Third angle projection is in common use in the USA, Canada, and the UK. The rest of the world more commonly uses first angle. There is no inherent superiority of one projection over the other. When you are making drawings that may be used internationally, it's a very good idea to indicate by a small symbolic diagram which projection is in use. This diagram is usually a side and end view of a truncated cone.
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That's what an isometric drawing is: the third dimension is shown at a 30 degree angle to the horizontal. The number 30 isn't magic - any other number in that 'ballpark' would work - but it's an easy number ( a third of a right angle, and it's clearly different from 60 degrees, which is why 45 degrees wouldn't be great), and the resulting drawing makes the 3-D object easy to visualize.
A drawing of a 30 degree angle!
The third angle is (128 degrees) minus (the second angle).
30 Degrees
The third angle is 34.5 degrees