Update: A snapshot release of the current development version of QCAD 3 is now available in your download area. In the screenshot above, all edges of boreholes through cylinders have been created using these new tools. To improve QCAD's support for isometric drawings with cylinders, two new projection tools have been added to create orthogonal and isometric projections of entities onto cylinder surfaces. The drawing plane setting effects the display of the meta grid, the mouse cursor crosshairs and the behavior of the orthogonal mode. Our piping design software includes engineering-specific shape libraries that house all of the symbols and shapes you need to create an accurate representation of any physical sequence, such as piping instruments, valves, heat exchangers, vessels, pumps, and more. The drawing plane of the isometric grid can be changed to 'top', 'side' or 'front'. A piping isometric checker must ensure the correctness of the below-mentioned points in the piping isometric.

The screen shot shows a drawing with two views: an orthographic view with orthographic projections at the left and a view with an isometric grid on the right. A Piping isometric checklist is a list of checkpoints that are ensured while checking the piping isometric.

This way, you can construct flat, orthographic views of the object in the orthogonal view and project them into another view with an isometric grid. If you are working on a drawing with orthographic and isometric projections, it might be interesting to enable multiple viewports and configure some with an orthographic (regular) grid and others with an isometric one. The isometric grid is an alternative to the existing orthogonal grid and can be switched on and off using a tool button. In the current development version of QCAD 3, an isometric grid has been added to extend this support for isometric drafting.

QCAD has had an isometric projection tool for some time already. Isometric projections are relatively easy to create since parallel edges remain parallel and the scale along all three axis is equal and constant. Isometric projections are sometimes used in 2D drawings to help visualize how an object looks in three dimensions.

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