Many different types of drawing can be used during the process of designing and constructing buildings. Some of the more commonly-used types of drawing are listed below.

1. Types of drawings for
building design
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Prepared by:
Sandya Devarajan
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Introduction
A construction drawing or plan outlines what
you will fabricate and what the completed item
will resemble when you complete it, yet there
are various sorts of development drawings
utilized. The kinds of drawings, blueprints, plans,
working drawings, and are quite confusing.
Likewise with any complicated report, the
different types of commercial construction
drawings require forte abilities to interpret.
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As-built drawings and record
drawings:
On building projects, it is normal for changes to be
made during construction in light of conditions that
arise nearby. Thus, it is normal for as-as built
drawings to be ready, either during the development
cycle or when development is finished, to reflect
what has really been fabricated.
The contractor will mark changes for the most part
increase changes to the 'final construction issue '
drawings on location utilizing red ink, and these
would then be able to be utilized by the advisor
group to make record drawings showing the finished
project.
Assembly drawings
Assembly drawings can be utilized to address things
that comprise of more than one part. They show how
the parts fit together and may incorporate,
symmetrical plans, areas and heights, or three-
dimensional perspectives, showing the collected
parts, or a exploded view showing the connection
between the parts and how they fit together.
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Block plan
Block plans as a rule show the siting of a task
corresponding to Ordinance Survey Maps. Shows
are utilized to portray limits, streets and different
subtleties. Contingent upon the size of the project,
suggested scales are
1 : 2500
1 : 1250
1 : 500

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Component Drawings
Concept drawings or sketches are drawings,
regularly freehand, that are utilized as a fast and
basic method of investigating starting thoughts for
plans. They are not planned to be exact or
conclusive, just a method of examining and
conveying plan standards and aeshthtic ideas.
Construction
drawings/working drawings
Working drawings or construction drawings give
dimensioned, graphical data that can be utilized; by
a contractor to build the works, or by providers to
manufacture parts of the works or to gather or
introduce parts. Alongside details and bills of
quantities or timetables of work, they structure a
piece of the 'production information ', that is ready
by designers and passed to the construction team to
empower an undertaking to be built.
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Design drawings
Design drawings are utilized to create and impart
thoughts regarding a designing plan. In the
beginning phases they may basically show to the
customer the capacity of a specific plan group to
attempt the plan. They may then be utilized to
create and impart the brief, examine possible
locales and evaluate choices, form the endorsed
thought into a reasonable and co-ordinated plan,
etc.

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Detail drawings
Detail drawings give a detail depiction of the
geometrical type of a piece of an object like a
structure, span, tunnel, machine, plant, etc. They will
in general be huge scope drawings that show
exhaustively parts that might be remembered for less
detail on broad course of arrangement drawings.
Electrical drawing
An electrical drawing, otherwise called a wiring
diagram, is a sort of specialized drawing that gives
visual representation and data identifying with an
electrical framework or circuit. They are utilized to
pass on the designing plan to the electrical
technicians or different laborers who will utilize them
to assist with introducing the electrical system.
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Elevations
The term 'elevation' alludes to an orthographic
projection of the outside (or here and there the
inside) essences of a structure, that is a two-
dimensional drawing of the structure's façades. As
structures are once in a while basic rectangular
shapes in arrangement, a elevation drawing is a
first point projection that shows all pieces of the
structure as seen from a specific course with the
viewpoint straightened. For the most part,
elevations are created for four directional
perspectives, for instance, north, south, east, west.

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Floor Plans
Floor plans are a type of orthographic projection
that can be utilized to show the format of rooms
inside structures, as seen from a higher place. They
might be ready as a part of the plan interaction, or
to give directions to construction, frequently
connected with different drawings, schedules , and
details.
Engineering drawing
A engineering drawing is a kind of specialized
drawing used to characterize the prerequisites for
designing items or parts. Ordinarily, the reason for a
engineering drawing is to obviously and precisely
catch all geometrical provisions of an item or part so
a producer or designer can create the necessary
thing.
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Location drawings/general
arrangement drawings
General arrangement drawings (Ga's, occasionally
alluded to as location drawings) present the general
structure of an object like a building. Contingent
upon the intricacy of the structure, this is probably
going to require various projections, like plans,
sections and elevations and might be spread across
a few distinct drawings.
Installation Drawings
Installation drawings present the information
required by exchanges to introduce part of the
works. This might be especially significant for
complex installations, for example, plant rooms,
data centers, ventilation frameworks, underfloor
heating, etc.

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Location Plan
An location plan is a supporting archive that might
be needed by an arranging authority as a part of
planning application. An location plan gives an
outline of the proposed development in its
encompassing setting.
Perspective
Perspective drawing is a strategy for portraying
three-dimensional volumes and spatial
connections dependent on the eye level and
vanishing point (or points) of the viewer. It can
give a practical impression of what a volume or
space will resemble truly.
Developing perspective drawings of structures is
very convoluted, however has been quite
streamlined as of late by the improvement of
computer aided drafting (CAD), building
information modeling (BIM) and different types
of computer generated imager(CGI).
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Scale Drawing
Scale drawing is a non exclusive term used to
portray any drawing that illustrates things at not
exactly (or more than) their real size. This is for the
most part important where the things is entirely
huge or little, to the point that it isn't valuable or
helpful to draw it at its real size.

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Shop drawings
Shop drawings may be prepared by contractors,
subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers or
fabricators. They for the most part identify with
pre-fabricated parts, showing how they ought to
be fabricated or installed. They take design intent
drawings and specifications arranged by the
venture configuration group and foster them to
show exhaustively how the part will really be
produced, created, assembled or introduced.
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Technical drawing
The term 'Technical drawing' has an exceptionally
expansive significance, alluding to any drawing
that passes on the way that something functions
or how it is developed. Technical drawings are
expected to pass on one explicit significance,
instead of imaginative drawings which are
expressive and might be deciphered in various
ways. Most drawings arranged during the design
and construction of buildings may be viewed as
specialized drawings.
Site plans
A site plan is a huge scale drawing that shows the
full degree of the site for a current or proposed
development . Site plans, alongside location plans,
might be fundamental for arranging applications.
As a rule, site plans will be drawn up after a
progression of work area studies and site
examinations.