How to make isometric dimension and text in

AutoCAD

BY JAIPRAKASH PANDEY ON JANUARY 7, 2016

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.