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So having and knowing the starting scale is more vital than nonprofessional residential designers might wish to believe. (And, no, having done this since the ‘80s I know that paper size isn’t the problem - just get more paper.) To the other extreme I’m currently designing a castle/palace residence over 650 ft wide for another project but, again, I know all the dimensions and just need to develop working plans. It starts with an overall scale, not a two-story foyer that turns out to be 17 x 19’6” that looks really cool in 3D on estate-agents’ web listings but isn’t necessary or helpful to the project. I cut my teeth designing for LBI and OBX where you are (were) constrained by section size and cost - draw a fast- and easy-to-build 24 x 36 Cape Cod for a 50 x 100 lot and include 4 bedrooms, garage and patio without exceeding 2500 sq ft of developed foundation on the lot and coming in within 10% of budget. ‘That house will be… 49’7” x 88’3” so you need a lot at least 91 ft wide.’ That’s not really helpful if you’re a serious professional. When they’re all put together they consult the overall dimensions.
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Residential designers develop the design from individual room sizes. In modern residential architecture it is common to see houses drawn with no overall sense of unity or scale. For example in navigation (in the car), using only small-screen GPS denies you the bigger picture - you see only a 3-by-5-inch screen and not the larger general direction - ‘basically which way should I go and which major road tends that way?’ You become a slave to the little box which as if by design limits your vision of greater (physically bigger) reality. pĭrawing on paper with all its perceived limitations (and paper size isn’t really a factor) is a first fundamental in all drafting - one too many architects of today have long forgotten. Not to be snarky but I take it you’re under 35 or 40. Your explanation that SU doesn’t do this is instructive. It is only when you need to print out a representation of the model on a fixed medium such as paper that you even need to think about “scale”. I fail to see why it matters whether a 1m object is 1cm or 10cm or for that matter 5.217645mm long on your computer screen. And all of the SketchUp tools let you input or observe the real world measurements of each item as you go along. But that does not mean you need a screen 15m wide to display a house! The computer display can zoom in and out to provide a continuously variable scale.
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You are working in a virtual model world at full size. In SketchUp you are not developing your model on such a medium. The ruler does the real-world to paper scale conversion math for you, but only at a particular fixed scale. Scale is important if the only way you have to position and measure the object is something like an architect’s ruler laid onto that medium. Scale is a matter of how an object’s actual size maps onto a fixed-size, inelastic medium such as a sheet of paper.