Reading a drafting ruler

Welcome, Guest

Carpentry	Select your forum:
By Topic > Carpentry > Reading a drafting ruler

Topic: Reading a drafting ruler

breehaw

Wed, 04/04/2007 - 3:27pm

Reading a drafting ruler

Help! I just bought a (3-sided or triangular) drafting ruler. My architect tells me that a room drawn on my plans is 14'11.5" x 10'10.5". The plan tells me it's a 1/16th" scale, but I can't figure out how he comes up with the dimensions!

Bookmark/Search this post with:

reading scales

paulupa123 writes:

Wed, 04/04/2007 - 6:58pm

first is the one you have in architect's, metric or engineers. the one you need is architect then flip it over until you find the side that says 1/16" it'll have a very tiny lines on one or both ends. those represent inches the feet are the numbers that go across the main body of the scale. they will tell you exactly how many feet & inches you haveif you start one end at the feet # then read the inches left over at the end of the measurement. luck!!!