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How to Site Measure and Survey Continued
3. Select a different colour pen. This helps later, as you will have a lot of information on the paper when you need to decipher it to draw.
We are now going to show the dimension lines. (Dimensions are - the measured distance between two points, a definite measure shown on a drawing: the size of a room or building, as the length, width and height: also the size of the building material given in length, width and thickness.)
Work out which dimensions you will require to be able to draw the space. (Think ahead as you don't want to go back to do it again!)
Always take an overall dimension as well as the individual dimensions. It is very easy to write something incorrectly, if you have the overall dimension you can work backwards to figure it out.
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In this Section:
Essential Design Tools | Perspective Drawing by Hand | Perspective Drawing by Computer | Arranging Artwork | How to Site Measure | How to get a Quote | Imperial Conversion Factors | Anthropometric Data | The Design Process | The Fibonacci Series | New Home Planning | Proportion and Balance | The Golden Mean |
Essential Design Tools | Perspective Drawing by Hand | Perspective Drawing by Computer | Arranging Artwork | How to Site Measure | How to get a Quote | Imperial Conversion Factors | Anthropometric Data | The Design Process | The Fibonacci Series | New Home Planning | Proportion and Balance | The Golden Mean |
