Isometric drawings are not bodily 3D drawings, they are made with 2D geometries but they announced like 3D. Isometric cartoon in AutoCAD can be made past tilting viewing bending to 30 degrees for all of its sides in the 2D plane.

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In this commodity, I will show you methods of making an isometric drawing in AutoCAD. For explaining this feature I volition utilize the geometry shown in the image above.

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Isometric drawing in AutoCAD 2022 and older versions:

At start, you need to change your snap settings to isometric. Type DS on the command line and printing enter.

Drafting settings window will pop upwards from this window select snap and grid tab and make certain Isometric snap radio button is checked. Click OK to exit drafting settings window.

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Now make sure ortho mode is turned on from the status bar, if it is not turned on then press F8 to plow it on.

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You tin now select isometric aeroplane for your drawing by pressing the F5 key. The three Isoplanes available for selection are Isoplane top, correct and left.

Printing F5 key to activate Isoplane elevation and then select line command and click anywhere in the drawing area to get-go your line. Specify a direction and type five on the command line then press enter, repeat this process past changing directions of line to brand a closed square equally shown in image A below.

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At present press F5 again to change the Isoplane to right or left. Start line command once again and make lines from three corners of the square of length 5 units towards downward direction as shown in the image B higher up.

Again change Isoplane to Acme by pressing F5 key and join all three stop points of the vertical lines to brand a complete cube. In a like way, y'all can make other isometric drawings as well.

Isometric drawing in AutoCAD 2022 and later versions:

With AutoCAD 2022 and later versions, this process of creating an isometric cartoon has been greatly simplified. You can directly get-go isometric cartoon using ISODRAFT selection of the status bar.

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Click on ISODRAFT icon on the status bar as shown in the image higher up and select plane on which y'all want to create your drawing past pressing F5 central. Rest of the process is same as mentioned higher up.

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