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3D Box Tool
Inkscape is a two-dimensional drawing tool. However, very often it is used to create drawings or objects that
appear three-dimensional. The 3D box tool helps you create such drawings by automating the most common
operation: creating a box in a given 3D perspective. The tool automatically ensures that all sides of the box lie
on the corresponding perspective lines.
Basic Usage
In order to represent an object in 3D (it's emulated 3D, so it''s rather 2.5D), the 3D box tool deals with axes
(XYZ), planes (XY, XZ, YZ), parallel lines (PL), converging lines and vanishing points (VP).
Each dimension can lie on either parallel or converging lines. These lines are drawn in different colors, so that
users could distinguish one line from another:
• red lines stand for X direction (width);
• blue lines stand for Y direction (height);
• yellow lines stand for Z direction (depth).
If lines are converging, they have a vanishing point â a point where they cross. Here is a sample to
illustrate how it works:
X is the vanishing point for X plane
Z is the vanishing point for Z plane
Y are parallel lines for Y plane
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