CE101

Engineering Drawing

Lec10: Isometric Projections

Indian Institute of Technology

Guwahati
 Recap
In engineering drawing, the word ‘projection’ means

• an image or the act of obtaining the image of an object.

• Technical people often refer to the image as a view.

Projection System
1. Observer or stationary point

2. Object

3. Projectors

4. Plane of projections (POP)

 Types of views

Projections

Parallel Converge

Orthogonal Oblique

Multiview Axonometric

Multiview drawing Pictorial drawing Perspective

drawing
 Introduction
• Isometric projection is a type of an axonometric
projection (or pictorial projection).
• Isometric means ‘equal measure’.
• In isometric projection,
– all the mutually perpendicular plane surfaces of an
object and the edges formed by these surfaces are
equally inclined to a POP.
• In isometric projection, only one view on a plane
is drawn to represent the three dimensions of an
object.
• This provides a pictorial view with a real
appearance.
 Principle of Isometric Projection
• Consider a cube ABCDEFGH resting on one of its corners, say A, at origin
‘O’ and the body diagonal through that corner, i.e., AG, equally inclined to
the three axes—X, Y and Z
• POP (UVW) makes approximately 54°44’ to each RP.
• AG is perpendicular to the plane UVW
• UVW is called an isometric projection

It should be noted that, as all the edges of a cube are equally inclined to the POP, they
get equally foreshortened in isometric projection. Thus, the isometric projection is
smaller than the real object.
 Terminology

• Isometric axes: The three lines GH, GF and GC

meeting at point G and making 120° angles with
each other are termed isometric axes.
• Isometric lines: The lines parallel to the
isometric axes are called isometric lines or isolines.
A line parallel to the X-axis may be called an x-
isoline. So are the cases of y-isoline and z-isoline.
 Terminology
• Non-Isometric lines: The lines which are not parallel to isometric axes
are called non-isometric lines or non-isolines.
• Isometric planes: The planes representing the faces of the cube as well as
other faces parallel to these faces are called isometric planes or isoplanes.
Note that isometric planes are always parallel to any of the planes formed
by two isometric axes.
• Non-Isometric planes: The planes which are not parallel to isometric
planes are called nonisometric planes or non-isoplanes (or non-isometric
faces).
• Origin or Pole Point: The point on which a given object is supposed to be
resting on the HP or ground such that the three isometric axes originating
from that point make equal angles to POP is called an origin or pole point.
 Isometric Scale
• The isometric projection appears smaller that the real object.
• Because all the isometric lines get equally foreshortened.
• The proportion by which isometric lines get foreshortened in
an isometric projection is called isometric scale.
• It is the ratio of the isometric length to the actual length.
 Isometric Projections and Isometric
Views
• Isometric projection is often constructed using isometric scale which gives
dimensions smaller than the true dimensions.
• However, to obtain isometric lengths from the isometric scale is always a
cumbersome task.
• Standard practice is to keep all dimensions as it is. The view thus obtained
is called isometric view or isometric drawing.
• As the isometric view utilizes actual dimensions, the isometric view of the
object is seen larger than its isometric projection.
Isometric View: Rectangle/Square
D
H
RECTANGLE D
A D A L
L
C D C
A

B C B B
 Isometric View: Triangle
B
H
TRIANGLE 3 B
1 L 3
B 1
L
A D A
3
1
2 A 2
2
Isometric View: Pentagon/Hexagon 4
PENTAGON H E
1 E 1
4 D 4
D
E
A D A D L
L 1 3
3 A C
C
2 3 B B
B C 2 2
 Isometric View: Circle

B
2

C
4
A B

3 4

3
A

1
D C

D
1
 Isometric View: Irregular Shape

The isolines B–2, D–2, C–3, E–3, G–4, F–4, H–5, H–6 and A–7 has the same length as
in original shape, e.g., B–2 in isometric = B–2 in irregular shape.

1. Non-isometric line can be located by its end points.

2. Similarly, an angle in orthographic view is never seen in
its isometric.
 Isometric View: Prism
ISOMETRIC VIEW OF
PENTAGONAL PRISM
LYING ON H.P.

Axis length 4
H E
1 D

A
L
3
C
B
2
ISOMETRIC VIEW OF
HEXAGONAL PRISM Axis length
STANDING ON H.P.
 Isometric View: Pyramid
ISOMETRIC VIEW OF PENTAGONAL
PYRAMID STANDING ON H.P.
(Height is added from center
of pentagon)
ISOMETRIC VIEW OF BASE OF
PENTAGONAL PYRAMID
STANDING ON H.P.

4
4
D
D E
E
D L D
L
1 3 1 3
A C
A C
B
2
B
2
Isometric View: Pyramid
Isometric View: Prism
 Isometric View: Cone

A B

3 4
O

D C

1
 Isometric View: Cylinder
CYLINDER STANDING ON H.P.

CYLINDER LYING ON H.P.

Solids with Non-Isometric Faces

•C-3=E-5=c’-3’

• D-4=d’-4’

M-N
 Solids with Non-Isometric Faces
A SQUARE PYRAMID OF 40 MM BASE SIDES AND 60 MM AXIS IS CUT BY AN INCLINED SECTION PLANE THROUGH
THE MID POINT OF AXIS AS SHOWN. DRAW ISOMETRIC VIEW OF SECTION OF PYRAMID.

3’ 4’

3 1’2’

X Y
1 a d
1
4

2
o

3
b 2 c
F.V. & T.V. of a solid are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

50

O
X Y

20

25

O
25 20
 F.V. & T.V. and S.V. of a solid are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

ORTHOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS

FRONT VIEW L.H.SIDE VIEW

20

20

20
x y
O 50

20

30

20 20 20
O
TOP VIEW
 F.V. and S.V. of a solid are given.
Draw it’s isometric view.

30 SQUARE
40 20

50

20
10

O 30
60
F.V.
S.V.
O
 F.V. & T.V. of a solid are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

FV
40

10
O
30 D 45

10
50
O

80

TV
 F.V. and S.V. of a solid are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

10

25 15

25
40 10

25

25

O O
80 25

F.V. S.V.
F.V. & T.V. of a solid are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

450

30
FV

40

X Y
O
30 D

40 TV

15
40
O
 F.V. and S.V. of a solid are given.
Draw it’s isometric view.

HEX PART
30
20
20
40
20

O 50
20
15

O 30
100 60
 F.V. & T.V. of an object are given. Draw it’s isometric view.

20 40

F.V.
30

10
X Y
O

10

30

10

30
O 80

T.V.
 F.V. and S.V. of a solid are given.
Draw it’s isometric view.

30 20 10 20

15
10

15

O
15
30

15
X O Y
50

F.V. LEFT S.V.

 Isometric Projections: Sphere
• Radius of sphere remains same in isometric
projection or in isomteric view
• Use isometric scale and draw solid attached to
sphere and distance O-P
• Identify center O and draw a circle of
radius=radius of sphere
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