I recently became the one-man CAD department for our small company and had no previous AutoCAD experience. I took an intro class to AutoCAD that helped a lot, and everything else I've learned from trial-and-error and browsing the AUGI forums. Thanks for all the help already!
We have a bunch of existing isometric drawings for equipment we produce, and any time I do new drawings they want them to look the same. The existing isometric drawings are not true isometrics because they have 20 degree angles instead of the typical 60/120 degrees as shown at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection.
I currently produce the drawings by setting my polar tracking to 20 degree increments and essentially freehand it using the real dimensions. I've attached a simple example of what my drawings look like.
Is this the best method for producing these drawings, or is there an easier way? I guess isometric drawings are typically done using isometric snap and isoplanes as described in
http://www.lions.odu.edu/~averma/IsometricAutoCAD.pdf, but I don't know if I can produce my 20 degree "isometrics" using this method. I could also draw everything in 3D and then set the viewpoint accordingly but that would take way way longer than just faking it in 2D.
Thanks in advance for the help!