How to make isometric dimension and text in AutoCAD

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In this article, I will

tell you about
making isometric
dimension and text
in an isometric
drawing. For
explaining this
feature I will use a
simple isometric cube as shown in the image below.

I have also prepared this video for explaining this tip, but if you prefer the article instead of
video then scroll down to for the full article.

Making Isometric Dimensions:

Make aligned dimensions A, B and C on the geometry as shown in drawing A above using
DIMALIGNED command.

Now type DIMEDIT on the command line and press enter, select oblique from the command line
as shown in the image below.
Now click on dimension marked A from drawing shown above and press enter. Command line
will prompt you to select an angle to align this dimension type 30 and press enter again. Your
dimension will now align with the geometry to make it look like isometric dimension.

For dimensions B and C you can use the same method with the oblique angle of 30 and -30
respectively. Your final drawing will look like this after using DIMEDIT on all three dimensions.

Making Isometric Dimension Text:

The dimensions now look correct but when you look closely at dimension text they are still not
properly aligned as per drawing. You need to make changes to dimension text also in order to
make it look normal.

Type DIMTEDIT on the command line and press enter then click on the dimension which you
want to edit, I am selecting dimension C for this case.

From the command line, select Angle option and type an angle of 30 degrees then press enter. The
dimension text will now align with the dimension line. For dimensions, A and B use an angle of
30 and -30 degrees respectively in DIMTEDIT command.

Making Isometric Text:

To write text on the isometric cube type TEXT on the command line and press Enter. Now click
on the face of cube towards dimension C and enter a text height value and rotation angle of 30
degrees in the command line prompts.

Type any text and press enter twice to exit the TEXT command, I am using “Text” as the sample
text on the isometric cube.

Repeat the process of writing text on the face of cube towards dimension B as well, but in this case
change angle of text to -30 degrees keeping all other parameters unchanged.

Now select text on the face of dimension C then right click and select Properties from the
contextual menu. From the Text panel of properties palette change value of Obliquing to 30.

Repeat the process for text on cube facing dimension B but in this case change obliquing value to
-30. The final drawing with isometric dimension and text will look like the image shown below.
Do you have any questions related to isometric text and dimensions? Let me know in comments
below.