Scales In Floor Plans

Scale floor plans aid the design process and can really help you visualize things such as the ideal furniture layout.

Scales in floor plans.

Here are a few tips on how to measure and draw a floor plan to scale. Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing. An accurate floor plan drawing is a necessity whether you re planning a home remodel commercial space build out or just need dimensions for arranging furniture placement. The chose of scale is determined by the type of drawing the size of the subject and the size of paper or document that you wish to present it on.

This means that the same floor plan could you shown at 1 100 for say a presentation and then parts of it could be shown at 1 10 to show the detail and make up of the wall construction. Creating a floor plan to scale can be as simple as taking accurate measurements with a tape measure then using a pencil and graph paper to scale down your results. When your floor plan is complete create high resolution 2d and 3d floor plans that you can print and download to scale in jpg png and pdf. The scale for floor plans can be shown in two different ways.

For example it is common practice to produce floor plans at a scale of 1 100 dependent on size of project and paper.