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Frequently Asked Questions
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Engineer scale vs architectural scale: what’s the difference?
HELPFUL VIDEOS
How to Use an Architectural Scale & an Engineering Scale
Planning the construction of buildings and other structures entails creating a scale drawing. Be it an architectural plan or a blueprint, a scale drawing serves as a helpful reference for building the actual structure. This type of technical drawing requires the use of a drafting scale, which comes in either architectural scale or engineering scale.
Because a drafting scale comes with different scale measurements, it tends to be confusing to read measurements using this instrument. But with practice, this drafting instrument can be easy to use. Fortunately, this video can help any drafting scale user practice drafting and reading technical drawings with this instrument. It clearly explains how to use and read both an architectural scale and an engineering scale.
Drafting Scales
From huge skyscrapers to museums with intricately designed facades, the minds of architects and engineers seem like amazing places overflowing with a plethora of ideas. These ideas start out in small-scale measurements on blank sheets of drawing paper, which eventually become design plans that serve as references when building life-size structures. Because the drafting scale is a key tool in the design process, Engineer Warehouse offers drafting scales of different kinds that are ideal for construction professionals.
Since engineers and architects always go back and forth between offices and construction sites, they will love having pocket scales clipped on their belts or placed inside their pockets. To avoid confusion between different calibrations, drafting scales come with different colors, such as red, green, or blue, on their edges. This is for easy color-coding and identifying calibrations. Scales are also available in different units such as metric, imperial, or a combination of the two, so transferring scale measurements at a fixed ratio won’t be difficult. For a convenient selection of scales, some of these feature rotating rods displaying multiple scales. Apart from these, there are many other scales of various kinds from which you can easily choose.
