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Old January 31st 10, 02:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
jcarlyle
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Default LS8 Panel in AutoCAD?

Trouble is, PowerPoint doesn't hold the scale properly. If you
investigate you'll find that if you scale a 57 mm line off of the 80
mm instruments, that line won't match the 57 mm instrument circle. And
vice versa for the 57 mm to 80 mm instruments. So getting the correct
dimensions for the panel from the PowerPoint drawing is really a non-
starter.

-John

On Jan 30, 5:22 pm, brianDG303 wrote:
Many of the instruments are dimensioned, so you could just scale up or
down until they measured correctly, and then you could draw a clearnav
or paste in an image file and scale that until it matched as well.