Isometric drawing is a clear way of presenting information about the physical outlook of an object.
1. It helps students to develop the ability to draw every object to appear like a photograph.
2. It also helps the designer to put down his ideas easily before going into more detailed description of the various parts of the system. In isometric drawing, the tee square , set square, scale rules, curves and other drawing instruments are used for speed and accuracy. In this write up , emphasis is laid on steps to be followed in producing isometric drawing of simple objects.
Isometric drawing shows the different shapes of the five regular solids as well as different types of prism, pyramid and cone. It is expected that you study the shapes carefully yo appreciate the differences. Further appreciation of these figures is to be grained by carefully following the steps described in the write up to construct some of these figures using ordinary paper models.
Furthermore, you are introduced to the method of projection resulting in a view that shows the object approximately as it would appear to the eye. This is referred to as an isometric drawing of the solid object. It is a very useful and highly informative method of describing a solid object.
