Drawing scale

The scale is shown as the length in the drawing, then a colon (":"), then the matching length on the real thing. Example: this drawing has a scale of "1:10", so anything drawn with the size of "1" would have a size of "10" in the real world, so a measurement of 150mm on the drawing would be 1500mm on the real horse.

1. What are the standard drawing scales?
2. What is a 1/100 scale drawing?
3. What does a scale of 1 to 50 mean?
4. What is a drawing drawn to scale?

What are the standard drawing scales?

Scales are generally expressed as ratios and the most common scales used in furniture drawing are 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, and 1:10 for reducing and possibly 2:1 for enlarging.

What is a 1/100 scale drawing?

Drawings are done to a scale. ... A scale of 1 to 100 is indicated on a drawing using the code 1:100. This can be interpreted as follows: 1 centimetre (0.01 metre) measured with a ruler on the plan would need to be multiplied by 100 to give the actual size of 1 metre.

What does a scale of 1 to 50 mean?

1:50 is a ratio. it means you're scaling 1 unit to 50 units. that could be inches (1"=50") or miles (1 mile=50 miles) or anything else, but it's a direct scale.

What is a drawing drawn to scale?

When a drawing is described as 'to scale', it means that each element in that drawing is in the same proportion, related to the real or proposed thing – it is smaller or indeed larger by a particular percentage.