![]() ![]() It’s possible that there’s a temporary interruption in the internet, like my site going briefly offline (as it occasionally does). It’s actually quite rare, but has been happening a bit more often over the past year or two, even though the related code has not changed since 2016. You’re correct about “drawing” the house in 40 seconds, but the video title did say “project” rather than “draw.” Whatever approach you took to skip the ortho drawings at the start, I’m certain that you could finish the house much more quickly with AxoTools than without it. CADtools’ one drag and one click, but you could quickly get multiple line weights, in addition to shaded fills. You could draw an axo rectangle, then extrude it, which is one drag plus two clicks, vs. Ron Kempke and I developed AxoTools based on our many years of experience creating axonometric drawings based on projecting orthographic engineering drawings, and I’ll admit that this approach reflects that. This approach makes it easier to extrude precisely without measuring, by dragging in a corresponding ortho view. Did you download AxoTools and try the Extrude tool with shaded color and multiple line weights selected in the Draw Settings? This is an area where AxoTools is most different from CADtools. In other projections, it unfortunately distorts the object.ĪxoTools has no real counterparts to CADtools’ box or cylinder creation tools, largely because it was created as an extension of CADtools, not a replacement for it. I think the problem here is that at the top of the dialog, you need to check “Foreshorten.” In isometric, an un-foreshortened 1″ cube will measure 1″ on each edge, as opposed to the foreshortened 0.866″. If you have curved surfaces, you’ll need to adjust the control handles. Select the top points of the side surfaces and drag them downward to meet the corresponding points on the top glyph. ![]() Use the Axo Shear tool, again using the top plane and same anchor point, to meet the corresponding point on the bottom surface. Scale the top glyph outline to snap to the guide line. Tap the Alt/Option key to select the top plane. Select the Axo Scale tool and click to set the anchor at the top front corner. ![]() Use the Axo Line tool to drag a guide line along the lower back edge and convert it to a guide. I used a letter without curves for simplicity.Ĭonvert the glyph to outlines and extrude it. There are variations on this technique, but here’s an example. The art you get, though, is clean vector art, more easily editable in Adobe Illustrator. That’s an interesting task! Yes, it’s somehow possible, although AxoTools is not true 3D and cannot do simple spatial boolean operations like real 3D apps. You may like the results you get by checking “Apply stroke widths to new art” in the Draw Settings panel, as well as choosing “Shaded object color” for the fill method. Use the dial controls next to the proxy cube preview to try different projection settings, then Undo and extrude again. The Extrude tool will probably feel more natural than the Extrude panel in this case because the arrows on the panel represent a typical top view, so it gets tricky translating that to the document’s bottom view.įor an effect that a drop-shadow filter can’t give you, try setting the projection to something like Turn 70 and Tilt 30, then press Alt/Option as you drag with the Extrude tool. If you don’t see the Extrude tool, you may have to manually drag it out of the tool “drawer” to make it available. Now select your text, select the Extrude tool, and drag to the lower right. In the Projection panel’s drop-down menu, choose “Isometric below” from the presets. Thanks for the positive comments on AxoTools!ĪxoTools was not really meant to do drop-shadow type effects, but there may be a way for you to get the results you’re looking for. ![]()
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