Creating 3D Isometric view of various structural elements in AutoCAD

1. Aim :

Creating 3D isometric view of the building with plan and elevation given

Procedure :

• Under Drawing Units, select Archetectural (feet and inches)
• Now the lower limit is set to O', O' and upper limit to 50; 50'
• Type Z enter to zoom and A enter to all.
• Now in settings selecting 3D Modelling and visual style control to 2D wireframe.
• A default layer for both dimension, windows,text and lines was choosen with a colour
• Using the line command the Plan, Elevation A and Elevation B was drawn.
• The walls and windows was placed in two respective layers.
• Using the DIMLIM command the dimensioning was completed.
• Using the single line text all the required texts was also made.

• A copy of plan layout is taken to draw the 3D image.
• All the layers exept the wall and window layer was turned off.
• The south west ismetric view is made the default view.

• Type BO to open the boundary command
• Dialogue box will open
• Click on > Pick a point
• Click on the internal portion of wall and press enter
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object> Click on the walls
• Specify extrude height > 10'10" and press enter
• Change the visual style control > Shaded
• It will shows the following result

• The next task is to project the windows for that
• Type REC and draw a rectangle on top of the window.
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object > Click on the rectangle
• Specify extrude height > 3' and press enter
• Use the Extrude, Substract and union command to finish and place the window.
• In the similar way the other window was also created.
• Change the visual style control > Shaded
• It will shows the following result

• Creating Elevation Windows.
• Change the current layer to Window Frame.
• Type UCS and click on face and select the face having 3' wide window
• Draw a rectangle of dimension 3,4'
• Offset the rectangle to inside to distnce of 3"
• Offset the inside rectangle to inside at a districe of 4"
• Start the boundary command and click on pick points
• Click inside the window frame area and press enter
• Type SUBTRACT command
• Select the bigger region and then select the smaller regions to subtarct them.
• Follow the same procedure for all the three boxes.
• In the same manner window mullion layer and window glass layer was made

• Now using the MOVE command place the window at the correct position as shown.
• The floor area was also made into a region and a suitable colur color was provided to it.

Result :

2. Aim :

To create the 3D view of the building facade as given the plan and elevation

Procedure :

• Under Drawing Units, select Archetectural (feet and inches)
• Now the lower limit is set to O', O' and upper limit to 50'; 50'
• Type Z enter to zoom and A enter to all.
• Now in settings selecting 3D Modelling and visual style control to 2D wireframe.
• A default layer for both dimension, windows,text and lines was choosen with a colour.
• Using the line command the Plan, Elevation A and Elevation B was drawn.
• The walls and windows was placed in two respective layers.
• Hatching with pattern was used to represent the walls.
• Using the DIMLIM command the dimensioning was completed.
• Using the single line text all the required texts was also made

• A copy of plan layout is taken to draw the 3D image.
• All the layers exept the wall and window layer was turned off.
• The south west ismetric view is made the default view.
• Type BO to open the boundary command
• Dialogue box will open
• Click on> Pick a point
• Click on the internal portion of wall and press enter
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object> Click on the walls
• Specify extrude height > 9'11" and press enter
• Change the visual style control > Shaded
• It will shows the following result

• The next task is to project the windows for that:
• Type REC and draw a rectangle on top of the window.
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object> Click on the rectangle Specify extrude height > 3' and press enter.
• Use the Extrude, Substract and union command to finish and place the window.
• In the similar way the other window was also created.
• Change the visual style control > Shaded
• It will shows the following result

• Creating Elevation Windows.
• Change the current layer to Window Frame.
• Type UCS and click on face and select the face having 3' wide window
• Draw a rectangle of dimension 3',4'
• Offset the rectangle to inside to distnce of 2"
• Offset the inside rectangle to inside at a distnce of 3"
• Start the boundary command and click on pick points
• Click inside the window frame area and press enter
• Type SUBTRACT command
• Select the bigger region and then select the smaller regions to subtarct them.
• Follow the same procedure for all the three boxes.
• In the same manner window mullion layer and window glass layer was made

• Now using the MOVE command place the window at the correct position as shown.
• The building is made of four floors ans each floor layout is same.
• So the ground floor is copied and stacked on top of each other as shown
• The upper part of building was then drawn using line command, converted into region using the boundary command and finally extrude command was used to extent it

Result :

3. Aim :

To create the isometric 3D view of a stair with railing aa shown in the plan and elevation

Procedure :

• Under Drawing Units, select Archetectural (feet and inches)
• Now the lower limit is set to O', O' and upper limit to 50', 50'
• Type Z enter to zoom and A enter to all.
• Now in settings selecting 3D Modelling and visual style control to 2D wireframe.
• A default layer for both dimension, windows,text and lines was choosen with a colour.
• Using the line command the Plan and side Elevation was drawn.
• The walls and handrails was placed in two respective layers.
• Using the DIMLIM command the dimensioning was completed.
• Using the single line text all the required texts was also made

• A copy of plan layout is taken to draw the 3D image. All the layers exept the wall layer was turned off.
• The south west ismetric view is made the default view.

• Type BO to open the boundary command
• Dialogue box will open
• Click on > Pick a point
• Click on the internal portion of steps and press Enter
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object> Click on the walls Specify extrude height > 3' and press enter
• Change the visual style control > Shaded it will shows the following result

• To draw the hand rails.
• A circle of radius .75" was drawn.
• A circle with same centre and of radious .4" was drawn.
• .4" circle is extruded to a height of about 3'-2 and the .75" circle was extruded to a height of 2'
• The cylindircal tube of larger dia circle is raised to a height of about 6".
• Now a sphere of radius 1" was drawn placed at the centre of the larger dia cylinder.
• Using the Union command al of them was made into a single unit ans then it was placed on steps as required.
• Draw a polyline connecting all the top edges of hand rails.
• Draw a circle of diameter 2" on top of the first hand rail.
• Create a region of the circle drawn and do a Sweep command.
• Select the circle as object to sweep.
• Select the poly line drawn as path of sweep as shown in figure.
• Copy the same and place them at equal intervals as required.

Result :

4. Aim :

To create the 3D view of a wall with spread footing and door opening

Procedure :

• Under Drawing Units, select metric (millimeter)
• Now the lower limit is set to O, O and upper limit to 100, 100
• Type Z enter to zoom and A enter to all.
• Now in settings selecting 3D Modelling and visual style control to 2D wireframe.
• Using the line command the Plan and section was drawn.
• All the respective materilas like dimenisons, walls, door etc was placed in the same layer.
• Hatch commands of texture and pattern was used for hatching
• Using the DIMLIM command the dimensioning was completed.
• Using the single line text all the required texts

• A copy of plan layout is taken to draw the 3D image.
• The south west ismetric view is made the default view.
• Type BO to open the boundary command
• Dialogue box will open
• Click on > Pick a point
• Click on the internal portion of footings and walls and press Enter
• Click on the extrude option from from the home tab.
• Select object> Click on the walls and footings Specify extrude height > 7500 and press enter
• The rectangle command, extrude command and subtract command was used to provide opening for wall.

• The layers was applied with different colours respectively for individual part like sun shade, doors, footing and parapet etc

Result :