Scale Drawing
📚 What You'll Learn
- How to create a scale drawing using a scale factor
- Multiplying dimensions by the scale factor to find new measurements
- Applying scale factors to both outer dimensions and internal features
- Creating miniature versions of objects while maintaining proportions
In this video, let's create a scale drawing of this flag using the scale factor one-fourth.
That means that our scale model flag will be smaller. It will be one-fourth the size of the original.
Let's start by finding the length and width of the flag.
And now to find out the length and width of the scale drawing flag, multiply each dimension by the scale factor. The dimensions of the scale drawing will be four units by two units.
Now let's go ahead and draw the length and width for the duplicate flag at one-fourth the scale.
Now, let's find out the dimensions of the inside of the flag.
This section is eight units by four units.
That means the dimensions for the scale drawing will be two units by one unit.
And it's the same for this section.
This line has a width of four units and is four units away from the edge, so on the scale model that will represent one unit by one unit.
And it's the same with this line.
And that completes our scale drawing.
Two identical flags, but one, miniature.