Simple Rectangle in 3D

[tramifsky]

I'm fairly new to AutoCAD in 3d but not new to 3d modeling. I want to draw a rectange in a certain plane and then extrude it into a box. The rectangle command will only let me draw on the xy plane even after I enter an xyz relative point with my second point entry. I see my UCS icon is missing an arrow on the z-axis. Could that have something to do with it?

[shift1313]

the rectangle command will only let you draw in xy plane. you can rotate your UCS and try that. Also there is a BOX command that will let you create a 3d box, but again it will ask you for xyz coordinates for the bottom left and top right corner.

 

To rotate your ucs you can do 1 of a few things. the easiest is to type UCS in your command line, look at the prompts. if you select X you will rotate your UCS around the X axis, if you select Y it will rotate around the Y and so on.

[Temisan2009]

All u have to do is to bring up a tool called UCS2.IT HELP TO CONTROL THE X Y Z AXIS.YOU CAN BRING IT UP BY RIGHT CLIKING ON ANY TOOLBARS YOU ALREADY IN DISPLAY.NOW TO DRAW A REC ,MAKE SURE THE UCS IS IN WORLD.THEN DRAW.....................AND EXTRUDE.

[ReMark]

Learning to manipulate the UCS is a required skill when working in 3D.

[Randolph]

You can also define the UCS by 3 points. That's often the easiest way.

Enter UCS, new, 3point (there's also a button in the UCS toolbox).

Click the 3 points as requested. It might be that you have to construct them first.

If you want to make a box, why not use the box command? This defines the rectangle + height in 1 command.