Architect - ANS-✔✔A qualified, licensed person who crates and designs drawings for a construction
project.
Architect's Scale - ANS-✔✔A specialized ruler used in making or measuring reduced scale drawings. It is
marked with a range of calibrated ratios used for laying out distances, with scales indicating feet, inches,
and fractions of inches. Used on drawings other than site plans.
Architectural Plans - ANS-✔✔Drawings that show the design of the project. Also called architectural
drawings.
Beam - ANS-✔✔A large,horizontal structural member made of concrete, steel stone,wood, or other
structural material to provide support above a large opening.
Blueprints - ANS-✔✔The traditional name used to describe construction drawings.
Civil plans - ANS-✔✔Drawings that show the location of the building on the site from an aerial view,
including contours, trees, construction features, and dimensions.
Computer-aided drafting (CAD) - ANS-✔✔The making of a set of construction drawings with the aid of a
computer.
Contour Lines - ANS-✔✔Solid or dashed lines showing the elevation of the earth on a civil drawing.
Detail drawings - ANS-✔✔Enlarged views of part of a drawing used to show an area more clearly.
Dimension Line - ANS-✔✔A line on a drawing with a measurement indicating length.