How to do isometric and perspectives in Maya?

#1

Hi guys,
I’m doing a school work for descriptive geometry class, I modelled an ‘M’ letter in Autodesk Maya and I took the M and did a rotation then a mirror and cutted it in half, with those 3 actions I got some of the assignment done, but now I have to represent those geometries in specific perspectives like: isometric, dimetric, cavalier and other axonometrics.

Basically I have to do this:

I have to give an angle degree from the sides in order to simulate a perspective on paper, normally I do this on paper but I thought it’d be easier to do on maya, the geometries are done but I have no clue how to set up a camera for a perspective… can someone help? :confused:

#2

Not sure if this will give you what you’re looking for, but in the attribute editor for the perspective cameras, there’s a tab called “Orthographic View”, where you can turn on “Orthographic”. This will remove all perspective from your view (as you know, Isometric, Trimetric, Dimetric etc. have no perspective; ie: a vanishing point). Not sure how to get the angles exactly right…you can’t tumble to view once you switch to orthographic. But you can turn orthographic off, tumble the view slightly, and then turn orthographic back on.

You might also try using a “Camera and Aim” type camera, set up the Aim point on your model and try moving the camera while it’s in orthographic mode. That basically allows you to tumble. I think it might be a trial and error process, although there might be a certain set of positions for the camera that gives the different view…I don’t know.

Good luck.

#3

Thanks anyway for the help. I already got the isometric view done thanks to a bit of google searching, by putting the X: -3.265 and Y: 45 on the camera settings and ticking on orthographic view but that’s as far as I could go, it doesn’t work for the other perspectives like dimetric, military, etc though :frowning:
Anyway, thanks

#4

Could you please let me know in which setting did you put these values (X=-3.265 and Y=45)…?