How to Read an Architectural Scale | Beginner 

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Dude, you just saved my ass for my exam which is in literally 45 minutes. Thank you

5 yrs architecture college + 2 years apprenticeship + 16 yrs professional practice using the metric system, then moved here in the US....dammmm it's like I'm back again to 1st year college trying to learn how to use the imperial system🤣🤣🤣...thanks to you man, you give me hope on this new path of mine👍👍👍

Thank you for the video. I am taking classes on Print reading for construction, recently took a quiz about reading architectural scale, and to be honest it lost me. My professor sent me this video and wow, you made it easy for me to understand it. Thank you

Thank you for the video I’m turning to read prints I work in the dirt world and never had the time to learn and your video made it a bit easier for me.

Thank you! Im new in the country and also new using this kind of measurements, I'm an Architect from Colombia and your video helped me a lot! !

Not me watching this when I have an architectural midterm in two days 👀 Edit: BOYS I GOT A 97 ON MY MIDTERM, AND THIS GUYS VIDEO WAS LITERALLY 1/4 OF THE QUESTIONS

quick easy and straight to the point. great video !

Amazing! After watching this video I completely understand a scale ruler THANK YOU !

Excellent! When I worked in the sign business, I was never far from an architect's scale. My boss taught me the cross-scale, this is for drawings that were not to scale-one can still use an architect's scale as long as you have an overall height or width.

Thank you for such pure simplicity

What a fantastic lesson! Easy to follow, clear, concise, well articulated and demonstrated as well. Just subscribed.

Thanks so much for this. I'm a designer and software teacher and this helps me a lot on my work.

Very clear explanations. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video!!! I am in a landscape design course and was having trouble figuring out how to properly use this scale. This straightforward video provided easy-to-follow examples that helped me understand the Architectural Scale. Thanks again!!!

You are a great teacher. I just bought my 1st triangular ruler (like the one my dad used when i was a child) and im 62.. i was hoping to learn but wondering how complicated they were to use. You really do a great job explaining how to use it! Thanks to you, a simple plan for a building permit to build a woodshop can be accurately drawn.

Nice tutorial! I have worked in structural steel over 20 years. Mostly as a fabricator on the shop floor. Spending a lot of time reading shop drawings with some time on arch. Drawings too. I want to open my own company. But for now I took an estimator position for a sister shop that does (our overload work) haven't really used a scale since high school drafting class. Been relying on my job project managers and contractor detailers to help me through some details. These vids are big help!

This video helped me understand perfectly, thank you so much.

Thank you for making this video. It is helping my Interior Design students, learn how to use the Architectural Scale in designing their Tiny House model for an assignment.

Thank you! Your video did the trick for me. I was hung up on the inch scale part. I now understand that it needs to equal 12" and the value of each tick needs to be determined by calculation.

Well done, I am teaching three teeagers how to read a tape and a scale ruler. You were concise, to the point, and I will have them watch your video. Thanks for the good work!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am no longer confused!

the BEST scale video I've seen. So many of them are confusing - but yours is great!

I'm doing HVAC in new construction houses,and some times is very difficult to get the range hood o micro vents centers,this video helps me a lot to know how to get the centers,thanks a lot.

Hello, I have a question about the 16 scale side. For each inch does it equal 10' or a different measurement. I'd love to hear your day on how this works. Thank you and appreciate your videos!

This dude is genius thanks 🙏🏽 bro God bless you!

Thank you for this video. This helps me for my construction trades course work and I can better understand an architects scale now as I was having a hard time with it.

Thank you for the clear video, it helped me to really read what I was doing. Thank you!!!!

love this, thank you!

Thanks! Learned a lot

Currently on my lunch break from class and feel a lot better going back after watching this. Thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you.

I just started a college blueprinting class and was reading the textbook chapter on scales and couldn't understand for the life of me. A quick youtube search later and your video unraveled the mess in my brain in less than 10 minutes. Thank you!

Great video! Very easy to understand 👌🏼 and very useful!

Thank you so much. You have a great talent for teaching

Good .. thanks for ur explanation

This video explanation of measurements provided more clarity than any math class I ever took. Bravo 👏

Very helpful. Thank you for explaining

Hello, Thank you. this video saved me. Now I will clearly explain the situation to my workshop friend. Since I am in a different part of the world, I am aware of metric scales. Just a small Q. how 3/32 or 3/16 can be replicated? Thanks again.

thank you bro u did help me alot in my begginer way to start furniture bussiness

Thank you!! Very informative.

Thank you I have a test coming up and I needed to study this was helpful thanks!

Thank you for teaching me this so quickly, even though I'm in middle school one of my classes use these kinds of rulers

You sure earned that like buddy!

Fantastic. Concise explanation. I want to use to draw a project to scale instead of doing the math on a regular ruler. This was great

Thank you! I am in school for construction management and my professor confused me with his explanation! You made this so easy to understand.

Great video. Good pace.

You teach this WAAAAAYYYYY better than my EGT 110 professor! Thank you so much!

now I understand much better thanks

thank you your a blessing

Thank you very much

You are awesome thanks 👍

your so goated for that! made it so easy!

Hell there Thanks for sharing you knowing. Cheers.

Not gonna lie I haven't used one of these since 2014, when I did orthographic projections in my high school shop class. Recently bought one and some other equipment and am trying to get back into it, I really needed the refresher though.

Thanks man! I’m a maintenance apprentice and if it weren’t for RU-vid videos like this I don’t know how else I’d learn

can you do the version of this sing the global metric scale please it will help a lot as you explain very well

Great job .thanks

Nice 👍 video thanks

thank you vermy ,much sir

Helpful vedio

Very helpful Video thankyou

sir if this measuring using still tape measure in meter in actual size in project how can i do

Thank you

Your video was great thank you I’m extremely new to this I really don’t know how to use it. And I’m nervous I’m not that great with numbers

Fantastic video, my teacher breezed by this today and I struggled so much your video cleared it up

I learned a bunch!!

Thank you!

Great and very helpfull videos mate, especially for new woodworkers like me. Can you follow up with a metric one for people from my part of the world .....pat

Very good video!

is thr any video in regard of explaining whole architectural scale in one video in detail..also with doing some beginner draughting.

je suis bien content d'habiter dans un pays qui utilise le système métrique, infiniment plus simple. I'm very happy to live in a country that uses the infinitely simpler metric system.

Damn needed help big time for my c39 roofing license test I have to use that ruler

architectural scale ruler amazing

Thank you Sr.

Very helpful

this is perfect. I'm working under a contractor (free from Lowes YAY!) and he possibly wants me to start doing floor plans for flooring jobs

Is there a video explaining how to add dimensions?

On the page where you used the 3-inch scale, how did you know to use that scale? Also this did clarify the scale itself. Especially the 3-inch reading. I'm in a print reading class for my job, and figured I should know this before the next session.

Great quick and easy lesson - but one question! My planning dept requires me draw a site plan at 1" = 20' scale. Where can i find a ruler that will give those dimensions? Or what do I do?

Hello I’m in a welding class for inro blue print reading; I’m having trouble scaling out the inches on the smaller scales like 1/8, 3/32, 3/16. Please tell me if I’m missing something I’m very new to this

Thank you sir very good knowledge. I have a 1 question how to count how much lumber I need for projects for example I’m building 12x10 shed any formula sir thank you

Liked and subscribed 👍 great video

Thank you for the video, you have cleared up my confusion on different scales but my question is this: If I have file emailed to me and to see the area in question I enlarge the plan on my computer screen, does the scale still work correctly?

I'm reading my scale and it makes a whole lot of difference my problem is reading the little marks | on each scale like between theres 1/8 , and 3/8 ,1/4, 1/2 but on 3" scale .

If I want to draw out plans for something such as a piece of furniture or maybe a planter, what scale would be best to use?

So I've seen people just marking the measurements straight from what it shows on paper and on the architects scale, but on my class video she showed dividing it by half then marking the measurement. For instance she had 18' so starting at the center dot she put 9' to the left of the center dot and 9'0 to the right of the center dot. Does it have to be done like that? I'm looking for the most simplified way.

Does that only work if it’s printed in 30”x42” sheets?

hi ,im a drafter student and my cousin send me a floor plan so i can practice measuring.but i try to measure exactly the same way you did, but its seem like my measurements are smaller then what it says on the plan,the plan says its 21' in a 1/4" scale equals 1'but when i do the measurements it comes out to 7' on the scale.what am i doing wrong?

Can you get a Milwaukee tape measure and explain that architecture scale to us specifically the Milwaukee 48-22-0325

Good Day, would you happen to have. video scaling down from 1:1 1'-0" to 3" (3"=1'-0")?

Thanks

that's for getting straight to the point

I want to build a set of jack stands for my 1/24 scale model. How would I scale a real set (measurements) jack stands down to 24th scale?

Please help. I have a drawing printed on an A4 piece of paper but the drawing is drawn to a scale of 1:100 @A1, how would i convert it from A1 to my A4 paper, then use the scale ruler?

Hi do you know how to find 3’-3” using 1/8”-‘1-0”scale

How do I measure 35 inches on 3”:1-0 scale

I learned more in 30 seconds of this video than reading my textbook

Wow. Perfect amount of explanation easily understood. Thank you for not including your pet.

I used to wonder what those rulers were for, wow lol now I know...thanks