super beginner question-steps

[richie_008]

what steps would I need to take to draw something out of an atchitectural book? the directions are to draw to scale (1"= 30') what scale would I use to measure and then how would I be sure if it is going correctly into Auto CAD? thanks for the help.

[Cad64]

This question is far to vague.

What exactly are you trying to draw?

 

And who is telling you to draw at 1"=30'?

 

One thing I can tell is Don't draw at a scale. Always draw everything at full size 1:1. The Autocad model space environment is infinite, so there is no reason to ever draw anything at a scale.

[richie_008]

I'm taking architectural drafting and the teacher wants us to do drawings from the book that have no measurements. Am I supposed to use one the architectural or engineering scale to get it? and whenever I plot I want it to come out to that same measurement. I assume I do that in plot settings. I am supposed to draw a staircase.

[Cad64]

So your teacher wants you to create an Autocad drawing by taking measurements from a drawing in a book which was drawn at a scale of 1"=30'? Is that correct? If so, then you will need to use your engineering scale to determine the dimensions. The one for 30 scale drawings.

 

When you're finished, you will need to create a paper space layout with a viewport set to 1:30. Hasn't your teacher covered all of this already?

[Strix]

I think CADTutor should be sending invoices to some of these educational establishments you know

 

it would help if we knew what the object of the exercise actually is

 

if it's to appreciate scale and working with scale in an architect's office which will have scaled paper drawings in it, that's one thing, but if you're being taught to use autocad as the primary objective of this task, our answers are going to be different!

[Tiger]

It is kinda nice to have one thing that everyone (at least I have never seen a different suggestion) answers the same to - NEVER DRAW TO SCALE, ALWAYS DRAW 1:1!!

[bonehead411]

I received a vessel GA recently which was drawn @ 1:50, and entirely in a layout. Nothing in modelspace, not a sausage! Kinda defeats the whole object of having the two.

 

richie_008; you'll not go far wrong heeding the advice of the members of this forum.

[Patrick Hughes]

One thing I can tell is Don't draw at a scale.

 

Picking nits here but I think I would have said: Always draw at scale (of 1:1) I know, you did further elaborate the point.

[ReMark]

It's going to be very tough to take measurements of a staircase that is drawn to a scale of 1"=30' (one inch = thirty feet). By the way, 1"=30' in the U.S. is generally considered to be a scale used in civil engineering. An example of an architectural scale would be 1/8"=1'. Your teacher needs to take a lesson or two himself.

 

Note: At 1'=30' each gradation is equal to 12". What if the rise is 7.5"? How are you going to measure that?

[Cad64]

Picking nits here but I think I would have said: Always draw at scale (of 1:1) I know, you did further elaborate the point.

 

What I said was:

 

Don't draw at a scale. Always draw everything at full size 1:1.

 

1:1 is not a scale, it's full size.

[ReMark]

I'm really trying to remain positive here that it will somehow sink in (1:1 being full scale). Aren't you?