Hi Folks, I'm also looking at own design 95.10 in this case wooden construction cranked delta, no drawings yet, only notebook sketches but the big hurdle from my point of view is doing the stressing. I have a couple of books on homebuilts which give you rule of thumb type approaches but it is hard to work out what forces to apply under different flight conditions - any suggestions would be appreciated.
I could use the TLAR (That Looks About Right) method then when completed, load it to design limits and hope that it doesn't break but if it does, a lot of work would be wasted!
Regarding scanning large paper plans, I used an old door, cut out a space for the scanner so that the scanner was flush with the door surface and scanned some large DH2 plans on my A4 scanner then stitched the resulting images (about 18 per drawing sheet) together using Paint Shop pro, this allowed me to rotate those images that were misaligned or inverted. I found that some of the photo stitching software available needed too large an overlap and didn't work well with line drawings. If you want to go the whole hog, in many CAD programs, you can import a raster image and then in another layer, "trace" over the drawing to produce a scaleable vector image but I haven't tried that myself yet.
Cheers
Greg