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Isobuild – Interactive isometric design tool (isoflat.com)
30 points by gracietallis on March 23, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



I'm sorry but using the editor did not really allow me to do any of the things advertised on the front page... It was just a very basic 2D editor, it seemed...


Same. If this app does indeed make iso drawings easier whatever tools it has for that should be a lot more prominent in the UI.


I went looking for isometric transform tools. I started with a basic shape looking to snap it into an isometric grid; however, basic shapes are 2d to the frame. The only isometrics were pre-fabs.

Ok.


This could really use a demo video. I like the concept but when I jumped into the editor it seemed like a generic design tool. I kind of expected it to jump straight into a 3D perspective.


Having the word isometric plastered everywhere, I was expecting an isometric grid at the least and snapping to said grid.


It seems these elements would be easier to use in illustrator. This doesn't seem to provide any iso grid snapping? Based on the homepage I assumed it would allow me to draw isometric things, but really it just lets me place pre-drawn assets using a primitive 2d editor.


I've used Hexels for isometric tinkering in the past. It's pretty intuitive and it excels at grid based digital art in my experience. No affiliation.

https://marmoset.co/hexels/


Make it an Illustrator plugin instead and you could have a good source of revenue there.


This is awesome. I don't have any experience with other isometric design tools, but this one is intuitive and easy to use. A demo video would be cool as one comment suggested.




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