Making depth cubes newbie question

[Andrew3304585899s6]

Hello,

I want to make this section into some depth cubes.

Could someone help point me to a guide on how to do this? 

Would the best way be to do some invisible strokes and offset the colors to make it appear as sharing & 3d?

[Andrew3304585899s6]

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

The Classic 3D effect will give the best results when you want to expand it as vectors (Object > Expand Appearance)

For the best precision you will need to change the Y axis, the new 3D effect already uses this angle, but the Classic one needs to have the Isometric Y changed to 35,264389

[kphotopage]

I'm presently still using Illustrator 2020.

Here is a link I bookmarked long ago on this same topic

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/3d-rotate-isomatric-doesn-work-properly/td-p/...

K

[Andrew3304585899s6]

I ended up going with an extrude depth of about 140. 200 is more of a rectangle. I might be missing something, though.
The expanded appearance did not seem to change much other than where the outline was.

I am using 2024

[creative_curiosity1549]

THe extrude depth needs to match the height/width of the base square. You can enter other units into the 3D & Materials dialob box. Expanding should give you paths.

Alternatively you can create this from hexagons and a line using the shapebuilder tool.

[Andrew3304585899s6]

Thank you for the in-depth info. I was able to adjust it to make what I wanted. 

[Ton Frederiks]

I used 200 for the extrude depth because my rectangle was 200x200. It has to be the same.