How to Read and Draw a Scale Floor Plan - Scaled Floorplans Drawing Course for Architecture Students
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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
@kattori1608
2 жыл бұрын
Taught me more than what my course in university did in Architectural Drawing lmao
@Alex-ik5jw
2 жыл бұрын
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@kattori1608
2 жыл бұрын
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@Alex-ik5jw
2 жыл бұрын
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I like your ruler it has a wavy edge
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 🥰
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! I’m glad you found it useful, cheers Ali
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!
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching!
@TheWeirdoChannel100
3 жыл бұрын
damn same.. worst, i fell asleep on the class explaining about scale ruler 😂😂😂 has been confused ever since. i only understood 1:100
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear you're finding the videos helpful. Cheers and good luck :)
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
It was always an issue for me too. Glad you found it useful and thanks for watching :D
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@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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You scared me with your 67 scales especially when it was 82 :)
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@kylesinko
8 ай бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@MitchellBPYao
3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
More to come! Thanks a lot Yzabel :D
@_yjag
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers dude!
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!
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked the vid haha, thanks mate!
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching
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@kylesinko
9 ай бұрын
I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot :)
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!
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I'm glad it helped Yasmin. Best wishes for your home extension, that must be very exciting!
@yasminfinlay8018
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
@@yasminfinlay8018 I'm sure all your hard work will be worth it in the end :)
You explained it better than my teachers thank you so much
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
Thank you it was very helpful
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad Asma! Thanks for watching
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"
Thank you .it helped me a lot 💃🏻💃🏻
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Yomna! Glad you found it useful :D
Thanks I didn't know that before 👍✌
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you took something useful! Cheers
It really helps thanks
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found it helpful :)
very helpful and easy to understand.
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear, thanks a lot :)
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💕
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Most welcome 😊
Nice explanation, brother!
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Thank you so much.
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
You’re most welcome :)
Wow, great explanation bro. Its help me a lot, its easy to understand in this video than in 2 hr lecture. Keep posting videos like this or this field. Just more appropriate you bro.
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Arya! Glad I could help. Cheers
Very informative thanks for sharing
@kylesinko
7 ай бұрын
So glad to hear! Cheers
Thank you very much 💗🥰. Now my Doubt are cleared . 🙏Namste 😀
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad it helped! Thanks for watching
❤️ GOOD INFORMATION ❤️
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you think so! Thanks :)
Thank you bro
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! Thanks fo watching
You made more sense in 9 minutes then what my lecturer taught me in a 1hr lecture 😅
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Haha thank you! Glad it helped
We scale to different scales just for our better clarity and better to hold and analyse. That's it.
Diolch yn fawr iawn!/Thank you very much! 0n a scale from 1-100 this tutorial is a 1000+!
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
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 🙃
Thanks for getting this scale cleared up 🙄
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure :) thanks for watching
Thanks👍👏
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
No problem :)
Thanks a lot
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
You're most welcome :)
Awesome
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad! Thanks a lot Sara
Thank you
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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?
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
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
@innasiebert2520
2 жыл бұрын
@@kylesinko Thank you so much for your very much human explanation of the scale
Thanks
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.
it literally pissed me off when you drew that wack line WITH A RULER!! lol but good video, it really helped. thanks!
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I can't believe how many people it pissed off! I find that hilarious, maybe I'm a cruel person hahaha
thanks dear
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome :)
Tysm
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome :)
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 🙏🏻
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Essentially it's the same principles, just with different units. For example, instead of 100mm, it's 3.9"
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 ☺️
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@pegahsa9805
3 жыл бұрын
@@kylesinko Thank you very much! 😊
@wherethequietbeingsgo
7 ай бұрын
Hey, did he create the videos?
Coolness. Scale is pretty tough. I think scale is exponential coz' you can't just divide the actual measurement to the measurement (miniature version/scaled down) you want. Also how do you know the scale, what scale you this be: the actual measurement is 20mm but I want it to be 2.72mm? God bless, Rev. 21:4
How would I convert 17.5 mm on a floor plan to be bigger ? Which scale do I use ?
Please can you make a video on modelling a dome using a paper or cardboard Paper
Hey thanks that waa helpful... Buh what scale can i use to draw a plan and its advantages plus disadvantages on an A3 paper
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Video starts from: 2:09 You're welcome!
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@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Most welcome! 😄
Спасибо тебе! Понравился
@kylesinko
Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
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 🤧
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
At least you’re learning! 😀
Sr, what is 10kN to 2m scale? You are the best❤️🌍🙏
@kylesinko
2 жыл бұрын
Hi ana! Thanks for the comment. I haven't worked in kilonewtons much before, but I don't think it's possible to convert kN to meters as they are used to measure different things. You can convert between millimeters and kilometers, for example, but kN measures weight not length.
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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 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
@kylesinko
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you found it helpful Lianne. 197.38m in 1:100 scale is 197.38/100 - 1.9738m