How to make a Rubik's Cube illustration

[Jennifer]

I would like to create some illustrations similar to the attachments for a Rubik's Cube tutorial. I'd like an object with 27 parallelograms, 9 on each face, that I can change the fill color independently. I am having trouble generating the shapes.

Is there an easy way to do this?

I was hoping to create a 3x3 grid of squares and then distort them as a group, but I can't get that to work.

[JuneTheSecond]

I am imaging 6 faces on the visio page.
6 faces of rubic cube.
They are 6 shapes.
They are linking each other.
Each shape has right click menu to turn any row horizontal or vertical by +90 deg. and -90 deg..
Any operation to a shape reflects to other shapes.

[Jennifer]

I am not trying to animate the cube. I just want to distort a 3x3 grid of squares so that they look like the side of a cube -- like 3D.

[aledlund]

Jennifer,
Chris did some 3d rotation in his soccer ball post
http://www.visguy.com/2014/06/08/world-cup-2014-country-flag-shapes/
hth,
al

[Yacine]

Hi Jennifer,
and for those who are still stuck with Visio 2007 ... check the attachment.

HTH,
Y.

[wapperdude]

For those with older Visio versions, there's the 3D solid, fillable cube that I made available thru this post:  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=1421.msg6072.

There are two versions, the latter is more flexible.   These cubes could be stacked in an array to make a rubic's cube.

For convenience, see attached.  Each cube is a grouped object.  Sub-shapes are selectable and may be colored as desired.

HTH
Wapperdude

[vojo]

if you are trying to do something with Isometric....drop me a note, can give you some stencils

[Peter-S]

In Visio, I drew a set of 9 lines to make up a 3-D block.
Then split that up into three separate faces of four lines each.
I then joined the four lines that make up each face. (Join is on the Shape Operations section of the Developer Ribbon)
Now that each face is a single shape in it's own right you can fill the face with the colour of your choice.
Then move the faces together to re-form the 3-D block by hand (sorry glue does not work). Then group the faces.
Copy & Paste to make 9 blocks and arrange by hand to make up a Rubik slice.
Group the slice and copy & paste to make two new slices and arrange them to make a Rubik Cube.
Then ungroup so that it is easier to change the face colours.
Once you have made one Rublik's Cube then others are easily made by copying.
I have this on my blog at:
https://rubikcubethings.blogspot.com/2019/01/rubiks-cube-drawings-using-visio.html

[Visio Guy]

Be sure to check out all four pages of the Perspective Drawing thread started by JuneTheSecond!

[JuneTheSecond]

I should have added a video for the example.
https://youtu.be/RQpLfcS1W28