The wall detail might have a scale of 1:10 or 1:5, whereas the general section is likely to be 1:50 (in metric units) The chose of scale is determined by the type of drawing, the size of the subject and the size of paper or document that you wish to present it on.įor example a construction detail of a wall junction needs to be a much larger scale than a general section of the whole building.
This means that the same floor plan could you shown at 1:100 for say a presentation, and then parts of it could be shown at 1:10 to show the detail and make-up of the wall construction. The reason for this is so that when it comes to printing/plotting your drawings, you can choose the scale you want to suit the type and size of the drawing you want to produce. However today, most if not all drawings are produced via CAD and 3D programmes and always drawn at a real world size (known as 1:1), meaning that in your chosen CAD programme 1000mm will equal 1000mm, or 1ft will equal 1ft when measured. When producing these drawings by hand, the scale of floor plan or elevation for example must be chosen and drawn in that scale.
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The below and slightly cheesy video further demonstrates how to read an imperial scale:Īs mentioned above, scale is used in architecture as a tool to represent large objects at a smaller size in order to allow them to be read with ease on a standard sized sheet of paper. With this in mind, a 1:1 (“one to one”) scale is the real world scale of everything, and the scale that we draw and 3D model in when using CAD and 3D programmes (…more on this below). So if a measurement taken from the drawing is 10mm, then at real world scale would be 1000mm when built. When reading a scaled drawing, the scale is shown as the length in the drawing, then a colon (“:”), and then the matching length on the real object.įor example, a floor plan of a building drawn using a metric scale of 1:100 (pronounced “one to a one hundred”), means that for each unit that is measured on the drawing (the 1), the real world size of it is 100 times larger (the 100) than it appears. You may have heard the common term ‘to scale’, which for those that don’t know simply means that every component within a drawing or physical model is in the same proportion to one another, and is represented by one of the above common scales. We discuss how to choose a scale further on in this article… How to read scale drawings It’s very unusual for a scaled drawing to deviate away from using one of these set scales, and as architecture students you should always aim use these standards.Ĭustom scales tend to show inexperience, and must be accompanied by a scale bar, which is both unsightly and adds an unnecessary layer of complication to presentation drawings.
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