I have looked through all of the Isometric/Oblique posts on this site and others and I'm wondering if anyone has created a flowchart "decision" shape (diamond)? I'm aware of the Isometric shapes that Vojo has posted but I don't seem to be able to manipulate/skew shapes such as the cube to look good as a diamond within an isometric layout. Any help would be appreciated!
double click to adjust the X Y Z of the shapes.....right click for behaviors (light source reference, light sort enable/set, etc)
I do have other shapes...let me know what exactly you need
Couple of notes:
- My shapes are powerful shapes but dont have any app intelligence (ie usable in any org chart add ons)
- A simple trick is draw a shape along 2 axis....then copy offset N times...it gives the appearance of 3D Iso.
Hi Vojo, I think that the difficulty that I am having is with the rotation and skewing of a shape such your scaled cube to make it appear as a diamond shape in a flowchart. As a rough workaround what I did in the below attached jpg is to use 2 of Yoda's traingular shapes in an attempt to create the diamond. Many thanks for any assistance that you could provide.
I dont have an iso diamond per se....currently playing with manifolds
As a quick and dirty iso diamond....see below and VSD
in essence....do the following
- pick a shape (diamond)
- make width 2X height
- rotate 15 degrees
- copy paste
- set to new color
- zoom to 1600
- manually vertically align
- group
- set line width to 5 or so
- copy paste
- copy paste
- copy paste
- select all
- use shape ==> align ==> rigth vert
- set fill color and line color
- take only 1 group
- copy paste
- set line and fill to a lighter color
- place over other groups
- select all
- use shape ==> align ==> right vert
- group all
- viola
basically, this uses some optical graphica;l tricks to fool viewer into thinking iso
works for any 2D slice of a 3D shape
you can now scale and such as you see fit