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I forget all about the Excel VBA "Trimetric View Calculator" program I wrote earlier this year. It might be of help to you. If you know the angles of two of the principal axes (assuming the third is vertical) it will calculate the two angles required for the VPOINT command. For example, if you know that in your trimetric view one principal axis is at an angle of 40° going up towards the right and the other 20° going up to the left then you would fill in the Excel worksheet as follows. Hitting the Calculate button would yield the results you see. You can enter these value into the vpoint command as follows: AutoCAD would then reorient your view to match the input requirements. The VBA programs uses numerical methods to find a solution so the time to compute an answer and the precision of the answer is a function of the input data. Note, I need to do a little more testing. The left and right axis input labels may need to be reversed. Trimetric view calculator VBA.zip

By "2D isometric view" do you mean one of the 8 potential isometric views or do you seek to duplicate the specific random axonometric projection of the 2D flatshot geometry? Also, although you use the term "camera" should it be assumed that you are dealing with a parallel projection. Camera views may yield a perspective projection. If a true isometric, just choose one of the predefined isometrics in the view command or you can rotate the model in 3D space. From a principal view, rotate the 3D model by + or - 45° about the vertical axis then + or - 35.2644° about the horizontal axis to yield an isometric orientation. If you need to reproduce a random axonometric project it would help to know 3 points that lie on a plane that is parallel to the viewing plan or 2 points that lie on a line perpendicular to the viewing plane. If you don't have these points then you would need to know the x, y, z coordinates of points in the 3D model and their corresponding u, v coordinates in the 2D projection.

Hi mhupp, your code works perfectly for my needs. It would save a lot of time for me. Thank you so much for your time and help. Much appreciated!

Hi Steven, your code works perfectly for my needs. Thank you so much for your time and help. Much appreciated!

@mhupp IT WORKS AS INTENDED. THANKS MAN. I WISH I KNEW THESE LISPING AND CODING LANGUAGE.