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Difference Between 2D and 3D

2D refers to two-dimensional objects that have length and width but no depth, while 3D refers to three-dimensional objects that have length, width, and depth. A drawing or photo is 2D because it only shows two dimensions, while real-world objects and 3D movies show three dimensions like we perceive them. 2D CAD drawings represent height and width only, whereas 3D CAD drawings can represent the additional dimension of depth.

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Difference Between 2D and 3D

2D refers to two-dimensional objects that have length and width but no depth, while 3D refers to three-dimensional objects that have length, width, and depth. A drawing or photo is 2D because it only shows two dimensions, while real-world objects and 3D movies show three dimensions like we perceive them. 2D CAD drawings represent height and width only, whereas 3D CAD drawings can represent the additional dimension of depth.

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Difference between 2D and 3D:

The term 2D and 3D are used to indicate dimensions.

2D

The term 2D stands for Two-Dimensional. 2D represents an object in just two dimensions.

3D

3D stands for Three-Dimensional. while 3D represents it in three dimensions.

2D to 3D

The term 2D and 3D are used to indicate dimensions.

Dimension

A dimension is ‘any measurable spatial extent, such as length, breadth, height, depth, width, thickness,
etc.’ Essentially, dimension indicates any and all sides of an object, such as height and width, and allows
us to measure them.

The term 2D stands for Two-Dimensional, whereas 3D stands for Three-Dimensional. 2D represents an
object in just two dimensions, while 3D represents it in three dimensions. It is best to think of it with an

Example,

A car has three dimensions. In fact, everything in our reality is three-dimensional. It has length, width, and
height; however a photograph of a car or a drawing of a car has only two dimensions. In the photo or
drawing, one can only see and measure length and height, whereas the depth or width is indistinguishable.

In Mathematics and Physics

2D is defined as having two axes to plot, usually the x-axis and y-axis. These axes are indicative of two
aspects on the same plane, which can be plotted on the Cartesian coordinate system. Similarly, 3D
indicates three aspects, which are plotted on the x-axis, y-axis and the z-axis.
2D and 3D when referring to Geometry

A line drawn on a on a sheet of paper is 1D, which means that it only has aspect that is length. Whereas,
shapes such as rectangle, square, triangle, polygon, etc., are 2D, which means that they have two aspects,
height and length. While, shapes like cylinder, sphere, cube, pyramid, prism, etc., are considered to be 3D
as the have height, length, and a third aspect, that is depth.

Additionally, the terms 2D and 3D are also often used to refer to graphic image technology, such as
photography, animation, computer graphics. 3D movies are all the rage these days. These represent
characters and events in the movies as three-dimensional, which is more like how we would perceive real
life, rather than the traditional flat images of 2D.

Two Dimensional(2D) Auto-cad Drawing

Its support only two dimension in Computer Added Design such as Height and Width. It’s not
support thickness of object.

2D objects have two dimension such as:

 Rectangle
 Circle
 Square
 Triangle etc.

2D Auto-cad Drawing can be divided into three important groups or parts:


Product Drawing

2D Auto-cad drawings which is used by the industry of fabricators & manufacturers. Even most
of the 2D drawing which is made by 3D CAD model. The information of work about manufacturer
or fabrication is based on the 2D drawing. In this context, a drawing has all the information in it
when we print out on a paper.

Construction Drawing

Architecture drawing, builders, floor plans, installers, M&E drawing, these type of drawings are
included in construction drawing. So, this is also a part of 2D CAD drawing which we can print
out & can be easily readable floor plan, Elevations & Pipe runs these type of drawings either create
in 3D. But on the other side M&E drawings are show through the symbols like switches & sockets
on a 2D floor plan.

Line Drawing

These type of drawing is basically included Schematic, Map drawing & simple layout drawings.
So, these drawings are made in CAD packages like AutoCAD or Assault system drafting.

Three Dimensional(3D) Auto-cad Drawing:

“3D” which known as “Three dimensional Model” basically 3D display a picture in a form that
appears to be physically present with a structure of design is necessary that it allows pictures which
appears easy to the human eye. So, this can be also explain in a sense of items, which is display in
a form that allow for different dimensions to be represented. Therefore, height, width and depth
are also included in 3D dimension.

Example

Any object in the real world & another example is Our body which is also in 3 dimensional.

In other words, an image which provides the Perception of depth is also described by the 3D.

When 3D pictures or drawings are create interactive so that audience feel involved with the scene
and the experience is called Virtual Reality. Usually, we required a special plug in viewer for our
web browser to view and communicate with 3D images.
Major difference between 2D & 3D Auto-Cad Drawing

2D is display as Two Dimensional geometry which is expressed in length & height on flat planes
but have no Depth. One of the example is ’Shadow’ which is two dimensional. So, in this way, 2D
shapes are typically measured in square units like cm2. Whereas 3D which is defined as 3
dimensional drawings or models they described objects with ‘Depth’. This depth of the object
should not be confused with weight, as two objects can be the same depth but here notice that one
can be much heavier than the second object like a gallon of milk have less weight than any other
heavy object. So, 3D measurement includes cubic unit cm3, quart liters and also tablespoon. So,
this the major difference between 2D & 3D.

Therefore, when we apply 3D to physics, they can be seen as three spatially enumerable vectors.
Even though there could be several more compactified physical dimensions which are so small
that we cannot detect them. There is the concept of the tesseract or hypercube which bears the
same relation to a cube that a cube does to a square. An actual tesseract would not be possible to
construct with our 3D bodies, but we can build a 3D representation of it. This concept of 3D is
different from 2D drawings in this way.

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