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Module 5: Construction Drawings Trade
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Architect - ✔✔A qualified, licensed person who creates and designs drawings for a construction project.Architect's scale - ✔✔A specialized ruler used in making or measuring reduced scale drawings. It is marked with a range of calibrated ratios used for laying out distances, with scales indicating feet, inches, and fractions of inches. Used on drawings other than site plans.Architectural Plans - ✔✔Drawings that show the design of the project. Also called architectural drawings.Beam - ✔✔A large, horizontal structural member made of concrete, steel, stone, wood, or other structural material to provide support above a large opening.Blueprints - ✔✔The traditional name used to describe construction drawings. 1 / 2
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Civil plans - ✔✔Drawings that show the location of the building on the site from an aerial view, including contours, trees, construction features, and dimensions.Computer-aided drafting (CAD) - ✔✔The making of a set of construction drawings with the aid of a computer.contour lines - ✔✔Solid or dashed lines showing the elevation of the earth on a civil drawing.detail drawings - ✔✔Enlarged views of part of a drawing used to show an area more clearly.dimension line - ✔✔a line on a drawing with a measurement indicating length electrical plans - ✔✔Engineered drawings that show all electrical supply and distribution.Elevation (EL) - ✔✔Height above sea level, or other defined surface, usually expressed in feet or meters.Elevation drawing - ✔✔Side view of a building or object, showing height and width.Engineer - ✔✔A person who applies scientific principles in design and construction.
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