![]() ![]() Perhaps this scaling step could be added to AxoTools as an option when projecting, but that would break a lot of other AxoTools features. I’m sorry, but I don’t have any suggestions for you except to scale projected isometric art to 115.4701076758754% before adding dimensions in CADtools. The projection method I use relies on math used by technical illustrators for many years, which requires foreshortening on everything, but it also enables features such as compound rotations. In my own work, I use CADtools to draw the orthographic views to scale, and wrote AxoTools in order to assemble views using the “project in place” technique, as well as other tools I added to augment CADtools’ tool set. When using dimetric or trimetric projections, though, the art gets distorted without the “Foreshorten” option (in the upper right of the CADaxonometric panel). In my earlier work I used actual dimensions in isometric drawings, too. I know exactly what you mean by actual dimensions vs. I thought I’d get a notice of any new posts, but I guess that’s not the case! If you’re having this problem and do find a workaround, please let me know so I can share it with other users. It’s an elusive problem, but I’ll continue to look for a solution. ![]() Yet other computers in the same office had no problem activating plugins. In one case, a customer from a large tech company could not activate a plugin in the office because of the communication error, so he took the computer home and successfully activated it from there. If you’re able to activate any of the Hot Door plugins, then there’s a good chance it can be fixed here, too. Hot Door created the CORE libraries for their CADtools plugin and also use it in their Control series of plugins. ![]() It’s also possible that something changed in the CORE plugin libraries I use. Simply trying again later on may solve the problem. It’s possible that there’s a temporary interruption in the internet, like my site going briefly offline (as it occasionally does). It’s actually quite rare, but has been happening a bit more often over the past year or two, even though the related code has not changed since 2016. You’re correct about “drawing” the house in 40 seconds, but the video title did say “project” rather than “draw.” Whatever approach you took to skip the ortho drawings at the start, I’m certain that you could finish the house much more quickly with AxoTools than without it. CADtools’ one drag and one click, but you could quickly get multiple line weights, in addition to shaded fills. You could draw an axo rectangle, then extrude it, which is one drag plus two clicks, vs. Ron Kempke and I developed AxoTools based on our many years of experience creating axonometric drawings based on projecting orthographic engineering drawings, and I’ll admit that this approach reflects that. This approach makes it easier to extrude precisely without measuring, by dragging in a corresponding ortho view. Did you download AxoTools and try the Extrude tool with shaded color and multiple line weights selected in the Draw Settings? This is an area where AxoTools is most different from CADtools. In other projections, it unfortunately distorts the object.ĪxoTools has no real counterparts to CADtools’ box or cylinder creation tools, largely because it was created as an extension of CADtools, not a replacement for it. I think the problem here is that at the top of the dialog, you need to check “Foreshorten.” In isometric, an un-foreshortened 1″ cube will measure 1″ on each edge, as opposed to the foreshortened 0.866″. ![]()
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