Inventors:
Charles Wilder Wadell - Santa Ana CA, 92706
International Classification:
G01B 302
US Classification:
702155, 702158, 702161, 702162, 33491, 33784, 33663, 708105, 708171
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process and method for printing, utilizing a computer and computer printer, a scale instrument and conversion tool to be used in preparing and interpreting scaled drawings, maps, aerial photographs, graphs and similar documents. The instrument can be printed on paper, plastic film, or any flexible media capable of being processed by a computer printer. The invention includes a sub-process to not only print a scale denominated in the various scales typically used in preparing scaled drawings, etc. , but also to print a scale denominated in any other scale to be used in interpreting a drawing, etc. , which is not longer presented in the original scale due to reproduction, shrinkage, enlargement, or reduction. The invention process also includes sub-processes to: calibrate the process to compensate for differences in the manner which various individual printers respond to computer instructions, mathematically calculate scales based upon user input of the actual length of a line in a drawing and the distance represented by that line, and print conversion tools used to convert distances on a drawing from one system of measurement to one or more alternative measurement systems based upon a mathematical relationship between the linear distance in the drawing the alternative system(s).