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Somewhat ironically, it's to make architects' jobs easier when they're drawing things to <architectural> scale. If you're making a floor plan drawing at 1:100,
by sokoloff 2y ago
Somewhat ironically, it's to make architects' jobs easier when they're drawing things to <architectural> scale.
If you're making a floor plan drawing at 1:100, a 240 inch wall becomes 2.4 inches on the drawing. The scales [of the drawings] and the scales [the tools] evolved together. (Similar to "why do computer people work in base 2 or base 16 so often?")
- jcgrillo 2y agoMakes sense, I'll try to work in whole number scaled inches more (although tbh I'm just being picky, eyeballing the fractional part is usually good enough).