For most purposes a horizontal angle along one of the diagonals, 45, 135, 225 and 315 and a vertical angle of 30 give the best results. You can even look at your drawing from underneath by specifying a negative vertical angle.

Using the dialogue box you can specify an angle either by picking on the two dials or by entering an angle into each of the two angle edit boxes. The second is the angle from the XY plane (the vertical angle). The first angle is the rotation from the X axis (the horizontal angle). As you can see, you define a view by specifying two angles.

The Viewpoint Presets dialogue box is illustrated on the right. As you probably recognise from the command name it is a dialogue box driven command. It is, however, buried two layers deep in the pull-down menu so it's often quicker simply to type itĪt the keyboard, since there is no toolbar button. There are a number of ways to get an axonometric view of your AutoCAD drawing but the DDVPOINT command is probably the easiest and quickest to use. You can use this command to get an axonometric view of your drawing. How to use the 3DFACE and SHADE commands. Using this tutorial you will learn how to give objects a thickness, how to move them vertically, how to view your 3D creations and With a combination of the MOVE and Properties commands you can quickly create simple 3D drawings. All objects can be given an elevation by moving them in the Z direction using the MOVE command. Although objects with a thickness can be said to be extruded, this should not be confused with the EXTRUDE command which creates solid extrusions giving an object thickness produces a surface extrusion. Most 2D objects can be given a thickness using the thickness option in the Properties ( DDCHPROP) command. Although AutoCAD has a number of commands for creating special 3D objects, a lot can be achieved by changing the properties of basic 2D objects like polylines.

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