CREATING A RING IN ISODRAFT

[fvasquez032189]

I am trying to draw a ring shape for some equipment I am having made. I have drawn the orthografic views for the object but am having difficulty creating the donut-like shape and making an Isometric view of the object. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[nestly2]

ELLIPSE > ISOCIRCLE  -->  Link

[fvasquez032189]

Thank you for your response to my post. I understand how to draw isocircles, what I am trying to do is give it dimension to where is looks like a donut shape. In other words I want to give it that extruded look with rounded edges, make it look like a Torus shape.

[Patchy]

Isometric sometines more difficult to draw than 3d.

I hand drawn an engine piston many years ago and when it come to draw recess for the connecting pin, all curves were faked in.

Nowaday use 3d is a lot easier.

You can draw 3d, slice it and copy the curves or move to 3d and moving forward

[fvasquez032189]

Hey that almost looks like what I want, but when I put the drawing on a layout can I make it so my orthographic drawings are flat(top view)? 

Would I put the 3d drawing in a separate viewport? 

this is what I am drawing, hope this clears up any questions 

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

You can draw this with plain autocad using basic shapes (Box and torus)

and a few commands such as LOFT (for the weld)  

Sweep (sweep a circle around a larger circle for the ring)

And a month from now, wow, yes you can do it.

[fvasquez032189]

Patchy,

If I had more thumbs I'd give you a thousand kudos, thanks!

And thanks for providing the steps to do it, this will help me out a lot when I assemble stuff in the future.