Y’know, I think I’m with you on this Koko. Pro Art (via Amazon) has a 50-sheet pad of 8-1/2″ x 11″ isometric paper for $7.Īlvin (via Amazon) has a pack of 100 sheets sized 8-1/2″ x 11″ for ~$14.50. You can get a 50-sheet pad of 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper for just under $4. Lee Valley has some inexpensive isometric drawing pads, with solid lines 1/2″ apart and dotted lines 1/4″ apart with 1/16″ dot spacing. A ruler or straightedge helps, but it’s not absolutely necessary. My project sketches and plans are still very informal, but isometric paper makes them much easier to visualize, and with hardly more effort than a napkin sketch. Sure, you could do the same sketches free-hand or with some drafting tools, but not quite as easily. Isometric drawings let you visualize the top, front, and side views of an object. Instead of the small square boxes that you get with traditional graph paper, isometric paper has small equilateral triangles with 60 degree angles. It also touches upon my fondness for technical drawing, but without the hassle of having to find a suitable drawing surface for a t-square and drafting triangle.īasically, isometric paper has vertical lines and diagonal lines drawn at 30° angles. Perhaps I still like using isometric paper in part because I worked so hard to find it years ago.
