Clear up question!!!

[Ritch7]

hi everyone. im sure i know the answer to this one, but i'm confused by my colleagues contiuned nonsense and i know im correct, but anyway i would like to ask you guys.

 

i'm working on a drawing at 1:500, so its a half right?

 

anyway on the drawing theirs an office that's 50 ft by 50 ft, on the drawing so heres the stupid question READY...

 

"is the office acually 50 ft by 50 ft as its dimensioned on the drawing or is it really something else"?? please someone clear this up for me officially.

 

Many many thanks.

[eldon]

I trust that you are drawing at full scale in model space.

 

If something is dimensioned as 50', there can always be a scale factor used in the dimension. So I would check the length in the drawing with a DIST to find out the length of the line.

[Ritch7]

yeh thanks, the question he keeps asking is if its 50 ft by 50 ft is it really supposed to be half the size 25x 25 if its 1/2 scale drawing?

[eldon]

Always draw full size, so this type of question should never happen.

 

If he has to ask this question, he is not drawing full size.

 

Scale only comes into it when you are printing out the drawing, never beforehand.

[ReMark]

yeh thanks, the question he keeps asking is if its 50 ft by 50 ft is it really supposed to be half the size 25x 25 if its 1/2 scale drawing?

 

And that's why God invented the engineer's and the architect's scale.

[GE13579]

i'm working on a drawing at 1:500, so its a half right?

 

This is a bit worrying... 1:500 = 1:2?

 

NO!!! :shock:

 

Like Eldon said, you should be drawing at 1:1 in model, then scale it into PS if need be...