Making isometric drawings
Isometric drawings are 3D drawings that are made with vertical lines of 90 degrees and horizontal lines at an angle of 30 degrees. An example of an isometric drawing is shown in Figure 7.41:
Figure 7.41: Sample isometric drawing
As you can see, this drawing looks as though it is 3D even though it has been made on the normal 2D plane in an AutoCAD workspace. We will make this drawing using the isometric feature in the following examples, but before we do, we need to prepare.
Preparing a workspace for isometric drawing
As isometric drawing differs from a normal drawing. It requires its own set of customizations before we can do it. Click the grid mode and isodraft toggles in the status bar, as shown in Figure 7.42:
Figure 7.42: The grid mode and isodraft options in the status bar
If you don’t see these options in the status bar, then click the icon that looks like three horizontal lines, one on...