How to Read and Draw a Scale Floor Plan - Scaled Floorplans Drawing Course for Architecture Students
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- How do you draw floor plans to scale? What even is scale in architectural drawings? Let’s find out why architects need to draw floor plans to scale and how you can too. This is the second video of the Floor Plans Course for Architecture Students. We’re talking scale in architectural floor plans.
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How to Read and Draw a Scaled Floor Plan - Architectural scale isn’t easy to wrap your head around, so stick with me, and let’s break it down.
G’day and Welcome, In the last video of this Architectural Drawing Course, we started looking at floor plans. That 4-minute video walked through what a floor plan actually is and how to draw your own floor plans.
If you haven’t seen that, I recommend watching it as that is the first video of this course and you don’t want to get left behind as we move forward.
That video explained architectural floor plans, generally what they look like and how you can produce one. But It brought up the idea of drawing to scale.
So, what does this actually mean?
Let’s take for example, you are asked to draw this 45cm or 18in ruler on paper, if you were drawing it at its normal scale you would draw it 45cm or 18 inches long as that is an accurate representation of it at its original scale. Now that would be fine to do, as it fits on a page quite nicely. But can you imagine trying to draw a house plan on a piece of paper at its original scale? You would need a lot of paper.
Drawing to scale generally means drawing something with accurate sizes but in a shrunken version that is, scaled down, or an enlarged version that is scaled up. In architectural drawing, we really only look at scaling things down. Because, if we draw a piece of furniture, we want to be able to show that piece of furniture, typically on a piece of paper to show a builder or client. Therefore, you wouldn’t want to enlarge the thing, you would want to scale it down to fit it on that piece of paper. That is what scale is all about. It’s about drawing that piece of furniture accurately, but just making it smaller so that you can fit it on a page.
You might have seen this scale indicator before, whether it be 1:1, 1:100 or 1:67.
What this means for us in this drawing is that anything in the drawing with the size of 1 would have a size in real life of 1. It is a scale ratio of 1:1. For every 1mm on the drawing, it represents 1mm in real life.
So, what would it mean to draw in 1:100 or 1:500?
Drawing at a scale of 1:100 would mean that for every 1mm in the drawing, it represents 100mm in real life.
Drawing at a scale of 1:500 would mean that for every 1mm in the drawing, it represents 500mm in real life.
You might have noticed that as the scale number gets larger, the drawing gets smaller. 1:500 was the smallest drawing. 1:1000 would be half that. That’s because really, what this scale is telling us is that at 1:100, the drawing of the thing is 100x smaller than its real-life size. At 1:500, the drawing is 500x smaller than the real-life size. As the number goes up, the drawing size gets smaller.
So, let’s say we want to draw a house floor plan on a piece of paper. How do we know what scale to shrink it down to?
To draw something to scale, it needs to be accurately represented at a smaller size. You would first need to know the dimensions of the house. Whether it be an existing house you are drawing up, or a design you’re creating yourself. More importantly, from one point of the house to the other, how long or tall is the footprint of the building?
If the house is 20mx40m, you can scale this down to put it on a piece of paper.
For example, I want to draw this 20x40 house on an a4 piece of paper. To do that, I’ve chosen the scale out of the air of 1:100. The drawing will be 100x smaller than the house is in real life. To work out that size, we need to know what 20m divided by 100 is. Therefore, the length of the house on a piece of paper would be 0.2m. Or 20cm. 40m divided by 100 is therefore 40cm.
To draw this floor plan at a scale of 1:100, you therefore need to draw 20cmx40cm.
Now notice how easy it was to divide that number by 100. This is why you always see architects working in scales such as 1:10, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200, 1:500 and not 1:67, 1:300, 1:750. I often see architecture students do this and it’s just not good practice. Make it easier for yourself and those reading the plan by drawing to a simple scale that can easily be worked out.
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this taught me more in 5 minutes than hours of math class
Taught me more than what my course in university did in Architectural Drawing lmao
@@kattori1608 they complicate it so much I can’t😭
@@Alex-ik5jw Trust me I feel the same way, currently trying to finish my last year of university before I can migrate to the US 🥺
So much stress every day, it's really hard to find time to rest anymore, been only sleeping 4 hours a day 😔
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I've been struggling with this my whole life, you just made it so much easier and simpler .
I wish you were my professor ..
Thank you so much 🥰
Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it useful, cheers Ali
I like your ruler it has a wavy edge
Bruh this really helps knowing we're in the middle of this pandemic and sadly I'm a module base student which means SELF STUDY and surprisingly after a while we have to make a floor plan and other architectural thingy . A seniorhigh drafting student here! thanks for the infos!
Glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching!
damn same.. worst, i fell asleep on the class explaining about scale ruler 😂😂😂 has been confused ever since. i only understood 1:100
this helped me as an archtecture student, I have been studying online for two semesters because of the pandemic and almost gave up, because the assignments given by the lecturer were very many but there was nothing that I could really understand, when watching this channel i can be a little relieved, the explanation is easy to underatand, thank you very much for this channel. keep the spirit of creating content 👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear you're finding the videos helpful. Cheers and good luck :)
I remember how I used to struggle a lot in my first year with scaling. Even now sometimes I have doubts.Thanks for this, it really helps :))
It was always an issue for me too. Glad you found it useful and thanks for watching :D
Appreciate the content!! Knowing how much time architecture takes, I acknowledge the effort you put into your videos 🙌🏽 keep it going
I appreciate that! Thanks a lot Emmanuel
I'm an interior design student and found this so helpful!! Thank you!
You're so welcome! Glad you found it useful.
Wow! This video is so helpful, thank you for explaining this in such a simplified way!
You're so welcome! Glad you liked it :)
This has helped a lot thank you !!
I feel like i can actually understand better what I’m doing now, rather than just jump in my projects and hoping I did it right.
Really glad to hear it cleared your doubts Anna. Thanks a lot
Very well explained, Student Life-saving! Thanks so much!
My pleasure! Thanks so much Somy
Wow! Thank you so much! After trying for - I won't say how long - I finally understand how to draw to scale. I am not a student of architecture but I have been trying to work out this process as I have been working on creating an extension for my home and in order to do that I was really stuck at this point. No matter who explained and what I read in order to understand "how to draw to scale" I could not wrap my head around the method - but thanks to your tutorial I finally do get it!
Fantastic! I'm glad it helped Yasmin. Best wishes for your home extension, that must be very exciting!
It is and it isn't. ☺️ There are parts of it I would dearly like to hire someone to do but financial constraints prevent me from going there. So the job will probably take longer than the normal time lines - but I am sure I will get there.
@@yasminfinlay8018 I'm sure all your hard work will be worth it in the end :)
Requesting for more videos all about floor plans!!!!! and you actually, REALLY explained it clearly, I have no questions. Thank youuuuuu
More to come! Thanks a lot Yzabel :D
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This is really a big help for me as a freshman archi student, I now finally understood what my instructor talkin about..
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Hands down! Best explanation!
Thank you for this! I'm really having a hard time when I'm doing a floor plan with given measurement and scale, I somehow understand how the conversion works. But the humor and the jokes of this video got me too 😂 especially when you are using ruler but making a wavy line yourself instead haha 😂 cool!
Glad you liked the vid haha, thanks mate!
Thank you for the lesson! It really helped me realize something for so long now.
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Glad I could help! All the best with your project
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Glad to hear, thanks Simone!
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This was great. Thanks. I came to this video because I saw that James Cameron made the Titanic model at a 20:1 ratio and when I saw the picture of the model, it seemed impossible that making the model 20 times bigger would actually match the real length of the Titanic. It seemed like the Titanic would be much bigger in real life. But now I realize I was wrong in my assumption.
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Thanks for explaining. It’s my first year and I was just 🙃not getting it. But now I do👍
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Thank you for this! I really appreciate it. Can you do a part two for calculations in practice time.. I really struggle with this side of things; "plan to ground"
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You are so welcome, thanks for watching!
You scared me with your 67 scales especially when it was 82 :)
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I now understand this perfectly
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Thanks Ann! Glad you found it useful.
Well explained it's so simple and clear for one to understand ,Thanks for this
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You explained it better than my teachers thank you so much
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was trying to wrap my head around this all day and you cleared it up in 5 minutes. thank you so much.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching John
Brilliant explanation, thank you 🙏
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Thank you so much Arya! Glad I could help. Cheers
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Going from A3 to A4 or indeed A1 to A2 (ie 1 page size down), the scaled size is not 50%, it is actually about 71% of the original size. Add the "fit to page" option everyone seems to love to use which adds an additional margin to your original page size and it comes to about 67%. People also seem to mix this percentage up with scale, this is why I think the 1:67 scale comes up.
Thanks man this has helped me 🙏
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Glad it helped! Thanks for watching Shelby
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Thank you very much .. really helpfull
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching
Yes, understanding scales is a whole topic which is underrated. Scales can mess you like nothing else. So, Yeah it's much better to understand what they are.
It’s that easy😂 can’t thank u enough, god bless u sir💕
Most welcome 😊
Thanks I didn't know that before 👍✌
Glad to hear you took something useful! Cheers
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Cheers dude!
Hey thanks that waa helpful... Buh what scale can i use to draw a plan and its advantages plus disadvantages on an A3 paper
very helpful and easy to understand.
Glad to hear, thanks a lot :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Great video. Want to make a 1.6' scale house in real life so im trying to understand what would the floor plan look like 🙃
Thank you!!
You are welcome :)
Thank you so much.
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It really helps thanks
Glad you found it helpful :)
We scale to different scales just for our better clarity and better to hold and analyse. That's it.
Thank youuu so mucchh! 💛
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Now my Doubt are cleared .
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I'm glad it helped! Thanks for watching
Hi, I love your channel. Thank you for your videos, they are very very helpful.
Could you make a video about how to read scale bar and how to make scale bar for your drawings, please? Thank you ☺️
Hey Pegah, thank you! I appreciate the comment. I'll have to add that to my list of videos to make! Keep an eye out for it :)
@@kylesinko Thank you very much! 😊
Hey, did he create the videos?
Very informative thanks for sharing
So glad to hear! Cheers
You made more sense in 9 minutes then what my lecturer taught me in a 1hr lecture 😅
Haha thank you! Glad it helped
Bro i have a question i do not know about in measurements or what but where is the scale used in the floor plan on every walls?
Thank you bro
You’re welcome! Thanks fo watching
Thanks for getting this scale cleared up 🙄
My pleasure :) thanks for watching
Nice explanation, brother!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Diolch yn fawr iawn!/Thank you very much! 0n a scale from 1-100 this tutorial is a 1000+!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Thank you
You're welcome
woooow..... it's just opened my eyes actually... I was always asking myself about that weir sale numbers that all talk about ...thank you sooo much ...
I have a question there to ask ... how to Develop a scaled Furniture Plan?
Hi Inna! Thanks for the comment. A scaled furniture plan would essentially follow the same principles talked about in this video, the scales might be bigger at 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 rather than a typical floor plan at 1:50, 1:100 or 1:200
@@kylesinko Thank you so much for your very much human explanation of the scale
thank you for thisssss I was looking for someone who can teach me this even my classmates but these really helpss me a lot but how about the 197.38 m in 1:100 scale??? thank youuu
Glad you found it helpful Lianne. 197.38m in 1:100 scale is 197.38/100 - 1.9738m
Thanks a lot
You're most welcome :)
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No problem :)
❤️ GOOD INFORMATION ❤️
Glad you think so! Thanks :)
Please can you make a video on modelling a dome using a paper or cardboard Paper
how can i draw a figure ground map at 1:200
How would I convert 17.5 mm on a floor plan to be bigger ? Which scale do I use ?
Can you do a video on how to use the (feet and inches) calculations, like (1’/32”, or 1’/67”), just the American version of what u’ve just done, please 🙏🏻
Essentially it's the same principles, just with different units. For example, instead of 100mm, it's 3.9"
Infect i am supposed to put a house in an 1,000m², at the boundaries (sides and back) am supposed to leave 4 then at front 10 to 12m so I need to do this correct and i need your help 😊
Awesome
I'm so glad! Thanks a lot Sara
im a civil tech major and draw was really my weakness i lack skills and patients and now i have to make a floor plan without much knowledge and module 🤧
At least you’re learning! 😀
Trying to make a Plot Plan 1:20 when I originally started it in 1/16" - 1'-0" using a CSize 18"x 24" Paper. I tried 1:20 and the Image was too big, but it fit at 1:100, hopefully that's ok, or what's your opinion ?
thanks dear
You're welcome :)
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You're welcome :)
I am currently studying interior design and were supposed to draft furniture plans and elevations. please tell me to w
hats the best scale and page size to use.
It depends on the project, but a safe pick would be 1:100 or 1:50 @ A3
it literally pissed me off when you drew that wack line WITH A RULER!! lol but good video, it really helped. thanks!
Hahaha I can't believe how many people it pissed off! I find that hilarious, maybe I'm a cruel person hahaha
I need to draw a line with a 1:50 scale ruler, I need to know how much do I round up or down for instance if I have 8462mm do I stop the line at 8450mm. How do you get the 12mm on this scale. increments go 50,100,150,200... 609 for example would I just round down to 600?
Any help much appreciated
Typically I round up to the nearest 5mm. For example, if I have a measurement of 8462mm, I'd round it to 8460. If your ruler only has 50mm increments and you want to draw a line at 8462mm, you would find where it says 8450 and 8500 and draw slightly past 8450. If you want it to be more precise, you would use a scale with 1mm increments. Hope that helps