"Technical drawing is a drawing or plan, rendered to scale, that is used to communicate direction and specifics to a group of people who are creating something to explain how something works or how to build something."
"Technical drawing is a drawing or plan, rendered to scale, that is used to communicate direction and specifics to a group of people who are creating something to explain how something works or how to build something."
"the proportion that a map, model, etc. bears to the thing that it represents; ratio between the dimensions of a representation and those of the object: a scale of one inch to a mile"
but builders use drawings to know what goes where...
Buildings are big. You cannot represent them on a 1:1 scale. If you're going to draw a building on a piece of paper, you're going to have to come up with something like 1/48:1.