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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023 A beginner's guide to 2D drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816465
Length 674 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and 2D Drafting
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to AutoCAD FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Basic Drawing Tools and Commands 4. Chapter 3: Learning about Modify Commands 5. Chapter 4: Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 6. Part 2: Customization, Collaboration, and Using Reusable Content
7. Chapter 5: Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 8. Chapter 6: Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 9. Chapter 7: Tables and Isometric Drawings 10. Chapter 8: Customization Tools 11. Chapter 9: External References and Dynamic Blocks 12. Part 3: 3D Modeling
13. Chapter 10: Introduction to 3D Modeling 14. Chapter 11: Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 15. Chapter 12: Conversion between 2D and 3D 16. Chapter 13: Modifying 3D Objects 17. Chapter 14: Paper Space Layouts and Printing 18. Chapter 15: Rendering and Presentation 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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