How it works?
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If you create your isometric drawing accurately using AutoCAD's snap, style: "Isometric" you can dimension your geometry using the "dimaligned" command. Then you can do a "dimedit" select "oblique" and change it to 30 degrees (or -30 degrees depending on your needed angle).
See my attached example, I also changed the text style (for the dimension style) to be 30 degrees "oblique" to make it look better.
There may be better ways to do this, but this is how I've done Isometric drawings with accurate dimensions that look good.
Good Luck
I have attached a drawing that I use that explains how to do iso dims and text. If you insert and explode it in a drawing you can use matchprop to adjust most of the text or dims. The drawing has iso arrows as well and are used in the dimstyles.
HTH
(post 100!, woot woot woot)
Thanks a lot for those who replied......that's so good, it help me a lot on my isometric drawing.
You could look at ATP152 in the ATP archive - scroll down to August 2006.
I am attaching a method of isometric projection for going from orthographic views to isometric. Let me know if it helped or made matters worse.
Of course, there is less and less need for iso drawing but it is nice to know how to do, sometimes its all that is needed rather than 3D.
I just noticed that in the drawing I have Step 1 under the ortho views but the instructions for step 1 refer to the area labeled step 2, etc. I think it will be obvious which paragraph goes with which section.
Last edited by Richard.Kent; 2007-09-14 at 07:52 PM. Reason: clarification