Landscape Scale Ruler

The distance between any two large numbered lines is 1 inch.

Landscape scale ruler. One 12 triangular architect s ruler features 3 sides with 6 different scales. Convenient practical our 12 triangular architect scale ruler features 3 sides with 6 different scales color coded grooves for quick and accurate selection of the desired scale. A scale of 1 8 inch 1 foot is commonly used to draw landscape design plans. Printable ruler tips and tricks.

Most architectural construction and engineering drawings and blueprints are scaled to allow for large areas structures or items to conveniently fit on a reasonable size of paper. The tiny little lines between all of the more prominent lines are 1 16 inch. Professional grade for supreme accuracy. Follow these three steps to read customary or metric scale rulers.

You should see the value 32 on your scale. Scale rulers can combine up to four scales or feature a symmetric cross section with three lobes and six scales. An architect s or scale ruler is designed for use in determining the actual dimensions of a distance on a scaled drawing. Multi purpose the architectural drawing scales ruler designed to facilitate the drafting and measuring of architectural drawings such as floor plans blue prints and orthographic projections.

Un check top border to remove ruler top line. The smaller but still prominent line between the 1 2 mark and the numbered inch line is 1 4 inch. An engineering scale or architect scale ruler is essential for measuring distances for every part of a scaled down design in an architectural drawing blueprint or orthographic projection. The drawings state that the scale is 1 8 inch equals 1 foot.

Other features such as trees patios and decks may not be located on the survey but can be measured on site and added to the base map. For this scale use the kind of graph paper with the grids laid out in eighth inch scale. At this scale you can represent a property as large as 60 feet by 80 feet on an 8 x 11 sheet. Adjustable printable scale rulers 1 0 5 to 1 200 measure at scale from on screen image metric adjust scale and total ruler length and print templates at 100 printer scale.

Print on lighter weight paper to make the ruler more flexible which is useful for crafts or sewing projects. If you wish to use 1 8 th scale standard ruler to draw the base map use the lengths of the property lines and house dimensions written on the survey. The survey is drawn using the engineer s scale. Made from high grade anodized aluminum.

Using your architect scale select the face of the tool with the 1 8 mark in the upper left hand corner. 1 1 2 1 3 4 3 8 3 16 3 32 1 2 1 4 1 8 3 16. The large unnumbered line that is halfway between them is 1 2 inch. Example of an architects scale ruler.

Use card stock or heavy paper for a more rigid ruler that will last longer.