How to draw isometric view

Topics covered in this Lesson:

Isometric Drafting Techniques

Isometic Drawing

Using Isometric commands is one of the simplest ways to give a 3-D representation while using only 2-D commands.

This has been the usual way of doing things before CAD allowed true 3-D work to be done. Many times an isometric drawing is used to compliment or give more information to a 3 view orthographic drawing. See the sample below.

Autocad isometric drawing exercises

You can see that it is a very simple drawing. This basic isometric drawing of the object gives a very good idea of what it looks like. If this is all that is needed then isometric works well. Unfortunately, as soon as you change anything, like the block's height, you'll need to redraw all four views.

AutoCAD has a command called ISOPLANE which allows you to easily draw at a 30 degree angle as needed for an isometric drawing.

You can switch between the three 'isoplanes' (top, right, left) by using this command or by pressing the F5 key.

Command: ISOPLANE <ENTER>
Current isoplane: Right
Enter isometric plane setting [

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