How to Draw Isometric Drawings in Autocad 2012
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Isometric drawings are not actual 3D drawings, they are made with 2D geometries but they appear like 3D. Isometric drawing in AutoCAD can be made by tilting viewing angle to 30 degrees for all of its sides in the 2D plane.
In this article, I will show you methods of making an isometric drawing in AutoCAD. For explaining this feature I will use the geometry shown in the image above.
I have also prepared a video to explain this tip, watch it here. If you prefer article instead of video then scroll down to continue reading the article.
Isometric drawing in AutoCAD 2014 and older versions:
At first, you need to change your snap settings to isometric. Type DS on the command line and press enter.
Drafting settings window will pop up from this window select snap and grid tab and make sure Isometric snap radio button is checked. Click OK to exit drafting settings window.
Now make sure ortho mode is turned on from the status bar, if it is not turned on then press F8 to turn it on.
You can now select isometric plane for your drawing by pressing the F5 key. The three Isoplanes available for selection are Isoplane top, right and left.
Press F5 key to activate Isoplane top and then select line command and click anywhere in the drawing area to start your line. Specify a direction and type 5 on the command line then press enter, repeat this process by changing directions of line to make a closed square as shown in image A below.
Now press F5 again to change the Isoplane to right or left. Start line command again and make lines from three corners of the square of length 5 units towards downward direction as shown in the image B above.
Again change Isoplane to Top by pressing F5 key and join all three end points of the vertical lines to make a complete cube. In a similar way, you can make other isometric drawings as well.
Isometric drawing in AutoCAD 2015 and later versions:
With AutoCAD 2015 and later versions, this process of creating an isometric drawing has been greatly simplified. You can directly start isometric drawing using ISODRAFT option of the status bar.
Click on ISODRAFT icon on the status bar as shown in the image above and select plane on which you want to create your drawing by pressing F5 key. Rest of the process is same as mentioned above.
Related: Making Isometric dimension and text in AutoCAD
Do you have questions related to isometric drawings? Let me know in the comments below.
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Dear sir , how to apply the actual 2D angle line dividen on isometric view plan? actual line angle tranfer to iso view.
how to use calculation on autocad?
sir i am having problem in drafting isometric for a caddy corner chair i mean a chair tilted at 45 degrees in the plan and according to that plan i am unable to draft iso of that chair please kindly help am stuck very badly.
When I am draw a line then line rectangular is coming.
Very helpful, thanks alot
what are the settings required to draw a cube in isometric view? How do you shift from one iso plan to another iso plan
Just press F5 while Isodraft is turned on. It will cycle through the isoplanes
How to change plane without using F5? I'm using AutoCAD 2007..
How to make isometric pipeline drawing ???
How do we offset in Isometric drawing in autocad?
you can not so offset in isometric use copy command for that
Thanks for the Various Basic Command for Autocad operator as new comer.
What is the start angle in drawing isometric circle in autocad 2019
CLICK ELLIPS AXIS & END THEN RIGHT CLICK SELECTION ISOCENT JUST PRESS F5 YOU CAN GET ANGLE WHAT YOU NEED
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Dear JaiPrakash, thanks for your easy understand tutorial to know how to draw ISO views.
Plz tel me how we draw any line in angle such as 23 dgre in isometric.thnks
l enter
@distace ; angle enter
you can draw line at angle by two types first go into polar tracking and add new required angle like 23, than draw with help of line you can find your angle with tracking green line.
2- use this alies : L enter – then left click on mouse to draw a line and put this command- @10(10,20,30,required length) < put less then sign and provide required angle like 30,60,45
example: @20<60 enter
The explanation given about how to make isometric drawing is very useful. The video which you have shared in this article is very nice. It helped me to understand the concept. Keep sharing this type of articles. Thank you for sharing.
In autocadd what's the short cut key for changing from rectangular to isometric view
There is no function key for that but you can use ISODRAFT command and change the values accordingly.
Isometric view me konsi command kam nhi krti
Please what does F5 G6 B7 in isometric DWG indicates to?
can you please give an example of isometric drawing of the roof ,simple roof , thank you god bless
Thanks Manuel, I will try to make a tutorial as you requested.
In laptop to change isometric plan we should press fn f5 in laptop how ever I am using 2013 auto cad is there any alternate….