Planometric Drawing

Andrew Nicholls

Published on 18 January 2012

Planometric drawing, or what is sometimes referred to as 'Plan Oblique', is a system of architectural axonometric drawing that allows pictorial drawings to be projected from an orthogonal plan view. This type of drawing or illustration can provide a person who unable to 'read' technical drawings with a spatial experience of the environment to be built. Planometric drawings are drawn by rotating the plan view to so that the angle between the plan view and the horizontal makes either 45° / 45° or 60° / 30° angle. The plan view is then given height by drawing vertical lines up or down from the plan drawing. The height of a planometric view can be scaled (0.5 – 1.0) to allow hidden detail to be shown.

The advantage of planometric drawings is that they do not distort any circular objects that may appear in the plan view. That is, circles remain circles.

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Planometric drawing is a method of paraline drawing that allows pictorial drawings to be projected from floor plans. This can provide the client with a spatial experience of the build environment. Planometric drawings are drawn by rotating the plan view to so that the angle between the plan view and the horizontal makes either 45° / 45° or 60° / 30° angle. The plan view is then given height by drawing vertical lines up from the plan drawing. The height of a planometric view can be scaled (0.5 – 1.0) to allow hidden detail to be shown.

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