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Need Help on Drawing Dimetric Cube

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    Posted: 21.Jan.2025 at 17:04
Anyone know what is the length of OZ using technical drawing method?



Thank you

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote philippe JOSEPH Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23.Jan.2025 at 16:59
Hello Dery, if it's a cube it will, should, would, etc... be ONE, un, A, uno, ein, etc...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dery Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24.Jan.2025 at 09:37
The length of line OZ on the image, on 1st post is 1. Does it looks like a cube to you? It's not a cube, it look like a rectangle box to me. So? What is the correct length of line OZ using technical drawing method so that it become a cube?

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Yes it doesn't look a cube so why asking about : 

Drawing Dimetric Cube

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Because the image on the 1st post is using Dimetric projection rule.

As you can see, the line OX and line OY form a square.

Now, all I wanted to know is the length of line OZ so that it become/look like a cube.
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I am asking about how to do 2D drawing of a cube using Dimetric projection.

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The internet is your friend all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_QXknJ9TI

Personnaly I'm not interested in 2D drawing of 3D object anymore, 3D modeling would be an option for this and I don't think that someone already draws isometric piping schemes for example nowadays.
When doing 3D you can eventually "give" your studies in 2D using the command FLATSHOT.

When doing this I make a block of my 3D objects, arrange various copy of that block in at least the 3 characteristic 2D positions + some isometric view(s) at a very precise distance each other so that the FLATSHOT that I will do can be easily placed in the paper size of the project. 
Then a modification of the 3D object can be easily updated on the 2D.

You can eventually take a look at my AutoCAD file named : 

ORTHO-TO-ISO_01_B.dwg

 in the CAD/BIM blocks library.


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There is also a very old LISP utility - DIMETRY. You can try it.
https://www.cadforum.cz/en/qaID.asp?tip=4793

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