brvitorino Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Hi guys, Is it possible to creat dimensions on a isometric view? Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 The simple answer is no. A patient and generous user has posted a tutorial for doing it over at VECTORDEPOT.COM but it's a fair bit of mucking around. In a previous century, when I started learning "Technical Drawing" at the age of 13, drawing and dimensioning isometric objects was a fundamental procedure. It seems wierd (to me anyway) that Vectorworks can't do this elementary drafting task. It's been asked for regularly in the past, but perhaps, as this is more an engineering/ product design type of drawing, and NNA's focus has been more towards Architecture, it's not high on their priority list(?) N. Quote Link to comment
brvitorino Posted May 4, 2006 Author Share Posted May 4, 2006 (edited) Thanks, Propstuff. I agree with you, Vector Works Should do that. As far as I can see isometric view is so important, even to architectural details. I`m gonna check the tutorial. Edited May 4, 2006 by brvitorino Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 I had a plug in for this somewhere...back in V10. Check out PanzerCad or some of the other 3rd party sites. Quote Link to comment
G_Hannigan Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 There's q work around at Vector Depot (Misc Page): 3D Model Dimensioning Tutorial http://www.vectordepot.com/Misc1.shtml It's not a tool, rather a way of using layer linking to give the look of 3D dims. George Quote Link to comment
bclydeb Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 brvitorino What version of VW are you using? I am getting isometric views of my object dimensions (at least in plan) in viewports in version 12.0.1. Grant - good insight PanzerCad has some good stuff. George - For getting vertical dimensions your vectordepot link is probably the best we have. Everybody post to the wish list! Clyde Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Here's a simple approach for limited isometric dimensioning for the 3d XY coord. ,only (diag. req. angles trig. ) : Dimension on a special 3D-TXT-Layer ( for Linking & Viewports overlay ) then ungroup the dims and convert the text using 1/cos35.26438968? (this angle is arctan(sqr2/2))=1.224744871 = Dim. Text scale factor. WitnessLine angles can be changed to 30? and then all realigned. Quote Link to comment
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