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Diffeomorphism — Scaling and Printing Plushie Patterns
Published: 2014-06-28 00:43:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 34609; Favourites: 468; Downloads: 1816
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Wow, this one got turned out a lot longer than I expected to be. Thought it was gonna be a 5-6 page guide but it ended up being a whole 12 pages long. Guess you can thank my verbosity for that one.
This guide was inspired by Sewgoods and her guide on how to scale plushies . (Yes, I got her permission to make a guide like this!) She's a fantastic plush maker, way better than me, so go check her amazing plushies out and her guides if you haven't already! If any of my math confuses you, you might find her scaling tutorial more understandable; unfortunately my math-speak has been infected by years of rigorous formal mathematics
Anyway, this is a pretty simple guide on how you can scale plushie patterns you make or find so that they come out the size you want if you're using a printer to print the patterns out. All the math is super basic, but the process can be a little confusing the first time around. Just remember that all the advice given here can be applied whether you're using inches or centimeters, and whether you're using a standard home printer or a big friggin' plotter or Kinko's printer or something (as long as you know the exact area you have to print).
Are you new to making plushies in general? Check out my beginner's how-to-get-started guide ! Or if you're interested in learning how to think about making patterns, check out my pattern-making guide ! You can check out my Patterns and Tutorials folder for all the resources I have available.
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Now I know why I needed to be tought maths XD. Thanks, I understand more now!
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Wow. You just made what's essentially a math word problem interesting and relevant to my life. O.o Thank you for the tips and for increasing my appreciation of math!
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Instead of paint or photoshop I use adobe acrobat. Adobe acrobat (and the free version, adobe reader) has a feature called poster print which will automatically tile the document across multiple pages. It will automatically scale to whatever % you enter. It also has options for cut marks which show you where to trim the extra border off (though I just use the printer settings and print borderlessly since my printer supports it). There's also overlap so you can have a bit of space to overlap the pages when you tape/glue them together. And there are labels which you can turn on that let you know in the corner what order they go in so it's easier to piece them back together, which is useful when you have a giant plush pattern and there is just pages everywhere.
The only trouble comes in when your document isn't the correct size for print. Then you have to kind of guess and the percentages because the original size when printed wont be the actual original size.
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That's actually probably way better than using Paint, especially since Acrobat/Reader's available on all computers. Figures there's something more robust than Paint 
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