Orthographic Projections
A CAD-style view explorer, viewing only: tilt a solid freely with the mouse while four orthographic views — front, top, right and bottom — update live beside it, exactly as an orientation panel behaves in SolidWorks. Six solids of rising difficulty, starting with a cube carrying a different engraving on every face (so each view shows a different symbol and the link between view and physical face is unmistakable), through a cylinder that reads as a circle from the front and a rectangle from the side, up to L-blocks, T-blocks and a stepped staircase solid. Snap buttons jump to any named view including isometric. The 3D core is written from scratch and was verified before release: every solid proven genuinely closed, and every named view proven to show the face it claims.
Drag to tilt the solid freely. The four views beside it are locked to their axes and update live.
Every face carries a different mark, so each projection shows a different symbol — the fastest way to see that a view names one specific face.
1. On the engraved cube, tilt until you can see three faces at once — then check which symbol each locked view is showing. Every view names one specific face.
2. Switch to the cylinder. Front gives a circle, top and side give rectangles. The same solid, three different outlines.
3. Compare the T-block's top and bottom views. They are not the same — which is exactly why an engineering drawing needs more than one view to be unambiguous.
View Key
Front — looking horizontally at the face nearest you
Top — looking straight down from above
Right — looking horizontally from the right-hand side
Bottom — looking straight up from underneath