From the course: Drafting Foundations
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Drawing to scale
- Technical drawings are used to represent objects of all shapes and sizes. This includes consumer products, machine parts, buildings, entire city blocks. They can be as small as computer microchips and as large as a roadmap of an entire state or country. In all these drawings, the common element is scale. In order to fit the subject on a manageable sheet of paper, the subject has to be most often scaled down or in some cases even scaled up. Now, this is down proportionally based on the units of measure of the drawing. We've already talked about the scale ruler in some of our previous videos but in this video what I'd like to do is talk about how you choose an appropriate scale for whatever it is you're trying to draw. In this case, let's assume that you want to buy some furniture for your living room, so we'll a do a really a simple exercise. What I did was I went out in the field with a tape measure and I took a bunch of measurements of the space. So, I took those measurements and I…
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