Sure, great mag., but to bad they print their plans in half tones with reduced screen overlays of their logo.
Done deliberately, so plans can't be copied from their pages.
CB
Use of shading and other tricks (e.g. strange scalings) is nothing new for magazines. Nowadays with determination and use of common graphics and CAD software these obstacles can be overcome to produce usable accurate plans. I learned from direct experience extracting full scale images from M.A.N. plans for Bill Sawyer's
Laser Continental. As expected, it takes a lot of effort and cleanup. But when you no longer purchase certain plans, options are limited.
Whenever you can purchase the plans, that is certainly the best way.
My methods are detailed in the article "My AutoCAD Technique for Special Contours", published over 3 years ago in Brodak's
Control Line World magazine.
L.
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