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In this article, I will tell you about making isometric dimension and text in an isometric drawing. For explaining this feature I will use a simple isometric cube as shown in the image below.

AutoCAD has a command called ISOPLANE which allows you to easily draw at a 30 degree angle as needed for an isometric drawing. You can switch between the three 'isoplanes' (top, right, left) by using this command or by pressing the F5 key. ISO container 3D Model in 3D Studio Max file Drawing a Bloedorn container in 3D Shipping Container 40` ISO CAD Solid 3D Model - Duration: Shipping container CAD blocks, AutoCAD drawings - Free AutoCAD blocks and details of a shipping container including dimensions. Drawings of cross section, top view, side view, roof, door.

I have also prepared this video for explaining this tip, but if you prefer the article instead of video then scroll down to for the full article.

Making Isometric Dimensions:

Make aligned dimensions A, B and C on the geometry as shown in drawing A above using DIMALIGNED command.

Now type DIMEDIT on the command line and press enter, select oblique from the command line as shown in the image below.

Now click on dimension marked A from drawing shown above and press enter. Command line will prompt you to select an angle to align this dimension type 30 and press enter again. Your dimension will now align with the geometry to make it look like isometric dimension.

For dimensions B and C you can use the same method with the oblique angle of 30 and -30 respectively. Your final drawing will look like this after using DIMEDIT on all three dimensions.

Making Isometric Dimension Text:

The dimensions now look correct but when you look closely at dimension text they are still not properly aligned as per drawing. You need to make changes to dimension text also in order to make it look normal.

Type DIMTEDIT on the command line and press enter then click on the dimension which you want to edit, I am selecting dimension C for this case.

From the command line, select Angle option and type an angle of 30 degrees then press enter. The dimension text will now align with the dimension line. For dimensions, A and B use an angle of 30 and -30 degrees respectively in DIMTEDIT command.

Making Isometric Text:

To write text on the isometric cube type TEXT on the command line and press Enter. Now click on the face of cube towards dimension C and enter a text height value and rotation angle of 30 degrees in the command line prompts.

Type any text and press enter twice to exit the TEXT command, I am using “Text” as the sample text on the isometric cube.

Repeat the process of writing text on the face of cube towards dimension B as well, but in this case change angle of text to -30 degrees keeping all other parameters unchanged.

Now select text on the face of dimension C then right click and select Properties from the contextual menu. From the Text panel of properties palette change value of Obliquing to 30.

Repeat the process for text on cube facing dimension B but in this case change obliquing value to -30. The final drawing with isometric dimension and text will look like the image shown below.

Do you have any questions related to isometric text and dimensions? Let me know in comments below.

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…In this video, we'll create an isometric drawing.…Isometric drawings are two dimensional…illusions that represent three dimensional objects.…But they're not truly 3D models.…This is perfect for autoCAD LT which doesn't support 3D modeling.…You can actually represent a 3D object, in isometric.…To enable this in AutoCAD you need to turn on a status bar toggle…called the isoplane and you can access…that on the customization menu under isometric drafting.…

That adds this control to the status bar.…It contains three different planes, left, top and right.…We'll start with the left plane.…Click here to enable isometric mode.…The icon changes to a red and green symbol.…The cursor also matches that.…The x axis is red and the y is green.…Let's also turn on ortho and snap.…Draw a line and let's draw the left side of a mechanical part.…Reviewing it, from above and at an oblique angle.…

Autocad 4view Iso Drawing

Now I need to change the isoplane so that I can draw the top.…Draw another line.…And snap it, to what you've already drawn.…And here I overshot.…