So, as I settled on the La7, I began to cad the plans. My first plan was to just clean the plans, vectorize them and cnc cut them as is, but I noticed that (of course), all the dimensions are imperial and the airframe is cut for american standard wood sizes. As we are metric around here I figured that it'd be practical to convert the design to metric. And since I'm using SW and waiting for the wood to arrive I also began to create a 3d assembly. Then I encountered a curious scale issue with the plans that I downloaded from Mr. Anderesen's website. Thirst thing I did, was to check that the scale ruler placed on each sheet is in effect 6 inches long. All correct. Then I traced the ribs using the Sheet Nº4, and began to assembly the center section of the wing using the sheet Nº5 (which also has a scale ruler and is also 6 inches, all correct). When I placed the first ribs in their correct location over the plan, I noticed that they are indeed longer. The Rib 1 is 694,30mm on Sheet Nº5 and 704,10mm on Sheet Nº4 Here is the Rib 1 traced on Sheet Nº4
Here is the Rib 1 layed on sheet Nº5
The servo hardwood bearers appear in a different position but the first spar is coincident with the plan.
Anyway I'm mentioning this because I've seen this issue raised a couple of times here on RCSB in the past. I don't think that it's somehow problematic for the build itself, perhaps some weird problem with the pdf conversion of the web version of the plans.
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