Discover the technicalities of creating floor plans, understanding scales, types of walls, and interpreting key notes. This article provides insights into how a building is adjusted to fit on a 22 x 34 sheet of paper using different scales.
Key Insights
- The floor plan includes key notes, inspection information and a legend that shows types of walls among other crucial details. These notes and bubbles indicate modifications made to the drawing.
- In floor plan drawings, the scale used is critical to fit the building on a specified size of paper. Here, a relatively unusual scale of 3.16 inches is used to adjust the building onto a 22 x 34 sheet of paper.
- A scale such as a quarter of an inch signifies that it represents a foot in real-size building. This means an inch in the drawing would be equivalent to 4 feet in real size. Similarly, an eighth of an inch would represent a foot, translating to a building 1.996 in real size.
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You can see that I am back in the basement plane. And again, we have our sheet at 2.2. We have our inspection information. We have our key notes.
We have the bubbles that are in this area that say that we made modifications to the drawing with the delta. Number that is reflected in the inspection date. We have our notes in this area.
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We have our legend that shows us information such as types of walls and so on. And again, we are showing the solid walls as our continuous pillars. We have masonry walls.
With the marks through them. We have our network pattern here for the double-pillar walls. If I bring the image closer to the lower right, you can see that I am showing that it is the floor plane.
You can see that the scale is 3.16 inches. Now, this is relatively unusual to have scales like 3.16 inches, but we had some requirements. The requirements were that we had to adjust the building in a 22 x 34 sheet of paper.
The building would have been too big to fit in the drawing at a quarter inch. It would have been too small if we had said an eighth of an inch. We use 3.16 inches, which is halfway between an inch and an eighth of an inch.
And let's talk about scale again. If I have a drawing that is an eighth of an inch, it represents a foot, that means that when I print the drawings one by one, that fourth part of an inch represents 12 inches. Which means that a fourth part of an inch represents a foot.
So, the building at a quarter of an inch is equivalent to a foot, so a quarter of an inch is 12. We multiply by cross as 1 is 48. That a building that is drawn at a quarter of an inch is equivalent to a foot is 1.48 in real size when printed on a sheet of paper.
So, a quarter of an inch is equivalent to a foot means that a quarter of an inch represents 12 inches, which means that an inch represents 4 feet. So, that's a quarter of an inch. An eighth of an inch means that an eighth of an inch represents a foot, so an eighth is a 12, 1 is 96.
So, again, a drawing of a quarter of an inch shows a building 1.48 in real size. An eighth of an inch represents a building 1.996 in real size, and therefore we are halfway.