Learn how to read a scale - Architects Scale - Part 1 of 2 - Construction Plan Reading Series 

Best video to learn how to read the architect ruler that I have viewed so far! You have given me the confidence now that I will know what I am doing and have everything correct. Thank you.

I'm in school learning the art of the trade, and right now learning Printreading for Residential and Light Commercial Construction. This is the earliest to understand explanation regarding Architect Scale reading. Thank you.

Thanks really needed to know; excellent

I still have one of those architectural rulers from high 😂 school. When I was with carpenters union local 1319 my journeyman partner, the one that was teaching me used to look at the blueprints and if he came to a part in the drawing him and the foreman would request more information from architect. The architect would come on site and interprets the drawing and lots of times they be like 🤔 "just make it work". I am serious. So the foreman and the experienced journeyman carpenter uses the scale and they make it work. They snap lines and we build it the way they interpret it from the blueprint. Some architects sure can draw and design buildings but when you ask them what they was thinking about they 🤔 are baffled. Architects that draw blueprints that never done framing just say "you guys are carpenters just make it work". But your video is very educational. Although I learned this in high school I believe it's important to have architectural scale ruler that is used specifically for the plans.

great video, but why did you do so much of this upside down?

Very well explained. Thank you.

Thanks for this video

At the trade school i attended under the union carpenters we didn't really go over the architectural scales more thoroughly we just rushed through it. On the job mainly the more experienced journeyman look at the blueprints and they snap lines and they don't really teach you in detail. If only they could share their knowledge we could be better carpenters. But over the years I've learned on the job. And im still learning.

Because we use only metric rulers i never saw a ruler like this one. But the system is me wel known. On most topographic maps the scale-ruler is printed like this, and thats very practical for measurement, but not so much people now how to use it. On other items than topo-maps i never found such kind of ruler or scale.

Thank you very helpful

Thanks! This has been a lot easier to understand than most. Do you need to measure plans often as a builder or are they generally all laid out by the engineer/architect?