SCALES
Engineer's Scales
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• 1" = 10'
• 1"=100'
• 1 = 1000'
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An engineer's scale has one or more sets of
graduated and numbered spaces, each set being
divided into 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. or 60 parts to
the inch.
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Metric Scales
Metric scales consist of one or more sets of
graduated and numbered spaces, each set
establishing a proportion of one millimeter to
aspecified number of millimeters.
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• Common metric scales include the following:
1:5,1:50, 1:500,1:10, 1:100, 1:1000,1:20, and
1:200
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Digital Scale
Intraditional drawing, we t hink in real-world
units and use scaleto reduce the size of the
drawing to a manageable size. In digital drawing,
we actually input information in real-world units,
but we should distinguish between the size of
theimage seenon a monitor and the sca le of t he
output froma printer or plotter.
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