Create your drawing at a simple scale probably 1 100 and worry about output scaling only when you need to print so if you need 1 50 print at 200.
Illustrator floor plan design drawing scale.
For today s purposes the scale for our drawing will have one foot equal to one inch so if we have a room that s 16 feet long it ll take up 16 inches in illustrator.
Alright friends after sharing a designer trick post all about flooring planning back in february i promised i d follow up with my personal process for floor planning in adobe illustrator.
Space proportions and navigation 0 01 setting up floor plan document 2 25 information included in title block 3 06 drawing external walls 5 28 internal wall.
I have done a lot of architectural and constructional drawings and find illustrator immensely useful amongst other things for calculating timber requirements and that sort of thing.
Before we even open up illustrator let s talk about the scale we ll be using for our floor plan.
I ll be referring to the scale i m using a couple of times.
Centimetres for metres inches for feet and so on.
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I will say as an interior designer floor planning in adobe is not the norm it s comfortable convenient and quick for me so it feels like like second nature at this point but i was honestly.