[Help]Planometric/Military projection

[andalusite]

Hi Leath,

I have limited background in tech drawing. But.....
As far as I know planometric (45 deg) or axonometric (60deg/30deg) drawings are deliberate distortions of a 3D object for display purposes. And that the ground plane is drawn in such a way that circles will appear undistorted. Those drawings were handmade (ie analogue - pencil and paper).
I did a quick search and turned up a thread:
http://forums.augi.com/archive/index.php/t-40379.html
which suggests that even AutoCAD cannot produce these types of projected drawings.

[Leath]

Thanks, Andalusite, for the reply. =)

I had read somewhere too, that AutoCAD could not perform them. However, there seem to be some utility from Xanadu that enables AutoCAD to do so:
http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=5549

I am way too unfamiliar with AutoCAD to look deeper into that though, and I dont own a copy of the program. So, I was really looking more into other options.

I found a thread explaining it on 3ds Max, but its in German, and the translator does not do a good enough job:
http://www.tutorials.de/forum/3d-studio-max/305510-military-projection-militaerperspektive-3d-rendersoftware.html

I have a feeling I was on the right track using the Tape tool, but I cant set it up right =(

Once again, thanks ^_^
Appreciate any help

[EricChadwick]

This turns out to be really easy to setup in 3ds Max.

Create a free camera, change it to orthographic, rotate it 45° around the up axis (pan), then rotate it 45° downwards around its local X (tilt).

Create some cylinders in the camera's view.

In the Render Settings, lock the Image Aspect spinner, and adjust the Pixel Aspect spinner, testing the aspect ratio with renders.

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