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Making isometric drawings

Making isometric drawings

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Making isometric drawings

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- In this video we'll create an isometric drawing. Isometric drawings are two dimensional illusions that represent three dimensional objects. But they're not truly 3D models. This is perfect for AutoCAD LT which doesn't support 3D modelling, you can actually represent a 3D object in isometric. To enable this in AutoCAD, you need to turn on a status of our toggle called the iso plane. And you can access that on the customization menu under Isometric Drafting. That adds this control to the status bar. It contains three different planes, left, top, and right. We'll start with the left plane. Click here to enable isometric mode. The icon changes to a red and green symbol. The cursor also matches that. The X axis is red and the Y is green. Let's also turn on Ortho and Snap. Draw a line and let's draw the left side of a mechanical part. We're viewing it from above and at an oblique angle. Now I need to change the iso plane so that I can draw the top. Draw another line and snap it to what…

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