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I'm currently drawing an isometric view of a house interior and i wanted to hatch all the elements but i realized i cant hatch in isometric so I'm wondering if there is a way for me to take the drawing and transfer it to 2d top view so i can hatch it. The drawing is only from one angle so if i switch iso angles the drawing is'nt going to make any sense.
Certainly you can Hatch in isometric. Some patterns you can just use at a rotation of 30° or 150° or whatever angle is appropriate, and of course SOLID doesn't care. Depending on the pattern, you may need custom pattern definitions for them to look as you want. I have some for brick-like patterns [these in 2-to-1 proportion]:
and I imagine there are others out there.
If you "convert" to 2D top view and Hatch things "straight," you will only be able to do floor and parallel-to-the-floor surfaces, and you won't be able to "convert" back to isometric with the Hatch patterns looking right except by actually changing to a 3D viewing angle. But what happens with what were walls in isometric before but aren't seen in 2D top view?
If you do this a lot, custom patterns could well be worth the effort to make them. What kind(s) of pattern(s) do you have in mind?
@filips03890 wrote:
I'm currently drawing an isometric view of a house interior...
Isometric is 2D drafting at an angle: there is not top, no bottom, no left, no right. It's flat. What you see is all there is.
Your isometric being in CAD does not change that reality. Sorry.
1 - Go to Layout 1 and create a new viewport
2 - Change the view to isometric.
3 - Set the scale to 1:1 in the created viewport and make sure that the important elements are visible.
4 - Use the exportlayout command and save the new file.
5 - Open the new file, copy the "snapshot" and paste it into the top view.
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