How To Make A Scale Floor

Once you have all of your measurements and have made a rough sketch of your floor plan on paper it s time to create your scale drawing using smartdraw.

How to make a scale floor.

Learn more about how to measure and draw your floor plan to scale. Use a scale of 1 square equal to 4 or 6 inches of floor space. Scale floor plans aid the design process and can really help you visualize things such as the ideal furniture layout. A 4 inch scale allows more accurate representation but a large room may require a 6 inch scale.

Start now 1994 2020 smartdraw llc. Scale bar blocks courtesy of cad blocks co uk. This can also be used as a supplemental r. Ms excel being a spreadsheet program is used to store and retrieve numerical data in a grid format of columns and rows.

It is advisable to examine buildings built in similar areas to use as an estimate for this floor plan. In this video i show how to make scale drawings using graph paper and measurements of a room with some furnishings. To remedy this you ll either need to take your scale somewhere with a flat surface or you ll need to create a hard surface to set your scale on. Once you gain an understanding of scales it is easy to understand which scale is most suited to which type of drawing.

Create floor plan using ms excel. Everyone is familiar with ms excel right. Works on your mac or any other device. Unfortunately when your scale is on a carpeted floor the carpet presses up against your weight making the reading come across as higher than your actual weight.

For example it is common practice to produce floor plans at a scale of 1 100 dependent on size of project and paper. See how to draw a floor plan with smartdraw. Excel is ideal for entering calculating and analyzing company data such as sales fig. Creating a floor plan to scale can be as simple as taking accurate measurements with a tape measure then using a pencil and graph paper to scale down your results.