Yo EClancy ! !
I'm smellin what your cooking but if I may, how many many parts do you have to cut out?
Do you have a cad file on them?
If you could get the specs to me I could cut the parts out on my cnc plasma cutting machine just to help a fellow ctd owner.
Let me know.
What kind of project are you working on?

Thanks
Brad

 

i do not have a cad file. they are very well done "measured drawings" with all needed measurements given, just not to scale. again, my issue is that where holes are supposed to be drilled it is layed out as followed:

hole "a" is to be 2.68 inches in from the side, and 2.43 inches from the top (but it is pictured, not written as text)

like i said, i can handle cutting out said bracket, but getting holes to wind up 2.68" from the edge is gonna be kinda tough, because i dont know what 2.68" is as a fraction that can be read from a tape measure, and trying to "round" it off to the nearest marked measurement on the tape is going to thow it off too much.

 

2.68" is approx. 2 5/8"(2.675")... the error is less than .2%
2.43" is approx. 2 7/16"(2.4375")... the error is .3%

 

2.4375 = 2 7/16"

2.6875 = 2 11/16"

You can get real close with a tape measure, I'm not sure that a paper cutout would get you much closer when you are drilling by hand.

Here is an online decimal to fraction converter.

http://www.webmath.com/dec2fract.html