To make the scheme of evacuation or the sketch of the house, it is necessary to draw the plan of the floor at first. It can be done by means of special programs if you are well familiar with them, otherwise just draw it on big leaf of Whatman paper manually.
- - sheet of paper;
- - pencil;
- - eraser;
- - ruler;
- - square or protractor;
- - compasses.
1. At first draw the approximate plan by hand, try to specify all rooms, utility rooms, corridors, all corners and arches.
2. Take tape measure or laser range finder and measure length and width of each room. Then pass along corridors and specify length of all ledges and niches. On stair landing note width of stair flights.
3. Measure distances from corners to window and door openings, specify in what party doors open. If you need the plan for the scheme of evacuation, specify availability of grids at windows and other important parts. You enter all results the handle or pencil in the draft plan.
4. Rooms of irregular shape separate into slightly simple, for example, squares or segments of circle. To draw rooms with obtuse angle, separate it bisector into two equal corners and mentally construct right triangles. If in the room there is semicircular bay window, separate it into rectangle and semicircle.
5. On big leaf of Whatman paper or scaled paper begin to draw the plan of the floor. Surely use pencil to have opportunity to remove excess lines. At first measure the total length and width of the floor and, being conformed with sheet sizes, designate scale. It is convenient to use scale 1:50 as it is possible to do without calculator. If the building big, do the plan sektsionno, having separated the floor into several parts.
6. Begin with the angular room, but before applying it on leaf, make sure that you will not have elements (for example, balconies) which will appear outside leaf. Then draw corridors and the neighboring rooms, gradually expanding your plan. At first draw overall view and make sure that all rooms available, all proportions are observed, and corners of rooms 90º.
7. After the overall view of the floor suits you, note windows, doors, niches, balconies, ledges, stair flights, etc. Circle contours of walls with the thick line or shade.