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It is easy to draw the two principal views (plan and elevation) of an object from its pictorial representation. The reverse is not always easy to visualize the object from two of its principal views. A third view on the profile plane aids to visualize the exact shape of the object. Isometric projection is an orthographic projection of an object on the vertical plane showing its three dimensions in one view (elevation). To understand the principles of isometric projection, let us consider the auxiliary projection of a cube. The problem is one of drawing the projections of a cube when one of its solid diagonals is perpendicular to the vertical plane. The solution for this problem, which is self-explanatory, is given in Fig. 14.1.
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Rathnam, K. (2018). Isometric Projections. In: A First Course in Engineering Drawing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5358-0_14
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