FREE TOOL FOR MODELLERS

A free little scaling tool for Windows operating systems (scale up or down, choose metric or US units on either side).

http://home.mesastate.edu/~gsnow/Gary/scalar.zip

I threw this together last night for an assignment in one of my classes, so it hasn’t been thouroughly tested, but it seems to be working correctly. I know it works on Win 2000 and XP, but I haven’t used it anywhere else yet.

Some notes about what’s in the zip file (BTW - you need an unzipping tool if don’t have one already - Many newer Windows systems have them built in)
there’s the scalar.exe file, this is the actual tool, and there’s a qt-mtedu320.dll file that’s required for the program to run so it just needs to be in the same directory as the scalar.exe.

I wrote this using an educational license so I can’t charge anything for it, but I would be interested to know how many people use it, so if you download it, just send me a quick email to let me know. If you have any questions, find any errors, or have any trouble trying to run it, let me know that as well.

My email address is mailto:gsnow@mesastate.edu.

I wish you would wright that for us REAL computer users. HE HE. I love my Macintosh… .

I’ll be building one in Java next week. That on will work on Mac and Linux (if you have the Java Virtual Machine installed).

What is Jave Virtural Machine, How much is it and where do I get it? I never heard of it.

Works great! the only thing I wish was that there was a 1/1000 scale. Thanks for the new tool!

Just curious. What did you write it in?

Thanks for the converter!

love it!!!

jimz66 - Mac.s should actually have the JVM installed already, MS has a feud with Sun, so most Win users have to download it. It’s a free download from http://java.sun.com that allows you to run Java-based programs.

Woody - I can add 1/1000 scale, I’ll email an updated .exe to you this afternoon.

Quagmyre - I wrote it in C++ using QT (www.trolltech.com) for the GUI elements.

Nice little tool! Thanks for sharing.

Grand Junkyard, eh? Our home office is located over there on the Worst Slope.

stinger

Thanks for sharing. Nice litle tool.
Borislav

Thank you!

[#ditto]

Love my Macs, hate apple and steve jobs. I can only afford macs on ebay.

ROFLMAO! Worst Slope! I haven’t heard that one yet, I’ll definitely use it.

Woody - you’ve got mail.

BTW - I’m primarily an armor modeller which is why 1/35th is the default scale, if anyone wants me to set something else as default let me know. It might make it a little more convenient to use. I’ll create a new post for this.

Great tool… I think it’ll really come in handy. Thanks for sharing it with us Gnsnow.