
Writing a novel, research paper, script or any long-form text involves more than hammering away at the keys until you’re done. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft. Enjoy.Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. The Ag120 is a more modern plan that I suspect was created with CAD so may be more amenable to tracing. Ditto the wavy lines to indicate a ply part. I haven’t tried tracing the Corsair as I was pretty sure it wouldn’t work properly, old plans like this frequently have the grain of the balsa indicated by the multiple short lines on the part, which would also be traced and take forever to clean up. I’ve uploaded a couple of plans for you to have a look at. I get that tracing works quite well for some applications, but I have found that for me, manually tracing works better and requires less effort. I find I can draw circles and curves more accurately than trace will draw them, and ensure lines that are supposed to be parallel, normal or symmetrical are, in fact, parallel, normal or symmetrical. I have found that it is quicker for me to manually trace the parts I want using a CAD package, and produces a better result, as i can often improve the quality of the plan (or part) to remove slight deviations or imperfections in the original, and at the same time use fewer segments (lines) for each part. Also, text on the plan is traced which I don’t want for cutting, so it has to be removed as well. The plans may also be quite fuzzy, (especially if they are old plans that have been photocopied) around joints for instance, which causes problems with tracing. I also find that the traces often include spurious spikes and gaps and other bits that shouldn’t be there, as the plan may have parts drawn over the top of other parts, or text may appear across the middle of a part, or there may be gaps in the lines for no apparent reason. Selecting all unwanted segments and deleting them is a time consuming and onerous task. Tracing shapes in FB always produces two lines which consist of multiple segments. Application is tracing plans for model aeroplanes I download from the net, a pretty basic process.
