for showing a preview, or planning, without actually building the real structure
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If they did not their drawings would be the same size as the structure that they are building which would make it impossible to work with them!
Scale drawings are used by artists, architects and builders to get an accurate drawing either smaller or larger than the actual thing is.
Infinitely many. You can represent any distance in real life by 1 unit on your scale or, conversely, you use any distance on your scale drawing to represent a unit of length in real life.
this is a 2 part answer, 1) your scaled factor is determined by the your map size, a "To" scale drawing is a percentage of the actual size of the object being drawn on the map 2) using autocadd for most drawings and draft's you typically draw the object at a 1:1 ratio, then apply the desired Scale (or scale factor) to fit the the desired paper size
The Richter Scale of energy release in an Earthquake.