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Using the 3D-Box tool

Using the 3D-Box tool - Inkscape Tutorial

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Using the 3D-Box tool

- [Instructor] Inkscape 3D-Box tool allows you to create three dimensional boxes in one, two or three point perspective. Let's check it out. We'll start with this empty document in landscape orientation and take the 3D-Box tool. Move your cursor somewhere near the center of the canvas and click and drag diagonally up to the right. Without releasing the mouse, drag around a bit to see the different shapes that you can create and just get a sense of how the tool behaves and release when you have something that resembles what I have here. Now, the default mode is two point perspective. So there are two vanishing points on either side, here and here. And the two sides of the front face are parallel and go straight up to infinity. At this point, I can click and drag on any of the nodes to reshape the cube. To draw in three point perspective with three vanishing points, I'll click the parallel button for the Y vanishing…

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