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Mishra, IIT Guwahati Prof. C.V.R. Murty, IIT Kanpur  \n– Prof. P.S. Robi, IIT Guwahati  \n– Dr. Subhasis Dutta, IIT Guwahati  \n– Dr. Sujit Dash, IIT Guwahati  \n• This is to acknowledge that some slides are downloaded from internet.  \n• Thanks to Dr. Rajib Bhattacharjya and Dr. Arindam Dey for uploading the final lecture slides in internet.  \n• Thanks to all other colleagues and academic staff members, whose name I missed to mention in this page .  \nME 111: Engineering Drawing  \nDate: 17/10/2011  \nLecture 15  \nIsometric Projections  \nIndian Institute of Technology Guwahati  \nGuwahati – 781039  \nAnnouncement  \n• Makeup lab class (Lab 12):  \n– Inform the respective Tutor one week before lab 12 or during lab 11, about the lab (only one) you want to perform as makeup class .  \n– Give Your Name, Roll No . , Group No . and Lab details  \n• End semester examination:  \n– 19th Nov . 2011 ( Saturday) , and  \n– 20th Nov . 2011 ( Sunday)  \nThe axonometric projection is  \nproduced by multiple parallel lines of sight perpendicular to the plane of projection, with the observer at infinity and the object rotated about an axis to produce a pictorial view  \nAxonometric projection - is a parallel projection technique used to create a pictorial drawing of an object by rotating the object on an axis relative to a projection or picture plane.  \nThe differences between a multiview drawing and an axonometric drawing are that, in a multiview, only two dimensions of an object are visible in each view and more than one view is required to define the object ; whereas, in an axonometric drawing, the object is rotated about an axis to display all three dimensions, and only one view is required.  \nIsometric axes can be positioned in a number of ways to create different views of the same object.  \nFigure A is a regular isometric, in which the viewpoint is looking down on the top of the object.  \nIn a regular isometric, the axes at 30􀀁 to the horizontal are drawn upward from the horizontal.  \nFor the reversed axis isometric, the viewpoint is looking up on the bottom of the object, and the 30􀀁 axes are drawn downward from the horizontal.  \nFor the long axis isometric, the viewpoint is looking from the right or from the left of the object, and one axis is drawn at 60 ° to the horizontal.  \nISOMETRIC PROJECTION and ISOMETRIC DRAWING  \nIsometric drawings are almost always preferred over isometric projection for engineering drawings, because they are easier to produce.","cbCaim7H4qRSXfP9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim7H4qRSXfP9","pdf",5884739,"English","# Announcement\n## Makeup lab class (Lab 12)\n## End semester examination\n# Axonometric projection\n## Definition and construction idea\n# Multiview drawing vs axonometric drawing\n# Isometric projection types\n## Regular isometric\n## Reversed axis isometric\n## Long axis isometric\n# Isometric projection and isometric drawing","[{\"question\":\"How is an axonometric projection constructed?\",\"answer\":\"It uses multiple parallel lines of sight perpendicular to the projection plane, with the observer at infinity. 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