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CIVIL SCALE [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Design
  • Measuring Instruments (Engineering)
CONT

Engineer, or civil, scales ... are used for measuring roads, water mains, and topographical features. The distance relationships also may be shown as 1:10 or 1:50.

OBS

Engineer scales have numbers that run incrementally from left to right. The whole number to the left of the number line indicates the scale those numbers represent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin industriel
  • Instruments de mesure (Ingénierie)

Spanish

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