Flatten your art to a plain orthographic view, or project ortho art to your auxiliary projection. The Auxiliary Projection panel makes it easy to work with surfaces at oblique angles to your document’s axo planes.Įvaluate the orientation of most existing art with just a click, then constrain moving, drawing, and extruding along this auxiliary projection’s axes. In the axonometric orientations, you can change your document’s projection settings and watch live Transformation objects rotate in real time, so you can experiment before committing to vector art with shading and stroke widths as defined in your Draw Settings panel. If you don’t know the exact angles, just turn the dial to try different settings.Įxtrude paths in real time to see a pseudo-3D view. Illustrations with components that tilt, turn, swivel, and spin are now easier than ever.

With the Transformations panel, you can rotate artwork at any angle along any axis, move it at fixed distances, then project it to your axonometric view where items will appear correctly projected and placed into your illustration.ĪxoTools orients your art to match whatever view you need. NEW in free update: Gradient shading and user-definable lighting. This saves much time and guesswork when doing drawings where objects aren’t rectangular and don’t conveniently meet at corners. AxoTools provides the tools for technical illustrators to define an axonometric view (isometric, dimetric, or trimetric) and project flat orthographic art to the left, right, or top planes of that view.ĭefine common reference points in each view so that projected art appears in place in the axonometric view.

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