How to Use a Scale Ruler (for Students) - Architecture and Engineering
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2021
- How to use a scale ruler to read and draw architecture and engineering scaled drawings.
If you’re studying architecture, engineering or a similar course, you’ll have to know how to read scale drawings, and draw them yourself - in most cases, using a scale ruler.
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In my first year of architecture school I was introduced to working in scale. As a refresher, from the “how to read and draw a scale floor plan video”, drawing to scale is drawing an accurate representation of something, usually in a shrunken version of itself.
Scale rulers come in different shapes and sizes, but they all do the same thing.
They come with different scales because you often need to represent things at different scales. For example, a cabinet doesn’t need to be shrunken as much as a whole house would need to be to fit on a page.
The common scales you’ll see on scale rulers are 1:1, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200 and 1:500
Notice how these are all easy numbers to remember. This is really important.
You won’t see any scale rulers or professional architects or engineering drawings at random scales such as 1:7, 1:52 or 1:300.
I see quite a lot of students make their drawings in random scales to fit them on their poster or drawing set. Don’t do that. It makes life difficult.
The reason why these are at the scales they are, is because they are easily divisible. They are easy and fun to work with. The best way to learn how to use a scale ruler is by using one. So, let’s have a look at how we do that.
I’m going to take a stab and say you’ve been given the task to draw a drawing at a certain scale. Let’s say your teacher has asked you to draw a floor plan at a scale of 1:100. - this is quite a typical scale for a floor plan, elevation or section.
So, what does this actually mean? Your teacher wants you to draw your design 100 times smaller than what it would be in real life.
So, drawing a wall that’s 300mm thick, in a 1:100 drawing, would be 100 times smaller than that. 300/100 is 3. So, the 300mm wall would be drawn 3mm wide on paper in a 1:100 drawing.
So, the wall is 3mm wide on paper. Let’s also say it got a length of 7m long. Do you have to divide every single measurement by 100 in order to draw this drawing? The answer is no that would suck if you had to calculate every dimension. In fact, the solution is your scale ruler.
If we navigate to our 1:100 scale, it will actually tell us what 7m would look like on paper.
If you want to draw a 300mm thick wall at 7mm long, all you need to do is follow your scale ruler.
In this video you’ll learn how to use a scale ruler for architecture and engineering.
Brilliant Kyle best video on the subject yet, you kept it simple and straight to the point making it so easy to understand .
This video makes so much more sense than others I've seen on UA-cam. Thanks 👌
Glad to hear, thanks a lot!
Thank you! I have been trying to suss this out and was getting really confused - your video totally made it clear to me thank you!!
Really awesome video, clear and easy to understand the concept!! Thanks
Thanks a lot! Appreciate the feedback
Nice vid, simply and clearly explained. Keep goin'. Thumb up
Thanks Nina. I appreciate the comment!
This was very helpful, I actually understood it. Thank you a lot
Really glad to hear, thanks a lot :)
So so so so helpful, thank so much :)
Bruh ur vids really helped me for understanding the basics of these scaling stuffs. Thank youu
Really glad to hear, thanks a lot :)
I'm trying to understand scale drawings for interior design and I'm still stuck! :( Is there a way to explain in dummy form? :'D Thank you for your video!
I explain scale in basic terms in this video: ua-cam.com/video/YL4it90rMb8/v-deo.html I highly recommend checking it out! Thanks for watching
ahhhh this was so helpful
I'm so glad :D thanks for watching
Thank you bro, this really helped 🇿🇦
thank you so much, i badly need this
Glad I could help :) Thanks
That what I was looking for I got it awesome broo
So glad to hear cheers man!
Thank you ❤️
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching
Thank you
My pleasure Kayla, thanks for watching
Kyle, please help. I have a drawing printed on an A4 piece of paper but the drawing is drawn to a scale of 1:100 @A1, how would i convert it from A1 to my A4 paper, then use the scale ruler?
you are amazing keep doing please
Thank you heaps
Thank you 💕💕😊😊 ❤️🌹
You are so welcome
Where did you get this ruler?
Nice
Can you show, how to draw in scale in Autocad...(how to know the scale of a drawing)
really need to know how to use scale
If in 1:50 scale i need 1.5 so ansr would be 0.08 smthng but how would i take on the scale
Legend
Good man 👍, saved a mega argument at work
Haha glad to hear! Cheers
The thickness, how do you measure it? I just see you are eyeballing it. Thank you
I just shifted to architecture in second sem and I don't know what the heck my classmates are doing, this explains a lot about the scale.
Thanks 👍
Glad you found it useful, good luck Jame!
legend
Wishing my lecturer could see this video so that she can stop asking us to draw plans, sections and elevations on a scale of 1 20.
How do u convert 1:100 to 1:500?
I was waiting for the Drum solo.
Drum playthrough but with scale rulers instead of drumsticks
I am Electronics major but I have a subject of Shop Layout Management and my prof want as to make a Plant layout using a scale of 1:100. I just have this common ruler and I don't know how to use it in scale of 1:100. My drawing is sucks.
I recommend watching my video on what scale is: ua-cam.com/video/YL4it90rMb8/v-deo.html
I still suck at this wow...but your video clarified bro thanks.
Haha it's just practice. Glad you found it helpful :)
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What rulers are you using? X
This is just a flat scale ruler, they come in heaps of different brands, shapes and sizes. It doesn't matter too much which one you get, just try get one with decent scales on it :)
my ruler has a 1:300 scale so it can't be that uncommon
too much rambling. 2 min in and you still haven't explained how to use it
Oops. I know I should be more to the point. Hopefully still got something out the video, cheers
I don’t think you were rambling. I appreciated it. I’m
A landscape painter, & was wondering if this is ever used by artists?
Why my scale ruler is different from yours is it scale ruler have different numbers and measurement ?
Correct, there are different scale rulers as mentioned in the video. Yours might be in imperial measurements
Correct, there are different scale rulers as mentioned in the video. Yours might be in imperial measurements
I have never used these scales, I always calculated with calculator everytime which is hectic and time taking. Guys, just buy scales and learn to use it.
Clear as 0mud.
POV ur American
If you are in architecture school and you are watching this video, then just give up. Do something else for a living.
This is very comforting
Thanks I need that