Isometric drawing

Jono

Excellent graphic work and attention to detail - the laptop display, shadows etc. Thanks for sharing your grid settings.

Jayanta Das

@Devil-Dinosaur Thanks for sharing. Excellent work.

Subpath

@Devil-Dinosaur

Did you also use transformation cages e.g. for the round lights ?
Or did you do everything just with the help of the grid ?

Devil Dinosaur

@Subpath Ellipses are made according to the square, like in 2D. In 2D you can fit a square both outside and inside a circle, I use that as a reference and my ellipses fit an isometric square. I also set the rotation constraints to 30° angles. Using 30°, 60°, sometimes 120° is very useful. In some cases, I first rotate 30° then skew accordingly. The AC holes were done easily that way : dash lines, rotated 30°, turned into curves (style->expand), then skewed 30°. The good thing in isometric is that scale doesn't change when objects move backward, so you don't have to change the space between repeating object for instance.

It's a little bit late for me here, but I can share some tricks tomorrow, with visuals.

Subpath

@Devil-Dinosaur

Understand, if you find the time, it would be interesting to learn a few tricks Thanks in advance.

Devil Dinosaur

I put a link below for those who want to download some info and tricks about the isometric drawing. Since it's a VS file, feel free to add your own tips and correct my "globish" if necessary
Iso mini tuto
or
Iso mini tuto (link 2)
My website is not https, so your browser may refuse to download thru the 1st link.

Subpath

@Devil-Dinosaur

Thanks for your tutorial file and the insights on how to do Isometric in
VS. As I saw your method how to move and rotate circles/ellipses in
Isometric is really easy to do.

There are unfortunately a few small problems when I use the file into VS.
Works so far, but one font is missed / can't be displayed and the examples
with the noise effect may are not displayed correctly I think.

Here some Pictures

Devil Dinosaur

Sorry for the font, I used Arial unicode and Arial rounded.
I'm quite surprised about the gradient (less about the noise). It's strange that a native VS file cannot be read easily on another computer. That's why I skipped the PDF. I will check my preferences... (edit: if it make a difference, my file is CMYK)
Same document with embedded color profile
Here's how it should look :

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@Devil-Dinosaur

No problem, I also wonder about the font, I have Arial (actually a standard
font on Windows) installed, but not the Unicode version, which seems to be a
little different. I think it also contains special characters for other languages.

I also wonders about the Effects.

Thanks for the bitmap version which works fine, naturally

Subpath

@Devil-Dinosaur

Want to show a little trick I once figured out in Affinity Designer
(which has the great Isometric Studio) while playing with Symbols
in Isometric Studio.

Something similar also works in VS. Might be useful for complicated
Isometric shapes in VS. I use Clones in VS for that.

Here is the video:
Isometric Clone trick

Subpath

Had also tried to recreate something like the Isometric Studio with the tools of VS.
( Transform Cages and Pick Shape Effect ). But that didn't work so well with complicated shapes
and different sizes.

Here a Video
Transform Cage and Pick Shape Effect