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The way you use isometric paper is simple. Itʼs just like regular graph paper only the boxes are angled so you automatically end up drawing in 3D. Draw your vertical lines the way you would normally do and then draw your faces and depth on the angled lines.

In Isometric Drawing, basic geometric shapes like cubes, spheres, pyramids are drawn maintaining equal dimensions and angles. For example, a cube is depicted as a square for its base with identical squares on each side, meeting at equal angles of 120 degrees.

With an Isometric grid, the top and bottom angles of the tiles are set at 120 degrees, making it convenient to utilize true isometric angle tools in art applications for map creation. With a Dimetric grid, the top and bottom tile angles are 126.87 degrees.

An Isometric Drawing is a special 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional object without perspective shortening. In an isometric drawing, each pair of coordinate axes forms a 120 degree angle.

An isometric drawing is created using three axes. The three axes are formed from a vertical line with two horizontal lines at 30-degree angles. The vertical line is blue, and the horizontal lines are red and green, created at 30-degree angles to form the vertical line.

To create an isometric grid: From the View menu, select Isometric from the Studio options to display the Isometric panel. Click Modify Grid. On the now displayed Grid and Snapping Axis dialog, check Show Grid.

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Draw on a blank canvas. Start with a line. Draw a vertical line. Add guidelines. Lightly draw horizontal guidelines across the bottom, midpoint, and top of your line. Draw the right side. Draw the left side. Draw the top side. Shade it.