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"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."

http://www.yourdictionary.com/technical-drawing

See also:

http://legacy.mos.org/etf/tech.html
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Technical Drawing?

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Technical Drawing?

"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."

http://www.yourdictionary.com/technical-drawing

See also:

http://legacy.mos.org/etf/tech.html

::scale::

From Hotwheels to Maps
"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"

http://www.yourdictionary.com/scale

Buildings are big...

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.

floorplans

buildings are drawn to scale
How to Draw a Floor Plan to Scale

http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Floor-Plan-to-Scale
Photo by Kris Krug

a toilet is a toilet

and other truths of scale...
http://bit.ly/uqRUPM - in this video, Mr. Walters talks about technical drawing and toilets...

This video is old but good...
Photo by bradleygee