inches. When finished, remove pins and plans, and using the plans for reference, begin connecting the pin holes on the foam with a pen and a straight edge. Then, cut!
I feel this is the best in my opinion. I always hated cutting through paper into the foam, so this allows me to cut just the foam.
GOOD LUCK!
ok so no matter what i do, when i go to print the plans for the mini arrow, if i select to print the actual size, several parts of the wings will be cut off at the bottom of the page, the only way i can get the plans to print right is when i choose fit to page, but then its scaled down to 97% of the actual plan size, which in turn would make the plane smaller than its supposed to be. Im using the 8.5 x 11 paper and the pdf document size is 7.5 x 10.5 IDK what the heck to do. if i could figure out how to slide the pdf document up on the actual paper it would be fine and the inch and cenimeter legend and tile number would be slightly cut off but the plan would be its actual size. im pulling my hair out!! help!!
Ive downloaded the pdf995 in the two parts and when the page is set up and i try to print it only makes a file to save, it wont print anything. so i open the file and try to print it and it tries to save another file and so i change the printer driver back to the cannon printer driver and print it and its back to the oversized crap. and as for the printer margins i cant find anywhere to change the margin size. im about done with the scratch build crap. been trying for a week now and NOTHING works to get it printing right to the actual size instead of scaled down. what in the helllllllll. so ungodly frustraited. i dont understand why we cant download the plans, and print them as the actual size. whys it so hard?
I know it can be frustrating, but if you hang in there and find a combination that works for you, it can be very rewarding. Just curious... what would be wrong with a 97% plane? As long as you accommodate for the actual thickness of the foam on your a/b folds it should fit and fly, right?